The secret sauce at MLK isn’t only in the projects, but in relationships that the school brokers between students and community groups, government entities and social services that tie back to teaching and learning.
• February 18, 2022 1:30 am - Updated February 18, 2022 2:08 pm
The secret sauce at MLK isn’t only in the projects, but in relationships the school brokers between students and community groups, government entities and social services that tie back to teaching and learning. While project-based pedagogy has been growing popular around the state and country, the idea is often hindered if students lack the resources necessary for learning and basic needs at home. To change that at MLK, where more than 70% of students are low-income and nearly a third are English learners, the school began employing what’s called a community school strategy in the 2015-16 school year.
“There are lots of families that don’t have enough resources, there’s trauma in the community, and that’s all coming into the school building,” said Founds. “Our social safety net is frayed and that shows.” When Founds began teaching at MLK eight years ago, she said fights regularly broke out in class. Getting students to write a single paragraph was often a battle. “The overall level of learning was pretty low,” she said.
The effort was funded in the current state budget. Grants of up to $500,000 to be spent over five years will be distributed to districts for new and existing community schools. Key to the approach is having a robust method of assessing students’ and families’ needs, whether that is in the form of surveys, home visits or frequent phone check-ins. At MLK, that work is done by a community school coordinator.
Currently, three campuses in SFUSD have community school coordinators: Buena Vista Horace Mann, Mission Education Center Elementary School and MLK. One goal with the statewide funding opportunity would be to grow that number across the district.
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