Boston Community Hub Schools
An opportunity to reimagine schools and partnerships that offer liberating educational opportunities that transform the lives and outcomes of our students, communities, and city.
WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN MY COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
In a Boston Community Hub School, the school community intentionally looks at its assets (the great things that are happening) and opportunities (the things we want to improve) to take action to make their school-community the best it can be.
- Families and the community are empowered and encouraged to be partners in what happens in the school
- The school makes you feel like it is a welcoming space filled with joy, love and community
- Students learn curriculum that honors and reflects their cultures and backgrounds
- Adults and leadership acknowledge racism and are anti-racist
- Programs at the school are integrated and aligned with the school community’s wants and needs
- We grow together with Restorative & Healing practices
- Learning reflects students’ assets and draws on their strengths
- There is a Community Hub School staff member to support the school community to transfer power to the people
“Liberating education is the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
– Paulo Freire
– Paulo Freire
DID YOU KNOW THAT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ARE A NATIONAL EQUITY STRATEGY?
Research shows that community schools get results by implementing these four pillars:
- Integrated Student Supports that address in-and out-of-school factors through partnerships with social and health service providers
- Expanded Learning Time and Opportunities including out-of-school time programming, and additional academic support and enrichment
- Active Family and Community Engagement that integrate families/communities into the school as partners and also meets their needs
- Collaborative Leadership driven by collective trust, shared governance, and a culture of continuous improvement
“No type of pedagogy, however effective, can single-handledly remove the barriers of racism, discrimination, homophobia, segregation, islamophobia, homelessness, access to college, and concentrated poverty, but antiracist pedagogy combined with grassroots organizing can prepare students and their families to demand the impossible in the fight for eradicating these persistent and structural barriers.”
– Dr. Bettina Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive (2019)
– Dr. Bettina Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive (2019)
Utilizing the inherent resources, talents and cultural wealth of the surrounding community and working alongside school leaders, students, families and other community stakeholders, the YMCA operates in several Community Hub Schools throughout Boston, where an on-site YMCA Community Hub School Coordinator facilitates fundamental support for students which enables them to do what they came to school for in the first place — to learn.
Locations
Gardner Pilot Academy
30 Athol St, Allston, MA 02134
Ariana Fusco
Haynes Early Education Center
263 Blue Hill Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119
Tory Perry-Tsaku | 857-753-1627
30 Athol St, Allston, MA 02134
Ariana Fusco
Haynes Early Education Center
263 Blue Hill Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119
Tory Perry-Tsaku | 857-753-1627
Jeremiah E. Burke High School
60 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02121
Michaiah Lopez
Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School
270 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA 02121
Jessica Senat | 857-753-1641
60 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02121
Michaiah Lopez
Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School
270 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA 02121
Jessica Senat | 857-753-1641
Martin Luther King Jr. K-8 School
77 Lawrence Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121
Gee Gee Bishop
William Monroe Trotter School
135 Humboldt Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121
Danielle Lennox-Heichman | 857-753-1581
77 Lawrence Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121
Gee Gee Bishop
William Monroe Trotter School
135 Humboldt Ave, Dorchester, MA 02121
Danielle Lennox-Heichman | 857-753-1581
Contact
For more information on how you or your organization can get involved with Community Schools, please contact:
Joanne Gomes
Senior Association Director for Community Hub Schools
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