Hayin Kimner

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Hayin Kimner
Senior Policy and Research Fellow,
Community Schools Learning Exchange

Hayin Kimner is is the managing director for the CA Community Schools Learning Exchange (CSLX) and a nonresident fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is also a senior policy and research fellow at Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Kimner is an educational practitioner, researcher and evaluator, and policy advocate with a focus on community school systems and partnerships. She served as a senior program director for the Opportunity Institute and has led the development of district-wide and citywide community school strategies for both the San Francisco Unified School District and the Emery Unified School District. Kimner currently works with organizations focused on advancing whole-child and equity research, policies, and practices. She received her PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Education.

updated 2021

Contributing topics
Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education
Continuous school improvement & support
Education finance
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
Continuous Improvement and Support Systems in California
COVID-19 Recovery
Getting Down To Facts II
Hayin Kimner in the Media
: Community Schools in Utah’s Salt Lake City Region Thrive on Place-Based Partnerships and Family Engagement
: Technology Transforms a School into a Community
: Community Schools Implementation and Administration: Policy Opportunities
: Catching Up On Learning Loss: What Should We Do Now?
: Community Schools: Connecting the Dots of a Connected Village
Publications by Hayin Kimner
PB Vance Jan 2021
Expanded Learning Partnerships
A Foundation for Rebuilding to Support the Whole Child
Strong partnerships between schools and expanded learning programs lay the foundation for building stronger, more equitable support systems for children and their families. Building on prior investments in the expanded learning system, California’s…
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Ayer Elementary School’s Resilient Conditions for Improvement
Pivoting Amid COVID-19
The educators of Ayer Elementary in Fresno Unified School District began their continuous improvement journey in 2016. The stability of their underlying organizational conditions to engage in improvement work—a shared purpose, mutual trust,…
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Continuous Improvement in Schools in the COVID-19 Context
This  brief summarizes key points from the report Enabling Conditions and Capacities for Continuous Improvement: A Framework for Measuring and Supporting Progress Towards the Goals of the Statewide System of Support and contextualizes the…
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Community Schools
A COVID-19 Recovery Strategy
Community school strategies have emerged as a promising approach to mitigate the social and learning impacts of COVID-19. This brief draws on how the crisis-motivated responses of educators and school leaders might serve as integral investments in…