About
Community Schools
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Part of Promesa’s collective impact approach is the Community Schools (CS) model, which brings together schools and community partners to work in close collaboration to:
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explore trends in student achievement
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identify gaps in student supports
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connect high-risk students to targeted interventions
Through the CS model, Promesa works with the entire school system at each school–including administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community partners–to create and sustain a continuum of wraparound support. The CS model is currently being implemented at five schools in Boyle Heights impacting 4,500 students and their families.
where we work
how we do it
English learner
&newcomer
support
The English Learner team helps increase support for English learner and newcomer students at five community schools. They do this through in-class support, language translation, weekly Dreamers’ Clubs at Roosevelt and Mendez, and social-emotional learning programming at Hollenbeck Middle School.
post-secondary
equity &
Success
Promesa’s PSES team works with four community schools in Boyle Heights to ensure that Boyle Heights students and their families are informed and prepared to pursue college and sustainable careers. The team works with school administrators and schools to identify gaps and launch school-wide initiatives to increase college access and readiness, including partnering with local universities—like CSULA and Occidental College—to take students and parents on fieldtrips to college campuses. Additionally, the PSES team organizes up to 10 college and career readiness events each school year, reaching up to 1,200 students. These events include career days, internship fairs, and discussion panels with college professors.
community
schools
coordinators
Promesa embeds a staff member (a CS Coordinator) based at four of the school sites–the fifth school has an LAUSD CS Coordinator Promesa supports–whose role is to convene partners and administrators from across each school’s ecosystem to analyze student achievement trends, identify high-risk students, assess support gaps, plan interventions, and monitor students’ response to interventions. Community Schools Coordinators help bring in resources to students by helping plan and facilitate different initiatives such as: mental health resource fairs, career day, and asset needs assessment research and implementation.