Posts by Center for Community Schooling Team

July 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

Our team is busy reflecting on the past year, working on some exciting projects, and spending time with loved ones to recharge and reconnect to our communities. We’re sending best wishes for a restful summer and looking forward to working…
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June 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

As we transition into summer, we reflect on the transformative work that occurred in community schools in California and across the nation this school year. Our newsletter includes a few of these stories. We celebrate the class of 2024 at the…
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May 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

This month, we share how the UCLA Community Schools explore the rich assets and needs of their communities to shape practice. We also share our work to advance university-assisted community schools and support the state’s historic community school initiative. Assessing Community…
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Learning as Transformation

California community schools are embracing a crucial lesson: a robust student support system cannot substitute for a strong core instructional program that responds effectively to the individual development and learning needs of each student (Quinn and Blank, 2020). Indeed, California…
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Measuring What Matters in California Community Schools: A White Paper

California’s historic $4.1B investment in community schools presents an extraordinary opportunity to collect and use multiple measures of implementation quality and whole-child outcomes. This white paper charts a path for combining state and local measures to inform the development, monitoring,…
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April 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

This month we share stories from Anaheim Union High School District community schools, featured in our latest issue of Community Schooling—our multimedia journal! We also share information on school visits and upcoming conferences that highlight the collective work of community schools across the…
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March 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

This month we feature a learning exchange at the UCLA Community School, a community resource fair at Mann UCLA Community School, a new blog featuring data on the California Community Schools Partnership Program, and news about upcoming conferences. Partnership Learning…
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February 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

This month we feature a celebration of Black history and culture as well as efforts to advance community schooling across the state and nation. Celebrating Black History and Culture On February 23rd, in celebration of Black History Month, students, families,…
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January 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

In honor of MLK Day this month, we celebrate the power of our student leaders. We are also excited to partner with the LA County Office of Education to co-host a study tour and applaud our colleagues in the Southeast who are…
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