During the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence’s June 6 board meeting, team members looked back at accomplishments from 2023–24 and forward to what the agency hopes to accomplish in 2024–25.
Projects staff undertook this year included working with the California Department of Education and Santa Clara County Office of Education to establish universal, targeted and intensive support for universal prekindergarten resources, services and training; facilitating African American Student Success Research-Practice Partnership meetings; providing direct technical assistance; launching a system of support directory; and offering online professional development opportunities via the Community Engagement Initiative.
According to a presentation by Executive Director Matt Navo, in the upcoming year, CCEE’s priority areas will be:
- Focus on data: Build impact with an internal and external system focus.
- Special education: Work to develop a model for targeted/intensive support for local educational agencies to address specific needs of students with disabilities.
- Math: Build coherence across state initiatives by working with state partners to provide universal resources coordination to support demands of the new math framework.
- Literacy: Work with state partners on coherence by developing coordination/alignment of literacy initiatives.
Learn more in CCEE’s 2023–24 annual report.
Also at the meeting:
- The board heard an update on 21CSLA offerings. 21CSLA Regional Academies provide high-quality, equity-centered professional learning opportunities and coaching for leaders of Title II LEAs at no cost.
- Commissioners selected their 2024–25 meeting dates. The board will convene on Aug. 22 and Dec. 12, 2024, and March 13 and June 12, 2025, in Sacramento.
- CCEE staff recognized governing board member Paul Gothold’s retirement. Gothold announced in October that he would be retiring as San Diego County’s superintendent of schools — a position he has held since 2017 — at the close of the academic year. Gothold was appointed to CCEE in January 2023.
