FEBRUARY 2023
From the directors
Dear friends and colleagues,
The California Department of Education has just announced a second round of transformational funding to the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy State Center and our seven Regional Academies. This state investment will enable us to ensure that the seeds we’ve planted with thousands of school, site, and district leaders in our first three years will take root and blossom statewide — to make systemic, sustainable change for our most underrepresented students.
Dean Tina Christie, from the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, explained so well why we must invest in the leadership our schools need: “California’s public schools may be our most important institutions for furthering equity and opening the doors to opportunity and justice for all.”
Please spread the word about 21CSLA to your colleagues and communities so that we can leverage this investment to its fullest and strengthen our impact for students statewide.
Warmly,
Dr. Rebecca Cheung Director, 21CSLA State Center
Dr. Jabari Mahiri Chair, 21CSLA Leadership Board
Dr. Kim Wallace Associate Director, 21CSLA State Center
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California makes another historic investment in educational leaders and equity through 21CSLA
The California Department of Education is making another historic investment in its educational leaders by awarding up to $12 million to the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy (21CSLA) State Center for its second three-year cohort and re-funding all seven 21CSLA Regional Academies. "Research tells us that principals and district leaders have an enormous impact on improving schools for the most marginalized students," said Rebecca Cheung, director of the 21CSLA State Center. "California is again at the forefront of transformational change." Read the announcement.
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Envisioning and implementing equitable UTK in California
Join us for these upcoming 21CSLA UTK Leadership Initiative professional learning opportunities, with virtual and in-person options.
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21CSLA at the CISC Leadership Symposium
Pictured above: Aija Simmons, UTK Coordinator (top), Kim Wallace, 21CSLA Center Associate Director (bottom left), and Tawny Laskar, UTK Lead Trainer (bottom right) delivering presentations and networking at the CISC Leadership Symposium in Monterey on February 22, 2023.
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Watch our recent 21CSLA Research-Practice Webinar: Hate speech on social media—What can leaders do?
"Hate speech on social media—What can leaders do?" featured Dean Tina Christie and Dr. Arif Amlani from the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, in conversation with leaders from the field and facilitated by Professor Jabari Mahiri of the Berkeley School of Education on Wednesday, February 15. Watch the video, or visit our archive of past webinars.
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Regional Academy Spotlights
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21CSLA Regional Academy Spotlight: Shasta (NorCal) Regional Academy
NorCal Educational Leadership Consortium (NorCal ELC) held their third annual Winter Leadership Institute January 30–31, 2023, with nearly 300 educators across the 11-county Shasta Region connecting, learning, and improving together. Mike Kotar, Regional Director, welcomed attendees, noting that by the end of Year 3, NorCal ELC will have served approximately 10 percent of the roughly 5,000 educators in the Shasta Region.
As always, the NorCal ELC Essential Question formed the anchoring reflection: “How do we collectively transform education to improve access, opportunity, and inclusion, especially for students who are historically underserved/historically resilient, so that they can thrive?”
Sessions hosted by local experts included exploration of the California Dashboard, Leading Effective Teams, Universal Design for Learning, Adult SEL, Rethinking the English Learner Label, Leading While Female, and more. One presenter, Roman Stearns, shared this provocation: “As educators and society, we’ve become complicit, valuing what we measure, rather than measuring what we value.” Read the full spotlight.
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More on 21CSLA and leading for equity
The 21st Century California School Leadership Academy provides professional learning opportunities and support to help California’s educational leaders create equitable learning environments to improve instruction and achievement outcomes for underserved students. Headquartered at Berkeley School of Education, the 21CSLA State Center is led by Berkeley with UCLA Center X, and the California Subject Matter Project in collaboration with seven Regional Academies throughout the state.
Find our new website at 21cslacenter.berkeley.edu. Connect with us on Twitter @21CSLA, on Instagram @21CSLA, and on LinkedIn at 21st Century California School Leadership Academy. Not a subscriber to 21CSLA News? Join us.
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