California Collaborative for Educational Excellence

12/05/2025

Want to learn more about CCEE? Watch this video to learn why we were created and what we are doing to help California students and educators! Interested in learning more? Visit our site: https://ccee-ca.org/

13/03/2025

🚪 Open Door Webinar – Don’t Miss Out! 🚪

How can districts refine their assessment systems to ensure every test serves a purpose? 📝 Join us for a must-attend webinar featuring Bakersfield City School District, where they’ll share how they:

✅ Conducted an assessment inventory
✅ Eliminated redundant or unnecessary assessments
✅ Balanced instructionally useful assessments with meaningful data collection

Gain practical tools and strategies to optimize your own local assessment system!

📅 Wednesday, March 19
⏰ 3:00 to 4:00 PM
🔗 Register now: https://bit.ly/41GI3MX

Seats are filling up—secure yours today!

09/01/2024

🚀 Episode Two of "Rising From The Margins" showcases Highland Elementary's transformative journey under the Intensive Assistance Model. A true story of educational resilience and innovation! 📚✨
🎧 Tune in now: https://bit.ly/48bXNZo

18/02/2022

Are you interested in working in a collaborative team passionate about helping students and educators across California? Apply for our Administrative Assistant position here: https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1542490

21/07/2021

Learn how to rejuvenate your school culture in the upcoming school year with this self-paced professional learning opportunity, developed in partnership with Dr. Adam Drummond from International Center for Leadership in Education. This learning path, titled "Resilient, Adaptive, Hopeful Leaders Who Thrive," provides helpful strategies, tools, and videos to help educators thrive in a new world of teaching and learning. Get started here:

No one could have predicted that 2020 would have shaped up to be a year of uncertainty, hopelessness, and sadness. Yet, for many students, teachers, and leaders, dreams vanished, […]

25/06/2021

The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) is pleased to announce that the CCEE Governing Board has selected Matthew Navo to serve as the Executive Director of CCEE.

Navo will be transitioning into his new role with the support of current Executive Director Tom Armelino, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

Read the full press release here: bit.ly/35Rjcsg

24/05/2021

As students return to in-person learning this summer and next fall, the pressure to focus exclusively on academic instruction will be intense. At the same time, we know that students - and staff - have experienced unprecedented levels of disruption and stress that will impact their ability to focus on learning. Grounded in the science of learning and development, Whole Child Design offers solutions that calm students – and staff – and create positive conditions for
learning.

Offered through CCEE's initiative, Turnaround for Children is offering FREE two-session workshops (and two hours of free consulting support) designed to help districts understand the science of learning/development and learn how to apply strategies and tools to prepare for in-person engagement in the summer and/or fall.

Note: Please plan to participate in district teams of 3 to 10 people, including a combination of district and school staff, representing a mix of curriculum and instruction, student support services, expanded learning providers, school leadership and teaching roles.

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/wyBzpaSyXenL62DCA

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21/05/2021

"So a mind that creates integration within the body and in relationships with other people in the planet is a healthy mind and a mind that isn't optimizing differentiation and linkage is an unhealthy mind...And schools, for example, can work with this view of mental health and say, "How do we create an integrative pedagogy? How can we create an integrated curriculum?"

In week's episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, New York Times Bestselling Author, Neuropsychiatrist, and Interpersonal Neurobiologist shares seven components for healthy living, or what he calls the "healthy mind platter," to support student learning & mental well-being.

You can listen to the Leading Forward Podcast on all major podcast platforms, or directly online at anchor.fm/leadingforward

13/05/2021

In this week's episode of the podcast, Dr. Chris Hartley, Superintendent of Schools for the Humboldt County Office of Education, shares the benefits and challenges of leading in rural settings. Start your morning with this 22-min episode, as Dr. Hartley talks about the importance of project-based learning, technology, curriculum integration, collaboration, communication, and more.

You can listen on your favorite podcast platform or directly online at anchor.fm/leadingforward.

05/05/2021

SUMMER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE HUB LAUNCHES TODAY!

Summer 2021 offers an important opportunity to address the learning, social, and emotional recovery that so many California students need after a year of school closures and related challenges. In response to these challenges, CCEE is partnering with the Partnership for Children and Youth to offer technical assistance at no-cost to local educational agencies needing support with planning and implementation of Summer Learning Programs. Click here to explore the Summer Technical Assistance Hub: http://partnerforchildren.org/summer

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