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Too many children are among California’s uncounted homeless. They need help too.

Deborah L. McCoy and Pedro A. Noguera
2024
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Integration of Housing Services & Mckinney-Vento (MKV) Homeless Student Education

Jeremy Simon GSPP, PLUS Fellow
2024
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A research brief proposed for the California Department of Education by Jeremy Simon GSPP, PLUS Fellow, Spring 2024

The Personal is Pedagogical: Student-led Learning Builds College and Career Skills and Community

Mallory Logan, Social Studies Teacher, Oakland High School
2023
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Investing in Youth as Community Leaders

Akayla Matthews, Laiza Eve Reconoco, and Victor Diaz, Law and Social Justice Pathway, Oakland High School
2023
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Creating Coherence: Building a Home for Students Experiencing Homelessness in California’s Community Schools

Deborah L. McKoy
2023
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Learning Exchange: Showcasing Education Innovation and Research for Students Experiencing Homelessness

Deborah L. McKoy, Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland, Ian Mardigal
2023
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Convening Report

A Lot [of Parking]: Quantifying Parking at New Public High Schools in California

Sydney Maves
2023
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As California increases efforts to promote a more sustainable, multi-modal transportation ecosystem, it is important to understand how different parcel uses, especially those that benefit from public funding, such as schools, determine parking requirements. Given California’s evolving approach to off-street parking provisions and the state’s funding of new school development projects, the amount of parking…

Aligning Career Technical Education/Linked Learning and McKinney-VentoHomeless Assistance Policy & Practice

Mara Ingrid Ang
2023
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Climate-Resilient California Schools: A Call to Action

Center for Cities + Schools, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, UndauntedK12, and Ten Strands
2023
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Amid fires, wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and other climate-driven disasters and health hazards, California’s leading experts in children’s health and education have come together to call for a cost-effective, ten year $150 billion investment to ensure K-12 public schools can remain open and provide safe and healthy places for California’s children to learn and grow….

Oakland High School: Student Agency, Partnership, and Dignity

Lucetricia M. Anderson, McKinney-Vento Liaison, Oakland Unified School District
2023
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How Well Do New K-12 Public School Sites in California Incorporate Mitigation Measures Known to Reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled?

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Sydney Maves, Amy Thomson
2022
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Problem Statement: To support its policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in recent years, California has enacted land use and transportation policies aimed at reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT). One of these new policies, Senate Bill (SB) 743 (Steinberg, 2013), requires lead agencies to measure development impacts on VMT and identify feasible mitigation…

Forging New Pathways: Mobilizing Youth as Agents of Change in California’s Homeless Education Policy

Deborah L. McKoy and Joanne Lin-Hening
2022
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Opinion: How California can give unhoused students a helping hand

Deborah McKoy and Lucetricia M. Anderson
2022
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Y-PLAN’s success shows what is possible when we entrust young people to lead

Gauging Good Stewardship: Is California Adequately and Equitably Investing in its Public School Facilities?

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Semhar Gebrekristos, Lily Neinstedt
2022
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Public school districts across California struggle to upkeep and modernize their school facilities. For many districts, aging inventory, coupled with limited capital funding opportunities, has led to school facilities with ballooning deferred maintenance problems and classrooms that do not appropriately support modern instructional practices. These realities also work against California’s priorities for high quality, equitable…

Planning for Resilient Early Care and Education: Addressing Climate Vulnerabilities

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Center for Cities + Schools, Low Income Investment Fund
2022
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Children born today will bear the brunt of the burden of climate change despite having the least responsibility for causing it. Growing calls to position climate change as a child’s rights crisis are rooted in research on the unique physical and mental health impacts that high temperatures, poor air quality, and stress associated with living…

Planning Cities With Young People and Schools: Forging Justice, Generating Joy

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Shirl Buss
2022
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This book summarizes two decades of civic youth engagement from California to New York to Japan. It offers a set of best practices for urban planners seeking to reimagine our cities for and with young people.

