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What we learned from the CS Fundamentals Workshops
It’s hard to believe it’s already been about a month since we wrapped the first leg of our CS Fundamentals tour! We're sharing what we learned from each of you in a series of blog posts. Here's part one.
A Community School Coordinator is like an air traffic controller
Too often, we hear Community School Coordinators and Directors described as the ones “in charge” of community school implementation.
The Role of the CS Coordinator
The Community School Manager (CSM) in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) integrates a school’s partnership work with its academic mission.
Creating a vision for student success is not a solo endeavor
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.
CSLX Remarks at the White House
The administration and federal agencies have a unique and foundational role to play in each of these areas. I want to highlight three specific areas that could benefit from administrative action.
Every school can, and should, be a community school
This post offers discussion prompts for school and community leaders to plan together and strengthen their community school strategy as part of the California Community Schools Partnership Program.
CSLX's Public Comment re: Federal FSCS Grant Competition
The massive influx of funding to seed, strengthen, and scale community school approaches demands that we work together to accurately describe the nuances of community schools implementation, what needs to be in place in order to ensure efficacy, and how to best evaluate community school efforts.
Healing-Centered Community School Strategies: A Key Investment for COVID-19 Recovery
This new PACE publication set by Hayin Kimner provides a concrete example of what this kind of school looks like in practice as well as guidance for leaders at the school, district, county, and state level about how to support effective implementation at scale.
Teaching and Learning in Oakland Community Schools
This brief is part of a series that shares findings from a research collaboration between the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) focused on understanding implementation of the community school model in the district
