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May 6, 2024

Action Plan B Workshop:�Building a Local Implementation Team

Dr. Shari Dickstein-Staub

CAL-MSCS Multidisciplinary Coordinator

San Joaquin COE

CAL-MSCS

Hosts & Panelists

Hosts &

Panelists

Dr. Rebecca Perry

Senior Program Associate

WestEd

Heidi Espindola

STEM Coordinator

Placer COE

Zachary Pettitt

STEM Coordinator

Orange COE

Holly Steele

STEM Administrator

Orange COE

Session Goals

COEs

• Learn about the CAL-MSCS project expectation to build a local implementation team (LIT)
• Discuss strategies for developing a LIT
• Hear examples of how some COE teams are strategizing about their LIT
• Build relationships between members of COEs

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Facilitation Team

• Learn about what additional support COEs and teams need

Participation Guidance

• Center inquiry and curiosity
• What are some approaches and structures for building a local implementation team (LIT)?
• How can an LIT strengthen our capacity to provide responsive support to the educators, students, and families in our community?
• How can we learn from and build relationships with colleagues from other COEs to amplify our efforts?
• Actively engage with others during the session
• Share the air
• Take care of your needs by asking questions, standing, stretching, etc.
• Use chat for clarification questions

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Participation Guidance

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Session Agenda

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Welcome, Introductions, Session Objectives

Quick chat with COE colleagues

Proposed local implementation team structure

Panel Discussion

Q&A, Closing

CAL-MSCS

Reminders

Why

How

What

CAL-MSCS Goals

• Expand existing infrastructure and capacity to provide professional learning and coaching in MSCS
• Generate and disseminate professional learning opportunities to strengthen implementation of the MSCS standards
• Support efforts to improve family and community engagement in MSCS standards implementation & learning
• Coordinate among other mathematics, science, and computer science professional development initiatives

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CAL-MSCS: Statewide & Local Goals

CAL-MSCS Goals

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CAL-MSCS: Intentional Support System tr

Statewide Programming & COPs

Advisory Council

Steering Teams & Coalitions

Local Teams & Local PD

Action Plan Components

Who, and what processes will be important to continued asset-mapping?

Action Plan A

Step III. Actions and Activities to Assess Progress Toward Goals

1. Leveraging your assets, what is the specific programming or set of activities you will put in place to reach each of your goals? How will you schedule those activities across the year? Who are the members of your local implementation team and how will they support you to accomplish your plans? (The box below includes some programming examples, which do not yet specify a timeline of activities across the year.)

Action Plan B

Who, and what processes will be important to continued asset-mapping?

Small group discussion

How are you thinking about your local implementation team?

Breakouts

Very quick introductions

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Two discussion questions:

1. How are you conceptualizing the role/ purpose of your local implementation team?

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1. What types of members are you considering? Why? What are your objectives?

Names: Nate Fairchild (Shasta, Director Sci), Marie Rohl (Siskiyou COE, Instructional Coach), Kim Ferguson (Lake COE, Learning Support Specialist mostly math, lead coordinator rural math), Lisa Salas Brown (Ventura COE)

Notes: Lisa Le Fevre

�Ideas: Q1:

Nate - Wanted diversity and content representation wanting to roll out for all three areas. There’s strong math because of framework/roll-out. There’s also community connection (STEM/Family important). Wanted a tight-knit team so have kept team in-house because of how they felt capacity is there. Ex: They knew they had capacity in science and math - so they pulled in someone from CS world after thinking about interest, capacity to meet and found someone with interest to expand/grow.

Kim - They have two people in house (math/science), they do a lot of other things (all the hats). If trying to expand they take the work through rural math collaboration and improvement cycle work. There’s noone support CS but when offered through EWIG they don’t have teachers taking the opportunity. So this point it’s about building awareness (partnered with a ContextEd as a company to help with asset mapping and tapping into family/community voice). They’ll look for patterns to leverage then design around.

Lisa B. - Locally they are looking at finding through-lines with people and work and partnering with Kern, math council partners, former colleagues, and EdTech - using and leveraging all the partners/people.

Marie - Partners are within COE, they are also part of the rural math collaborative, and other COEs in the vicinity.

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Zachary Pettitt, Cecilio Dimas, Jared Amalong, Vicki Vierra

�Ideas:

How are you conceptualizing the role/ purpose of your local implementation team?

Needs assessment, empathy interview (What do they think they need)

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What types of members are you considering? Why? What are your objectives?

Subject matter experts, and partners from non-profit organizations

Members from all local school districts (ideally 1 per site)

Industry partners, community partners, etc

Disciplinary specific council groups

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Shannon Gordon, Tracy McManus, Vanessa Lujan, Rudy Escobar

�Ideas:

• Reaching out to members from Action Plan A and deciding on scope (small vs. wide) each member will be able to support
• Back and forth - math framework is a big deal for math dept, and pushing for integration across STEM; how are we going to work on this?
• Goal 1: CoP blending science and compsci with math (connect frameworks) → moving toward integration
• Goal 2: Survey community members & families, about need of workforce and evaluate gaps between what districts/we think we need and what we hear from the field
• Request to Elaborate: Math has a cohort of sessions with all districts focused on the math framework; STEM/CS is joining in on this work; paying for educators to attend through other funding sources (21CSLA)
• Desire is to figure out the puzzle pieces to put them together from different funding sources that have similar goals - b/c CAL-MSCS funding is not large. So, how might we think creatively about shared goals?