Education Workforce Housing in California: Developing the 21st Century Campus

Terner Center for Housing Innovation, cityLAB, Center for Cities + Schools
2022
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Education Workforce Housing in California: Developing the 21st Century Campus, a new report and companion handbook from cityLAB, Center for Cities + Schools, and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, provides a comprehensive overview of the potential for land owned by school districts to be designed and developed for teachers and other employees. Developed in…

K-12 Student Homelessness: Analysis of Policy Responses to Student Homelessness in CA

Hayden Rosenberg, and Caroline Siegel Singh
2021
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Education of Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY)

Jesse Kannam, Joanne Lin-Hening, Elizabeth Uno
2021
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Policy Brief prepared for the California Department of Education (CDE), Homeless Education Program

Cultivating Inclusion: Belonging and Agency in Young Black Men through Civic Action Research

Amanda Eppley, Blanca Gamez-Djokic, Deborah L. McKoy
2021
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K-12 Student Homelessness Analysis of Policy Responses to Student Homelessness in CA

Hayden Rosenberg, Caroline Siegel Singh
2021
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For the last five years, the California Department of Education (CDE) has reported a steady increase in homeless K-12 students in the state1. In the academic year 2018-2019, over 207,000 California K-12 students were without appropriate, consistent and stable housing2. Unhoused K-12 students are disproportionately LGBTQ+, migrants, students of color, and students with disabilities, exacerbating…

Cultivating a Sense of Place for and With Immigrant Students Through University, School, Community Partnerships

Amanda Eppley, Myrna Ortiz Villar, Deborah L. McKoy
2021
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Y-PLAN Public Space Policy Brief

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Elena Eimert
2020
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A Framework For Effectively Engaging Youth and Schools in Inclusive Resilience Planning

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Shirl Buss
2020
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Defense of Learning: A Community of Practice Model to Advance Equity, Access, and Social Justice in Sacramento CUSD

Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett
2020
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Sacramento City Unified School District’s (SCUSD) college and career readiness initiatives, as cited in the 2016-2021 Strategic Plan, only equip students with half of the skills and requirements necessary for graduates to succeed in their post-secondary options (Conley, 2012). Namely, SCUSD fails to assess critical soft skills, such as perseverance, growth mindsets, goal-setting, collaboration, etc.,…

Voices from the Field: A glimpse behind the scenes at the team that has shaped and been shaped by 20 years of Y-PLAN

Amanda Eppley, Elena Eimert, Deborah L. McKoy
2020
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The Equity Imperative: Project-based Distance Learning

Young Whan Choi
2020
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Y-PLAN Transportation Policy Brief

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Elena Eimert
2020
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COVID-19 BRIEF #1: Reopening Schools Safely and Equitably Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: School Facilities are Frontline Defense in Reducing Risk

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2020
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As the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, rapidly spread across the globe in Spring 2020, one of the most widely implemented risk reduction measures utilized was to physically close all school buildings. Reopening America’s public schools for site-based instruction safely amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (without a vaccine) is remarkably complicated and hotly debated. Operating healthy school…

Are California Public Schools Scratch-Cooking Ready? A survey of food service directors on the state of school kitchens

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Ariana Gunderson, Debbie Friedman, Angela McKee Brown, Sadie Wilson, Vanessa Gomez
2020
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One way to serve healthier school meals is by incorporating “scratch-cooking” techniques, whereby many or most of the ingredients are prepared onsite from a raw and/or minimally processed form, into school food service programs. However, the vast majority of public school kitchens across the U.S. and in California are not designed and/or equipped to scratch…

Equity, Access, and Social Justice in SCUSD

Amanda Eppley, Deborah L. McKoy, Blanca Gamez-Djokic
2020
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Y-PLAN Oakland AAMA: Action Research Partnership Brief

Blanca Gamez-Djokic, Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley
2020
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Y-PLAN Housing Policy Brief

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Elena Eimert
2020
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Research Brief: Lessons from a year of equitable, authentic engagement of young people in long-range regional planning

Amanda Eppley, Deborah L. McKoy, Raquel Trinidad
2020
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[VIDEO] Achieving fair funding for school modernization in California: a case study

John Fensterwald
2019
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California has run out of money to help school districts build and repair schools. See EdSource’s video explainer that highlight’s CC+S research.

