Education, educators, and the truth about the ugly roots and maintenance of all types of inequity are under attack in the United States. I increasingly hear from families, community members, policymakers, students, and educators sharing their discouragement, uneasiness, and fear about policies and...
Jennifer Kotting and Hayin Kimner share four key insights on how to successfully leverage local partnerships and bolster family engagement in community schools.
Cultures of Care celebrates people that practice collective care in unconventional and insurgent ways. Care is an essential, immediate and practical way to create belonging. Perhaps most vitally in our urgent times, at the heart of each profile you will find provocations that are seeds for reshaping society and how we relate to each other and the world.
Community schools are also an important tool in ongoing efforts to achieve education equity, providing both the resources students need to support their learning and the academic rigor that offers them access to the opportunities associated with a high-quality education.
From video: “We have to get kids to love school. If we get them to love school, it fosters their commitment to getting a great education. It motivates them to overcome and transcend their circumstances to be the best students they could possibly be,” Richard Gordon says, explaining the central tenet to community schooling.
This report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and determines community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access t
This roundtable discussion addresses the challenges and barriers facing community college students today as they attempt to transfer into the University of California and California State University systems.
Replica of EO 9066, photo taken at MOHAI museum Feb 2013. It is mid-winter break for me. 19 February 2022 will mark the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order No 9066 (EO 9066). This was the order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and sent 120,000 West…
Last March, after the killing of six Asian and Asian American women in spas in Atlanta, I felt completely invisible. The shootings had only heightened the trauma of the previous year as the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide, bringing with it virulent racist and xenophobic attacks on Asian Americans (p
A study of Black Americans suggests Black communities most value arts experiences that celebrate their creativity, support self-care, earn their trust & foster a sense of belonging.
Learning Policy Institute and Opportunity Institute researchers examine a new law investing $3 billion in California's community schools and the principles of how to implement community schools well.
So the details of what we say and do in the smallest moments matter. They shape our experiences of reading and writing, science, technology, making and art, our relationships with one another, with learning, with ourselves and the wider world.
“Tell Me Another Story,” a 30-minute free access documentary, presents a compelling and lively portrait of the giants, past and present, who have advanced diversity in picture books, illuminating the reality that multicultural literature is critical to our children’s quality of life and the health...
Hayin Kimner, Lorenna Maysonet, and Rebecca Winthrop argue that to combat the lasting effects of COVID-19 on America's children, it is imperative to implement a reimagined community schools strategy to prevent further education inequality.
We generated what we believe to be one of the most sophisticated tools for representing race and residential segregation in the United States. In this video, Stephen Menendian — one of the project authors and OBI's Assistant Director — will explain the tool's key components in order to help you most effectively use the map. Access the mapping tool here at https://belonging.gis-cdn.net/us_segregation_map/. On a number of occasions in this video, we make reference to the Roots of Structural Racism project and its technical appendix, both of which can be found here at https://belonging.berkeley.edu/roots-structural-racism.
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Introduction (0:00) How to Start (1:07) Using the Year Slider and Geographies (2:32) Our Default Measure of Segregation (5:24) Prevailing Segregation Measures (8:23) — Dissimilarity Index (8:49) — Exposure and Isolation Indices (10:38) — Divergence Index (13:37) — Entropy Score (18:35) — Location Quotient (20:46) — Reviewing Measurements (21:08) Additional Features (21:45) — Segregation Stories (22:07) — HOLC Redlining Maps (22:37) Conclusion (23:26)
Recent acute instances of failed political leadership—particularly around the pandemic and an ongoing lack of action to protect Black lives—have shone a bright light on questions essential to our future as a country: Who are we? Who are we becoming? Who must we become if we are to create a different world where everyone belongs?
Why Am I Always Being Researched? A guidebook for community organizations, researchers, and funders to help us get from insufficient understanding to more authentic truth Download Guidebook “Pictured: Jonte” This guidebook is based off of one singular premise: if evidence matters, we must care how it gets made. As an impact investor that backs the…
This a repository of policy-based recommendations for addressing structural and systemic racism or advancing racial equity drawn from a vast array of published material. A complete list of sources is provided in an index at the bottom of this page, with a short-hand acronym for identifying the source in the repository. An overview of this project, including selection criteria and main findings is available here.
The federal government has a central role to play in reversing the legacy of racial segregation and disinvestment that disproportionately harms low-income communities of color. Developed in a partnership between Urban Institute and PolicyLink, this blueprint aims to help federal agency officials,...
Americans want, need, and deserve excellent schools for all students. This guide provides tools for advancing Community Schools as a strategy to improve schools, provide more equitable opportunities, and prepare students for success in life and as citizens.
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