About Community-Based Learning
Shared decision-making ensures all interest-holders have a voice in the transformation process and fosters shared power of the strategy. Collaborative leadership improves coordination of services, fosters supportive relationships, results in decisions that are widely accepted and implemented, and supports sustainability of the effort.
Resources
Community-Based Learning Guide
Community-based learning draws from the cultural wealth, funds of knowledge, and indigenous ways of knowing of students, families, and educators to cultivate responsive classrooms that foster a deep sense of belonging.
Equity in Student-Centered Learning Design
This guide is designed to help you and your team collaboratively design and implement learning that equitably honors the unique assets and needs of your students.
Using Performance Assessments to Support Student Learning
In this study, we investigated how districts and schools can build systems and structures for developing and implementing performance assessment initiatives across multiple sites.
Anaheim Performance Task Assessment Tool
Considerations for use: You can work through this template in any order, as you see fit. This process will be ongoing, PTAs will need to be revisited, revised, and further developed over multiple years and iterations.
UCLA Community School: Celebrating Language & Culture
Language and culture are central to learning and human development, as they shape the ways in which we all learn and grow together. Individuals learn as members of a community that values their participation and is respectful, productive, and inclusive.
Student Centered Learning Honors Identity at UCLA Community School
At UCLA Community School, being “student-centered” is just as much about acknowledging and celebrating our shared humanity as it is about attending to individual differences.