Putting Data to Work to Support OUSD Teacher Retention

Chris Kaiser-Nyman
2019
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A PLUS fellow report on teacher retention in OUSD

The Case for Investing in Teacher Wellness

Irene Farnsworth
2019
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A PLUS fellow policy brief on teacher wellness and retention in the Oakland Unified School District.

Students Partner With Facebook to Build Affordable Housing

Scott Budman
2019
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High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.

How to make the world a better place? Start with exercise bikes, for one

Steve Rubenstein
2019
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Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 25, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.

Richmond Community Informs and Transforms the Role of Family and Community Voice in the WCCUSD LCAP

Diana Casanova
2019
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“The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) represents a significant shift in how California funds its schools. Established in 2013, the State of California founded LCFF on a principle of equity. Under this new law, the state uses a weighted pupil formula and allocates more money to school districts for high-need student subgroups as defined by…

Bay Area students pitched housing solution to Facebook, social media leader listened

Amanda del Castillo
2019
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High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.

Close to Home: 4th graders can make a difference on energy, climate change

2019
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Fourth Graders study energy and invited UC Berkeley and public transportation experts from the program called Y-PLAN (Youth-Plan Learn Act Now) to help the build a model of Santa Rosa, and understand the environment better so they could think about the future of Santa Rosa.

Estudiantes hispanos crean solución para viviendas asequibles en la Bahía

2019
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Students take a plan for housing for low income families to Facebook, and get funding for it. In Spanish.

Marin Voice: San Rafael Youth Offer Ideas to Address Sea-Level Rise

Kim Mandujano, Geraldo Valencia, Genesis Perez, Janely Mendieta
2019
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We are fifth-grade students at Laurel Dell Elementary School in San Rafael. Since we were in fourth grade we have been working on projects about our city with architects from Youth in Arts and UC Berkeley’s Y-PLAN (a learning project that stands for Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now). We wrote this newspaper column so…

Y-Plan Ends With A-Z Guide From Youth In Improving S.F. Bay Area

Sue Wood
2019
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San Francisco Bay Area students in the upper echelons of creative thinking put a new spin on “kids will say and do the darndest things” as the brightest stars took to the mastermind campus of U.C. Berkeley for the 2019 Y-PLAN Policy Summit: Planning a More Inclusive and Resilient Region.

SF Estuary News: A Tricky Ballet

Michael Hunter Adamson
2019
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How can we educate our families and community about the impacts of sea level rise on Bayview and San Francisco?

High Schoolers’ Big Idea to Mend Housing Crisis Gets Big Corporate Backing

Keith Menconi
2019
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A million-dollar pilot project is aiming to take a bite out the Bay Area’s housing crisis by making accessory dwelling units more affordable. KCBS Radio reporter Keith Menconi says much of the funding is coming from Facebook, but the idea for the plan was cooked up by low-income youth.

Student Ideas for a Greener, Safer Life

Steve Rubenstein
2019
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Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 26, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.

These students had a housing idea. Facebook listened. Now, it’s becoming reality

Marisa Kendall
2019
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High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.

Math, history and … the housing crisis? Subject lands in Bay Area schools

Marisa Kendall
2019
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The Mercury News takes a look at all of the work that Y-PLAN Students are doing in the Bay Area to help people gain more access to affordable housing

A Decade of Action and Insight from Bayview’s Youth and Schools

Terren Wing
2019
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This report lifts up the partnership of the past decade to examine how this work to engage youth and schools in comprehensive housing development in the Bayview can inform future work. Understanding this landscape can support future work and better alignment of investments, particularly concerning the role of young people and schools in community redevelopment.

Urban Planning Projects Can Foster Team Building, New Worldviews

Lauren Barack
2019
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Teaching this subject has moved from reading textbooks to students designing their own potential spaces — which experts say promotes key life skills.

