Tools & Resources

The Basics: The Role of the Principal

Sep 23, 2025|The Basics

A community school principal reflects both the skill and will to lead their school communities in ways that are, at times, counter to how a principal is expected to lead. They need the curiosity, patience and humility, as well as the knowledge to lead improvement efforts and school transformation.

CS Journeys: Garden Grove builds a foundation for growing their community schools vision

Mar 12, 2025

Garden Grove Unified School District is the third-largest K-12 school district located in Orange County, California. Enrolling close to 40,000 students, GGUSD serves families from Garden Grove, and neighboring portions of Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster.

The Basics: Building Your Advisory Council

Team CSLX|Jan 23, 2024|The Basics

The advisory council brings together voices within a school and community that can speak to a diverse range of perspectives and experiences.

Theory of Action for Community School Transformation

Community Schools Forward|Jan 23, 2024

CCSPP Implementation Grant Cohort Three Applications: Some Questions, Some Answers

Team CSLX|Jan 19, 2024

Through the course of our work with clients, participants in CSLX’s CCSPP Grant Cohort Series, and our own conversations with practitioners, CSLX has collected a set of questions and answers about the CCSPP implementation grant application requirements, components and processes.

Framework: Essentials for Community School Transformation

Community Schools Forward|Jan 11, 2024|Tool

The community schools strategy transforms a school into a place where educators, local community members, families, and students work together to strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development.

The Basics: Designing your Needs Assessment

Team CSLX|Dec 4, 2023|The Basics

A needs assessment is a systematic process of collecting focused information to better understand the priorities and challenges of students, their families, and the community.

The Basics: Community School Coordinator

Team CSLX|Nov 20, 2023|The Basics

The Community School Coordinator (CSC) is a site leader, strategic thinker, and connector who can hold the meaning-making and engagement of CS development; they are NOT the one "in charge" of managing new programs.

Role of the Lead Partner in Community Schools

Erie's Public Schools|Sep 20, 2023

The Role of a Community Schools Coordinator

Wayne County Community Schools|May 16, 2023|Multimedia

Niki Espinoza, Community Coordinator from the Maple School in Kern County, California gives insight to the role of a Community Schools Coordinator.