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3 years ago

Creating Coherence: Building a Home for Students Experiencing Homelessness in California’s Community Schools

Community Schooling | Issue 4 | Summer 2023 Creating Coherence: Building a Home for Students Experiencing Homelessness in California’s Community Schools Dr. Deborah McKoy, UC Berkeley Center for Cities +…

4 years ago

Durham Policy Implementation: Organizing for Community Schools

Community Schooling | Issue 3 | Fall 2022 Durham Policy Implementation: Organizing for Community Schools Jessica F. Benton, Southeast Missouri State University Amy L. Anderson, Duke University Durham, North Carolina…

5 years ago

California Community Schools Partnership Program A Transformational Opportunity for Whole Child Education

Community Schooling | Issue 1 | Fall 2021 California Community Schools Partnership Program: A Transformational Opportunity for Whole Child Education Anna Maier, Learning Policy Institute Deanna Niebuhr, Opportunity Institute October…

6 years ago

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

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…

6 years ago

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

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…

6 years ago

Integrated Data Systems: Informing Student Supports in Community Schools

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…

7 years ago

Translanguaging: A Look Inside a High School Geography Classroom

One approach to meeting the needs of multilingual learners is translanguaging, a practice rooted in social justice and culturally sustaining pedagogies (Cioè & Snell, 2015). Translanguaging allows students to draw flexibly…

8 years ago

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

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…

9 years ago

The Promise of Community Schooling: Reimagining Neighborhood Schools in Urban Communities

There is a nationwide epidemic of public school closures. Researchers who study school closures in urban communities attribute them to structural racism, divestment in Black communities, deindustrialization, and market-based school…

10 years ago

Supporting College-going for Undocumented Students

This brief describes the UCLA Community School’s efforts to address and meet the needs of undocumented students. We describe the school context as well as the symbiotic relationship between research and practice. We conclude by providing resources and considerations for practitioners to better support undocumented students on their campus.

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