News & Announcements
Interested in Joining the community engagement initiative (CEI)?
Applications to join the Cohort V of the Community Engagement Initiative are due March 15, 2024. This peer-led initiative brings together LEAs from every corner of the state to learn together about community engagement strategies and practices that strengthen relationships that affect student outcomes. Interested LEAs can find more information and apply here.
In Case You Missed It
project arise free professional development opportunity
Project ARISE partners have developed a series of self-paced online courses that offer a whole-child approach to literacy instruction. Engage in content addressing executive functions, research informed best practices for reading instruction, and a process for intensive intervention. This professional learning opportunity is free to all California educators. Project ARISE is led by Contra Costa County Office of Education and supported by California Department of Education. Enroll for courses here.
Equity leadership now! a new podcast by the 21Csla state center
Tune in to Equity Leadership Now!, hosted by 21CSLA, where we engage in conversations with leaders committed to equity in education, spanning from PreK to university settings. We explore their innovative ideas and compelling work to realize individual, social, and environmental justice at the intersection of research, policy, and practice — because our democracy depends on it.
Listen today to “Orchestrating a Community of Diverse Educational Equity Leaders” featuring Rebecca Cheung, Assistant Dean of the Berkeley School of Education and Director of 21CSLA State Center. In this episode, Dr. Cheung delves into her leadership journey and discusses the crucial intersection of equity, leadership, and public education with Professor and 21CSLA Chair Jabari Mahiri. Listen to ELN! now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and more.
CCEE “OPEN DOOR” sessions
Join our “open door” sessions where educational practitioners share innovative ideas and best practices from the Whole Child Design Framework. Connect with peers across the state, and explore opportunities for further engagement. Visit our site to watch recordings of past sessions or click the events calendar button in the navigation for upcoming sessions.
Looking AHEAD
UPCOMING CCEE OPEN DOOR SESSIONS
3/14: Increasing Intervention Efficacy Using Data Dashboards
A data dashboard can be a powerful tool when considering how to track the effectiveness of program implementation and efficacy. There are a myriad of factors to consider when deciding what dashboarding can provide your LEA. In this Open Door session, San Ramon Valley USD will share how to link data dashboarding with progress monitoring to increase intervention efficacy. Click here to register.
3/26: Balanced Assessment Systems in Action: Fostering Formative Assessment Practices With Mathematical Learning Progressions
This Open Door session explores the implementation of Balanced Assessment Systems, particularly Formative Assessments in mathematics, through Rincon Valley Union School District’s journey leveraging mathematical learning progressions from the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) and utilizing progress monitoring tools such as teacher and student surveys and classroom walk-throughs to foster inclusive mathematical instruction. Click here to register.
register for the ’24-’25 Leadership institute
Register for the ‘24-’25 Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute will kick off in person July 21, 2024 in Newport Beach, CA.
The ultimate goal of the Leadership Institute is to create networks and support systems for small school district leaders so they can gain the skill set and confidence needed to effectively lead their districts.
Project arise spring workshop series
Project ARISE, led by Contra Costa County Office of Education, invites California educators to our Spring Workshop series. These virtual professional learning sessions will include:
- For Executive Functions, Context Matters from the Center for Whole-Child Education
- Effective Foundational Skills Instruction from TNTP
- Intensifying Interventions for Students from the National Center on Intensive Intervention
See Workshop Flier.
March Resources
About the CCEE
The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is a statewide leader delivering on California’s promise of a quality, equitable education for every student.
About the Transformative Systems for Equitable educational outcomes center (tSEE)
The Center for Transformative Systems facilitates a common integrated vision for the Statewide System of Support for the development of coordinated, equitable, educational student outcomes.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S CORNER
New Beginnings: What can happen when we imagine something new?
By Matt J. Navo, Executive Director, CCEE
Our state has invested millions of dollars into our schools and statewide systems over the last 4 years. The investments were pursued in hopes of building innovative approaches to improving educational outcomes for our students.
In addition to all the investments that create new ideas, sometimes doing something new involves simply a new approach or even reducing ideas to focus on a few key opportunities.
The Center for Transformative Systems for Equitable Educational Outcomes (TSEE) did just that on February 20, 2024. For the first time in California’s history, every state-funded initiative with statewide impact was brought together in hopes of establishing a new way of coordinating, collaborating, and integrating services and supports across the state.
