Resource Category: Community Member

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Data Toolkit

DESCRIPTION

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Data Toolkit is your essential resource for enhancing inclusive and effective educational practices. Developed collaboratively with educators and experts from across California, this toolkit empowers local education agencies (LEAs) to collect, analyze, and use data to monitor UDL implementation and its impact on students, educators, and systems.

Drawing from the recommendations in the UDL memo, the toolkit focuses on leveraging data at three levels—large, medium, and fine grain—and triangulating insights to provide a comprehensive view of UDL effectiveness. With guidance on data collection, tools for measuring progress, and strategies for driving continuous improvement, this toolkit supports a data-driven approach to creating equitable learning environments.

Explore the UDL Data Toolkit to access:

  • Practical tools like surveys, rubrics, and observation guides
  • Strategies for data analysis and visualization
  • Insights to align UDL implementation with broader goals such as equity and student success

Start your journey toward impactful UDL implementation today by using this robust resource, co-designed with our dedicated partners, including Riverside County Office of Education, Placer County SELPA, and WestEd.

Resources

LCAP Monitoring & Evaluation Tracking Tool

DESCRIPTION

We are excited to introduce our LCAP Monitoring & Evaluation Tracking Tool, a powerful resource designed in partnership with Riverside County Office of Education to help school and district leaders effectively track the implementation and impact of their Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) actions. This tool is crafted to support the continuous improvement efforts within educational organizations, ensuring that every action taken leads to meaningful and measurable outcomes.

Explore the full potential of the LCAP Monitoring & Evaluation Tracking Tool by accessing the resources below. Watch the comprehensive tutorial video to see the tool in action, download the tool to get started, and review an example to understand its practical application.

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Resources

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

CAAASA-CCEE RPP Handout

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

Community ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE Website

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

LAUNCH SLIDES 

RESOURCE TYPE

Media, Professional Learning

TYPE OF AUDIENCE

Board, Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Systems Leadership, Teacher

TOPIC AREA

Community Engagement

KEYWORDS

Developing Learning Continuity and Attendance Plans that Embrace our English Learners: A Focus on Community & Family Engagement

DESCRIPTION

By September 30, districts are responsible for gaining stakeholder input and developing a Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan (LCP) for the 2020-21 school year that addresses the needs of all pupils regarding the impacts of COVID-19, with specific attention to English Learners and increasing or improving EL services. What might a powerful LCP look like for English Learners, that heeds research and builds upon learning from experiences with distance learning last spring and creates deeper partnerships with families? What should educators and communities be thinking about and considering in planning to ensure English Learners are able to recoup learning loss and are not left further behind?

Californians Together staff will present the findings and recommendations from a review of COVID-19 Operations Written Reports. Dr. Laurie Olson will present and share a planning tool to align the LCP with the English Learner Roadmap, emphasizing the opportunities for parent engagement.

Learn about the Community Engagement Initiative and how to join Cohort II of our Peer Leading and Learning Networks. Attendees will also learn how to tap into resources and tools developed by Californians Together to support LEAs in developing more inclusive Learning Continuity and Attendance Plans.

Resource Type

Media

Type of Audience

Other, Parent, Systems Leadership

Topic Area

English Learners, Equity, Family and Community Engagement, LCAP

KEYWORDS

Community Engagement Initiative (CEI)

PRESENTERS

Xilonin Cruz-Gonzalez – Californians Together
Manuel Buenrostro – Californians Together
Laurie Olsen – EL RISE!

ARCHIVED VIDEO

SLIDES

LAUNCH SLIDES 

TOOLS

LAUNCH TOOL #1 – EL RISE! REFLECTION & PLANNING TOOL FOR ADMINISTRATORS 

LAUNCH TOOL #2 – EL RISE! LCP OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDRESSING ENGLISH LEARNER NEEDS 

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The LCAP Toolkit: Using Research-based Tools to Promote Equity for English Learners

DESCRIPTION

The Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Toolkit: Using research-based tools to promote equity for English Learners (LCAP Toolkit) is a resource for educators, families, and community members to ensure that the LCAP—the state’s public accountability mechanism— reflects how actions, services, programs, and resources are made visible to ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for English Learners. The LCAP Toolkit consists of four parts that can be used together or independently. Part I presents information pertaining to policy, background, and LCAP Toolkit development. Part II introduces the English Learner Research-Aligned LCAP Rubrics. Part III offers four additional resources and tools that support the applied use of the rubrics by engaging EL-focused networks in developing, analyzing, and refining LCAP plans. Part IV appendices include references and resources.

AUTHORS

Loyola Marymount University, Center for Equity for English Learners

Californians Together

TOOLKIT

Resource Type

Tools & Templates

Type of Audience

Board, Other, Parent, Systems Leadership, Teacher

Topic Area

Continuous Improvement, English Learners, Equity, LCAP

KEYWORDS

data, English Learner Roadmap, Multilingualism, Professional Learning

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CAAASA Field Guide 1: Transitioning Back to School with a Focus on Relationships

DESCRIPTION

CAAASA Field Guide 1: Transitioning Back to School with a Focus on Relationships examines the costs of distance learning, the lessons learned, and the opportunities for growth. Hear from authentic voices in the field, including administrators, teachers, parents, and students, and engage in targeted professional learning.

DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

California Association of African-American Superintendents & Administrators (CAAASA)

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