If you’re reading this, I’m betting that you’ve recently received a CA Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) grant.
Too often, we hear Community School Coordinators and Directors described as the ones “in charge” of community school implementation.
Years ago, I took a job as district Director of Community Schools. The hardest part about that job? Trying to advance a vision of community schools, amidst an organizational culture that, like most school districts everywhere, struggled with programmatic silos and barriers to collaboration.