COMMUNITY SCHOOLS RESEARCH PRACTICE NETWORK WEBINAR SERIES — The Way We Do School: The Making of Oakland’s Full-Service Community School District

 

 

 

The Way We Do School offers an in-depth profile of the nation’s most ambitious community school initiative. The book addresses a nearly 10-year effort to transform all 86 district schools in Oakland, California into community schools in order to better meet the academic and personal needs of all students.

 

Based on six years of research, the authors (MILBREY MCLAUGHLIN, KENDRA FEHRER, and JACOB LEOS-URBEL) detail the implementation of the effort at both the district and school-levels. Their work covers the detailed, community-wide planning process, the policy “levers” for system change, and the organizational shifts and other tools that were employed. Under extraordinarily difficult conditions, Oakland’s Community Schools, Thriving Students initiative spurred system change at both central office and school-levels. Though still a work-in-progress, the initiative’s “whole-child approach” has resulted in positive outcomes for students and for the district. In addition, several elements of Oakland’s full-service community schools (FSCS) work have been recognized nationally including the African American Male Achievement program, its district partnership model, and its restorative justice and social-emotional learning practices.

 

Join us to hear from one of the leading authors of this forthcoming book and a fabulous practitioner in Oakland School District in the upcoming CCS RPN webinar. Please use the following link to register for the webinar no later than COB Tuesday, April 14, 2020.

 

Dr. Helen Malone, Vice President of Research and Innovation, Institute for Educational Leadership

 

Dr. Milbrey McLaughlin, Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education, Stanford

Curtiss Sarikey, Chief of Staff, Oakland Unified School District