Mountain View Community School
Issue 7 Spring 2025
A publication of the UCLA Center for Community Schooling, featuring multimedia public scholarship to inform the collective struggle for democracy, justice and public education.
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We are deeply grateful to our colleagues at Mountain View and in San Diego for sharing their community schooling stories. If you have ideas for how we can help the century-old community schools movement focus on the big ideas and the journey of public education, please drop us a line!
Thank you,
Wendy Salcedo-Fierro & Lauren Kinnard, Issue Co-editors
CS Journal as a Learning Tool
Our aim for each issue of the Community Schooling Journal is that practitioners, researchers, families, and students find it to be an impact learning tool. To this end, we’ve provided a discussion guide that spans the four features of the issue and includes discussion prompts related to the issues’s main themes.

Cover Photo by Mountain View Students
Mountain View STEAM Enrichment Teacher, Christopher Millow, fostered meaningful partnerships with local artist Paola “Panca” Villaseñor and the New Children’s Museum, opening doors for our students to engage in a unique and transformative artistic experience. One such experience was creating this mural “Kindness”.
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