Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success ARCHES

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Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten
Educational Success (ARCHES)

• A Vision Whose Time Is Now.

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California Alliance of Pre K-18 Partnerships

• CAPP funded a two-year study of seven
  partnerships conducted through the College of
  Education at California State University, Long
  Beach, and the guidance of an Advisory Board
  composed of a statewide group of experts.

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This study concluded that partnerships

• Provide an effective strategy for enhancing
  student achievement and,
• Promote efficient and effective use of resources
  around shared institutional goals.
• Improve Alignment Across Educational Segments
• Increase Incentives and Resources for
  School-University Collaboration
• Encourage Cross-Institutional Exchange of
  Faculty, Staff, and Students
• Effectively Use Student Achievement Data
• Strengthen Accountability for Student Preparation
  for Higher Education

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Simply

• The bottom line for partnership efforts is the
  same as the bottom line for all of California
  education
• to prepare all students for success in college
  and careers, and
• to close the achievement gaps between racial and
  socioeconomic groups.
• The ICC began promoting regional partnerships in
  2000.
• The Alliance Project validates that partnerships
  are an effective strategy for attaining these
  goals.
• UCs strategic review panel report Forging
  Californias Future Through Educational
  Partnerships adds further weight to the growing
  consensus supporting partnerships.
• On December 22, 2004, Superintendent Jack
  OConnell announces his intention to establish a
  new statewide P-16 Council to better coordinate
  and integrate education in California -- from
  preschool through college.

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Superintendent Jack OConnells P-16 Council
Membership Ackerman, Arlene Richard
Alonzo Andreason, Dave Allen, Carrie Atkin,
Catherine Barbara, Manny Canter, Marlene Chu,
Dorothy Clifton-Bacon, Sandy Couch, John
D'Amico, Judy Davis, Shelley
Drummond, Mark Fischer, Herb Gordon, Jack Graf,
Jody Greenwood , M.R.C. Guardino, Carl Hart,
Gary Hasson, Dian Jackson, Bill Lansing,
Sherry Levine, Harold Loss, Jo
Marantal, Manny Martel, Patty Meno, Lionel
Murphy, Stanley Murray, Linda Nguyen-Lam, Kim
Núñez, Fabian Penry, Martha Perata, Don
Plotkin, Scott Rava-Treat, Carol Rios-Kravitz,
Rhonda
Rodriguez, Luis Seigel, Alan Siri, Diane
Stanton, Anne Stevens, Carroll Stewart, Jack
Tacheny, Suzanne Tomlinson-Keasey, Carol Thorp,
Peter Vaught, Kendall Ann Washington, Curtis
Whitebook, Marcy Wright, Joyce
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Superintendent Jack OConnells P-16 Council

• Goals
• Improve student achievement at all levels and
  eliminate the achievement gap
• Link all education levels -- from preschool,
  elementary, middle, high school, and through
  higher education -- to create a comprehensive
  seamless system of student learning
• Ensure all students have access to caring and
  qualified teachers
• Increase public awareness of the link between an
  educated citizenry and a healthy economy.
• Meeting Dates
• May 17th Sacramento
• July 20th Palo Alto
• September 20th Los Angeles

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ARCHESThe Assessment Phase

• In the summer and fall of 2004, approximately 70
  Californians who have been involved at either
  policy or programmatic levels in education were
  interviewed.

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The Assessment Phase

• The individuals interviewed included
• Leaders of all education segments
• Public Schools
• Community Colleges
• California State University
• University of California
• Independent Colleges and Universities
• Business executives
• Participants in existing educational partnerships
• Elected officials and policy leaders
• Community-based organization executives and
  advocacy organizations.

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The Assessment Phase

• These interviews yielded a wealth of information
  including
• Support for the recommendations of the California
  Alliance of Pre K-18 Partnerships report
• Support for a statewide network of partnerships
• Support for the inclusion of the business
  community, private sector, community alliances,
  and faith-based organizations
• Support for incentives -- rather than mandates
  as the mechanism for expanding existing
  partnerships and developing new ones

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The Assessment Phase

• Support for connecting measurable goals
  identified by partnerships including
• recruitment and retention of qualified teachers
  
• professional development
• preparation for college of all students
• improving student achievement and,
• high school reform.
• Having access to, and using, data to inform the
  direction and assess the effectiveness of
  partnerships was regarded as critical and,
• Opportunities for partnerships to share their
  best practices are needed.

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Alliance
Harnessing the knowledge, experience, and
strength that characterizes each partnership into
a statewide network offers the potential to
increase substantially the base of expertise and
to develop significant synergy in the state.
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Regional

• The prevailing wisdom is that the state is
  naturally divided into approximately 30-40
  regions that have their own unique set of
  educational issues that would benefit from a
  regional approach based upon
• unique student populations
• geographic characteristics
• cultural richness and,
• leadership relationships.

