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“We are excited and honored to serve as Issue Editors for the Mountain View School issue of the Community Schooling Journal. Located in Southeast San Diego, Mountain View School has served students from TK-8 grade for the past 13 years. As a pilot school and community school, Mountain View has created a community of learners and changemakers that is grounded in values of equity and justice. With deep roots in family and community organizing, Mountain View’s story provides a picture of what is possible when schools are truly community-led, and when the voice of families, students and the educator teams not only matter, but collectively drive the vision for the school.
The stories in this issue remind us that Community Schools are about paying attention to how we do the work of schooling. Through the work at Mountain View, we see California’s Capacity-Building Strategies in action. From Sustaining Staffing to fostering Collaborative Leadership and a steadfast movement towards the implementation of Community-Based Learning – these strategies promote alignment and sustainability of the community schooling strategy.”