21CSLA Fundamentals 2024–2026 by BSE Leadership Programs

21CSLA Fundamentals 2024–2026

Welcome to 21CSLA Fundamentals 2024–2026

21CSLA Fundamentals 2024–2026 provides essential resources to support your work, equity-centered leadership, and continuous improvement. It also includes background information on 21CSLA and core documents related to Cohort 2 of the grant (2023–26)

21CSLA Historical Timeline

1983

● The original California School Leadership Academy was established by SB 813 (Hart) in 1983 and administered by the CDE until 2003

2019

● Senate Bill 75 (Statutes of 2019) authorized the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy (21CSLA) under Education Code 44690

● 2019–20: California State Budget authorized $13 8 million in ongoing federal funds to support 21CSLA for an initial term of three years

2020

● May 2020: 21CSLA Center and Seven Regional Academies selected

● Fall 2020: 21CSLA Center and Regional Academies began service to state

● 2020-2021: Cohort 1, Year 1: Fully Virtual (Distance Learning)

2021

● 2021-2022: Cohort 1, Year 2: Hybrid Model

2022

● Spring 2022: Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) additionally funded 2022-2023: Cohort 1, Year 3

2023

● Winter 2023: Cohort 2 Grant Applications Approved with Expansion 2023-2024: Cohort 2, Year 1

2024

● 2024-2025: Cohort 2, Year 2

2025

● 2025-2026: Cohort 2, Year 3, funded through 2026

Introduction

Equity Statement

Leaders for equity transform education to improve access, opportunity, and inclusion for students and adults, especially those who are systemically marginalized and historically underserved, so that they can thrive

About

21CSLA (21st Century California School Leadership Academy) is dedicated to the professional learning and support of California’s educational leaders teacher, site, and district to create more equitable learning environments that ultimately improve success for underserved students

A key member of California’s Statewide System of Support (SOS), 21CSLA is headquartered at UC Berkeley School of Education and led in partnership with the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies, the California Subject Matter Project and seven Regional Academies throughout the state: Bay Area (Alameda); ValCo (Kern); Sacramento/ Placer; SoCal (San Diego/Riverside); NorCal ELC (Shasta); Sonoma (North Bay/North Coast); and Mid-State (Tulare).

The overarching goal of SOS is to help local educational agencies and their schools meet the needs of each student they serve, with a focus on building local capacity to sustain improvement and to eﬀectively address disparities in opportunities and outcomes.

Key Resources

Essentials

Calendar

21CSLA collectives, meetings, and events, located in the Hub

Guidance Document

An introduction to our collaborative work and shared purpose

Learning Hub

Resources for the implementation of eﬀective professional learning for leaders

Deliverables

Information on the program design, connections, and expected outcomes

Digitally Mediated Learning

Equity-centered professional learning in person, virtual, and hybrid formats

Data Reporting

21CSLA Data Collection and Reporting System

Communications

21CSLA News

Subscribe to the news and read past newsletters

Core Areas of Work

Subscribe, listen, and share

Research

Bridging research and practice with briefs, projects, and webinars

Communities of Practice and Localized Professional Learning

21CSLA collectives, meetings, and events, located in the Hub

Research-Practice Webinars

Timely conversations about education leadership, featuring practitioners, researchers, and other experts

Leadership Coaching

Job-embedded coaching built on relational trust, focused on equity and continuous improvement

Special Projects: UTK

Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK) Initiative: professional learning and leadership certiﬁcate program

ELN! Podcast

21CSLA Onboarding Checklist

News and Learning

Visit and bookmark the 21CSLA website.

Familiarize yourself with these acronyms, organizations, and their websites:

21CSLA (21st Century California School Leadership Academy)

CDE (California Department of Education)

SOS (State System of Support)

CCEE (California Collaborative for Educational Excellence)

Geo Region (State Geographic Lead Agencies)

UTK (Universal Transitional Kindergarten)

CSMP (California Subject Matter Project)

RAs (Regional Academies)

See the 21CSLA Overview slide deck

Learn more about the 21CSLA UTK Initiative.

Read the 21CSLA Guidance Document and Deliverables

Sign In

Update your information on the Directory and submit your info to the 21CSLA Contact Form.

Create an account on the 21CSLA Learning Hub and explore the resources.

