August 2020 Newsletter
This month, as our community schools prepare to start the school year online, we share a newly released series of images that capture what deeper learning looked like before schools…
Year: 2020
Partnering through Art to Imagine Bright Futures
By:Nawal Salim, Patricia Rivas, Children’s InstituteBlanca Campos Montoya, Mann UCLA Community Schoolwith Marisa Saunders, UCLA Center for Community Schooling Beginning in June, a group approximately 20 rising sophomores and juniors…
July 2020 Newsletter
This month, we celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision on June 18th to uphold DACA. We are also inspired by the thousands of community school youth and teacher activists who filled…
Infrastructuring Student Agency
Supporting students to actively and critically participate in their own learning requires extensive infrastructure in schools that serve historically nondominant students. As this report documents, students from these backgrounds tend…
June 2020 Newsletter
This month, we celebrate the Class of 2020! Graduates of the UCLA Community School are preparing for bright postsecondary futures–61% to 4-year colleges and 32% to 2-year colleges. In our…
Infrastructuring Student Agency
This report highlights how support for student agency at the UCLA Community School was distributed across district policy, school organization, instructional practices, stakeholder collaborations, attention to student identity development, and connections to the broader school community.
We Will Never Walk Alone
By Hector Almendarez I am a high school senior graduating from UCLA Community School (UCLA CS) located in Koreatown in Central Los Angeles. UCLA CS is what I called my…
A Community School in Virtual Times
By Darlene Tieu At Mann UCLA Community School, it has been imperative that what I teach is important and relevant to our students. Why teach about the chemistry of how…
May 2020 Newsletter
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we are launching this month a new blog on how community school teachers create opportunities for engaged and rigorous learning–during and beyond this COVID-19…
Community schools as cornerstones in the time of COVID-19
Karen Hunter Quartz & Marisa Saunders It’s an old solution to a very old problem. Attack poverty and societal inequality by creating community schools that level the playing field. Locate…