Ed Partners Perspectives
A-G Graduates Step by Step
Modesto City Schools Superintendent Sara Noguchi says “To ask a group of teachers, principals, central office staff, to do something new, that was a hard sell, but I just said, trust me. Trust me in this. And, if it’s really too much and it’s not hitting the mark at the end of the year, then we can walk away. Now we’re opening up our third cohort. So they’ve seen the benefit. Teachers see the benefit, principals see the benefit, and central sees the benefit.”
Building Students’ Math Confidence
Morgan Hill Unified School District, located in southern Santa Clara County, is participating in the Ed Partners P3CC collaboration to strengthen alignment across grades in mathematics instruction. By implementing key strategies that elevate teaching and build student confidence, Morgan Hill is tackling the widespread belief among students that they are “not good at math.” The […]
Stanford Awards Ed Partners’ RPP
Stanford University awarded California Education Partners Stanford-Sequoia Research Practice Partnership (RPP) with a Community Partnerships Award on March 18, 2025. The annual award goes to partnerships between the University and groups near Stanford that work to advance the public good.
Reaping the Benefits of TK
Starting with the 2025-2026 school year any California public school district operating a kindergarten must also provide a transitional kindergarten (TK) program for all children who turn four years old by September 1. Transitional kindergarten has the potential to close enormous equity gaps in third grade proficiency, benefiting all students and the entire K-12 school system.
Shared Strategies for Quality Instruction
Oxnard School District is making significant strides in enhancing math instruction through its participation in On Track. As part of this initiative, educators recently took part in a Math Lesson Lab focused on the use of high-quality math tasks and the analysis of student work. This professional learning experience provided teachers with an opportunity to […]
Meet Program Manager Luis Argueta
Q: What is something you do a lot in your job? Most of my time is spent supporting district leaders –– Assistant Superintendents, Directors, and/or Principals –– in organizing themselves to create efficient and effective team meetings. I provide a sounding board for them on how they envision the work. We craft team meetings based on […]
System Shifts to Scale Effective Math Teaching Practices
During their final year of the P3CC Collaboration, Central Unified School District is focused on developing shifts within their district system to successfully scale and sustain effective math teaching practices. Central has identified specific focal practices from their PreK-3rd grade coherence efforts that they aim to spread and scale, which include facilitating math conversations, using […]
Ed Partners Perspectives
A letter from the Executive Director: As we look ahead to a new school year it is important to take a moment to look back and recognize the thousands of educators across this state who worked so tirelessly over the last two plus years. At California Education Partners, we sincerely appreciate your commitment to students when […]
Ed Partners Perspectives
2022 Spring Convening Recap Between April 26th and May 12th, the Ed Partners team was thrilled to welcome back district teams from all five of our collaborations to in person convenings for the first time since January 2020. It was fantastic to reconnect with our 8th Grade and College On Track teams and to bring […]
Ed Partners Perspectives
In partnership with San Francisco Unified School District Leaders, Stanford University researchers work found ethnic studies courses increase longer-run academic engagement and attainment Anti-racist curricula and teaching methods are a potentially potent way for schools to better promote a just society and improve educational outcomes for low-income students, students of color, and all students. Ethnic […]