Hayin Kimner
Managing Director
hayin@cslx.org •(510) 279-8591
Hayin Kimner is a practitioner, researcher and policy advocate with a focus on whole child, community school systems and partnerships that support the healthy development of youth and their communities.
Hayin has led the development of District and citywide community school partnership strategies in San Francisco Unified and Emery Unified School Districts. While at the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford University (JGC), she co-facilitated the evaluation of multiple community and school-based project initiatives with an emphasis on collaborative, theory-based, qualitative research methods that engaged community partners in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Francisco counties.
In addition to serving as the Managing Director for the CA Community Schools Learning Exchange, Hayin is a Senior Policy and Research Fellow for Policy Analysis for California Education. She recently was a nonresident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution in support of the Community Schools Forward national task force. She continues to be actively connected to community schools initiatives and practitioners across the country.
Hayin received her B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
The latest from Hayin Kimner
The letter: Chronic absenteeism, missed connections, and me
Chronic absence and truancy are serious warning signs. But an automated form letter alone, absent a meaningful connection outside of it, is a lost opportunity at best, and alienation at worst.
A grant program is not a strategy
If you’re reading this, I’m betting that you’ve recently received a CA Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) grant.
Our traditional public funding parameters don’t fit rural communities
Right now, our state has no measure that helps us understand how to really support the rich ecosystem of rural communities because the only thing we’re using is a yardstick in a forest. And it’s a problem.
