- Deborah McKoy and Jeffrey M. Vincent
In this chapter, we describe efforts to connect efforts to improve public education to housing and transportation planning initiatives, particularly through collaborative city-school-regional partnerships. The chapter appears in the 2011 report, "Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Promote Integration.by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) and the National Coalition on School Diversity (Philip Tegeler, Editor, pg 53-60).
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Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent and Deborah L. McKoy
CC&S and ABAG partnered to support and inform local and regional innovation connecting schools to the Bay Area’s regional development and conservation strategy (FOCUS) and the Sustainable Communities Strategy as mandated by California’s climate change legislation, Senate Bill 375. Our new report identifies tangible policy levers at both the regional and municipal levels that realize the co-benefits of pursuing complete communities and high-quality education in tandem. We describe the regional educational landscape and develop recommendations about specific strategies to achieve cross-sector “win-wins.”
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What are the educational impacts of non-school policies, such as housing, transportation, and other regional planning investments?
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What are the impacts of educational efforts on non-school issues, such as housing choice, sustainable transportation utilization, and community-building opportunities?
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How can the region’s policy and practice interventions and investments in housing and transportation be made to strategically support improving school quality?
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Deborah L. McKoy, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Ariel H. Bierbaum.
In 2010 the What Works Collaborative invited CC&S to examine the ways in which sustainable community planning could work with school leaders to foster positive educational outcomes. The report illustrates policies and strategies at all levels of government are increasingly associating educational outcomes with community planning and housing. Challenges remain for local officials and practitioners trying to align these policy areas, including persistent spatial inequity and rigid institutional silos. Through the research, we developed seven steps to link education and planning policy at the local level. We draw from a national scan of model activities, interviews with key experts and agency staff members, and the authors' experience working with local governing bodies. The report identifies practical solutions that encompass assessing the current educational environment, engaging the community, strategic planning and implementation of investment, and institutionalizing successful innovations.
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Deborah L. McKoy, David Stern and Ariel H. Bierbaum
Work-based learning (WBL), an important part of the 1990s “School to Work” movement,1 is a core component of the Linked Learning strategy which is now shaping efforts to improve secondary education in California and around the nation in cities such as Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. WBL can include not only classic internships and “co-op” placements but also school-based enterprises and other activities in which students produce goods or provide services for other people. However, discussions to date have not fully recognized the particular importance of the civic sector as a site for WBL. The civic sector, including public agencies and nonprofit organizations, is vital to both a strong economy and a healthy democracy. The aim of this paper is to explain the idea of WBL in the civic sector and offer an in-depth look at a model of civic WBL –– the Y-PLAN –– in action.
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- Deborah L. McKoy, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Ariel H. Bierbaum.
CC&S contributes a chapter to the book Changing Places: How
Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (edited by
Christopher Edley, Jr. and Jorge Ruiz de Velasco; University of
California Press 2010). The book draws attention to the urgent need—
both economic and moral—to better understand the policy and community-
based factors that serve as incentives or barriers to young men and
boys of color as they make critical life decisions. Our chapter
investigates the ways in which unhealthy environments — and the urban
planning and institutional practices that created them — structure
disadvantage and undermine the life chances of young men and boys of
color. We then describe how innovative city-school initiatives are
aligning and leveraging the diverse elements of the built and social
environment to create the trajectories of opportunity this group needs
and deserves.
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- CC&S partnered with the California Strategic Growth Council and the
California Department of Education to host an invited roundtable,
bringing together local and state leaders together to discuss
promising strategies for linking public schools to the creation of
healthy, sustainable communities. Topics included, integrating schools
into regional Sustainable Communities Strategies and local planning
activities, school siting and design, and green construction.
Participants worked together to identify policy opportunities for
improving educational experiences and realizing sustainable communities.
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- Jeffrey M. Vincent
- Funded by the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, this study categorizes the types of joint use used by school districts utilize in California. We discern the challenges and lessons in joint use partnerships and make policy, procedural, and research recommendations to better support the joint use of public schools throughout the country.
