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.
Years ago, I took a job as district Director of Community Schools. The hardest part about that job? Trying to advance a vision of community schools, amidst an organizational culture that, like most school districts everywhere, struggled with programmatic silos and barriers to collaboration.
If you’re reading this, I’m betting that you’ve recently received a CA Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) grant.
Community-connected learning is more than a different approach to teaching; it is the most effective way to teach.