In this session, book editors and authors share an overview and several chapters from the book, Partnering for Transformation in Schools and Beyond: Community-Engaged Learning in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights Education, being released in spring 2026. We examine several new directions in critical peace, social justice, and human rights education theory, practice, and scholarship that cultivate community-engaged praxis in education. In particular, we consider how local communities engage their past, presents and futures to advance peace, justice and human rights. As scholars whose work and teaching both critically engage these fields and grapple with these concepts, the panelists consider their distinctions and overlaps to frame the challenges and possibilities of implementing community-engaged praxis in diverse sites and contexts.