Policy Brief/Proposal
Healing-Centered Community School Strategies Practice Brief
Community Schools Learning Exchange
A practice brief describing the core practices of implementing comprehensive community school strategies.
Tag: Student Engagement
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Clear Values, Compassionate Leadership, and a Can-Do Attitude
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A blog post sharing the stories of school districts that faced the complex challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic with a human-centered approach that allowed their response to be nimble and agile.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School: A Community School That Honors Its Neighborhood’s Legacy of Educational Justice
Learning Policy Institute
A research brief on the development of a community school in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Ending Intellectual and Social-Emotional Policing: Advancing Liberatory Education in Schools
New Venture Fund
A 95-minute webinar discussing the importance of critical consciousness-building as being a key aspect of social-emotional learning that is currently under attack.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Personalized Learning as Transformative Learning
Stanford University Graduate School of Education, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
A profile of California Alternative Education describing the efforts of Big Picture Learning in southern California.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Leading teachers offer lessons for how to reinvent schools
University of South Carolina, College of Education
An op-ed sharing advice for teachers returning to the classroom for the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
CFJ Youth Leaders Secure Major Wins in Long Beach & Fresno Unified
Californians for Justice
A blog post showcasing the achievements of youth organizers in Fresno and Long Beach Unified School Districts, highlighting their successful campaigns for expanding ethnic studies, paying students for their expertise, establishing wellness centers, and prioritizing student health and resources for Black students.
Tool / Toolkit
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Road to Recovery: What Last Year’s Data Can Tell Us About Next Year’s Plans
Education Analytics, Inc.
An article highlighting the importance of data analysis on student performance to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning and well-being, particularly for students of color and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Emphasizes the need for data-driven decision-making to implement effective strategies for recovery in the upcoming school year.
Research/Report
Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
The results of research about students' and teachers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed themes of healing, community, and humanity as essential values for rebuilding schools.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
School and District Bureaucracy Has Failed Us All. What Are Some Alternatives?
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A blog post about navigating the challenges of creating coherence, equity, and powerful learning in our existing school district bureaucracies and hierarchies.
Framework/Guide
California English Learner Roadmap Implementation Guide and Toolkit for Administrators
Californians Together
A series of toolkits and guides designed to support California school administrators as they take up the challenge of leading and supporting the implementation of the 2017 California English Learner Roadmap policies.
Tool / Toolkit
From Crisis to Opportunity: Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan Checklist
Education Trust, Inc.
A checklist intended to provide an opportunity to ensure the students most deeply affected by school closures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic received the support they needed to thrive in a distance learning environment.
Policy Brief/Proposal
From Crisis to Opportunity: Recovering California’s Commitment to Equity – Family and Educator Engagement
Education Trust, Inc.
A guide to state and local considerations for addressing family and educator engagement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tool / Toolkit
Reimagine and Rebuild California Schools
Education Trust, Inc.
A webpage released by a wide-ranging coalition of California organizations to offer resources that outline steps school districts and schools could take to rebuild and recover in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to meet and support the social-emotional and academic needs of students and lay the groundwork for long-term systemic transformation.
Policy Brief/Proposal
The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Proposals: 2021
Education Trust, Inc.
Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2021, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators.
Policy Brief/Proposal
Educators for Excellence Los Angeles Policy Agenda
Educators for Excellence
A policy agenda for Los Angeles Unified Schools built by district educators, featuring demands for culturally relevant and antiracist education, equitable funding, social emotional wellbeing, better compensation approaches tied to teacher pathways, more holistic assessments, and effective and 21st-century teacher preparation.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Artbound: Arts Education
Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture
A video produced by KCET PBS SoCal exploring the values that arts education provides for all young people and communities, to build the foundation for an inclusive and economically vibrant society.
Tool / Toolkit
Administrator Culminating Assessment
San Diego State University
A culminating task assessment for California Administrators to assess a candidate's understanding and mastery of the California Administrator Performance Expectations through a lens of equitable leadership.
Research/Report
Still Fighting for Ethnic Studies
San Francisco State University
A book chapter exploring the origins, practices, and potential of community responsive pedagogy.