The Collaborative CSO

02/21/2022

Preventing calculus from becoming a roadblock for students begins with rethinking traditional assumptions about the types of students who can succeed in STEM fields.

Calculus is expected to be hard; it should not be impossible. College math departments must acknowledge their responsibility to remove barriers that bar access to STEM for historically excluded groups.

02/14/2022

As educators navigate the impacts of the pandemic, solving persistent staffing challenges is key, but we cannot overlook the importance of providing opportunities for current educators to come together, share best practices gleaned over the past two years and create systems of mutual support — all essential to giving educators the skills and resources to better manage staffing shortages, curricular changes and more.

By partnering with external organizations to provide coaching and mentoring for their educators, schools can help teachers and principals more effectively address the needs of their students and communities.

02/14/2022

The pandemic has given us all a taste of forced isolation. We’ve seen how it can leave individuals feeling lonely, scared and depressed.

Imagine if that was your permanent experience.

California schools isolate disabled kids from others far too much even though studies show all kids benefit from being together. Let's stop doing that.

02/14/2022

Some changes in the independent study law may help districts, but a teacher shortage remains the biggest obstacle to providing instruction.

02/02/2022

Schools from transitional kindergarten to high school and community colleges would receive $102 billion plus $16 billion in a windfall surplus from this year. Within those big numbers are programs, priorities and new commitments that will be shaped by the public’s response and debated through June in the Legislature.

Leaders representing all segments of California's education system share their reactions to the governor’s proposed 2022-23 budget for the state's K-12 public schools.

02/02/2022

Students learning English as a second language need more bilingual teachers and bilingual education programs, more access to high-quality preschool and better tracking to understand how they do in school after they become fluent in English, according to a new report from The Century Foundation.

Report says Congress should triple federal funding for English learners and increase grants for bilingual teacher training and preschool.

01/21/2022

and students face many obstacles in school, but the lack of stability in their home life doesn’t mean they can’t succeed.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE) – Foster and homeless students face many obstacles in school, but the lack of stability in their home life doesn’t mean they can’t succeed. By exercising and play…

01/20/2022

California State University, Stanislaus, will begin the first two weeks of its spring semester remotely. Classes will be online until Feb. 14 because of a surge in Covid-19 cases on campus and in the region, according to an announcement on the school’s website last week. Indoor events through Feb. 14 will be postponed or moved outdoors. Local public health officials and the university’s COVID-19 response team recommended the move.

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Local public health officials and the university’s COVID-19 response team recommended the move.

01/20/2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed an executive order relaxing state regulations around the hiring of teachers as districts grapple with shortages exacerbated by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

01/20/2022

Proposed legislation could change the way schools receive state funding.

Senate Bill 830 would replace a daily attendance funding-based model with an enrollment-based model.

SB 830 would replace a daily attendance funding-based model

01/19/2022

Schools faced with the prospect of closing due to Covid-related staffing shortages and student outbreaks can shift students to temporary remote learning programs, the California Department of Education said Wednesday.

“It is within the law for them to switch to independent study,” Mary Nicely, chief deputy superintendent of public instruction, said in an interview.

01/19/2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced a new program that will help students at 45 colleges and in the state pay for their in exchange for performing hundreds of hours of work.

Gov. Gavin Newson on Tuesday announced a new program that will help students at 45 colleges and universities in the state pay for their education in exchange for performing hundreds of hours of vol…