The Power of Youth Voice in Realizing Health Equity in the City of Richmond & WCCUSD Schools

Sarah Ferrell
2019
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“Understanding and lifting up the role that young people play in driving healthy, equitable policies in their schools and cities Assessing how PLUS & Y-PLAN prepare civic leaders to respond to the needs of young people when crafting policy Envisioning how cities and schools collect and utilize data to demonstrate positive outcomes for young people…

The Critical Role of Young People and Schools in Resiliency Planning

Deborah L. McKoy, Amanda Eppley, Shirl Buss
2019
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Transportation Access and Equity in San Francisco Unified School District: A Route to Success

Julian Hayes
2019
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A research report on the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) student assignment policy, which was designed to help with school choice to reverse the trend of racial isolation and the concentration of underserved students in the same school, and to provide equitable access to programs offered in the district.

Local students’ research, experiences to inform Facebook-funded housing study

Kate Bradshaw
2019
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In an emotional presentation, four local high school students recently shared their experiences of the housing crisis with the Menlo Park City Council

Implementation Effectiveness of K-5 Spanish Pathways: Recommendations to Improve English Learner Success in SFUSD

Rhina Torres
2018
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This report aims to provide the Multilingual Pathways Department (MPD) a general overview of the current implementation of Spanish Biliteracy (BL) and Dual-Language Immersion (DLI) pathways at the school site level. It will identify trends that exists within and across school sites as it relates to the key components of bilingual programming. More specifically, it…

Creating an Empowered Youth Commission

Jessie Wesley, Tashaka Merriweather
2018
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This report is intended to help understand strategic ways to empower and strengthen the West Contra Costa Youth Commission. It is broken up into 7 parts:  Background providing context to the district  Framing around the imperative of youth voice and local opportunity in West Contra Costa  A description of methods used for…

Small Districts, Big Problems: Understanding Barriers to Planning And Funding School Facilities In California’s Rural and Small Public School Districts

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2018
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In 2017, the California Department of Education (CDE) announced the “Small School District Assistance Initiative,” aimed at providing targeted assistance to small and rural school districts in the state. To aid CDE’s efforts, this study investigates the facility challenges and issues facing rural and small school districts in California. We utilize a mixed method approach to understand the capital investment…

Toward Defining Resilience with Y-PLAN

Amanda Eppley
2018
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Page 79 of this activity guide is an activity for teachers and students to explore their school grounds and look for examples of resiliency as well as come up with ways their school can be more resilient. The lesson plan uses fundamental aspects of the Y-PLAN methodology like working with young people and allowing them…

Skills Brokers in the San Francisco East Bay: Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Equitable Cross-sector Collaboration Through Workforce Intermediaries

Jeremias Herberg
2018
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This study provides a critical appraisal of intermediaries in demand-driven workforce development. In San Francisco East Bay, an emerging set of workforce intermediaries – here called the” Skills Brokers” – recently take issue in alleged Skills Gaps to create a cross-sector reform agenda. They seek to connect the supply and demand for STEM skills to…

Financing School Facilities in California: A 10-year Perspective

Eric Brunner, Jeffrey M. Vincent
2018
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California’s 6-million-student public school system includes a vast inventory of publicly owned buildings and property. All of these facilities need to be maintained and some need major renovations to ensure health, safety, and educational suitability. Some communities also need new school buildings to house a growing student population. Research suggests students learn better in classrooms…

Exploring the concept of “resilience” …

Olivia Offutt
2018
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In response to rapidly changing environmental and political climates around the world, governing agencies are grappling with the notion of resilience. How can communities continue to thrive with chronic and acute threats such as sea level rise, drought, fire, growing inequality, and unaffordable housing? Community engagement is often sought by governing agencies in determining answers…

Young Urbanists Present Ideas For Living With Sea Level Rise

Don Ford
2018
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This is a segment from CBS Bay Area news that includes interviews from Y-PLAN students discussing their RBD projects

Strategy to Engage Youth in San Francisco Planning

Victor Phu, Michael Lau
2018
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Thismemo will specifically analyze SanFrancisco PlanningDepartment’s current Family Friendly City initiative, whichseeks to develop an effective familyandyouth engagement processto meet the needs ofall families in San Francisco. Given theintentional educationalexperience, childrenare natural planners thatunderstandtheirneighborhoods and can providemeaningful feedback for SF Planning. UsingY-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now) andBalboa High Schoolasacasestudy,wewillexploreopportunitiestoimprove SFPlanning’sFamilyFriendlyCityinitiative.

