Community Resources

Explore research, insights, and tools to help build thriving, student-centered community schools.

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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.

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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.

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Kendra Fehrer Kendra Fehrer

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.

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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!

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