Posts by Center for Community Schooling Blog

November 2020 Newsletter

This week, tens of thousands of California seniors are submitting their applications to the state’s public universities–many the first in their families to do so. In this newsletter, we share a new report that looks at the pressing issue of…
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Embracing Hope and Opportunity Amidst a Pandemic

By Ariana Dimagiba, Bella Martinez (left), and Nyslai Bolanos (right) This November students across the district and state will be submitting their college applications to California’s public universities. While this time of year is always difficult for seniors who are…
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Teacher and students looking at plant

October 2020 Newsletter

This month, we celebrate partnerships, and lead with a story about the power of youth-adult partnerships in afterschool programs. We also share findings from a new research-practice partnership on the process of creating and using integrated data systems in community schools.…
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Second- and third-grade students talking

UCLA Community School 2019-20 Annual Report: The Power of Community

This year’s annual report focuses on the school’s strong sense of community and the collective agency of educators, students, families, and UCLA partners in response to the pandemic and Spring 2020 school closure. Alongside our annual demographics and dashboard indicators, we share a set of core practice narratives that bring to life the power of community to support the well-being and education of its members.

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Mann UCLA Community School 2019-20 Annual Report: Preparing Active & Critical Participants in Society

Mann UCLA Community School is a university-assisted neighborhood public school within the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 2016, UCLA partnered with Horace Mann Middle School to help reimagine the school as a K-12 community school, building on the strengths of the community as well as the success of the Robert F. Kennedy UCLA Community School in Pico Union/Koreatown. To share our story and progress during the high school’s third year, this annual report focuses on preparing students to be active and critical participants in society.

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Rainbow artwork

September 2020 Newsletter

The 2020-21 school year is underway and we are pleased to highlight how community schools are seizing the current moment to transform teaching and learning. We celebrate the first class of seniors at the Mann UCLA Community School and share…
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Rainbow artwork

Seizing the Moment to Transform Education

By Marisa Saunders and Karen Hunter Quartz Back to School Artwork by Miguel, Ms. Gallardo’s Den 1 Class The back-to-school challenge is enormous: re-engage students and families in learning online, during a pandemic, amid uprisings for racial justice. That’s why…
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Kids and mural

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 closed in March. A new blog post highlights a summer…
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