Posts by Center for Community Schooling

This annual report focuses on our work to prepare students as leaders of change—self-directed, passionate learners who actively and critically participate in society. Alongside our annual demographics and dashboard indicators, we share a set of core practice narratives that bring to life how the school is enacting this commitment to social justice and democratic education within and beyond the classroom.

2017-18 RFK UCLA Community School Annual Report: Preparing Leaders of Change

This annual report focuses on our work to prepare students as leaders of change—self-directed, passionate learners who actively and critically participate in society. Alongside our annual demographics and dashboard indicators, we share a set of core practice narratives that bring to life how the school is enacting this commitment to social justice and democratic education within and beyond the classroom.

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September 2018 Newsletter

UCLA’s Fall Quarter started up this week and our two community schools have been in session since August 14th. In this first newsletter of the school year, we share our latest news as well as highlights from the summer. Next month: stay tuned for information on our February 2019 convening.

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A Decade of Innovation

Teachers & Teaching

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the movement, longstanding Pilot School partners from the Center for Powerful Public Schools and the UCLA Center for Community Schooling joined with the Pilot School Organization to take stock of the collective experience of 47 schools.

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High School Internships: Utilizing a Community Cultural Wealth Framework to Support Career Preparation and College-Going Among Low-Income Students of Color

This article, published in the Journal of Education Placed at High Risk investigates the experience of 229 low-income students of color who participated in an innovative high school internship program between 2011 and 2015. Using mixed methods (interviews, observations, and survey), the…
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The Power of Urban Teacher Residencies: The Impact of IMPACT

Learning in residence is a powerful approach to teacher education that pairs apprentices with mentor teachers, supported by university coursework and urban communities. In this issue of the Center XChange, UCLA faculty, staff, students, and partners share their work over the past five years to create and study an urban teacher residency program called IMPACT: Inspiring Minds through a Professional Alliance of Community Teachers.

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Multiple Measures of Good Teaching

In this report, we assemble a diverse set of perspectives to answer how to measure good teaching.  We take the stand that there should be multiple measures of good teaching—including evidence about student learning—and that these measures should form the basis for both evaluating teachers and, most importantly, guiding teachers’ professional growth.

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