Tools & Resources

An American Imperative: A New Vision of Public Schools

The School Superintendents Association (AASA)|Apr 1, 2021|Book, article, report or brief

A Report from the Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education. This report centers community school strategies as critical ingredients of of systemic school redesign.

Building Community Schools: A Guide for Action

National Center for Community Schools|Mar 27, 2021

A comprehensive guide to planning and implementing your community school strategies.

Mar 27, 2021|Tool

AFT American Educator Quarterly: Surrounded by Support

The American Federation of Teachers|Mar 27, 2021

A special issue of the American Educator, a quarterly journal of the AFT, dedicated to exploring the value and practice of community schools for educators.

Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School: A Community School That Honors Its Neighborhood’s Legacy of Educational Justice

Charlie Thompson|Mar 27, 2021|Case study

Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School (Mendez) is a community school located in East Los Angeles. Mendez has deep ties to the Boyle Heights neighborhood in which it is located, including a robust network of partnerships that engage and support its students and their families.

Is My School a Community School? A Checklist for Teachers and Staff

The American Federation of Teachers|Mar 27, 2021|Tool

This checklist offers a conversation prompt to inventory community school components currently in place, following the AFT community schools framework. This tool can help you engage in conversation.

AFT Community School Resources

The American Federation of Teachers|Mar 27, 2021

Community schools make a difference in the lives of children, families, educators and their communities each and every day. They provide real solutions to the unique problems of the students and families they serve, and are another major step forward in reclaiming the promise of public education.

NEA Community Schools Toolkit

National Education Association|Mar 27, 2021|Tool

Community Schools embody how education should function in a healthy democracy – they’re public schools that provide services and support which fit each neighborhood’s needs, created and run by the people who know our children best all working together.

NEA Community Schools Resources

National Education Association|Mar 27, 2021

Community Schools embody how education should function in a healthy democracy – they’re public schools that provide services and support which fit each neighborhood’s needs, created and run by the people who know our children best all working together.

Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation

Shane Safir & Jamila Dugan|Mar 23, 2021|Book, article, report or brief

Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.