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:
Engaging policy-makers to advocate for changes to legislation and state policy that responds to practitioner needs and experience.
Support for CCSPP current and potential applicants.
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.
CCSPP funding can absolutely set the stage for whole-school transformation, but only if you approach it with an actual plan for transformation.
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.
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.