So you’re ready to onboard your Community School Coordinator! Now what?
Too often, we hear Community School Coordinators and Directors described as the ones “in charge” of community school implementation.
The Community School Manager (CSM) in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) integrates a school’s partnership work with its academic mission.
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.