Our team of experts can facilitate and support your implementation efforts related to community schools through communities of practice, content-specific knowledge and capacity building, and creation of high-quality tools and resources.
How We Help
We know that community schools should be led by the communities they serve. Our work together will help you shape successful partnerships to create learning conditions designed to prioritize agency, self-determination, and liberation.
We Help You
- enhance community schools through intentional planning, implementation, and continuous improvement;
- strengthen the conditions for systemic youth and family engagement to grow and align community-based partnerships to support the whole person;
- work with regional and state agencies to cocreate support systems for community schools;
- identify a shared vision for equitable whole-person outcomes around which community schools’ efforts can be united; and
- develop and strengthen collaborative leadership approaches, expanded learning opportunities, and program evaluation aligned with a comprehensive community schools framework.
Thanks to the expertise and guidance from the WestEd team, the Central Valley Regional Transformational Assistance Center is better able to equip educators and community members with the tools they need to lead effective transformation. The resources, professional learning, and strategic insights WestEd shared are invaluable, and the impact on our grantees, non-grantees and community are evident in the work.
— Director of Community Schools, County Office of Education
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Rebeca Cerna
Ashley Boal
Amber Valdez
Connecting Research With Practice
Community schools embody a whole-person approach to education that prioritizes collaboration, community engagement, and equity. WestEd’s support for community schools is grounded in evidence-based practices, including the four pillars of community schools for achieving transformational outcomes and participatory systems change for equity.
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