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California ENLACE Presentation Team

• Sara Lundquist, Ph.D.
  
• Vice President, Santa Ana College
• Joseph I. Castro, Ph.D.Executive Director of
  Academic Preparation and Equal OpportunitySanta
  Barbara
• Rosa Harrizon, Founding Leader, Padres Promotores
  
• Lilia Tanakeyowma
• Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the
  Office of School Community Partnerships
• Santa Ana College
• Co-anchored in Santa Ana Santa Barbara
• www.sac.edu/CaENLACE

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History of ENLACE in California

• Two of 13 partnerships nationwide funded by the
  W. K. Kellogg Foundation in 2000.

• Santa Ana Partnership

• ENLACE y Avance

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Vision for California ENLACE

• Build on the strength of documented best
  practices established in Latino serving
  partnerships (1999-2005).
• Seed the development and implementation of next
  level efforts to expand the Latino pipeline to
  higher education
• Advance a set of inter-regional efforts that
  support student-centered educational achievement
  work in emerging Latino communities
• Create demonstration models for the state in
  pre-college student academic development,
  admissions, college and university retention,
  education-centered community empowerment, and
  related research and policy.
• Impact students in measurable ways

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California ENLACE 2005-2008 Broad
Strategies/Scope of Work

• Over three years share existing ENLACE knowledge
  of best practices for improving educational
  outcomes for Latino students and seed related
  work statewide.
• Best practices that strengthen parental/community
  engagement (statewide) to support Latino student
  achievement in California public schools.
• Best practices that lead to improved academic
  achievement among Latino students
  (statewide/regional).
• Sustaining and advancing policies at the local,
  state, and national levels that will
  substantially improve Latino student educational
  achievement and attainment.
• Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Anchored in Santa Ana Santa Barbara

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ENLACE y Avance Santa Barbara

• Weaving Together a partnership of local
  colleges and universities, public schools,
  community organizations and families to serve the
  educational needs of low-income, Latino students
  and parents in Santa Barbara and Ventura
  Counties.

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Seamless P-20 Educational Pathways

• ENLACE coordinates a regional network of local
  schools, higher education institutions, and
  CBOs to develop effective outreach strategies
  for students and parents at transition points
  along the P-20 pathway.
• Key Features

• ENLACE Pathways School District Partnership
• Student Success Case Management
• Expansion of School Sites and Programs

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Parent Community Engagement

• Regional Statewide Goals
• Increase parents and community members
  involvement with schools and in school system
  leadership roles in a P-20 context
• Develop and contribute strategies for networking
  parent-community school engagement groups, and
  policy makers regionally and state-wide in a P-20
  context
• Develop and disseminate articles and policy
  briefs on best practices for parent-community
  school engagement initiatives in a P-20 context
  

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Parent Community Engagement

• Regional Work
• Padres Adelante
• Train-the-Trainers Workshop
• Regional Partners Isla Vista Elementary, César
  Chávez Charter School, SB School Districts,
  Goleta Union School District, MALDEF, FLA, PIQE
• Foundation support Santa Barbara Foundation,
  Wharton, Verizon, McCune, Santa Ynez Band of
  Chumash Indians
• As a result of the partner trainer of trainer
  initiatives, regional partners are expanding

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Parent Community Engagement

• Statewide Work
• CA ENLACE Family Community Networking Best
  Practices Workshop (March 2006)
• - Brought together CBOs, university faculty
  and staff, school district personnel to
  discuss collaborations and scale-up capacity to
  talk with policy makers
• In process of developing a report on proceedings
  for workshop
• Develop policy briefs on best practices for
  parent-community school engagement initiatives
• Ongoing discussions with assembly member Pedro
  Nava regarding sponsoring legislation that
  supports parent involvement

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Brief History of the Santa Ana Partnership

• 1983-2006

• K-16 Partnership centered on educational
  achievement, college access and completion
• Connects students, parents and community to
  education locally
• Works simultaneously at the program,
  school/college, and system levels to seed
  innovation and measure progress along the way

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The Santa Ana Partnership Key Principles

• In-kind leadership from all institutions and
  organizational partners
• No partner with a competitive peer-focus on
  institutional primacy
• Creates a vehicle for advancing work we are
  already committed to
• Student-achievement/action and results focused

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The City of Santa Ana

• Population 337,977
• 76.1 Hispanic
• 74 of the citys residents speak Spanish
• Median age of residents 26.5 years with 46
  under 19
• 60 of residents age 25 or older do not have a
  high school diploma
• At the time of Census 2000 Santa Ana was the most
  Latino city and the youngest city in the U.S.
  (with a population of 100,000 or more)

