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Classroom Teachers in the Community School Movement

March 19, 2020

This article, written by Karen Hunter Quartz, Julia Daniel (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Anna Maier (Learning Policy Institute) shares the stories of community teachers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Teachers discuss what it means to be…

2018-19 RFK UCLA Community School Annual Report: Ten Years of Growing Together

September 16, 2019

We’re pleased to share the 2018-19 Annual Report from the UCLA Community School. Click below to read the full report. REPORT

2018-19 Mann UCLA Community School Annual Report: You Can See the Future from Here

August 23, 2019

We’re pleased to share the 2018-19 Annual Report from the Mann UCLA Community School. Click below to read the full report. REPORT

The Power of Self-Assessment: Using Community-Based Measures to Advance Biliteracy

July 1, 2019

Bilingual Education, Student Agency & Thriving

This report provides an interactive roadmap that documents how educators and researchers partnered to pilot and design a community-based self-assessment system composed of self-assessment instruments (i.e. tools, assessment measures) and classroom routines (i.e., instructional practices that promote self-assessment skills) across…

Teaching in Community Schools: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning

May 22, 2019

Teachers & Teaching

Drawing on research from the learning sciences and from community school literature, this article explores how community school teachers and other community school staff can collaboratively build new systems to deepen student learning for historically marginalized students and communities. The…

Nurturing Play: How Schools can Provide Powerful Opportunities for Children to Learn

March 27, 2019

Student Agency & Thriving

A large body of research demonstrates the immense benefits of play for children’s academic learning and development. However, “playful learning,” a teaching approach that uses free-play as well as guided-play activities, is disappearing from many school settings, especially in schools…

UCLA Community School Longitudinal College-going Data Report

March 25, 2019

College Access, Student Agency & Thriving

This data report is a companion to a research paper entitled, Framing, Supporting, and Tracking College-For-All Reform: A Local Case of Public Scholarship (Quartz, Murillo, Trinchero, Neri & Jacobo, 2019). This paper describes the collective problem-solving process that unfolded over…

Mutual Benefits: The Community Schools Initiative in Los Angeles

February 17, 2017

Engaging & Supporting Communities

Colleges and universities across the United States—especially public institutions with a mandate to provide local support and access—typically struggle to find ways to form strong, collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships with their communities. However, at UCLA, they have developed a…

Supporting Assessment Autonomy: How One Small School Articulated the Infastructure Needed to Own and Use Student Data

May 1, 2014

Teachers & Teaching

This paper reports the results of an 18-month integrated, problem-solving research study of one new school’s efforts to create a K-12 system of student assessment data that reflects their innovative vision for personalized and student-centered instruction. Based on interview, observational,…

School Communities: Committing to the Futures of Immigrant Students

April 30, 2014

Engaging & Supporting Communities

In this article, Karen Hunter Quartz, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco assert that strong school communities hold the key to establishing a college-going culture, especially for immigrant students. By working together with parents, students, teachers, researchers, and like-minded philanthropic…

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