As Executive Director of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE), I’m pleased to outline our key strategic priorities for the 2024-2025 school year. We are dedicated to enhancing educational outcomes through a focus on four pivotal areas:
- Utilizing data to maximize statewide and individual student impacts.
- Developing targeted and intensive support for Special Education.
- Integrating and coordinating efforts among statewide Mathematics Leads.
- Strengthening literacy initiatives in collaboration with the California Department of Education.
Our goal is to ensure that the Statewide System of Support (SSOS) fulfills California’s mission of providing a quality, equitable education for every student. To achieve this, we are committed to working with the California Department of Education in aligning various literacy initiatives through the following objectives:
- Coherence and Alignment: Partnering with state agencies and SSOS literacy leads, to align various literacy initiatives. This will help create a unified approach to literacy education, ensuring that all students have access to comprehensive and consistent literacy instruction.
- Support and Resources: We will assist in creating awareness and understanding of how to access universal support opportunities for LEAs including professional development opportunities, instructional resources, and evidence-based strategies to enhance literacy outcomes. Our focus will be on building capacity within schools to deliver effective literacy instruction.
Below are asynchronous and synchronous courses that are available now for free professional development provided through the Learning Acceleration System Grant and Project Arise.
| Date | Professional Learning Session |
| September 23 | Whole-Child Lens on Literacy |
| September 30 | Centering Complex Text |
| October 3 | Executive Functions (Community of Practice) |
| October 7 | Progress Monitoring |
| November 14 | Leveraging What Students CAN DO to Bridge Their Learning |
| December 12 | Foundational Skills (Community of Practice) |
| January 23 | Ignite your Reading Comprehension Lessons |
| January 30 | Biliteracy Instruction Part I |
| February 13 | Comprehension Discussion |
| February 24 | Using Executive Functions to Support Holistic Literacy Development |
| February 27 | Biliteracy Instruction- Part II |
| March 10 | Using Progress Monitoring Data for Instruction |
| March 13 | Intensive Interventions (Community of Practice) |
| March 20 | Empowering Choice: Refining Scaffolds in Lesson Design |
If you have any questions about CCEE, please visit our website. Stay tuned for more literacy coordination efforts and resources, through our events calendar and the Statewide System of Support Resource Hub.