Check the calendar on the Hub for collectives, retreats, meetings, and events

Tech Tips

When sharing a doc, sheet, deck, form, etc. in Google, be sure to adjust settings so anyone outside of your organization can view/edit The default setting is to restrict to your organization (e g UC Berkeley) and this must be edited

See Data Reporting.

Refer to Digitally Mediated Learning and DML Support.

Read Foundational Documents

Coaching Expansion Work Plan

21CSLA Logic Model

21CSLA Cohort 1 Final External Evaluation Report

21CSLA Year 1 & 2 Evaluation Report

21CSLA External Evaluation Report (September 2024)

Watch and Listen

Subscribe to the Equity Leadership Now! podcast and catch up on past episodes

Review past Research-Practice webinars.

Read 21CSLA research publications

Communications and Branding

Refer to the 21CSLA Communications Toolkit.

Submit requests to the Leadership Programs/21CSLA Communications Collaboration Form.

Consider changing your Zoom virtual background image to 21CSLA’s Zoom background

Join the 21CSLA Slack Channel.

Follow, repost, and post tagging @21CSLA #21CSLA #LeadingForEquity on social media:

Cohort 2 Years 2–3 Documents

Guidance Document Cohort 2 Years 2–3

The State Center, with input and ideas from partners and Regional Academies, created a Guidance Document for Areas 1-8. This document provides a theoretical framework that supports Regional Academies with designing eﬀective professional learning oﬀerings

Cohort 2 Areas of Work

Area 1: Collaborative Organizational Structures

Area 2: Educational Partner Engagement

Area 3: Digitally Mediated Learning and the Hub

Create ongoing meeting, work group, communication, and data structures that facilitate the collaborative and inclusive work of the project.

Connect, engage, and partner with TK–12 leaders, external organizations, and the State System of Support to support inclusive educational partner input and engagement.

Support the learning of 21CSLA leaders and professional learning participants through the 21CSLA Digital Learning Hub, with resources that beneﬁt the ﬁeld. Practice and develop digitally mediated professional learning with priority focus on leading for equity and continuous improvement.

Area 4: Statewide Special Projects

Area 5: Research and Evaluation

Area 6: Communities of Practice (CoP)

Area 7: Localized Professional Learning

Area 8: Leadership Coaching

Deepen system-wide capacity for TK–12 leaders through the 21CSLA approach for prioritized topics.

Collaborate with researchers and internal evaluators to continually improve 21CSLA practices and professional learning oﬀerings, and to build knowledge about equity leadership and continuous improvement for the broader education community.

Facilitate small, sustained, and role-alike professional learning cohorts grounded in leadership for equity, continuous improvement, and digitally mediated learning in addition to the state prioritized special topic activities.

Provide a variety of forms of professional learning informed by regional needs and local input in addition to the state prioritized special topic activities

Provide individualized coaching that is built on relational trust, aligned to the CPSEL, focused on equity-centered problems of practice using continuous improvement principles.

Deliverables Cohort 2 Years 2–3

The Deliverables document is intended to inform programmatic design, connections, and expected outcomes between the Center and Regional Academies (RA) across the 8 areas of work of 21CSLA in alignment with the Cohort 2 Guidance Document’s three underlying principles: equity leadership, continuous improvement, and professional learning. Cohort 2 Year 1 Deliverables were developed under the conditions of a double GAN year or “double-funded year”; therefore, Year 2–3 Deliverables will be combined as one set of deliverables (i.e., two single years, 2024–25 and 2025–26, equal approximately the same funding amount as 2023–24) RAs and the Center are expected to meet the cumulative two-year deliverables between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2026

The 21CSLA Center Way

We also refer to The 21CSLA Center Way: Design Principles for Leading, Learning, and Working:

Focus on equity

Prioritize the development of equity leadership through the design and implementation of all activities for the purposes of individual, group and system level change. Bring critical curiosity of underlying assumptions, frames, and processes to identify inequities and oppressive systems in order to realize equity

Sharpen our

individual

and collective critical lens

Encourage deep individual and collective reﬂection and meaning-making as key learning processes that inform the improvement of practice Through a critical lens, use evidence, inquiry, questions, and asset-based stances.

