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Creating a Workplace Culture that Sustains Social Justice Educators

August 4, 2021

This chapter, “UCLA Community School: Creating a Workplace Culture that Sustains Social Justice Educators”, was published in Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators in 2021. The chapter tells the story of the UCLA Community School through five brief stories, which…

Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators in Urban Schools

August 1, 2021

Teachers & Teaching

Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators spotlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. Integral to this work are the teachers and school leaders who enact the principles of social justice—racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity…

Finding Our Voices and Our Research Skills During the Pandemic

May 13, 2021

Engaging & Supporting Communities

This commentary, written by six UCLA Community School students, outlines a student-led research project about experiences of schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students’ project was integral in shaping UCLA CS teachers’ and administrators’ understanding of students’ needs specific to…

Collaborative Leadership as the Cornerstone of Community Schools Policy, Structures, and Practice

March 1, 2021

Teachers & Teaching

This brief describes the practices, policies, and structures that support UCLA Community School’s vision and commitment to collaborative decision-making. The brief demonstrates how collaborative leadership serves to mediate the integration of school and community resources to enhance students’ learning experiences…

Linked Learning and Community Schools: Preparing all Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

February 5, 2021

Student Agency & Thriving

This brief provides an overview of these two approaches and describe a framework for bringing the Linked Learning and community schools together at the high school level so that all students, particularly those in communities that have been historically marginalized,…

Creating Persistent Community: The Challenge of Aligning Supports for First-Generation College-going Students

November 30, 2020

College Access, Student Agency & Thriving

This report documents the experiences of seven cohorts of students from the UCLA Community School and track their pathways to and through college using four measures: (1) postsecondary plans, (2) immediate college enrollment, (3) college persistence (first to second year,…

Integrated Data Systems: Informing Student Supports in Community Schools

October 1, 2020

Teachers & Teaching

Equitably supporting student and family needs at the school level requires intentional delivery of services and careful monitoring of associated student outcomes. This brief documents the efforts of two university-assisted community schools—UCLA Community School and Mann UCLA Community School—to systematize…

Using Multiple Measures of Teaching Quality to Strengthen Teacher Preparation

August 24, 2020

Teachers & Teaching

We argue that teacher preparation programs considering approaches to assess teaching quality should choose measures that appropriately represent the complexity of teaching, have formative value in supporting teacher candidates develop as highly qualified teachers and consider the context, mission, and…

Democracy, Justice and Education: Framing the Impact of University-Assisted Community Schools

August 1, 2020

Engaging & Supporting Communities, University-Assisted Community Schools

In this article, published in University and Community Schools, Karen Hunter Quartz suggests a framework for narrating the impact of university-assisted community schools based on a decade of experience at UCLA. She recounts how and why university-assisted community schools were…

A Beautiful Struggle: Reimagining Neighborhood Schools in Urban Communities

August 1, 2020

Engaging & Supporting Communities

This article contributes to scholarship on school reform by portraying a local struggle to reimagine a longstanding neighborhood urban school in the context of an expanding marketplace of school choices. Guided by an asset-based community school development framework, the authors…

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