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Beyond Teacher Leadership: The Role of Teachers as Learners, Innovators, and Designers for Whole Child Education

February 19, 2023

This report, co-authored by researchers at the UCLA Center for Community Schooling and the University of South Carolina, describes in rich detail how two districts—Surrey Schools (BC) and Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD)—create the learning environments and learning experiences…

2021-22 Mann UCLA Community School Annual Report: Five Years of Growing Together

September 23, 2022

We’re pleased to share the 2021-2022 Annual Report from the Mann UCLA Community School. Click below to read the full report. REPORT

2021-22 RFK UCLA Community School Annual Report: Celebrating Our Homegrown Students

September 23, 2022

We’re pleased to share the 2021-2022 Annual Report from the UCLA Community School. Click below to read the full report. REPORT

Turning Vicious Cycles Into Virtuous Ones: the Potential for Schools to Improve the Life Course

August 11, 2022

Student Agency & Thriving

This article describes the potential for schools to transform health trajectories through interventions creating positive and supportive school climates. In addition, new models such as the Whole School Whole Community Whole Child Model promote whole child well-being, including cognitive, social,…

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.…

Nested Contexts of Reception and K-12 Schools: Addressing Immigration Status

November 3, 2021

Engaging & Supporting Communities

Scholarship on the intersection between immigration, legal status, and education has grown over the past decade. Given that schools are intended to be purveyors of democratic values, schools represent an ideal context to examine how immigration and legal status are…

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…

Creating a Workplace Culture that Sustains Social Justice Educators

August 4, 2021

Teachers & Teaching

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…

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