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2021
Profiles in California Alternative Education
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco and Kristin Geiser, Editors
Advancing Equity in College Attainment: Strategically Designing Scholarship & Support Programs
Colette Hadley and Liz Newman
Redwood City & North Fair Oaks COVID-19 Community Needs Assessment Survey Findings
Brandon Balzer Carr & Amy Gerstein
Community Philanthropy for Student Success Initiative: Evaluation Summary
Kristin Geiser
2020
Full Service Community Schools in the Oakland Unified School District, 2019-2020
Kendra Fehrer & Jorge Ruiz de Velasco
Impacts of the Aim High Summer Learning Program on Student Engagement & Achievement
Jaymes Pyne, Erica Messner, & Tom Dee
Report & Recommendations of the California Advisory Task Force on Alternative Schools
Prepared by John W. Gardner Center
Engaging Partners in Collective Inquiry to Advance Equitable College Attainment
Elizabeth Newman & Laurel Sipes
Tools & Strategies for Equitable College Attainment: Using Contextual Knowledge & Collective Inquiry to Ignite Change
Elizabeth Newman and Laurel Sipes
Distribution and Variation of Housing Instability among San Mateo County Students: Part 1
Nicole Tognozzi and Jaymes Pyne
2019
San Mateo Area Teen Mental Health Study
Kristin Geiser, Kendra Fehrer, Jaymes Pyne, Amy Gerstein, Vicki Harrison, and Shashank Joshi
Full Service Community Schools in the Oakland Unified School District, 2018-2019
Kendra Fehrer, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, and Nicole Tognozzi
Family Engagement in Sanger Unified School District
Kendra Fehrer and Amy Gerstein
A Guide to Integrated Student Supports for College and Career Pathways: Lessons from Linked Learning High Schools
Edited by Jorge Ruiz de Velasco
Examining Attendance Patterns for SFUSD Students in Mission Promise Neighborhood Schools: 2013-14 Through 2016-17
Erica Messner
2018
Transforming Early Childhood Education for Dual Language Learners
Kendra Fehrer, Nicole Tognozzi, & Soodie Ansari
Where Data Lead, Success Follows: Rural California Districts Band Together to Focus on College Readiness
Liz Newman and Hadar Baharav
An Enrollment Snapshot of Youth in Alternative Schools for Select California Urban School Districts
Erica Messner
A Demographic Snapshot of Alternative School Enrollments in Select California Urban School Districts
Jamila Henderson
2017
An Implementation Study of the Early Childhood Language Development Institute (ECLDI): Dual-Capacity Professional Development in San Mateo County
Kendra Fehrer & Nicole Tognozzi
Learning Time: In Pursuit of Educational Equity
Marisa Saunders, Jorge Ruiz De Velasco, and Jeannie Oakes
Students with Amazing Goals (SWAG): Year 2 Interim Report
Jacob Leos-Urbel, Kendra Fehrer, Jamila Henderson, and Francine Biscocho
Higher Education and Silicon Valley: Connected but Conflicted [Supplementary Materials]
W. Richard Scott, Michael W. Kirst, and Colleagues
The Educational Success of Homeless and Highly Mobile Students in San Francisco Unified School District
Hadar Baharav, Jacob Leos-Urbel, Jelena Obradović, and Sarah Bardack
Accountability for Alternative Schools in California
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco and Daisy Gonzales
Expanding Learning Opportunities for Youth and Their Families in the Mission Promise Neighborhood: An Interim Assessment
Laurel Sipes and Jorge Ruiz De Velasco
2016
An Implementation Study of the Students with Amazing Goals (SWAG) Program: Year One
Manuelito Biag, Jacob Leos-Urbel, Jamila Henderson, Carolina Ornelas, and Amy Gerstein
Becoming a Community School: A Study of Oakland Unified School District Community School Implementation, 2015-2016
Kendra Fehrer, Jacob Leos-Urbel, Erica Messner, and Nicole Riley
Community Youth Engagement in East Palo Alto: A Study of the Youth Arts and Music Center Initiative
Jamila Henderson, Francine Biscocho, and Amy Gerstein
Aim High: Closing the Achievement and Opportunity Gaps Through Summer Learning
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
Data Use and Inquiry in Research-Practice Partnerships: Four Case Examples
Manuelito Biag, Amy Gerstein, Kendra Fehrer, Monika Sanchez, and Laurel Sipes
