Resource Category: LEA Leadership and Staff

Lessons Learned: Resources for Championing Equity

DESCRIPTION

The California Association of African-American Superintendents & Administrators (CAAASA)’s statewide Professional Learning Network (PLN) began in the Fall of 2017, with the generous support of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE). The goal of the CAAASA PLN is to identify the inequities experienced by African American students in California K-12 schools and to address them through a systems-change approach. The CAAASA PLN has worked over the past five years to surface and share best evidence-based practices that improve the educational outcomes of African American students. It aims to uncover the policy, practice, and performance that most effectively address systemic problems and lead to improved student outcomes.

During the onset of the pandemic, CAAASA worked closely with CCEE to respond to the crisis conditions in the field of education with professional development resources and forums and venues for information sharing and support. PLN members, including the three county offices, were active in this response, co-developing resources with CAAASA. In late 2021, CAAASA had the opportunity to reconvene the original seven local educational agencies (LEAs), including their superintendent leadership, for an in-depth discussion of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our schools, our students, their families, and teaching staff and school site, district, and county leadership. Led by Dr. Alicia Montgomery, Executive Director of the Center for Powerful Public Schools, we continued these important discussions throughout the spring of 2022, recording conversations and interviews on video for CCEE highlight reels and future resource development. In this brief, each of the LEAs provides highlights of their individual trajectories, reflecting on the enormous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

LAUNCH BRIEF 

CAAASA PLN MEMBERS

  • Napa County Office of Education
  • Los Angeles County Office of Education
  • San Diego County Office of Education
  • Pittsburg Unified School District
  • Fresno Unified School District
  • Lynwood Unified School District
  • Compton Unified School District

RESOURCES

CAAASA’s Professional Learning Network Impact Report

RESOURCE TYPE

Reports & Publications

TYPE OF AUDIENCE

Governance (Research & Policy), LEA Leadership and Staff, Site Admin & Coach

TOPIC AREA

Equity

KEYWORDS

CAAASA

Activating Student Agency

DESCRIPTION

Dr. Ingrid Roberson presented at the 2022 California Assessment Conference this past week in Riverside, CA . Ingrid’s presentation, Activating Student Agency: Formative Self and Peer Assessment, highlights CCEE’s Formative Assessment Micro-Courses with a special emphasis on empowering student ownership of learning. Dr. Roberson will be leading a Data Research Learning Network for interested districts and counties focused on data use and systems, including formative assessment.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Ingrid Roberson, Assistant Director of Research & Learning, CCEE

SLIDES

LAUNCH SLIDES 

RESOURCES

Smarter Balanced – Smarter Annotated Response Tool (SmART)

Smarter Balanced – Tools for Teachers

California Department of Education with MetaMetrics (Lexile & Quantile Hub)

RESOURCE TYPE

Media, Professional Learning

TYPE OF AUDIENCE

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

TOPIC AREA

Formative Assessments

KEYWORDS

Learning Acceleration Webinar

DESCRIPTION

Dr. Michelle Magyar and Dr. Ingrid Roberson joined State Superintendent Tony Thurmond for his Learning Acceleration webinar as part of a panel of experts, including State Board President Linda Darling-Hammond. Michelle presented on CCEE’s Playbook for Accelerated Learning and the new Learning Acceleration grants. Ingrid focused on formative assessments and its role in data-driven instruction. A recording of the presentation with resources may be found at CDE’s Facebook page.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, California State Board President

Dr. Michelle Magyar, Executive Advisor, CCEE

Dr. Ingrid Roberson, Assistant Director of Research & Learning, CCEE

Cheryl Cotton, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction

Dr. Cathy Nichols-Washer, Superintendent, Lodi Unified School District

Enikia Ford Morthel, Superintendent, Berkeley Unified School District

VIDEO

SLIDES

LAUNCH SLIDES 

RESOURCES

CCEE Playbook for Accelerated Learning

CDE Learning Acceleration and Recovery Resources

RESOURCE TYPE

Media, Professional Learning

TYPE OF AUDIENCE

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

TOPIC AREA

Learning Acceleration

KEYWORDS

Implementing Evidence-Based Tutoring for High Impact

Description

This learning path includes seven modules, each with a video and supporting resources. Developed in partnership with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America, the modules provide information on the elements of highly impactful tutoring programs so district leaders can improve and reflect on the impact of their programs.

DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America

Launch

Successes and Challenges in Reducing Chronic Absenteeism

Chronic absenteeism has affected a significant percentage of California’s K-12 student population and is likely to continue to do so over the coming years due to the lasting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. School absences negatively affect academic and socioemotional outcomes for all students – especially youth of color and other vulnerable student groups – making improving attendance a top priority for school systems.

This attendance brief aims to better understand how the issue of chronic absenteeism has been addressed by districts and what improvements could yield better student outcomes. It highlights insights and best practices collected from districts that were able to decrease their chronic absenteeism rate in the past five years and offers recommendations on how local educational agencies (LEAs) could help increase student attendance.

Launch Brief
Launch Slides

Field Guide 9: Preparing African American (and Other Students of Color) for College

Description

In Field Guide #9: Preparing African American (and Other Students of Color) for College, we explore how educators and parents can help prepare African American students and students of color for success in college.

DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

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

Launch

CAAASA Field Guide 4: Planning Forward with Cultural Relevance in the Classroom

Description

In Field Guide #4 Planning Forward with Cultural Relevance in the Classroom, you will hear from education leaders, researchers, teachers, and families about the value of embracing the vibrant, diverse cultures of our communities in our classrooms.

DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

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

Launch

CAAASA Field Guide 8: Understanding the Most Critical Needs of Today’s African American Students.

Description

In Field Guide #8: Understanding the Most Critical Needs of Today’s African American Students (and Children from Other Communities of Color), you will hear from education leaders, researchers, teachers, and families about how educators can best meet the needs of African American students and other students of color given the historical and contemporary challenges they face.

DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

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

Launch

2021-22 Differentiated Assistance Guidance

DESCRIPTION

As a part of differentiated assistance, Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) eligible under sections 47607.3, 52071, and 52071.5 of the California Education Code (EC), are typically required to analyze Dashboard and local data. In the absence of Dashboard indicators for the 2021-2022 school year, Section 122 of Assembly Bill (AB) 130 outlines the data elements that are required to be analyzed for differentiated assistance in the 2021-2022 school year.

Developed in partnership with the California Department of Education, the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association’s Curriculum and Instruction Steering Committee, and various Lead Agencies from the Statewide System of Support.

RESOURCES

REVIEW GUIDANCE

LAUNCH POWER POINT PRESENTATION

RESOURCE TYPE

Resources, Tools & Templates

TYPE OF AUDIENCE

Systems Leadership, Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Other

TOPIC AREA

Continuous Improvement, Equity, Governance, LCAP

KEYWORDS

Differentiated Assistance Improvement Support