4th Grade Urban Designers

Shane Louis
2018
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This video features 4th graders from Malcolm X elementary showing a bit of their designs for the Y-PLAN|RBD project. They talk about why they care about sea level rise.

One Hundred Participants Selected for “TOMODACHI Summer 2018 SoftBank Leadership Program” at University of California, Berkeley

Tomodachi – Unnamed Author
2018
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This is an informational article about the Tomodachi Y-PLAN studio and the work the students produce for their communities. The article also has a series of testimonials from past Y-PLAN Tomodachi participants.

Teacher Wellness from Vicarious Trauma

Sarah Snook
2018
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Apart from educating, teachers are often in the front lines of dealing with a child’s trauma. This report and policy brief discuss way in which schools can address the vicarious trauma teachers in OUSD go through and recommends ways they can help their teachers cope. Especially since vicarious trauma can lead to teacher burnout and…

Chancellor honors students, staff and faculty committed to public service

Public Affairs
2018
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Y-PLAN was recognized for the Campus Community Partnership Award for their partnership with RBD.

Designing a More Resilient Bay Area

Urbanist Article
2018
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This article shows the final design proposals from the RBD design teams.

Students Offer Holistic Solutions to Bay Area Climate Change Challenges

Alissa Lee Greenberg
2018
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Students from all over the Bay Area gathered in Alumni Hall for the final Y-PLAN presentations in partnership with RBD. Their proposals were about sustainability but they encompassed more than sea level rise, they represented a more holistic idea of sustainability being one that includes the health, and social well being of a community rather…

Newcomer Teacher Wellness Mini-Grants: A Formative Evaluation

Melissa Henne
2018
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This report is a formative evaluation of Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) Newcomer Teacher Wellness Mini-Grant. It includes a background of the program’s inception, with a focus on the key role that teacher coordinators played in supporting wellness activities. After illustrating the broad support around wellness activities, it delves into how newcomer teachers feel about…

5th Grade City Planners!

Shirl Buss, YIA Staff
2018
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Fifth grade students were invited to participate in the planning process for the 2040 San Rafael General Plan. The students will be using the Y-PLAN to work on the General Plan.

Principled Principals: The Essential Role of Leadership in Disrupting Vicarious Trauma for Teacher in OUSD

Anna Radoff
2018
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Oakland Unified School Districts faces increasing teacher attrition and levels of stress among teachers. Principal leadership is necessary to support teachers and ultimately students achievement.

Sacramento Area Students Showcase Y-PLAN Projects at City Hall

Andrew Kehoe
2018
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The article informs the reader on the final Y-PLAN presentations from students in Johnson High School and Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School.

Design competition tackles sites around Bay Area to address rising waters

John King
2018
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This article introduces the Resilient by Design competition and it’s focus on Bay Area sea level rise. It also shows the 9 regions the design teams will be working with, which are the regions Y-PLAN students also worked with in this partnership.

One Hundred Next-Generation Leaders, Leading the Future of Tohoku, Developed Action Plans to Bring Positive Changes to Communities upon Completion of Program in the U.S.

Tomodachi – Unnamed Author
2018
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100 students from the Tohoku region in Japan participated in a 3 week long Y-PLAN studio where they stayed in UC Berkeley. The students drafted proposals for the city of Richmond in the first half of the project and in the latter half the students created projects for their communities back home.

Bay Area Students Offer Solutions to Sea Level Rise: The collaborative effort tackles the threat of flooding and sea level rise

Bea Karnes
2018
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This article talks about the imprtant role Y-PLAN plays in connecting students with real life community partners. It also argues that the students’ proposals could be used to propel plans in the community.