Cultivate inclusion and relationships

Increase understanding within and across diﬀerences (i.e. race, gender, professional experience) through deep listening, seeking diﬀerent viewpoints and perspectives from policy makers, regional academies, educational partners, and other practicing leaders. Create conditions for authentic collaboration and powerful network-based learning

Strive for transformation

Ideate, innovate, and activate transformative thinking and practices to model and facilitate deeper learning Practice adaptive and responsive leadership Identify unexamined routines and forge new ways of working rather than relying on replication and repetition.

21CSLA Regional Academies

About

The Regional Academies and State Center applied separately for their grants and each reports independently to the CDE Each Regional Academy is responsible for its own budget and staﬃng structures and is responsible for meeting all grant deliverables, assessing local needs, enrollment, and planning and delivering professional learning oﬀerings. The Center supports the RAs in executing their programming and provides strategies to help them meet their goals.

Regional Academy Geo Regions

21CSLA Regional Academies are located in seven designated California geographic regions: Alameda, Kern, Placer/Sacramento, Riverside/San Diego, Shasta, Sonoma, and Tulare.

Bay Area (Alameda)

COUNTIES SERVED Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano

HOUSED AT Leadership Programs, UC Berkeley School of Education

Mid-State (Tulare)

COUNTIES SERVED Inyo, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tulare

HOUSED AT Madera County Superintendent of Schools

NorCal ELC (Shasta)

COUNTIES SERVED Butte, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity

HOUSED AT Northern California Educational Leadership Consortium, California State University, Chico

North Bay/North Coast (Sonoma)

COUNTIES SERVED Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma

HOUSED AT Sonoma County Oﬃce of Education

Placer/Sacramento

COUNTIES SERVED Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sierra, Sutter, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba

HOUSED AT Sacramento County Oﬃce of Education

SoCal (Riverside/San Diego)

COUNTIES SERVED Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego

HOUSED AT Los Angeles Education Partnership

ValCo (Kern)

COUNTIES SERVED Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura

HOUSED AT Valley to Coast Collaborative, Los Angeles County Oﬃce of Education

More Information

Steve Winlock

Margaret Arthofer

Tierra Crothers

Don Vu

swinlock@scoe net marthofer@scoe net

marthofer@scoe net tcrothers@scoe.net dvu@scoe net

Lauren Hertelendy lhertelendy@scoe.net

Margaret Arthofer

Lauren Hertelendy

Don Vu marthofer@scoe.net lhertelendy@scoe net dvu@scoe.net

Margaret Arthofer marthofer@scoe net

Tierra Crothers tcrothers@scoe net

SoCal (Riverside/San Diego) Los Angeles Education Partnership

Principal Investigator

Regional Academy Director

Coaching Coordinator

Professional Learning Coordinator

UTK Coordinator

Research Coordinator

Dawn Kurtz dkurtz@laep.org

John Resendez jresendez@laep.org

John Resendez

Jose Luis Navarro jresendez@laep.org jnavarro@laep org

Carolene Cabrera King

John Resendez cking@laep.org jresendez@laep org

John Resendez jresendez@laep org

Rosa Valdes

Alejandra Portillo rvaldes@laep.org aportillo@laep org

Principal Investigator

Regional Academy Director

Coaching Coordinator

Professional Learning Coordinator

UTK Coordinator

Research Coordinator

Tina Macias

Stephanie Fortunato

Tina Macias

Jayne Nickles

Tina Macias

Jayne Nickles

Macias Tina@lacoe edu

Macias Tina@lacoe.edu

Macias Tina@lacoe.edu fortunato stephanie@lacoe edu

Macias Tina@lacoe.edu

Macias Tina@lacoe.edu nickles jayne@lacoe edu

Macias Tina@lacoe edu nickles jayne@lacoe edu

ValCo (Kern) Valley to Coast Collaborative, Los Angeles County Oﬃce of Education

21CSLA State Center Directory

Leadership Board

Name Aﬃliations

Jabari Mahiri

Claudia Martinez

Annamarie Francois

Daniel G Solórzano

Rucker Johnson

John Rogers

Chair of the Leadership Board for the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy, Professor in the Berkeley School of Education, William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Education, Faculty Director of Leadership Programs, Faculty Advisor for the Bay Area Writing Project, and a Board Member and Chair of the Governance Committee of the National Writing Project

