The massive influx of funding to seed, strengthen, and scale community school approaches demands that we work together to accurately describe the nuances of community schools implementation, what needs to be in place in order to ensure efficacy, and how to best evaluate community school efforts.
This new PACE publication set by Hayin Kimner provides a concrete example of what this kind of school looks like in practice as well as guidance for leaders at the school, district, county, and state level about how to support effective implementation at scale.
This brief is part of a series that shares findings from a research collaboration between the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) focused on understanding implementation of the community school model in the district