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- Community Investments 22(2): 18-21
- Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Deborah McKoy
- Transit-oriented development (TOD) projects are often targeted at empty nesters or young professionals, with few options for families. But the interconnections between how and why families choose where to live and how that relates to their perception of access to high quality schools is a complex reality that is highly dependent on local contexts. This article outlines ten core connections between TOD, families and schools, and provides guidance for stakeholders interested in promoting equitable TOD that serves the needs of families.
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- Social Studies Review 49(1): 82-85
- Deborah McKoy, David Stern, and Ariel H. Bierbaum
- Many schools offer service learning—community service linked to classroom studies—to help students become more effective participants in a democratic society. Different forms of service learning combine various amounts of discussion and analysis of social issues with engagement in activities that have real impact outside the classroom. What we call "Social Enterprise for Learning," or SEfL, involves students in both thinking about a civic or public issue and doing something about it. In this paper we describe the process we have developed for organizing SEfLs in high schools and how they evolve together with local educational and community partners. We include brief accounts of several SEfLs in San Francisco, to demonstrate how this process can be successfully replicated.
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- Ariel Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Deborah McKoy
- This paper examines the connections between Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and families, schools, and expanding educational opportunities for all children. This paper is the first of its kind; therefore, we take an exploratory approach to understanding and framing these interconnections. We provide a rationale for the linkages at this nexus, highlight the Ten Core Connections between TOD and public education, highlight five case studies in the Bay Area, and make recommendations for enhancing city-school collaboration in TOD.
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- 21st Century School Fund and Center for Cities & Schools
- This paper adds to the growing conversation about and demand for joint use as a way to provide services to children and families in convenient locations, improve opportunities for physical activity by increasing use of school recreational and outdoor spaces, leverage capital investments, and more, provide a conceptual frame for the joint use of PK-12 public schools. We establish definitions for joint use and frame the basic challenges and opportunities to facilitate better conversations and planning for these type of collaborations.
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- Deborah McKoy, Ariel Bierbaum, April Suwalsky, Erica Boas, and Alissa Kronovet
- This toolkit is designed to provide participants and partners in Y-PLAN initiatives with a portfolio of teaching resources to be adapted to local circumstances and contexts. It is intended to give insight into an urban planning project "big picture" focus as it breaks down the overarching objectives into smaller goals.
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- Robin Smith, G. Thomas Kingsley, Mary Cunningham, Susan Popkin, Kassie Dumlao, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Mark Joseph, and Deborah McKoy
- This paper considers how to effectively evaluate outcomes and measure success in comprehensive community transformation efforts, such as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s proposed Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. It is a product of the Urban Institute and was supported by the What Works Collaborative.
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- Report prepared for San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families
- This report presents research findings and policy recommendations from a year-long process involving a diverse stakeholder group to establish a more effective "joint use" strategy in San Francisco that supports students, families, schools and communities.
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- Jeffrey M. Vincent and Paavo Monkkonen
- Journal of Education Finance 35(4): 313-330, Spring 2010
- In this article, we measure the impacts of three public school construction regulations on the costs of construction in a model that incorporates a more comprehensive set of project and locality characteristics than previous research.
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- By Deborah L. McKoy, Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent
- This brief introduces HUD and others to CC&S's 10 PLUS Mechanics of Change, an evidence-based framework for building healthy, equitable and sustainable communities through integrated city-public school initiatives that simultaneously leverage innovations in the built environment, educational practice and governance policies.
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- By Jeffrey M. Vincent
- Testimony at the Joint Informational Hearing for the California Senate Committee on Housing and Transportation and the Senate Select Committee on State School Facilities: "Schools as Centers of Sustainable Communities: A Vision for Future School Facility Construction," December 15, 2009.
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- CC&S Policy Brief
- California's ongoing school construction investment and innovations in public education, coupled with the new infrastructure planning approach in SB 375, create a strategic opportunity to make land use decisions that better support students, families, and communities.