Flood Fair 2018 Interview

2018
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This is a video of interviews with different community members who attended the Flood Fair to learn more about sea level rise and community resilience.

To Live In The Community You Serve: School District Employee Housing In California

Sean Doocy
2018
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The current housing affordability crisis in california, coupled with stagnant wages for teachers and school district staff, has contributed to high teacher turnover and widespread teacher shortages. In response, school districts have begun to develop employee housing programs as a strategy to recruit and retain high-quality teachers and staff. This study provides a detailed look…

Education Equity Requires Modern School Facilities

Mary Filardo, Jeffrey M. Vincent, Kevin Sullivan
2018
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Every day millions of elementary and secondary school children in the U.S. attend public school in deteriorated and obsolete facilities that harm their health and undermine achievement. Why? Because capital funding for public school facility infrastructure remains the most regressive element of public education finance. Policy brief by BASIC ([Re]Build America’s School Infrastructure Coalition

Two Way Bay: Estuary Leaders Reflect on Resilience

Nani Walker
2018
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This 8-minute film interviews eight directors of water quality, restoration, and environmental programs around the San Francisco Estuary about their experience of the 2017-2018 Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. ESTUARY News asked these leaders — some of whom also sit on the SF Estuary Partnership’s Estuary Blueprint Implementation Committee — how the results of…

Making Youth Perspectives Count Beyond an Educational Exercise (Estuary News)

Alissa Lee Greenberg, John Hart
2018
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Estuary News Magazine wrote an article about the partnership between Y-PLAN and RbD focusing on the agency students gain through the Y-PLAN process. They argue that Y-PLAN encourages city officials to actively engage youth in the planning process by being intentional about including youth and not just setting up programs that are marginal to the…

Y PLAN | RESILIENT BY DESIGN

2017
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This blog was written by Resilient by Design describing their exciting partnership with Y-PLAN. “Resilient by Design is excited to partner with the UC Berkeley Center for Cities+Schools (CC+S) through the evidence-based Y-PLAN educational methodology and to be involved in the collaborative effort to create a unified vision for a resilient future for the Bay…

City “for the Children”: Lessons from Richmond California

Ariella Levitch
2017
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This is an essay by a student in Occidental College who researched effective ways of including youth in the city planning process. The student used Y-PLAN as a case study, researching the effect Y-PLAN has had in fostering youth involvement in Richmond, CA.

School Siting and Walkability: Experience and Policy Implications in California            

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Ruth Miller, Lianne Dillon, Mary Filardo
2017
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Vincent, Jeffrey M., Miller, Ruth, and Dillon, Lianne California Journal of Politics and Policy, vol. 9, no. 3 As California looks to implement a Health in All Policies approach into state decision making, and weave health, equity, and environmental sustainability into more policies, a better understanding of the relationship between school siting and walkability is…

Tardiness and Poor School Facility Conditions Are Interconnected

Amanda Eppley
2017
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Schools serving low-income communities of color are often in disrepair and untidy. The condition of a school’s facilities leads to student tardiness increasing their likelihood of not preforming well in class. Additionally, this blog argues that it makes students feel like they do not deserve to be in a clean school.

Three ways Berkeley connects with the community

Will Kane
2017
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Y-PLAN received an award from the UCB Chancellor for their partnership with the African American Male Achievement Initiative in OUSD.

Adequate & Equitable U.S. PK-12 Infrastructure: Priority Actions for Systemic Reform

Mary Filardo, Jeffrey M. Vincent, Joe Da Silva, Anisa Heming
2017
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A joint report from the Center for Cities + Schools, 21st Century School Fund, Center for Green Schools, and National Council on School Facilities Our country’s elementary and secondary (PK–12) public school infrastructure is in crisis. Every day, millions of children in the U.S. attend public school in unhealthy, unsafe, educationally inadequate, environmentally unsustainable, and…

New National Initiative: Planning for Pk-12 Infrastructure: Adequate Public School Facilities for All Children

Mary Filardo, Jeffrey M. Vincent
2016
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CC+S is partnering with the 21st Century School Fund, The Center for Green Schools, and the National Council on School Facilities to address the structural problems of inequitable and inadequate school facilities found in too many communities across the U.S. 

