
Community Resources
Explore research, insights, and tools to help build thriving, student-centered community schools.
Evaluating California's Landmark Community Schools Investment
Discover how California's $4.1 billion community schools initiative aims to transform education by integrating academics with essential services, fostering equity, and supporting whole-child development.
Futuro Brillante: A Model for Newcomer Education
Discover how Futuro Brillante provided hope and education to over 3,000 unaccompanied minors through trauma-informed practices and collaboration, offering valuable lessons for creating safe, inclusive spaces for vulnerable students.
Oakland Unified's Blueprint for Thriving Community Schools
Discover how Oakland Unified School District's centralized support and strategic partnerships have fostered successful community schools, offering valuable insights for education leaders aiming to implement whole child education.
Centering Multilingual Families in California's Community Schools
Learn how California’s Community Schools Partnership Program leverages family-school partnerships to center multilingual families, foster cultural inclusivity, and create transformative educational outcomes for students and their communities.
Community Schools: Youth Voices for Equity
From principals to family members, from community partners to teachers, this book illustrates how together, we all have a part to play in the development of successful community schools.
The Making of Oakland's Full-Service Community School District
Explore the history of how Oakland's ambitious initiative transformed 86 schools into full-service community hubs, integrating academics with essential services to support every student's success.
District Leadership: Key to Sustainable Community Schools
This brief outlines the specific role districts must play to strengthen system-level supports and infrastructure to ensure sustainable resources, shared governance, robust and usable data systems, and organizational learning and improvement.
Top 5 videos: What is a community school?
Videos can be powerful teaching tools. They can make complex concepts concrete, while also showing the human faces of an issue. That’s what I hope these community schools videos do for you. Enjoy this community schools video round-up!