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Community School Coordinators are the heart of their school communities, and the heart of our movement to rebuild and transform schools. Here's what we get wrong about their roles in our schools and districts.
Community organizing is about more than achieving a win
Community organizing is a mindset – a way of seeing the world. More importantly, it is a set of principles that we can use to totally rebuild and transform our schools.
Our traditional public funding parameters don’t fit rural communities
Right now, our state has no measure that helps us understand how to really support the rich ecosystem of rural communities because the only thing we’re using is a yardstick in a forest. And it’s a problem.
The name of a funding source does not a community school make
Community schools are not new; they have taken root across the state long before – and alongside – the CCSPP.
A love letter to planning
If you’re a California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) grantee, right now you have an almost unprecedented opportunity to build the car BEFORE you drive it.
A grant program is not a strategy
If you’re reading this, I’m betting that you’ve recently received a CA Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) grant.
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.
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.