Associate Vice Provost, Educator Programs, University of California, Oﬃce of the President

Associate Dean of Public Engagement and Faculty, UCLA Teacher Education Program, and Faculty, UCLA Transformative Coaching and Leadership Program

Director of UC All Campus Consortium On Research for Diversity (ACCORD), Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, and Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and in Women’s Studies

Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Professor at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies, Director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, and Faculty Director of Center X, which houses UCLA’s Teacher Education Program, Principal Leadership Program, and professional development initiatives

Advisory Council

External Partners

Daryl Camp

Ed Honowitz

Heather Mattson

Diann Kitamura

Tine Sloan

Macy Parker

Laura McGowan-Robinson

Anna Markowitz

LaWanda Wesley

Edgar Zazueta

Tal Slemrod

Gay Roby

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

California Labor Management Initiative (LMI)

WestEd (Region 15 Center)

California Association of Asian & Pasiﬁka Leaders in Education (CAAPLE)

California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network CTERIN (Ret )

Silver Giving Foundation

Diversity in Leadership Institute

UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

Black Californians United for Early Care and Education (ECE)

Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)

CSU Chico School of Education

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC)

Kimberly Villescaz Fresno Uniﬁed School District (FUSD)

Ken Magdaleno

Regional Academy Reps

Erin Schweng

Melissa Murray

Mike Kotar

Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR)

Bay Area (Alameda) Director

Mid-State (Tulare) Director

NorCal ELC (Shasta) Director

Meryl-Mae Blomseth North Bay/North Coast (Sonoma) Director

Margaret Arthofer Placer/Sacramento Director

John Resendez

SoCal (Riverside/San Diego) Director

Tina Macias ValCo (Kern) Director

21CSLA

Center Lead Team

Jabari Mahiri

Leadership Board Chair

Rebecca Cheung Director/Principal Investigator

Kim Wallace

Nancy Parachini

Associate Director

21CSLA State Center Team Contacts

Name Email Title/Role

Rebecca Cheung rcheung@berkeley edu

Jabari Mahiri jmahiri@berkeley edu

21CSLA State Center Director

21CSLA Chair of the Leadership Board

Kim Wallace kimwallace@berkeley edu 21CSLA State Center Associate Director

Nancy Parachini nparachi@ucla edu 21CSLA State Center Associate Director

Viet Nguyen vietnguyen@berkeley.edu 21CSLA State Center Assistant Director

Aija Simmons aija.simmons@berkeley.edu UTK Initiatives Director

Melissa Virrueta-Ayala mvirrueta@berkeley.edu Research Coordinator

Stefanie Baker baker s@berkeley edu Coaching Coordinator

Tawny Laskar tawnylaskar@g ucla edu UTK Trainer

Alison Munzer munzer@seis ucla edu Researcher

Amanda Steiman asteiman@g ucla edu UTK Trainer

Becca Minkoﬀ becca.minkoﬀ@berkeley.edu Communications Manager

Brianna Luna briannabrezeida@berkeley.edu Project Specialist

Carrie Usui Johnson usui@gseis.ucla.edu UTK Team

Chris Thomas cnthomas@berkeley.edu Coordinator, UTK Leadership Certiﬁcate

Christi Roscigno christi roscigno@berkeley edu Coaching Coordinator)

Christine Shen shen@gseis ucla edu UTK Team

Diana Garcia dianags@berkeley edu Communications Manager

Janine Marcoux janine marcoux@berkeley.edu UTK Trainer

Jennifer Elemen jelemen@berkeley.edu Digitally Mediated Learning Coordinator

Jo Ann Isken isken@gseis.ucla.edu UTK Trainer

JoJo Reyes jojoreyes@g.ucla.edu Database Reporting Coordinator

Kristen Rohanna krohanna@ucla edu Internal Evaluator

Mayra Reyes mreyes2024@berkeley edu Project Specialist

Nancy McTygue njmctygue@ucdavis edu CSMP Representative

Nikki Marucut nikmarucut@berkeley edu Project Specialist II

Ricardo Gonzalez ricardogonzalez@berkeley.edu Applications Programmer

Sarah Arnett sarnett@berkeley.edu Program Assistant

Vani Ari vani ari@berkeley.edu UTK Trainer