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Collaborative Leadership, Shared Power and Voice

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Key Practice 2

Collaborative leadership, shared power and voice is the inclusion of stakeholders in shared decision making about a CS shared vision, goals and creating participatory practices for distributing responsibilities and leveraging the collective expertise of all participants. This site based leadership team (SBLT) co-create a culture of professional learning, collective trust, and shared responsibility as they make decisions together. Collaborative leadership, shared power and voice provides the relational “glue” that connects and reinforces the other Key Practices, making it foundational and critical for the success of a community school strategy. Such collaborative efforts necessitate honest conversations around identity, power, and turf and can build pride and power among traditionally marginalized communities. Collaborative leadership creates sustainable and humane community school workplaces for CS students, staff and educators

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“CS 101” Community Meeting

Site-Based Leadership Team

Community School Coordinator

Community School Principal

Asset and Needs Assessment

Root Cause Analysis

Community School Strategic Plan

Continuous improvement

Financial Sustainability Plan

Systemic Sustainability

“Classroom Teachers in the Community Schools Movement: A Social Justice Perspective.” American Educator. American Federation of Teachers (Spring 2020).
Daniel, Julia, et al. “Teaching in Community Schools: Creating Conditions for Deeper Learning.” Review of Research in Education (Vol. 43, Issue 1, March 2019).
“Community Schools Playbook.” Community Schools Playbook, 2022, The Partnership for the Future of Learning
“Stages of Development.” Community Schools Forward, 2022.
“Community School Standards.” Institute for Educational Leadership and Coalition for Community Schools, 2017.
“Using Root Cause Analysis as Part of the Continuous Improvement Process in Education.” Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 14 Sept. 2020.
Materials developed by ABC Community School Partnership