A collaboration of three national organizations has selected Vancouver Public Schools Superintendent Steve Webb to receive the Community Schools Superintendent Leadership Award. The award was presented by the Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership and American Association of School Administrators.
The award is given to superintendents who have led their districts in setting up community schools. Webb was chosen for his work expanding Family-Community Resource Centers to 16 Vancouver schools and one mobile FCRC.
A community school is not only a bricks-and-mortar school, but it’s also partnerships between the school and community resources with an “integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development and community engagement,” according to the Coalition for Community Schools.
Webb also has brought the community schools strategy to other communities in the area, advocated for community schools nationally and cochaired the Superintendents’ Council for Community Schools.
