Teachers & Teaching

1 month ago

Community Teaching: “We Need People Like Ourselves in the Community”

Community schools have long been recognized as a transformative strategy for advancing equity, deepening engagement, and addressing the holistic needs of students. This mixed- methods study, conducted by the UCLA…

3 months ago

Beyond Teacher Leadership: The Role of Teachers as Learners, Innovators, and Designers for Whole Child Education

This report, co-authored by researchers at the UCLA Center for Community Schooling and the University of South Carolina, describes in rich detail how two districts—Surrey Schools (BC) and Anaheim Union…

4 months 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…

4 years ago

Community Teachers: Taking Ownership of Whole Child Educational Practices

This report, co-authored by community school practitioners, focuses on the work of educators within community schools in developing, implementing and owning whole-child educational practices. Practitioners from five “veteran” community schools…

4 years ago

Collaborative Leadership as the Cornerstone of Community Schools Policy, Structures, and Practice

This brief describes the practices, policies, and structures that support UCLA Community School’s vision and commitment to collaborative decision-making. The brief demonstrates how collaborative leadership serves to mediate the integration…

5 years ago

A Community-Based Approach to Studying Climate Change at Mann UCLA Community School

Published in UCLA ED&IS Magazine, this article describes the efforts of Mann UCLA Community School teacher, Darlene Tieu, to develop a science-based curriculum that relates to the lives of students and…

5 years ago

Translanguaging: A Look Inside a High School Geography Class

This brief sheds light on a translanguaging case study produced as part of a research-practice partnership between a bilingual education researcher and a 9th grade Geography teacher. Our collaborative inquiry highlights translanguaging practices and processes, as well as the lessons learned from this work.

5 years ago

Classroom Teachers in the Community School Movement

This article, written by Karen Hunter Quartz, Julia Daniel (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Anna Maier (Learning Policy Institute) shares the stories of community teachers in Los Angeles, San Francisco…

6 years ago

Teaching in Community Schools: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning

Drawing on research from the learning sciences and from community school literature, this book chapter explores how community school teachers and other community school staff can collaboratively build new systems…

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