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Partnership Structure
Cabinet Administrators from SAC, SAUSD,
UCI MEETS TWICE A MONTH
Student Affiliates Students from SAC, CSUF
UCI MEETS MONTHLY AS NEEDED
Intersegmental Evaluation Team Evaluators -
SAC, SAUSD, UCI MEETS QUARTERLY AS NEEDED
Santa Ana ENLACE Partnership Business Partners,
California State University Fullerton (CSUF),
Non-Profit Organizations, Santa Ana College
(SAC), Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD),
and University of California at Irvine (UCI)
Padres Promotores Promotores GEAR UP
Staff MEETS MONTHLY AS NEEDED
Achieving College Partners, SAUSD, SAC, CSUF,
UCI MEETS MONTHLY AS NEEDED
School Site Meetings School Site Team
Staff MEETS QUARTERLY AS NEEDED
Higher Education Centers (HEC) HEC
Counselors MEETS MONTHLY AS NEEDED
Administrative Team Principals, AP, Partnership
Reps MEETS MONTHLY AS NEEDED
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Padres Promotores de la Educación

• Leadership cohort helps design and direct program
• 3000 home visits annually
• 500 parents participate in Community Foros
  annually that focus on critical college-going
  information items
• Complete Spanish language Training Curriculum
• 10,000 bilingual Getting Ready for College door
  hangers distributed before each academic year in
  Camino de Amistad

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The Santa Ana Partnership Results

• Policy
• The A-G College Prep Curriculum has been adopted
  for high school graduation in SAUSD including 2
  years of lab science and 3 years of math
• Educational Achievement in 2004-2005
• 90 of all 7th graders enroll in Pre-Algebra
• 70 of all 9th graders enroll in Algebra
• 29 of all 9th graders enroll in Geometry

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English and Math Placement at SAC From 1999 to
2005 academic placement rates have jumped
dramatically
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CA ENLACEParent Community Engagement

• BUILD A REGIONAL AND STATEWIDE NETWORK
• PEER TRAINING CENTERED ON BEST PRACTICES
• POLICY OPPORTUNITIES AND PRIORITIES

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CA ENLACEThe Academic Core ARCHES/ENLACE
Planning Grants

• Availability of Qualified Teachers and
  Professional Development
• Foothill DeAnza Community College District
• San Bernardino County Office of Education
• San Diego Regional Economic Development
  Corporation
• Greater Access to Quality Pre-School
• San Luis Obispo County Office of Education
• Increase in College-Going Rates
• Imperial Valley County Office of Education
• Los Rios Community College District
• Merced County Office of Education
• Sonoma County Office of Education
• Reduction in Secondary School Attrition
• California State University, Northridge
• Community College Transfer
• College of the Siskyious
• Tulare County Office of Education

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ARCHES/ENLACE
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CA ENLACE The Academic Core Expand
Implementation of Rigorous Pre-College Programs
of Study for Latino Students in California

• Rigorous Pre-College Tool Kit
• Policy sample
• Discipline-specific course sequence
• Course placement chart
• School site mapping
• Mastery teaching strategies-peer teams
• Statewide dissemination and training to
  partnerships, school districts, and educators
  through ARCHES/ENLACE

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Part I Pre-College ReadinessPolicy-Programs-Prac
tice Impact
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SAUSD Mastery Learning Math Sequence 8th Grade
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Santa Ana High School Pre-Algebra 2003-2004
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CA ENLACE The Academic Core The BA Beyond
Community College Research Institute

• Six Week Research Pilot in Summer 2006
• Six Visiting Scholars
• Three Research Themes
• Tools and Training
• University Research Visits
• Twenty-Five Student Scholars
• 1,250 stipend

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CA ENLACE Policy

• Locate all CA ENLACE work in the policy context
  of Californias Higher Education Master Plan.
• Seek policy opportunities through work with
• Local communities
• Statewide level, and nationally.
• Use research accumulated evidence to leverage
  change and catalyze action.

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California ENLACE Sample Policy Partners

• NALEO The National Association of Latino Elected
  Officials
• CLIC The Chicano-Latino Intersegmental
  Convocation
• HACU The Hispanic Association of Colleges and
  Universities
• NCSL The National Council of State Legislators
• Education Trust West
• The Orange County Dream Team and LULAC

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CA ENLACE Policy To increase the number of A-G
courses required for high school graduation (at
school sites, within districts, and statewide)

• Use statewide tool kit and partner with The
  Education Trust West, the Superintendents P-16
  Council and other liked-minded advocates.
• Provide support for policy-influencing model
  programs through ARCHES/ENLACE
• Support the Chicano-Latino Intersegmental
  Convocation October Policy Convening
• The Pipeline to the Professoriate
• Rigorous Pre-College Preparation
• Immigrant Students
• Access to Higher Education

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CA ENLACE Student Philanthropy

• ENLACE Endowment 150,000 and growing
• Hispanic Education Endowment Fund
• 2.13 million
• Santa Ana 2000 Futures Fund
• Employee payroll deductions
• Santa Ana College Foundation
• 500 awards annually
• Private donors/discretionary resources
• Saturday Academy of Math
• Pepsi/Coke, etc.
• James Jimenez Scholars Program 500,000
• Student scholarships academic preparation

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CA ENLACE - Closing Reflections

• What comments or questions do you have for any of
  the panelists?
• What related efforts have you been closely
  involved with that might inform this initiative
  and parallel efforts underway nationally?
• What critical issues or challenges were not
  addressed?
• Thank you for your participation and interest in
  this work in progress