Six key practices of a community school serving immigrant, multilingual communities

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Description

The report distills UCLA Community School's approach into six key practices: knowing and building on a community's history, assets, and culture; developing and articulating desired core competencies; nurturing shared leadership and collective agency; creating space for collaborative inquiry, professional autonomy, and teacher development; using data and stories to elevate the school's vision and track progress; and affirming everyone's role. The report says these practices "contribute to its success" and offers them as takeaways for practitioners.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• A cross-sector partnership structure with a primary university partner and community school coordination to sustain the practices

Constraints

• Practices are documented at one TK-12 school in central Los Angeles serving a large immigrant population; the report presents them as an example, not a tested recipe

Target Learners

• TK-12 students in immigrant, low-income, multilingual communities

Learning Goals

• College readiness
• biliteracy and multicultural competence
• civic agency

Claims

• Ucla Cs Rising A G And Graduation Outcomes [+W]

Related Designs

• Community Integrated Data System for coordinating student supports
• Four core competencies and three core beliefs guiding teaching and learning at UCLA-CS
• UCLA Migrant Student Leadership Institute as a third space

Examples

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Key Sources

• Karen Hunter Quartz. (2023). UCLA Community School: Celebrating Language, Culture, and Community. Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org

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description	The report distills UCLA Community School's approach into six key practices: knowing and building on a community's history, assets, and culture; developing and articulating desired core competencies; nurturing shared...
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