Oakland Unified School District Community Schools: Understanding Implementation Efforts to Support Students, Teachers, and Families
In 2010, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) launched an initiative to transform all district schools into full service community schools. The community school design provides integrated supports to students and fosters a school climate conducive to academic, social, and emotional learning. Interventions span in-school and out-of-school time, and include students' families, to ensure that all students have the supports needed to be ready to learn and to develop the skills, habits, and mindsets that provide a foundation for academic and social success. These supports are delivered in strategic partnerships with community-based organizations, and coordinated through various structures including a Community School Manager at each school. As OUSD continues to scale community school implementation, leaders want to document and assess their current efforts with an eye to improving policies and practices that will help all schools reach the initiative's goals. This report and four related briefs present findings from the first year of a planned three-year collaboration between OUSD and the Gardner Center to study the district's community schools, drawing on qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in five community schools as well as analysis of district administrative data.
Suggested Citation:
Fehrer, K., and Leos-Urbel, J. (2015). Oakland Unified School District Community Schools: Understanding Implementation Efforts to Support Students, Teachers, and Families. Stanford, CA: John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
Document(s):
Oakland Unified School District Community Schools_Implementation Report.pdf
Knowledge Brief.OUSD Community Schools_Supporting Students, Teachers, and Families.pdf
Knowledge Brief.Integrated Services and Supports in Oakland Community Schools.pdf
Knowledge Brief.Teaching and Learning in Oakland Community Schools.pdf
Knowledge Brief.Organizational Structures to Support Oakland Community Schools.pdf