Equitable Access by Design: A Conceptual Framework for Integrated Student Supports within Linked Learning Pathways
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Elizabeth Newman, and Graciela Borsato
Defining Integrated Student Supports for Linked Learning Pathways
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco
Authority, Discipline, and the Marginalization of Youth in Schools
Prudence Carter, Travis Bristol, and Kia Darling-Hammond
2015
Oakland Unified School District Community Schools: Understanding Implementation Efforts to Support Students, Teachers, and Families
Kendra Fehrer and Jacob Leos-Urbel
The CORE Districts and Deeper Learning
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco
An Implementation Study of the Art in Action Program
Manuelito Biag, Erin Raab, and Mary Hofstedt
The Relationship between Playworks Participation and Student Attendance in Two School Districts
Jacob Leos-Urbel and Monika Sanchez
2014
Systemic, Integrated, and Sustainable Family Engagement across the Early Age Spectrum in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties
Kendra Fehrer
College Access and Completion among Boys and Young Men of Color: Literature Review of Promising Practices
Kara Dukakis, Nina Duong, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, and Jamila Henderson
College Readiness Indicator System (CRIS) Resource Series
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities; Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; and UChicago Consortium on Chicago School Research
A Longitudinal View of Educational Outcomes for Preschool For All Participants in Redwood City School District
Monika Sanchez
Mission Promise Neighborhood: Residence and SFUSD Student Enrollment Patterns, 2011-2012
Cristina Lash, Monika Sanchez, and Rebecca London
The Links between Program Participation and Students’ Outcomes: The Redwood City Community Schools Project
Manuelito Biag and Sebastian Castrechini
Examining Students’ Math Course-Taking and Educational Outcomes in the Garden Grove Unified School District (Year 1)
Manuelito Biag and Imeh Williams
2013
Graduation Rates for East Palo Alto Students in the Sequoia Union High School District
Sebastian Castrechini
Early Childhood Community Schools Linkages: Advancing a Theory of Change
Kristin E. Geiser, S. Kwesi Rollins, Amy Gerstein, and Martin J. Blank
Positive Youth Development in Redwood City, 2012-2013
Lisa Westrich
Developing Alternative Placement Criteria for English Courses at City College of San Francisco
Sebastian Castrechini
Participation Among San Francisco Unified School District Students in Programs Offered by the Department of Children, Youth, and their Families
Imeh Williams
Examining Students’ Perceptions of the School Environment: Sequoia High School’s School Climate Survey
Manuelito Biag and Monika Sanchez
Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Playworks: Effects on Play, Physical Activity, and Recess
Mathematica Policy Research & John W. Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities
From Data to Action: A Community Approach to Improving Youth Outcomes
Milbrey McLaughlin and Rebecca A. London
PASS-2: Putting Youth Contribution at the Center of Positive Youth Development in Oakland High Schools
Brandy P. Quinn and Kristin E. Geiser
A Study of Family Engagement in Redwood City Community Schools
Lisa Westrich and Karen Strobel
Analyzing Evidence of College Readiness: A Tri-Level Empirical and Conceptual Framework
Lambrina Kless, James Soland, and Maribel Santiago
Improving the Quality and Continuity of Practice across Early Childhood Education and Elementary Community School Settings
Kristin E. Geiser, Ilana M. Horwitz, and Amy Gerstein
2012
Oakland Kids First: Peers Advising Students to Succeed Implementation Study
Kristin E. Geiser and Brandy P. Quinn
Healthy Schools Initiative: Implementation Study in Four San Mateo County School Districts
Lisa Westrich, Monika Sanchez, Karen Strobel, and Nina Duong
Early Childhood Education and Community Schools Linkages Project: Implementation Study
Kristin E. Geiser, Ilana M. Horwitz, and Amy Gerstein
