The Role of the CS Coordinator
The Community School Manager (CSM) in Oakland Unified School District integrates a school’s partnership work with its academic mission. This brief offers insight into the CSM role as it occurs in Oakland schools, emphasizing the CSM’s contribution to teaching and learning goals. More specifically, the CSM plays an integral role in terms of:
Community school (CS) practitioners and teams that have a curiosity-centered mindset pull data, gather interest holders, and dig deep on questions about what the data is telling them.
When you take a mindset that recognizes the cyclical nature of community school development, then you are truly digging into and doing the (hard) work of sustaining it.
Through the series, we learned a lot about the ways the CCSPP application process supported–and did not support–community school practitioners across the state. Here are some of our top learnings from the experience.
