Research/Report
Grappling with Covid’s Impact on Education
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
A report on labor-management responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California schools.
Tag: Student Wellbeing
Story / Case Study / Commentary
CFJ Youth Leaders Win Restorative Restart & More in Oakland & San Jose!
Californians for Justice
A blog post highlighting the achievements of youth leaders in Oakland and San Jose who successfully advocated for a restorative return to school by securing commitments for mental health support, wellness centers, and community-building initiatives in their respective school districts, celebrating the power of youth activism and previewing upcoming victories in other cities.
Policy Brief/Proposal
Restorative Restart
Community Schools Learning Exchange
A report providing research behind 14 action areas for rebuilding education in California following COVID-19.
Tool / Toolkit
Affecting Transformative Change: Actions for District Leaders
Education Trust, Inc.
A guide providing actionable steps school districts leaders can take to respond to the needs of all students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tool / Toolkit
Affecting Transformative Change: Questions for Families and Other Advocates to Ask Their District Leaders
Education Trust, Inc.
A guide highlighting questions that families and advocates can ask their district leaders to rebuild and reimagine schools that center holistic needs of students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Social Justice Humanitas Academy
Learning Policy Institute
A study of the principles and practices that support whole child development at the Social Justice Humanitas Academy in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Connecting Youth to Purpose: A Framework for Integrating Linked Learning and Community Schools
Linked Learning Alliance
A video webinar focused on integrating Linked Learning and community schools approaches.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Transforming SEL through Healing and Restorative Justice
New Venture Fund
A 90-minute webinar highlighting how culturally-affirming SEL is centered in healing justice and emotional justice to transform schools to truly be holistically safe spaces.
Tool / Toolkit
Building Parent, Student & Community Power in Decisionmaking
Public Advocates
A slide deck training parents, students, and community members how to read the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) and engage in the LCAP process.
Research/Report
How Districts Planned for Pandemic Learning
Public Advocates
A report on equity-driven practices and lessons learned from the 2020 learning continuity and attendance plans.
Policy Brief/Proposal
Student Equity Need Index
Catalyst California
A factsheet on the Student Equity Need Index (SENI), a student-based equity need index used to inform the allocation of funds to high need schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Graphic/Infographic
Map: Student Equity Need Index (SENI 2.0) in the Context of COVID-19
Community Coalition
A map infographic showing the percentage of Student Equity Need Index (SENI) schools in each COVID-19 index category in Los Angeles County, indicating that Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools overall are some of the LA County areas hit hardest by the pandemic.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
The Learning Curve: An Anthology of PUSD Student Stories
Pasadena Educational Foundation
An anthology of student stories published by Think Tank, a high school student-led initiative that was started during the COVID-19 pandemic at Pasadena Unified School District to help raise student voices on the issues they were confronting, including in district decision-making.
Policy Brief/Proposal
Ensuring Whole-Child Well-Being as a Foundation for Learning
American Institutes for Research
A policy and practice brief outlining opportunities to implement the science of learning and development to support students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy Brief/Proposal
The Career Pathways Approach
American Institutes for Research
A policy and practice brief interrogating the equity promise of career pathways.
Research/Report
Cultivating Inclusion: Belonging and Agency in Young Black Men through Civic Action Research
Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development
A peer-reviewed journal article examining how community-based civic action research can cultivate civic engagement, civic belonging, and shifts in civic stakeholders' perceptions of racially and economically minoritized youth's civic agency.
Framework/Guide
Arts Integration: Teaching Subject Matter through the Arts in Multicultural Settings
California State University San Marcos Foundation
A comprehensive guide to integrating the arts throughout the K-12 curriculum, blending contemporary theory with classroom practice. This textbook is available for sale as a paperback, hardcover, or eBook.
Research/Report
Using Chronic Absence to Map Interrupted Schooling, Instructional Loss and Educational Inequity
Attendance Works
A report providing a national and state analysis of how chronic absence data can help guide strategies to address learning loss exacerbated by COVID-19.
Framework/Guide
The Accountability System English Learners Deserve: Framework for an Effective and Coherent Accountability System for ELs
Californians Together
A framework outlining steps to achieve an effective and coherent accountability system for English learners in California that supports all levels of the state's educational system.
Policy Brief/Proposal
Expanded Learning Partnership
Community Schools Learning Exchange
An outline of key principles for cultivating collaborative, sustainable partnerships between schools and expanded learning providers that support the whole child.