Education

Coherent P-12 Systems

• Build networks of exemplary California educators, organizations and systems that are designed for and demonstrate successful outcomes for multilingual learners.
• Help our partners build capacity for greater impact and continuous improvement, especially across organizational boundaries between PreK-3rd grade.

Educator Workforce

• Support the development of clinically-oriented educator preparation programs for P-12 educators that prepare new P-12 teachers to lead quality, standards-aligned, language-rich, developmentally appropriate and equitable instruction.
• Support technical assistance to teacher education programs to enhance clinically-oriented opportunities for candidates to prepare to effectively serve multilingual learners.

Enabling Conditions

• Raise expectations for what is possible in the education field.
• Partner with leaders at all levels to design and continuously improve an education system that treats multilingualism as an asset and that welcomes and supports students and their families.