The Community School Strategy is transforming Baltimore’s schools into vibrant hubs where students, families, and communities thrive through integrated academics, services, and engagement. As this movement grows, we invite passionate leaders and partners to help shape its future by joining the Community School Steering Committee.
What is the Community School Strategy?
The Baltimore City Public Schools Community School Strategy is to ensure all students in City Schools are learning and succeeding over the course of their lives, through an integrated focus on academics, health and social services, child and community development, college and career readiness, and authentic family and community engagement. The Community School Strategy focuses on student wholeness, promotes social justice, and builds on the strengths and assets of the school and the surrounding communities. The Community School Strategy is an evidence-based approach to addressing inequities in areas of concentrated poverty. Through the Community School Strategy, all school stakeholders come together to build relationships and power to challenge systems that perpetuate inequities, while creating positive school climates that facilitate learning, growth, and strong, vibrant families and communities. 
Who can be a member of the Community Schools Steering Committee?
The Community School Steering Committee (CSSC) is made up of 23 individuals, selected by a vote of sitting and outgoing members of the CSSC, unless otherwise indicated. Membership applications will be created and accepted by the CSSC nominating committee, and they will be available on the City Schools’ website and distributed to Community School Coordinators and other stakeholders. City Schools will make targeted efforts to recruit and encourage individuals who are members of a charter or operator-led school to apply for the Community School Steering Committee.
We are seeking nominations to fill the current vacancies:
Community School Coordinator (“CSC”) (2 Openings): An individual employed by the Board or Lead Agency, fully dedicated to facilitating the Community School Strategy in partnership with the Community School principal and the larger school community, including coordinating wraparound services and support programs that address out-of-school learning barriers for students and
families. Community School Coordinators employed by a Lead Agency may be approved, pursuant to Board Policy LCA (Conducting Research and Surveys, and Data Sharing), as school officials, and as such, will receive required access to data in which they have a legitimate educational interest, per that policy.
Representative of Out of School Time (“OST”) Provider (1 Opening): A program providing before, after-school, weekend, and/or summer learning opportunities for children at a Community School that uses a youth development lens to enhance the core academic program of the Community School and is aligned with classroom learning.
Student at City Schools (2 Openings): A child who is enrolled and attends a Baltimore City Public or Charter School.
Public School Administration and Supervisors Association (PSASA) (1 Opening): PSASA is the exclusive bargaining agent for over five hundred middle managers of the Baltimore City Public School System. We represent principals, assistant principals, supervisors, specialists, directors, and coordinators. Our members run the schools and the offices that support instruction.
If you are interested in nominating someone or yourself or want to know more about nominations, please email Bruce Nelson or Maritza Solano by February 27, 2026.