Community School Managers

Stanford's Gardner Center has found that in Oakland Community Schools, "the community school manager plays a critical role in integrating the partnership work of the school with its academic mission, serving as a high-level administrator managing, leading, and coordinating the community work to support school and student needs."

Read the research brief; find out more about CSM duties below.

Community School Manager Expectations

Oakland’s Full-Service Community Schools utilize an Anti-Racist, MTSS + Collaborative Leadership Approach

Lead and Strengthen School Attendance

Lead and Strengthen School Attendance through building Attendance Teams that analyze data and focus on building relationships to address chronic absence and truancy.

Lead Attendance Teams that meet regularly to review attendance data to inform individual and school-wide Attendance MTSS Interventions (e.g. SART meetings, submit completed SARB paperwork, case management, home visits, incentives and school-wide initiatives).
Provide guidance and support to Attendance Case Managers (new).

Lead and Strengthen COST (Coordination of Services Team)

Lead and Strengthen COST (Coordination of Services Team) to address the academic, social-emotional and physical health needs of students through culturally responsive multi-tiered system of support and ongoing assessment of needs where families, teachers, school support staff and community based organizations are engaged as integral partners.

COST meets regularly to: review data via OUSDForce, triage academic, behavior, mental health referrals, and assess school wide needs.
Coordinate and regularly progress monitor academic and non-academic student support services in collaboration with teachers, school staff and partners using the required platform OUSDForce.

Cultivate a Positive & Joyful School Culture

Cultivate a Positive & Joyful School Culture through data-focused cycles of inquiry that aim to increase positive school culture and improve conditions for learning and outcomes for students.

School Culture Team meets regularly to create systems and initiatives that increase all students’ sense of belonging and connectedness to school. (e.g. Sown to Grow, California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), School Wide Expectations, Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), Equitable School Wide Discipline Policy).
Implement Restorative School Communities through community building activities and using Restorative Practices for harm, conflict and healing.

Community School Partnerships

Increase alignment and integration of new and established Community School Partnerships aimed at
improving student outcomes.

Assess and map existing community partners to maximize student & family access to services, measure impact and address gaps in services. Support new partners to become OUSD approved partners.
Convene semi-annual all partner meetings to collaborate and coordinate on school focus areas and address unmet needs.

Foster and Strengthen Student and Family Engagement

Foster and Strengthen Student and Family Engagement built on a shared vision that meets the needs of students and the school community.

Engagement: Opportunities to participate in activities and workshops to support student learning including responding to District-wide surveys to lift family voice, (i.e. CHKS).
Collaborative Leadership: School provides multiple opportunities for all students and families to review data, engage in school goals and participate in decision-making to impact student outcomes.
Effective & Regular Communication: Shared with all families in multiple languages and forums (e.g.

Parent Square messaging, newsletters, Town Halls) to ensure awareness of community school priorities, partners, and opportunities for students to access services.

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