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We work directly with LEAs, municipal agencies, partner organizations, and state-wide systems of support to build and strengthen community school strategies. Our current offerings include:

Direct coaching, consulting, and strategic thought partnership with LEAs and community partners;
Facilitating spaces of peer learning and professional development that cultivates a network of skilled community school practitioners;
Creating, curating, and co-constructing community school knowledge enters practitioner voice and experience;
Engaging policy-makers to advocate for changes to legislation and state policy that responds to practitioner needs and experience.
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Join us in conversation to learn from peers and practitioner experts about what it takes to do this work. Find current and archived community-school events, hosted by CSLX and our partners, here.

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Community Schools Funding Has Changed: Now What?

Oct 7, 2026

Beyond Attendance: Building Cultures of Belonging

Sep 9, 2026

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Community School Essentials

Aug 6, 2026

Latest From the Blog

Lights On Afterschool: Seven ways to strengthen school-day and afterschool connections

By Melissa Mitchell • Oct 20, 2026

What’s a great way to celebrate Lights On Afterschool this year? Work on strengthening the connections between school-day and expanded learning teams. Here are a few places to start.

As CCSPP expands, districts have an opportunity to build the infrastructure for scale

By Ali Metzler • Oct 6, 2026

California's continued investment in community schools through the Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP) apportionment in the state budget creates an important opportunity for school districts.

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Before we called them community schools

By Dawn Costa • Sep 24, 2026

Youth development doesn't just change young people, it raises the adults who spend the rest of their lives changing systems to better serve young people.