Student Agency & Thriving

4 years ago

Charting a Better Future at Mann UCLA Community School

Community Schooling | Issue 2 | Spring 2022 Charting a Better Future at Mann UCLA Community School Youth Research Podcast Isaiah Catching, Jamel Jackson, Ray’Ven Kelly, Alberto Roman, Yadira Tejada,…

5 years ago

Returning to School in a Time of Uncertainty Podcast

Community Schooling | Issue 1 | Fall 2021 Returning to School in a Time of Uncertainty Youth Research Podcast Diego Chavez, Eduardo Galindo-Munoz, April Mendoza Jimenez, Nareli Lopez, Adriana Rios-Cruz,…

5 years ago

Linked Learning and Community Schools: Preparing all Students for College, Career, and Civic Life

This brief provides an overview of these two approaches and describe a framework for bringing the Linked Learning and community schools together at the high school level so that all…

6 years ago

Creating Persistent Community: The Challenge of Aligning Supports for First-Generation College-going Students

This report documents the experiences of seven cohorts of students from the UCLA Community School and track their pathways to and through college using four measures: (1) postsecondary plans, (2)…

6 years ago

Infrastructuring Student Agency

Supporting students to actively and critically participate in their own learning requires extensive infrastructure in schools that serve historically nondominant students. As this report documents, students from these backgrounds tend…

7 years ago

Framing, Supporting, and Tracking College-For-All Reform

This article, published in The High School Journal, describes the collective problem-solving process that unfolded over a decade, from 2007 to 2017, as researchers and practitioners in a new K-12 urban public…

7 years ago

The Power of Self-Assessment: Using Community-Based Measures to Advance Biliteracy

This report provides an interactive roadmap that documents how educators and researchers partnered to pilot and design a community-based self-assessment system composed of self-assessment instruments (i.e. tools, assessment measures) and…

7 years ago

Nurturing Play: How Schools can Provide Powerful Opportunities for Children to Learn

A 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…

7 years ago

UCLA Community School Longitudinal College-going Data Report

This data report is a companion to a research paper entitled, Framing, Supporting, and Tracking College-For-All Reform: A Local Case of Public Scholarship (Quartz, Murillo, Trinchero, Neri & Jacobo, 2019).…

9 years ago

High School Internships: Utilizing a Community Cultural Wealth Framework to Support Career Preparation and College-Going Among Low-Income Students of Color

This article, published in the Journal of Education Placed at High Risk investigates the experience of 229 low-income students of color who participated in an innovative high school internship program between 2011…

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