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January 2024 Community Schools Newsletter

March 8, 2024

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…

December 2023 Community Schools Newsletter

March 8, 2024

As the year comes to a close, we are excited to share news about this season’s college application process and the promise of culturally-responsive mentorship. We also celebrate the power of the arts to map students’ identity and community and…

November 2023 Community Schools Newsletter

December 4, 2023

This month, we are thankful that our school communities are such warm and welcoming places. We celebrate how the arts help people connect and how community-based teaching and learning help people grow together. Please forward our newsletter along and subscribe here if you…

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Announcing Issue 4 Of Our Community Schooling Journal

July 26, 2023

Community schools bring together resources, supports and partners to transform the learning of all students, especially our most vulnerable. In our fourth issue, we share a story of transformation from Oakland, California. Told from the complementary perspectives of three students,…

Immigrant family legal clinic: A case of integrated student supports in a community school context

November 21, 2021

Engaging & Supporting Communities

Community schools are poised to address a range of issues, including the impact of immigration policy, through integrated student supports by taking an asset-based perspective that views community members and organizations as powerful constituents in the struggle for educational equity.…

Community Teachers: Taking Ownership of Whole Child Educational Practices

September 16, 2021

Teachers & Teaching

This report, co-authored by community school practitioners, focuses on the work of educators within community schools in developing, implementing and owning whole-child educational practices. Practitioners from five “veteran” community schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LA Unified) explore…

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…

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

November 30, 2020

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,…

Infrastructuring Student Agency

June 1, 2020

Student Agency & Thriving

Supporting students to actively and critically participate in their own learning requires extensive infrastructure in schools that serve historically nondominant students. As this report documents, students from these backgrounds tend to have fewer opportunities than their more privileged peers to…

Classroom Teachers in the Community School Movement

March 19, 2020

Teachers & Teaching

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…

Posts by Center for Community Schooling Team

Announcing Issue 4 Of Our Community Schooling Journal

Immigrant family legal clinic: A case of integrated student supports in a community school context

Community Teachers: Taking Ownership of Whole Child Educational Practices

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

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

Infrastructuring Student Agency

Classroom Teachers in the Community School Movement

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