The Role of Community Schools' Culture and Climate on Students, Teachers, Families, and Community

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The community schools movement is equity-driven place-based approach to public education, with an intentional focus to address conditions for learning and educational opportunities, and to put the voices of students, teachers, families, and communities central to the school governance, support structures, and the broader family-school-community ecosystem. This symposium will highlight the latest quasi-experimental and case study research situated in three large urban areas focused on the community schools’ culture, climate, family-school-community partnerships, and the role the community schools movement plays in public education as an equity and social justice strategy. Three studies will be featured following a cross-panel dialogue and an audience discussion.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Family, School, Community Partnerships

Chair

• Helen Janc Malone, Institute for Educational Leadership

Papers

• Queering Community Schools: A Queer Intersectional Abolitionist Perspective on Community Schools in Philadelphia - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College; Maya Henry, Swarthmore College

• The Impact of the Community Schools Strategy on Measures of School Culture and Climate - William R. Johnston

• Creating a Workplace Culture That Sustains Community School Educators' Purpose and Perspective - Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles; Marisa Saunders, University of California - Los Angeles; Leyda Waleska Garcia, UCLA Community School; Queena Kim, Los Angeles Unified School District

Discussant

• Reuben Jacobson, American University