The growing movement to create full-service community schools: A conversation with Mavis Sanders and Claudia Galindo

How are today’s full-service community schools forming authentic, collaborative partnerships with families, and what’s ahead for the movement?

Claudia Galindo is an associate professor in the education policy program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research examines racial/ethnic minority and poor students’ academic outcomes and school experiences, paying particular attention to Latinx and immigrant populations. She also conducts interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research to study the implementation of educational reforms. And she studies full-service community schools, a reemerging strategy that focuses on the holistic needs of students and their families. 

Mavis Sanders is a senior research scholar of Black children and families at Child Trends, in Bethesda, Maryland, leading an applied research agenda that advances racial equity and social justice. Previously, she was a professor of education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where she served as a research scientist at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk and as assistant director of the National Network of Partnership Schools. She is also a former social studies teacher and Peace Corps Volunteer (in Papua New Guinea).