Building Accountability: A Review of State Standards and Requirements for K-12 Public School Facility Planning and Design

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2016
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To inform state lawmakers on appropriate policies for K-12 school facility planning and design, this paper investigates standards in seven state policy areas (educational space, minimum essential facilities, indoor human comfort/environmental quality, school site size, planning process, maintenance, and charter schools) in ten case study states: California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York,…

Building Pressure: Modeling the Fiscal Future of California K-12 School Facilities

Liz Jain, Jeffrey M. Vincent
2016
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Through this initiative, six national cross-sector working groups have developed a menu of solutions to guide government, industry, labor, and the civic sector in the delivery of high performance public PK-12 infrastructure for all children. The six working groups are organized around basic elements of a well-managed facilities program: Data and Information, Educational Facilities Planning,…

City – School Partnerships A Natural Home for Health Equity: Y-PLAN Richmond and the Shift Towards Health in All Classrooms

Deborah L. McKoy, Megan Calpin
2016
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This article is about the partnership between Y-PLAN and the City of Richmond. Explaining their long partnership and the mutually beneficial relationship they have has engaging youth in Richmond’s planning process.

Going It Alone: Can California’s K-12 School Districts Adequately and Equitably Fund School Facilities?  

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Liz Jain
2015
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After decades of dedicated investment, state funding to assist local California school districts in the construction, modernization, and maintenance of their school facilities has come to a halt. Our analysis of school facility spending across California finds that, compared to industry standards, there is an ongoing, structural pattern of inadequate and inequitable spending in many…

Guided By Principles: Shaping the State of California’s Role in k-12 Public School Facility Funding

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Liz Gross
2015
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K-12 public school facilities need regular investment to ensure student health and safety and support educational programming. Yet, the future of K-12 school facility funding in California is uncertain. A strong state-local partnership has existed that funded new construction, modernization, and other investments in public school facilities across the state since 1998, under the School…

Engaging Students in Transforming Their Built Environment via Y-PLAN: Lessons from Richmond, California

Deborah L. McKoy, Jessie Stewart, Shirl Buss
2015
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This field report describes how high school students from Richmond, California used an innovative educational strategy called Y-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now) to actively participate in the planning and transformation of their school, neighborhoods and city. Our description follows students through the five-step YPLAN process, highlighting how they effectively challenged the ways in…

Connecting Housing, Transportation + Education to Expand Opportunity: Living, Learning + Moving Together

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2015
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In many parts of the country it is difficult for families, particularly low- or moderate- income families to afford a suitable home in a transit-rich neighborhood with good schools. This report synthesizes the ideas and policy recommendations from a national convening of local, state, and federal stakeholders from across the country on innovative policy and…

Beyond “Accidents of Geography”: Using Housing Policy to Improve Access to Quality Education 

Deborah L. McKoy, Shannon S Van Zand, Elizabeth Mueller
2014
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The chapters in this volume explore the links between education, location, and land based on the proceedings of the 8th Annual Land Policy Conference of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Three policy outcomes are the focus: academic achievement of schoolchildren; racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic segregation; and equality of opportunity, all of which have broad…

BluePrints for Hope: Engaging Children as Critical Actors in Urban Place Making 

Deborah L. McKoy, Shirl Buss, Jessie Stewart
2014
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Third- and fourth-grade elementary school students have been contributing their ideas to the redevelopment of their community in San Francisco, using a methodology known as Y-PLAN (Youth-PlanLearn-Act, Now!). This article explains the process and describes the ideas the children have come up with – and how key areas and insights are being incorporated into the…

A Policy Framework for Joint Use: Enabling and Supporting Community Use of K–12 Public School Facilities 

Mary Filardo, Jeffrey M. Vincent
2014
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Joint use of public school facilities is a complex but manageable approach to efficiently enhancing the services and programs available to students and supporting the community use of public schools. Building upon on our 2010 paper titled Joint Use of Public Schools: A Framework for a New Social Contract, this paper identifies the policy framework…

Mapping for Alignment: Inventorying School-based Services in West Contra Costa Unified School District

Maura Baldiga , Anna Maier
2014
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To strategically plan for the implementation of a full-service community schools initiative, this project sought to identify existing programs at school sites in WCCUSD and analyze how the distribution of services aligns with local needs.

