Bull City Community Schools Partnership
www.communityschoolspartnership.org
LEGEND
Why we do this work
Who drives this work
Enabling Conditions
Key Practices (our 6 pillars)
Supportive Infrastructure
The Bull City Community Schools Partnership
Durham Public Schools Foundation
LEAD AGENCY
Durham Public schools
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Impactful
Partner Agencies
LEAD FUNDER / IMPLEMENTATION
Durham County
LEAD FUNDER
Principal Leadership Fellows
Duke/NCCU/ECU Southeast Regional Coalition for Univ. Assisted Community Schools
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY
Natl. Education Association
Technical assistance
RESEARCH / Technical assistance
The Campaign for Community Schools in DPS begins. Under the leadership of the Durham Association of Educators, 301 staff voluntarily participated in a workplace vote. 21 staff administrators, and parents testified to the Board of Education and County Commission.
Goal Teams are launched and tasked with creatively connecting and serving students and their families, based on the Needs & Assets Assessments
DPS pilots 4 Community Schools, Hires Coordinators, Launches Needs/Assets Assessments at Club, Southwest, Lakewood, & EK Powe Elementary Schools
Lakewood and Club Boulevard continue in the initiative. DPSF becomes the lead agency, hires a parent organizer, and launches a Principal Fellowship.
DPS Community Schools Timeline
2022-23
2023-24
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
NC is awarded a federal Community School Expansion Grant. Following an updated Needs and Assets Assessment, afterschool opportunities are expanded, and the number of partnerships grows.
As schools reopen, Goal Teams support small group instruction, addressing academic outcomes while meeting families’ basic needs. Parents within the schools are hired part-time as organizers.
Managing school through the global pandemic, basic needs become a major priority. A Steering Committee is launched, and grant opportunities are pursued.
Click the button for archived DPS Community School history
our schools
Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet School continues to challenge children in a stimulating educational environment. Club Boulevard is a successful magnet program—a school community representative of the diversity of Durham—with an enrollment of about 400 students
Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet School continues to challenge children in a stimulating educational environment. Club Boulevard is a successful magnet program—a school community representative of the diversity of Durham—with an enrollment of about 400 students
A proud to be a neighborhood school in the Southwest region of Durham Public Schools. We are a community school, learn more about what that means here. We also have a dual immersion program at Lakewood that started in the 2019-2020 school year
The BCCSP
Welcome! We are the Durham University-Assisted Community Schools Research Collective, a grassroots effort to support Durham Public Schools in addressing the challenges surrounding equitable school experiences and outcomes. The group envisions community schools as bringing together academics, health and social services, youth development and community engagement under one roof. Duke and North Carolina Central— two local universities— are central to this endeavor as part of the university-assisted community schools model.
Principal Leadership Fellows Initiative
2022-23
Leadership in which staff share leadership roles appears to improve student achievement more than leadership in which the principal alone makes most school-level decisions
(Seashore,Louis et al., 2010, p. 21).
publications
Yolanda Dunston, Alec Greenwald. "Building Systems for Participatory Research with Community Schools. Zoom webinar with the Community Schools Research Practice Network hosted by the Coalition for Community Schools and the Institute for Educational Leadership." November 30, 2022.
Blue Miller, Drew Greene, Michelle Qiou, Sabrena Carver-Tchagna. "Ecosystems of Change: University-Assisted Community Schools Research in Durham, North Carolina." Podcast. 2022. Community Schooling 3.
Charity Watkins, Xavier Cason, Alec Greenwald, Yolanda Dunston, Quynh-Chi Vo. "Applying an Ecological Systems Framework: How an Historically Black University, a Predominately White Institution, and a Public School System Created a Collaborative Undergraduate Research Experience." 2022. Children & Schools.
Benton, J.F., Dunston, Y.L., Anderson, A.L., & Greenwald, A.D. (2020). "#InThisTogether: A Collective Approach to Student-Engaged Research and How Two Durham Universities Joined Forces to Defend and Transform Durham Public Schools." Universities and Community Schools, 10(1), 47-64.
Benton, J. F., & Anderson, A. L. (1969, August 1). Policy – issue 3, Community Schooling Journal. UCLA Center for Community Schooling. Retrieved February 17, 2023
Greenwald, A., Cason, X. L. (1969, August 1). School case – issue 3, Community Schooling Journal. UCLA Center for Community Schooling. Retrieved February 17, 2023
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Connect with us!
Call Xavier Cason, DPSF Dir. of Community Schools at 919-323-1691
Email Xavier: xavier@bullcityschools.org
BCCSP Logo designed by Durham Artist
and DPS teacher Malcom Goff