Oakland International High School educates newly arrived immigrants and refugees as part of the Oakland Unified School District. As a community school, they work to provide resources throughout the community and beyond to support students and families.

There is a Community School in the Bronx tending to the holistic health of its students. Four stories up in a century-old school building, a group of students and teachers are modeling a whole-school approach to education rooted in health, wellness and mindfulness.

Visit Wolfe Street Academy in Baltimore, MD, a school with more than 76% ELLs, to see how this community school is supporting its students and families through programs and services that include dental screenings, food giveaways, after-school activities, and much, much more.

This film features how students from Oyler School, a Community Learning Center in Lower Price Hill worked with Nehemiah Manufacturing Company to take the reins and rebrand their own neighborhood with the support of its community members.

Community Learning Center Institute's neighborhood network of partners brought in Cincinnati’s first poet laureate, Pauletta Hansel, to forge connections with students around writing as a way to explore their identities and interests. Drama and ELA teacher, Katie Fleihman, uses her past experiences and struggles as a student to help her students overcome their own challenges.

In 2001, Cincinnati passed a school board policy to turn all of their schools into Community Schools, called Community Learning Centers in Ohio. Go inside to see how these schools can help revitalize a neighborhood by combining community power with the resources that children need to thrive.

In Cincinnati’s Community Learning Centers, local businesses, parents, and community members are engaged to be part of making a school successful and supportive of students. See collective leadership in action in this film.

Kimberly was a young mom who was connected with support and resources at her local Community Learning Center, a public school in Cincinnati. Now she works there! Also find out how public schools and housing connect.

On the day after the election in 2016, students of color and immigrant students felt too targeted and afraid to come to school in Cincinnati. The classrooms felt empty. Fortunately, Cincinnati’s Community Schools, called Community Learning Centers in Ohio, were set up to help. By partnering with local businesses and services, parents could connect with legal assistance, which eased students’ minds and made it possible for them to be in class.