Engaging & Supporting Communities

5 months ago

Culturally Sustaining Multigenerational Art Making

California’s recent historic investments in arts education and community schools have laid a strong foundation for transformational learning. This brief shares findings from two research studies of culturally sustaining multigenerational…

6 months ago

California Community Schools Implementation: Assessing Initial Growth and Progress

Based on implementation data from the CCSPP’s first two years, this brief presents six key findings. Overall, grantees are in the process of creating infrastructure to collect, analyze and use…

3 years ago

Multigenerational Art Making at a Community School: A Case of Transformative Parent Engagement

In this article, published in Harvard Ed Review, authors describe the transformative parent engagement fostered in a multigenerational afterschool arts program at a community school. Community schools bring together families, teachers,…

4 years ago

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

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…

4 years ago

From Partners to Praxis: Anti-Racist Education at Mann UCLA Community School

This article, published in Connections, describes the formation of the Anti-Racist Committee (ARC) at Mann UCLA Community School. Comprised of over 30 stakeholders, including students, parents, staff and researchers, ARC aims…

5 years ago

Integrated Data Systems: Informing Student Supports in Community Schools

This brief documents the efforts of two university-assisted community schools—UCLA Community School and Mann UCLA Community School—to systematize the delivery and efficacy of a range of student supports, services and learning opportunities through locally designed integrated data systems (IDS).

7 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…