Tools & Resources

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

Cross-District Partnerships for Rural Community Schools

CSLX|Jul 21, 2023

West Kern Consortium collaborative allows districts to maximize community school resources.

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.

Making an Impact – Kern County, California

Wayne County Community Schools|May 15, 2023|Multimedia

Wayne County Community Schools employs the Community Schools framework to make effective changes for youth across Wayne County both inside and outside of school.