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Data Literacy & Leadership Resource Hub

The Data Literacy & Leadership Resource Hub is designed to support educators, leaders, and LEAs with practical tools to strengthen their use of data. This hub curates a collection of visualization, analytical, communication, and storytelling resources that can help transform data into meaningful insights for decision-making and student success.

What You will Find in the Hub

The resources are organized into three categories

Data Visualizing Tools: Explore tools that make it easier to create clear and impactful data visualizations.
Analytical Tools: Access dashboards and other analytical resources that can inform and inspire your work.
Communications & Storytelling: Discover strategies and tools that help you share data insights effectively with your community.

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This hub is part of CCEE’s commitment to building data literacy and leadership capacity across California’s educational landscape.

California Attendance Guide: Taking a Comprehensive Approach to Attendance and Engagement in California

We are excited to share the California Attendance Guide: Taking a Comprehensive Approach to Attendance and Engagement in California, Developed in partnership with the California Department of Education (CDE) and Attendance Works. This guidance was highlighted during a press conference hosted by CDE at Williamson Elementary School in Folsom Cordova Unified.

The guide provides a comprehensive framework to help schools, districts, and county offices of education reduce chronic absenteeism, strengthen family engagement, and ensure students are connected to supportive learning environments. With chronic absence rates still well above pre-pandemic levels, this resource outlines California’s bold goal of reducing chronic absence to 12.5 percent by 2030.

By focusing on student health and safety, family partnerships, and student connectedness, the guidance supports local leaders in building sustainable, data-driven strategies to improve attendance and advance equitable outcomes.

Explore the Guidance

California Attendance Guide

Chronic Absenteeism Statewide Resources

Frontline Voices Blog

Event Highlight: California Attendance Guidance Press Conference

Frontline Voices

Frontline Voices is a CCEE blog series dedicated to sharing insights and innovations directly from the field. Each post spotlights emerging and promising practices, highlights CCEE staff presentations, and uplifts local stories that demonstrate real-time strategies in action.

As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, Frontline Voices serves as a hub for practical takeaways, curated resources, and examples of what’s working across California’s schools. Posts are designed to help local educational agencies (LEAs) connect new ideas to their own context, supporting progress toward LCAP goals while advancing equity, access, and excellence for all learners.

Whether you are an educator, administrator, or partner, Frontline Voices offers a window into the innovative work happening statewide and a resource to inform and inspire your own efforts.

Explore the latest Frontline Voices issues

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

Questions for Parents

San Diego County Office of Education Equity Blueprint for Action

San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) introduced the “Equity Blueprint for Action,” offering evolving, equity-centered tools to bolster educators and students.

The document aligns with the California LCFF priorities and School Dashboard, emphasizing a holistic approach to education beyond the basic mandates.

Input for the Equity Blueprint came from diverse community advisory groups, demonstrating SDCOE’s commitment to hearing and representing diverse voices in their mission.

Call to Action: Join our collective effort to reimagine schools; by integrating research-based best practices and community insights, we can forge a brighter, equitable future for all our students.

Launch Equity blueprint

Yolo County Office of Education PLN Highlights

DESCRIPTION

The Yolo County PLN focused on building collaborative processes and the capacity of three county offices of education LCAP review/support teams and the participating school district LCAP teams to close achievement gaps among student groups through continuous improvement.

PRESENTER

Yolo County Office of Education

Resource Type

Media, Reports & Publications

Type of Audience

Other, Systems Leadership

Topic Area

Continuous Improvement, LCAP

KEYWORDS

Professional Learning Network (PLN)

ARCHIVED VIDEO

IMPACT PLAN

LAUNCH IMPACT PLAN

INFOGRAPHIC

LAUNCH INFOGRAPHIC

Fresno County Office of Education PLN Highlights

DESCRIPTION

Network participants reviewed district and site-level data to identify strengths and gaps in the quality of assessments. This allowed participants to ensure existing assessments provide valid and reliable data needed to diagnose student needs and monitor progress. Districts will address data findings with action oriented steps to identify priorities or an identified problem of practice. With the rollout of the English Learner Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC) and English Learner Progress Indicator (ELPI), the PLN will also examined assessment practices and progress monitoring of EL students. Ultimately, the purpose of the PLN will be driven by the need to decrease the gap in student achievement through the expansion of formative and summative assessment data review practices, at the district, school and classroom levels.

PRESENTER

Fresno PLN

Resource Type

Media, Reports & Publications

Type of Audience

Site Administrator / Instructional Coach, Systems Leadership

Topic Area

Continuous Improvement, English Learners, LCAP

KEYWORDS

Formative and Summative Assessment, Professional Learning Network (PLN)

ARCHIVED VIDEO

IMPACT PLAN

LAUNCH IMPACT PLAN

INFOGRAPHIC

LAUNCH INFOGRAPHIC

Introduction to the TNTP Learning Acceleration Guide

DESCRIPTION

CCEE is partnering with TNTP to provide an eight-part learning series (each session 2.5 hours for instructional teams to design strong teaching and learning experiences in the coming year. Drawing on lessons from TNTP’s Learning Acceleration Guide and aligned to the requirements of the Learning Continuity and Attendance Plans, this learning series focuses on the critical pieces necessary for an accelerated learning approach.

For the LEAs that participated in the series, TNTP provided support to instructional leaders at every level of the system to develop the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to develop an accelerated learning approach, regardless of whether students are learning in the school building or in their living room.

At the end of this session, you will be able to:

Examine specific examples of instruction that accelerated learning by using just-in-time supports to ensure all students can engage with grade-level content.
Articulate the importance of aces, implementation and quality goals in accelerated learning work.
Explain how your system will create a plan to accelerate student learning over the next two years.

PRESENTER

Suzanne Marks, TNTP

Resource Type

Professional Learning

Type of Audience

Topic Area

Continuous Improvement, Equity, LCAP, Responsive Teaching & Learning

KEYWORDS

Learning Acceleration, TNTP

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