The Saturday School Where Mexican American Children Learn About their Heritage: A Q & A with NEPC Fellow Angela Valenzuela

So happy and honored to get featured in the newsletter by the National Education Policy Center.  Very timely as yesterday was our first day back.

Thanks to Dr. Kevin Welner and Holly Yettick for featuring Academia Cuauhtli.

September 17, 2019

Learn More:NEPC Resources on Multilingual and/or Multicultural Education

NEPC Fellow Angela Valenzuela discusses Academia Cuauhtli, a Saturday school where fourth graders learn about indigenous Mexican and Mexican American culture, history, language and experiences, all through a social justice lens.

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Excellent report!  You can download it here [pdf].
Community schools.  They come in all shapes and sizes
and represent, in my view, grassroots democracy at its best.
Let's lend our support to community schools.

Angela 

Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement

Jeannie Oakes, Anna Maier, and Julia Daniel

June 5, 2017

 

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This brief examines the research on community schools, with two primary emphases. First, it explores whether the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opens the possibility of investing in well-designed community schools to meet the educational needs of low-achieving students in high-poverty schools. And second, it provides support to school, district, and state leaders as they consider, propose, or implement a community school intervention in schools targeted for comprehensive support. The brief is drawn from a larger research review, available at https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/comm-schools-equitable-brief. The online research compendium can be found at https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/online-research-compendium.