Universities, Community, and Democracy in Action
Universities, Community, and Democracy in ActionA Conversation with Dr. Karen Hunter Quartz, Dr. Jeffrey Yo, and Dr. Rebekah KangIn August 2025 we contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Handbook of…
Redesigning Schools & Systems
Community by Design: Charter Flexibility, CCSPP Support, and Gateway’s Community Schools Vision
Community Schooling | Issue 8 | Fall 2025 Community by Design: Charter Flexibility, CCSPP Support, and Gateway’s Community Schools Vision Jason Sample, Superintendent & CEO, Gateway Community Charters When community…
Voices That Soar
Community Schooling | Issue 8 | Fall 2025 Voices that Soar Michaela Thomas, Teacher at Higher Learning Academy, Gateway Community Charters Kristina Kress, Program Coordinator, Capitol-Placer R-TAC This issue’s teacher…
Community Outreach Academy of the Arts: Highlighting Community School Practices and Refugee Support Work
Community Schooling | Issue 8 | Fall 2025 Community Outreach Academy of the Arts: Highlighting Community School Practices and Refugee Work Larissa Gonchar, Principal, and Roman Prishlyak, Vice Principal Community…
CCSPP Year 2 Growth and Progress Report
This comprehensive report highlights how schools and districts across California are advancing the community schools approach, integrating academics, health, social services, and family partnerships to support the whole child. Drawing…
Nothing for Us without Us: Community-Led Transformation through Coalition-Building
Community Schooling | Issue 7 | Spring 2025 Nothing for Us without Us: Community-Led Transformation through Coalition-Building Rhea Brown, Mountain View School Principal Kyle Weinberg, San Diego Education Association President…
Shasta COE Community Connect: A Community Schooling Local Data Use Case
The Shasta County Data Use Case explores the creation of a data system in response to an urgent need to address chronic absenteeism. In 2019-2020, the county was facing the…
AUHSD 5Cs: A Community Schooling Local Measure Data Use Case
The AUHSD Data Use Case explores the journey of one school district to dream up, implement, and track use of a local measure of whole child learning within their community…
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…
Listening Leads to Deeper Inclusion for Native Students
Community Schooling | Issue 6 | Fall 2024 Listening Leads to Deeper Inclusion for Native Students Kerri Schuette, Director of Communications, Shasta County Office of Education Shasta County American Indian…
