This brief sheds light on a translanguaging case study produced as part of a research-practice partnership between a bilingual education researcher and a 9th grade Geography teacher. Our collaborative inquiry highlights translanguaging practices and processes, as well as the lessons learned from this work.
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Infrastructuring Student Agency
This brief sheds light on a translanguaging case study produced as part of a research-practice partnership between a bilingual education researcher and a 9th grade Geography teacher. Our collaborative inquiry highlights translanguaging practices and processes, as well as the lessons learned from this work.
Translanguaging: A Look Inside a High School Geography Class
This brief sheds light on a translanguaging case study produced as part of a research-practice partnership between a bilingual education researcher and a 9th grade Geography teacher. Our collaborative inquiry highlights translanguaging practices and processes, as well as the lessons learned from this work.
The Power of Self-Assessment Report
Read the Full ReportThis report chronicles how practitioners and a researcher piloted and designed a community-based self-assessment system for second- to twelfth- grade students over a five-year span. This report illustrates how self-assessment instruments and classroom routines, together, provided students with…
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UCLA Community School Longitudinal College-going Data Report
Read the Full ReportThis data report is a companion to a research paper entitled, Framing, Supporting, and Tracking College-For-All Reform: A Local Case of Public Scholarship, published this month by the High School Journal. The paper describes the collective problem-solving process…
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Nurturing Play: How Schools can Provide Powerful Opportunities for Children to Learn
Read the Full ReportA 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,…
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Mann UCLA Community School 2017-18 Annual Report: Laying the Foundation for Change
Read the Full ReportA FEW HIGHLIGHTS In 2017, the school added a 9th grade, reversing a 16-year trend of declining enrollment. 83% of 9th grade marks were “C” or better, compared with 68% districtwide. UCLA students, faculty and staff contributed more than 18,000 hours of…
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Preparing Leaders of Change: RFK UCLA Community School 2017-18 Annual Report
Read the Full ReportA FEW HIGHLIGHTS 83% of 3rd graders are reading at grade level–61% in both Spanish and English 86% of the Class of 2017 enrolled in college and 85% of the Class of 2016 persisted from freshman to…
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A Decade of Innovation
On Friday March 16th, the UCLA Center for Community Schooling and the Center for Powerful Public Schools co-released a brief commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the LAUSD Pilot Schools movement–a community-based, teacher-led, student-centered reform introduced as an alternative to charter…
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The Promise of Community Schooling
UCLA Center for Community Schooling Research, Practice & Policy Brief Winter 2018 Read the Brief
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