Resource Category: Community Member
Catalyzing STEM Growth: Free Library Programs for Youth
DESCRIPTION
The webpage from Library Science Degrees Online discusses the importance of public libraries in providing free STEM resources, emphasizing the role of libraries in supporting children and teens’ educational development, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It covers the definition of STEM, the variety of STEM programs available in libraries for different age groups, and how these programs contribute to critical and physical development. For more detailed information, you can visit the website directly here.
RESOURCES
African-American Student Success Network
DESCRIPTION
With the launch of CCEE’s Research Practice Partnership (RPP) initiative, five of the original CAAASA Professional Learning Network (PLN) partners have rejoined the network to continue their work to support Black student achievement through their LEA-specific problem of practice, focusing on progress monitoring activities to support the measurement of student outcomes in the coming year.
Resources
RESOURCE TYPE
Reports & Publications
TYPE OF AUDIENCE
Board, Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Systems Leadership
TOPIC AREA
Systems Leadership
Community Engagement Initiative
DESCRIPTION
The Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) is a five-year effort intended to strengthen the System of Support by building the capacity of school districts to authentically engage one another.
This includes identifying effective models of community engagement, developing metrics to evaluate those models, having difficult conversations, building trusting relationships and participating in the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) development process.
In the 2022-23 school year the CEI represents 44 Local Education Agencies (schools, school districts, and county offices of education) from as far north as Shasta County to as far south as Imperial County.
As part of the 2022 Budget Act, the Legislature and the Governor appropriated $100 million to expand Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) that will now continue through the 2026-2027 school year.
Resource
RESOURCE TYPE
Professional Learning
TYPE OF AUDIENCE
Board, Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Systems Leadership
TOPIC AREA
Community Engagement
Community Engagement Initiative: Lessons Learned So Far
DESCRIPTION
This session highlights the high impact school governance has on culturally responsive efforts of districts that are participating in the Community Engagement Initiative, and how their participation has led to them building trusting relationships, effective partnership structures that require district teams (comprised of various educational partners) to develop a sustainable community engagement system and in turn allowing them to have difficult conversations and more meaningful engagement in the LCAP process and in supporting the success of their students.
PRESENTERS
Steven Mitchell, Assistant Director, Community Engagement and System of Support, CCEE
Mars Serna, Family and Community Engagement Program Manager, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
Jan Gustafson-Corea, CEO, California Association of Bilingual Educators
Dr. Karling Aguilera-Fort, Superintendent, Oxnard School District
Tamara Otero, School Board Member, Cajon Valley Union School District
SLIDES
RESOURCE TYPE
Media, Professional Learning
TYPE OF AUDIENCE
Board, Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Systems Leadership, Teacher
TOPIC AREA
Community Engagement
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