Beyond the Yellow Bus: Promising Practices for Maximizing Access to Opportunity Through Innovations in Student Transportation

Jeffrey M. Vincent, Carrie Makarewicz, Ruth Miller, Julia Ehrman , Deborah L. McKoy
2014
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Access to safe, affordable, and convenient transportation shapes the ‘geography of opportunity’ for many children and youth. This study looks at how​localities across the country are implementing new and innovative alternative approaches to student transportation that expand regional transportation access for K-12 students, improve cost-effectiveness, and leverage inter-agency partnerships beyond the traditional yellow school bus.

Connecting Industry Partners with Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) Linked Learning Educational Goals + Strategies

Elizabeth Schmid, Mark Shorett, Gretchen Livesey
2014
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OUSD’s career academies and pathways are the foundation of its work-based learning strategy, known as Linked Learning. This instructional approach provides students with the resources and skills necessary to succeed in college, career and life. But according to this report, educators and industry professionals struggle to connect on meaningful collaboration projects

School Facilities Cost Calculator: A Joint-use Tool for Fair Fees

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2014
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The School Facilities Cost Calculator: A Joint-Use Tool for Fair Fees, a free tool that helps school districts and communities determine the costs of owning and operating their facilities and develop a fair and transparent joint-use fee structure, is now available in an interactive web-based format. The Cost Calculator includes rich data from nearly 15,000…

Linking Equity + Sustainability: A Transportation Plan for San Francisco Unified School District

Julia Ehrman
2014
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This report examines three factors that pose a risk to student transportation in the SFUSD: school choice, limited transportation resources, and diverse school contexts. It addresses these concerns in order to increase environmental sustainability in transportation among District families. 

Building Healthy Communities: Tracking Change + Transformation in Sacramento

Megan Calpin, Maira Sanchez
2014
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In 2010, The California Endowment (TCE) launched a 10-year, $1 billion Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative in 14 target communities across the state. South Sacramento was one of these selected target areas. This report looks at what changes have been catalyzed by Sacramento Building Healthy Communities investments in SCUSD on institutional practice and policy at…

State Funding for K-12 School Facilities: A Survey of the States

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2014
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California lawmakers are debating the future of the state’s role in providing school construction and modernization funds to local school districts – a school facility funding role the state has played since 1947. Previous statewide school construction bond authority is exhausted. To inform this policy debate, our paper describes the role each of the 50 states plays…

Access + Equity: Mapping SFUSD’s Transportation Infrastructure for Students with Disabilities

Julie Leung
2014
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These maps and findings address the current transportation infrastructure in place for students with disabilities in the San Francisco Unified School District. 

WEBINAR: Healthy School Facilities: Planning for ‘Good Repair’ in Local Control Accountability Plans // A Primer for Parents, School Board Members and Community Advocates (April 3, 2014)

Bill Savidge, Joe Dixon, Kathleen Moore, Brad Strong, Jeffrey M. Vincent
2014
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Under California’s new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) K-12 funding system, Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs) must address “school facilities in good repair. ” (as defined in California Education Code § 17002d). This webinar will give participants the knowledge and tools to actively participate in their school districts good repair plan. (Sponsored by The…

Joint Use of Public Schools: A Framework for Promoting Healthy Communities

Jeffrey M. Vincent
2014
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Despite the growing interest in expanding the joint use of K–12 public schools by public health and planning practitioners to promote healthy, sustainable communities, the topic has received little attention in the urban planning and public health scholarship. The objective of this article is to situate joint use in the academic literature focused on the…

Aligning Neighborhood, Education and Public Health Initiatives: Building Healthy Communities in Sacramento

Joseph Schuchter