We know what works

We know what works
In an article in Bright Magazine, Kyle Serrette writes that a "United States where every public school is a community school would be a very different place... Your bank, local architect, grocery store, hospital, and other institutions we associate with being part of the broader community outside our schools would be deeply integrated into them." The concept is intuitive, Serrette says: In most strapped schools, a principal lacks time to find appropriate community partners, let alone conduct an analysis of needs. Schools adopt a random-partner strategy, which is no strategy at all. A community-school strategy, on the other hand, puts one person in charge of determining a school's ever-evolving needs. With a granular understanding, partnerships can be scaled, connecting schools with similar needs and pairing those that could benefit from each other's strengths. We know what works, Serrette says: culturally relevant and engaging curricula; an emphasis on high-quality teaching over high-stakes testing; wraparound supports, such as health care and social and emotional services; positive discipline practices, such as restorative justice; parent and community engagement; and inclusive school leadership committed to making the community-school strategy integral to a school's mandate and functioning. With recent passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, funds are explicitly available for essential elements such as community school coordinators, needs assessments, and after-school programming.
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Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP) is an education support organization that works as a collaborative partner in high-poverty communities.

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