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Boston Community Hub Schools

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Our Communities. Our Schools. Our Voices

Vision: A Boston where every student flourishes!

What can happen in my Community School?

 

Boston Community Hub Schools is a long-term strategy to actively engage the resources of each community around student and family success. Our approach is based on a national model at work in many types of school communities nationwide. In a Boston Community Hub School, the school community intentionally looks at its assets (the great things that are happening) and opportunities (the things they want to improve) to take action to make their school-community the best it can be.

“This strategy allows the culture of the community to live and breathe throughout the academic setting, and throughout the lives of our children.”

How Does it Work?

 

POWERFUL STUDENT & FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

Families and students actively participate in the school community and are key partners in decision-making, shaping the school’s environment, priorities, and partnerships.

COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP, SHARED POWER & VOICE

Families, students, teachers, principals, and community partners co-create a culture of professional learning, collective trust, and shared responsibility as they make decisions together.

EXPANDED AND ENRICHED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Before and after-school, weekend, and summer programs provide expanded time, expanded staffing, and expanded opportunities for learning and engagement.

RIGOROUS, COMMUNITY-CONNECTED CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION

Teaching and learning in the school infuse high-level content and skills with real-world learning opportunities.

CULTURE OF BELONGING, SAFETY, AND CARE

The school climate is welcoming and fosters trust among students, families, partners, and staff.

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT

To promote healthy learning and development, a dedicated team composed primarily of school staff and community partners intentionally and systematically coordinates services, supports, and opportunities that foster individual and collective well-being, using an assets-based approach to nurture the strengths and address the needs of students and families.

Current Boston Community Hub Schools

A map of Boston with each community hub school location noted

“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)

Did you know that Community Schools are a national equity strategy?

In Boston, we are centering our implementation around the Community Schools Forward framework developed by the Brookings Institute, National Center for Community Schools, Coalition for Community Schools,s and IEL. This model builds on the four pillars of community schools and adds a direct connection to academic learning and SEL, two priority areas for BPS

 
Questions? Reach out!
hubschools@bostonpublicschools.org
 
We are proud to partner with the YMCA of Greater Boston and Boston Teachers Union on this equitable school improvement strategy.