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Community Schools Story Map

A new Community Schools Story Map has just launched from the Partnership for the Future of Learning — an interactive map of stories about community schools and the impact they’re having across the U.S. The featured stories paint a picture of the current landscape of the community schools movement and how community schools strategies can work in diverse regions at various stages of implementation. This map can be used by districts, legislators, and network partners who are interested in sharing in the possibility and potential of community schools.

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Teaching Partnerships in Community Schools

Find out how teaching partnerships work in a real Community School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Community Learning Center Institute’s neighborhood network of partners brought in Cincinnati’s first poet laureate, Pauletta Hansel, to forge connections with students around writing as a way to explore their identities and interests.

Community Power

The Power of Tribal History/Shared History

This film from Oregon provides an example of what is possible in public education when curricula reflect the full, rich history of our students’ surroundings, including the voices that have been historically silenced and marginalized.

Community Power • Remodeling Education

Oakland International High School: 2017 Community School Awardee

Oakland International High School educates newly arrived immigrants and refugees as part of the Oakland Unified School District. With students from 30 countries speaking many languages, the focus of the school is on English language acquisition, acculturation, and helping students and families feel at home. As a community school, they work to provide resources throughout the community and beyond to support students and families.

Community Power • Remodeling Education

How a Community School Helps ELLs Succeed

Visit Wolfe Street Academy in Baltimore, MD, a school with more than 76% ELLs, to see how this community school is supporting its students and families through programs and services that include dental screenings, food giveaways, after-school activities, and much, much more.

Community Power • Remodeling Education

Community Schools: As Unique as the Children They Serve

What is a community school? A learning hub that brings together academics, health and social services, youth and community development and community engagement under one roof, leading to improved learning, stronger families, and healthier communities. Find out more!

Community Power • Racial Equity • School Funding

Better Days are Coming

Better Days are Coming is a call to action. It is a call to Congress to fully fund Title I. All around the country, education activists are taking action to demand public investment in public education.

Community Power • Racial Equity • School Funding

A ROSe in LA

In Los Angeles, failure to fully fund Title I denies students more than $900 million a year. For students and educators at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in South-Central Los Angeles, this is an everyday reality.

Community Power • Science of Learning

The Long View

Community Power • Racial Equity

#WeVoteNext

As thousands of Americans gathered peacefully in the nation’s capital to “March for Our Lives” and demand an end to gun-related violence in America and investment in healthy communities and schools. Simultaneously, thousands of young people—primarily students of color—did the same in communities across the country- from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, recognizing that the issues and policies around gun violence impacts communities of color is distinct ways. Our young people are demanding change.