This newsletter takes advantage of the opportunity to highlight new beginnings in state transformation.
Statewide System of Support (SSOS) is beginning to build the Interagency Collaboration envisioned by the State
By Chris Hartley, Ed.D., Deputy Executive Director, CCEE
As we celebrate and embrace new beginnings and the energy the Spring season brings all our educators throughout the state of California, the Center for Transformative Systems for Equitable Educational Outcomes (TSEE) is excited to bring you this newsletter. Together, we can harness the symbolism of Spring to cultivate a brighter, more interconnected future for all students.
This narrative directly aligns with our most recent event involving all lead agencies in the SSOS. For the first time, all state-funded initiatives that have a statewide impact were assembled in the collective pursuit of building interagency collaboration and integration of services and support statewide.
The Statewide System of Support Collaboration Convening, with over 110 participants making up over 25 state initiatives, was an opportunity to learn, grow, and share unique expertise and resources.
State agency partners pulled together to organize and facilitate the event. Big thanks to CCEE Board President, Dr. Cynthia Glover-Woods and CCEE Executive Director, Matt Navo for the excellent opening day remarks and to all the presenters who made this an outstanding event.
Just as Spring encapsulates the possibility of transformation, so do the efforts and dedication of educators throughout the state.
Embracing New Opportunities to Learn and Grow: Ensuring Equity in Access with the Statewide System of Support (SSOS) Online Tools
By Mindy Fattig, Senior Advisor, Statewide System of Support, CCEE
How do we ensure equity in access to all of the state funded resources, supports, and services across the state so educators know where to go and how to access resources without solely relying on who they may know in the system? This is a question that CCEE has been working on with our educational partners in the field over the past few years. As a result, goals with very specific strategic actions were identified to create tools that provide ease of access to all of the SSOS state funded resources available to educators that are designed to support improving outcomes for students.
These are just two of the many tools created which you can access with the links or QR codes below.
The Levers for System Change tool is designed for LEAs to assess the quality of their educational infrastructure in order to improve outcomes for ALL students, inclusive of serving students with disabilities. LEA teams evaluate, document, and progress monitor the status of implementation of the six fundamental components necessary for a successful LEA.
CCEE Statewide System of Support Resource Hub
Discover a wealth of universal resources aimed at enhancing student outcomes and supporting educators! With over 30 statewide projects, grants, and initiatives, there is a new one-stop website designed to provide equity in access to valuable tools for educators. There are 130+ universal resources aimed at supporting districts, county offices, and charter schools, and this number will continue to grow! From webinars, to toolkits, to self-assessment frameworks, all resources are aimed to help educational partners improve outcomes for students.
To learn more about the various online tools the System of Support has to offer, see the document below, or click here. We hope these tools will help educators across the state, to learn and grow together.
Revised CSTP Provides CEI with New Opportunities to Develop Teacher Capacity
Brittany Mabe, Ed.D., District Advisor, Community Engagement, San Diego County Office of Education
Take a moment to think about the last fifteen years and all that has transpired in the world of education and beyond. From technology advances to global pandemics to AI, the classrooms of today look vastly different from those of fifteen years ago. Knowing this, it is exciting that revised and updated California Standards for the Teaching Profession, CSTP, were approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) in February. The prior version of the CSTP, used by public school teachers K-12 statewide, were approved in 2009 and have been used to guide professional development, evaluation, and teacher induction programs for the last fifteen years. The goal of these revised standards, as outlined in the Information/Action Item presented to the CTC (2024), is to “enable teachers to meet the needs of all learners (collective), each learner (individual), and every learner, including but not limited to specifically historically and persistently underserved students.”
These new standards bring about many new opportunities. While the overarching six domains of the standards remain the same, included among the changes to the standards themselves is a stronger focus on family and community engagement and developing “positive and reciprocal family and community connections” (CTC Information/Action Item 4B, 2024). The new standards address the goals of the family and the community and ask teachers to implement evidence-based principles of engaging families to best meet the needs of all learners. One way that districts and charters across the state of California can deepen their community engagement practices and their understanding of these principles is through participation in the Community Engagement Initiative (CEI), a component of the Statewide System of Support charged with building peer-to-peer partnerships and deepening an understanding of authentic engagement. The revised standards provide the CEI an opportunity to collaboratively support educators in the classroom, ultimately strengthening community engagement and improving student outcomes.