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Collaboration

• Involving all stakeholders and joining forces
  involves
• the commitment of human and fiscal resources
• the willingness to set aside institutional or
  organizational imperatives
• the patience to learn the culture, language, and
  idiosyncrasies reflected in all the
  collaborators and,
• the trust to be candid in sharing and using data
  to identify issues and assess effectiveness for
  the benefit of all students.

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Heighten Educational Success

• The effectiveness of each regional collaborative
  and ARCHES will be measured in terms of
• the extent to which student achievement is
  enhanced and,
• the opportunity and resources gaps that lead to
  persistent achievement differentials are closed.
• ARCHES will encourage regional collaboratives to
  disaggregate data in developing their action
  plans in order to focus on the unique needs of
  their different populations of students.

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ARCHES
ARCHES, then, is envisioned as a voluntary
confederation of collaboratives whose sole
purpose is to improve student success and close
the achievement gap among groups of students. To
be clear, the collaborative is a means to an end
the end, or goal, both individually and
collectively of ARCHES and its members, is
greater student academic achievement,
opportunity, and equity in California.
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ARCHES Regional CollaborationValue Added

Pre-K K-8 High School College/Training
measures
measures
measures
CAREER

• Shared Measures
• Shared Outcomes
• Continuous Improvement
• Student Results

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P-16 Partnerships Connect Measurable Goals Across
Programs from Childhood to College and Careers
College2,4-yr, grad Adult work and family roles
Preschool and Kindergarten
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Head Start First 5 California
Puente Center for Adaptive Optics
CSMP KATU Kids Around the University
GEAR UP COSMOS
DEEP ASSIST
EAOP MESA Upward Bound AVID CAL-SOAP
P16/ P-20 Regional Partnerships and Alliances
(Slide courtesy
of Catherine Cooper)
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Californias Regional Partnerships Work in State
and National Alliances

• Examples of Regional Partnerships in California
• North State College OPTIONS
• Central Valley Higher Education Consortium
• Monterey Bay Educational Consortium (MBEC)
• Santa Barbara and Santa Ana ENLACE
• San Diego-Imperial County College Going
  Initiative
• San Bernardino and Riverside K-16 Councils
• Long Beach Educational Council
• Examples of State and National Alliances
• ARCHES, Ed Trust K-16 Councils, ENLACE P-20
  Councils, GEAR UP, Pathways to College Network,
  CCSESA, BMWA
•  Superintendents key role we have a thirst
  for data

(Slide courtesy of Catherine Cooper)
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Californias P-16 Regional Partnerships are
Aligning Science, Policy, and Practice

(Draft of Collaborative Work in Progress
Slide courtesy of Catherine Cooper)
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Regional Partnerships Forge a Learning Community

• Bringing educators, researchers, and funders
  together
• Effective, efficient data management systems for
  state and local use
• Asking common questions about P-16 pathways with
  long-term data
• Engaging diverse families and communities as full
  partners
• Common tools help students, families, schools,
  and programs build pathways to careers and
  college

(Slide courtesy of Catherine Cooper)
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The proposed activities of ARCHES are to

• Develop a plan to provide each school with the
  opportunity to participate in a regional
  collaborative. To meet this objective, ARCHES
  must support the partnership strategies of
  existing educational organizations, support
  current regional partnerships, emerging
  collaboratives, and, when appropriate, the
  fostering of new arrangements
• Create a web-based clearinghouse to share best
  practices that includes a website, research
  library, materials and resources, and information
  on funding opportunities

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The proposed activities of ARCHES are to

• Convene statewide and regional conferences to
  facilitate the sharing of information, expertise,
  and best practices
• Assemble a group of facilitators who have the
  experience to assist entities to develop and
  sustain regional collaboratives
• Seek financial resources to develop and sustain
  regional collaboratives

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The proposed activities of ARCHES are to

• Connect prospective collaborators from various
  sectors of society and,
• Advocate for state and federal policies that
  promote regional collaboration.

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ARCHESThe Next Phase

• Between now and December, the following
  activities are planned
• ARCHES is launched at this conference.
• Convene Advisory Board.
• Seek relevant advice from constituencies,
  including members of the Round Table and
  participants at this conference.
• Garnering information from potential participants
  statewide.
• Solicit financial support from educational
  sectors, private foundations, and corporations.
  
• Develop a Request for Proposals to provide funds
  to approximately five new regional
  collaboratives.
• Support the goals and activities of
  Superintendent OConnells P-16 Council.
• Collaborate with California Teach initiative to
  improve math and science education by encouraging
  more college math and science majors to become
  teachers.

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We invite your ideas,celebrate your
participation, and encourage your accomplishments.
Dennis Galligani and Diane Siri Executive
Directors ARCHES A Joint Initiative of
the California Academic Partnership Program
(CAPP) and the California Education Round
Table Intersegmental Coordinating Committee (ICC)

• Dave Jolly
• Statewide CAPP Director
• Office of the Chancellor
• California State University
• 916-966-6533
• djolly_at_calstate.edu

Penny Edgert ICC Coordinator California Education
Round Table Intersegmental Coordinating
Committee 916-327-1821 pedgert_at_cde.ca.gov