STAC Reports and Resources

2 weeks ago

Turning Investment into Equity: Lessons, Signals, and the Path Forward

By: Andrés Fernandez-Vergara & Marisa Saunders, UCLA Center for Community Schooling, California State Transformational Assistance Center California’s $4.1 billion investment in community schools represents one of the most significant equity-driven…

4 weeks ago

Deep Dive Transformation Partners Report: Cohort 2

This report presents findings from the 2024–2025 Deep Dive work with Cohort 2 Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) participating in the California Community Schools Partnership Program. The Deep Dive approach examines…

2 months ago

How Community-Based Learning Shapes Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Multilingual Development Through Social Action

This report documents how Community-Based Learning (CBL) was enacted at the UCLA Community School (UCLA-CS) through MISA—Multilingual, Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Social Action, a comprehensive learning system co-designed by teachers and a…

3 months ago

Learning from Community School Teachers: Cohort 1 Teacher Fellows Report

This report provides an outline of the design, implementation, and iteration of a community-based learning (CBL) community of practice as a mechanism for supporting transformational assistance of the California Community…

5 months ago

Ontario-Montclair School District: Leveraging Local Data to Improve Student Attendance & Outcomes

The Ontario-Montclair School District Data Use Case explores the efforts of Lincoln Elementary School to increase overall attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. Lincoln met their goal through a holistic, data-informed, and…

7 months ago

Val Verde Unified School District: Leveraging Local Data to Improve Student Well-Being

The Val Verde Unified School District Data Use Case explores the establishment of Wellness Centers across its school sites—quiet, safe spaces that students can visit for a designated period during…

8 months ago

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…

12 months ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year 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…