Math Placement Acceleration Initiative at the City College of San Francisco Developed with San Francisco Unified School District
Betsy Williams
Raising the Bar, Building Capacity: Driving Improvements in California's Continuation High Schools
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco and Milbrey McLaughlin
Truancy and Chronic Absence in Redwood City
Monika Sanchez
Caring and Motivating Middle School Classrooms
Karen Strobel and Graciela Borsato
Positive Student Outcomes in Community Schools
Sebastian Castrechini and Rebecca London
English Articulation Between the San Francisco Unified School District and the City College of San Francisco
Oded Gurantz
2011
Examining Student Outcomes Across Programs in Redwood City Community Schools
Sebastian Castrechini
Math Articulation between the San Francisco Unified School District and the City College of San Francisco
Oded Gurantz
Developing Early Warning Indicators for the San Francisco Unified School District
Oded Gurantz
PLUS: San Jose’s Successful Alternative Education Option
Milbrey McLaughlin and Hoorig Santikian
Playworks: Promoting Positive Youth Development in Low-Income Elementary Schools
Lisa Westrich, Rebecca A. London, Katie Stokes-Guinan, Nora Mallonee, and Milbrey W. McLaughlin
Playworks: Supporting Play and Physical Activity in Low Income Elementary Schools
Katie Stokes-Guinan, Rebecca London, Nora Mallonee, Lisa Westrich, and Milbrey McLaughlin
2010
Playworks Implementation in 8 Bay Area Elementary Schools: Final Report
Rebecca London, Nora Mallonee, Katie Stokes-Guinan, and Lisa Westrich
Mapping Out-of-School Time Resources for East Palo Alto and Belle Haven Youth
Sebastian Castrechini
Practices that Promote Middle School Students’ Motivation and Achievement
Karen Strobel
Secondary to Postsecondary Transitions for Youth in San Francisco Unified School District
Oded Gurantz
Early Playworks Implementation in Six Bay Area Elementary Schools
Rebecca A. London, Nora Mallonee, Katie Stokes-Guinan, and Lisa Westrich
Youth in the Middle: Envisioning and Implementing a Whole-School Youth Development Approach
Kristin Geiser and Christina O’Guinn
Linked Summer Programs for Youth: Opportunities, Challenges, and Innovations
William Penuel and Katrina Brink
State and Local Data Infrastructure for Tracking Secondary to Postsecondary Educational Outcomes
Rebecca London and Oded Gurantz
The Academic Progress of Alternative School Students Transitioning into Comprehensive High Schools
Oded Gurantz
2009
Educational Outcomes for Court Dependent Youth in San Mateo County
Sebastian Castrechini
Positive Youth Development: Individual, Setting, and System Level Indicators
Kara Dukakis, Rebecca London, Milbrey McLaughlin, and Devon Williamson
Boys & Girls Club Participation and English Language Development among English Learner Students
Rebecca London and Oded Gurantz
Exploring the Link between Physical Fitness and Academic Achievement
Rebecca London and Sebastian Castrechini
2008
Alternative Education Options: A Descriptive Study of California Continuation High Schools
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco, Greg Austin, Don Dixon, Joseph Johnson, Milbrey McLaughlin, and Lynne Perez
2007
A Model for Fostering Youth Leadership: The Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning Program (YELL)
Karen Strobel and Ingrid Nelson
Understanding Youth Leadership Development: An Examination of the YELL Program
Karen Strobel and Ingrid Nelson
Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL): A Handbook for Program Staff, Teachers, and Community Leaders
Yolanda Anyon, Katrina Brink, Marie Crawford, María Fernández, Mary Hofstedt, Jerusha Osberg, and Karen Strobel
Building Bridges: A Summer Program for Middle School Students Highlights a Community School in Action
Mary Hofstedt
2004
Integrating Technology into Community Youth Research
William R. Penuel, James H. Gray, and Deborah Kim
2003
Youth Empowerment: The Contributions and Challenges of Youth-Led Research in a High-Poverty, Urban Community
Yolanda Anyon with Sandra Naughton
2002
Creating Community Change: Challenges and Tensions in Community Youth Research
Maria Fernandez
2000
Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development
Milbrey McLaughlin