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- Roundtable hosted by the California Department of Education (CDE) School Facilities Planning Division and facilitated by Center for Cities & Schools
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- A Joint Working Paper by PACE (Policy Analysis for California Education) and Center for Cities & Schools
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- CC&S partnered with the Local Government Commission and other members of the Ad-Hoc Coalition for Healthy School Siting to provide school facility planning and design policy recommendations to the California Department of Education (CDE).
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- By Deborah McKoy, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Carrie Makarewicz
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- By Jeffrey M. Vincent and Stephen R. English (Advancement Project)
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- By Tamar Cooper and Jeffrey M. Vincent
- A Joint Report from Center for Cities & Schools (CC&S) and Public Health Law and Policy (PHLP)
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- By Jeffrey M. Vincent and Deborah McKoy
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- Bierbaum, Ariel H., Jeffrey M. Vincent and Erika Tate
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- Fall 2007 Forum presented by the Center for Cities & Schools PLUS Leadership Initiative
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- By Deborah L. McKoy and Jeffrey M. Vincent.
- In Segregation: The Rising Costs for America.
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- By Deborah L. McKoy
- Community Investments 19, 2: 20-21, Fall 2007
- By Ariel H. Bierbaum and Alissa Kronovet
- Community Investments 19, 2: 22, Fall 2007
- By Ariel H. Bierbaum and Deborah L. McKoy
- Race, Poverty & the Environment 14, 2: 72-74, Fall 2007
- Forum presented by Center for Cities & Schools and American Architectural Foundation.
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- Presentation at the Lake Arrowhead Transportation/Land Use/Environment Symposium, October 14-16, 2007.
- By Ariel Bierbaum.
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- By Deborah L. McKoy and Jeffrey M. Vincent.
- Journal of Planning Education and Research 26: 389-403, 2007.
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- By Heather Kinlaw, Deborah L. McKoy, and Jeffrey M. Vincent. 2007.
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- Presentation of the California School Boards Association, School Wellness Conference, October 2, 2007.
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- Presentation at the California League of Cities Conference, September 6, 2007.
- By Deborah L. McKoy and Ariel Bierbaum.
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- By Mary Filardo, Jeff Vincent, Ping Sung, and Travis Stein. Washington, DC: Building Educational Success Together (BEST).
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- By Jeffrey M. Vincent.
- Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(4): 433-437, 2006.
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- Prepared for the Oakland Housing Authority, Oakland, California.
- By Susan Slingluff.
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- Hosted by the Center for Cities & Schools in Partnership with LISC Bay Area and the Building Educational Success Together (BEST) Collaborative, June 2006.
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- Presentation at Healthy Eating Active Communities, an initiative of the California Endowment. April 27, 2006.
- By Jeffrey M. Vincent.
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- Prepared for the California Department of commerce Technology Opportunities Program
- By Deborah L. McKoy and Annie Shott
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- By Deborah L. McKoy and Jeffrey M. Vincent.
- Berkeley Planning Journal Vol. 18: 57-77.
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- Center for Cities & Schools Symposium with Bruce Katz and Arlene Ackerman
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- Prepared by students in CP290.
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- By Jeannie Eisberg, Lauren Friedman, Chris Lollini & Susan Slingluff.
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- By Leigh Angres, Elinor Buchen, Sundar Chari, and David Zisser.
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- By Gloria Bruce and Eliza Johnston.
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- By Gina Banks, Greta Kirschenbaum, Josh Mason, and Jeanette Nelson.
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- By Mike Abbott, Heather Barondess, Heather Kinlaw, Matt Reed, and Mike Smith
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- By Jeffrey M. Vincent
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- Center for Cities & Schools Fall 2005 Forum with Tony Smith and John Flores.
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- Frameworks, Berkeley College of Environmental Design 1(1): 18-21.
- By Deborah L. McKoy and Walter Hood.
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- Prepared for U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
- By Deborah McKoy, Amanda Kobler, and Shirl Buss.
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- Prepared for U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
- By Amanda Kobler.
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- By Deborah L. McKoy and Jeffrey M. Vincent.
- Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(2): 221-223.
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Trajectories of Opportunity for Young Men and Boys of Color: Built
Environment and Placemaking Strategies for Creating Equitable, Healthy, and
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