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Building trusting relationships: Lessons from labor and management collaborations

If you want any kind of school transformation to be successful, you have to spend time thinking about and building trust – and community schools work requires a lot of it. How do you know you’ve built trust?

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Four ways to maximize use of the S-TAC Sustainability Plan Template

How might you maximize your use of the S-TAC team's Sustainability Plan Template? CSLX's Melissa Mitchell lays out four tips in her latest blog post.

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What if we've been looking at sustainability all wrong?

When practitioners think about community school sustainability planning, especially as CCSPP grants continue to “age,” the first question they often ask is, “how are we going to replace this funding?” But sustainability planning shouldn’t revolve around dollar for dollar replacements.

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