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

Names: Bella Githere, Carolyn Ferrero, Jessica Conkle, Kristy Warren

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Members: Subject matter projects who will deliver PD, County office staff, using RMC members to propel this team, stipends coaches

Implementation Team Actions: Helping each content understand the other contents. (math learning about science, etc.)

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Would like to hear about what folks have planned as actions.

Ex. TOT model, breaking up county into regions, having shared region but then some individual subject matter learning.

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Please add if there is something I missed or misrepresented

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Anthony, Christopher (LACOE), Amy (SCOE)

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• Members - Content subject projects
• Non-content projects (K-12 Alliance, IHE folks)
• Major project: Hub model - bring parts together; breakouts led by content subject. 3 hub convenings (all contents). During breakouts, content specialist could facilitate in not their content (to think more creatively outside own area of comfort)
• Separate advisory for each content area. (LEA folks part of )
• Don’t yet know how to involve LEA folks - want to unsilo ourselves first.

Questions?

• Who else should be involved?

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Sacramento -

3 from COE, looking to build in local folks - branch of CA Sci Proj as partner, teacher leader (wondering how to select and gather expertise)

Questions?

• Any guidance for team development?

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Deborah, LACOE ; Shari; Del, SCJOE; Joanne, Trinity

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Trinity - In the phase of creating the teams with stipends and such behind them to support -- UC Davis CSTEM program; leveraging school site relationships that Joanne already observes in to recruit teachers for CSTEM; want to put together a COP or workgroup for CS standards of teachers actually creating or sharing LPs for COE wide use; Implementing OpenSciEd w/MS teachers

SJCOE - have an initial COP focused on assessment; but in thinking about an LIT - we want to expand beyond districts we work with frequently to those we have less contact with; personnel on school sites to support us with real time pulse on education - having teachers as well as community partners will help us be better implementers

LACOE- S, CS, M all fall under STEM -- as a team via APA, we are building a regional network across five regions in LACOE - will select 50-60 regional MSCS leads and provide PD to those regions beginning in fall - CMP will deliver to three regions -- CSUDH; CAL Poly Pomona - working collaboratively to provide PD that is similar; teacher leadership in AM and full days of PD with breakouts in afternoon by content area - three events quarterly beginning in fall

• how are you envisioning the role of leads?
• Optimizing longstanding math community as advisory council on grant
• This is a way to bring MSCS together
• LITs are district partners - relying on them to recruit for regional leads and bring in new partners and districts to the LACOE ecosystem - in process of identifying them - and in process of identifying the process FOR the process of identifying them !

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Dana (Ventura), Kia (Tuolumne), Jennifer (Mendocino), Jonathan (Sacramento), Megan (San Joaquin)

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• Looking to make connections (especially rural)- connect with Lake
• Small districts only have one site- wearing many hats so thinking about how might we integrate the work together and braid together other initiatives
• Looking at district curriculum specialists, TOSAs, etc.
• Looking at supporting continuation schools as well
• Looking at some industry experts to support the teams as well (Naval experts)
• Looking at community college partnerships
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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Rick - Sonoma COE; Kyndall - CMP; Sherry - Shasta COE; Phoebe - Support for Districts Ventura COE

�Ideas:

• How are you conceptualizing the role/ purpose of this team?
• start small, targeted; engagement.
• What types of members are you considering? Why?
• Math coordinator; Science coordinator; computer science
• Sonoma: Reps from Sonoma State Computer Science Teacher prep program, County library rep; Boys and Girls Club rep; County Office of Ed school of education reps. parents (TBD).

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

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Names: Jamie Garner (Stanislaus), Malaysia (NCOE) , Jared (Calaveras)

• Calaveras:
• Steering committee that can identify needs and the logistics of providing the needed PD to teachers, administrators and community members involved in science and CS
• Training on new Math framework to smaller, remote county by bringing in expertise by partnering with a larger COE or outside expert for
• Stanislaus COE:
• CA Math Framework PLN opportunity to bring together a district “system” team of diverse roles to deepen their understanding of the framework and a really clear vision for implementation
• Working with English Learner Success Forum to think about supporting ELs and local SPED department to focus on how we’re serving these subgroups of students in the new Math framework

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• NCOE
• We are focusing on Lesson Study and using BTC as a lens (starting with secondary MS/HS and bringing teachers and instructional coaches)

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Local Implementation Ideas: Who? What?

Names: (Maria) Christen, Melanie, Priscilla, Eva, Bernadette, Rebecca

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• Different sets of groups for different goals. Look at CALMSCS as an opportunity to integrate and have groups connect with each other.
• Including ed teach (CS), family engagement, math, science,
• leveraging teachers in SB county to integrate M+S+CS (K-8 TOSA); Juanita will also collaborate
• CC - 3 colleagues taking multiple roles. What is the capacity with the available funding?
• Lack of coaches in school districts to leverage.
• New director coming on board who just started
• Mendo - achieve balance and alignment
• Challenge: limited time during the day
• SC - involving also coordinator for family engagement, and EL
• Still trying to find the how

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Local Teams

How to think about Local Implementation Teams:

COE Panel

Zachary Pettitt

STEM Coordinator

Orange COE

Holly Steele

STEM Administrator

Orange COE

Heidi Espindola

STEM Coordinator

Placer COE

Panel Discussion

• How are you conceptualizing the role/ purpose of this team? How do you envision the team supporting your Action Plan goals?
• What types of members are you considering? Why?
• How are you recruiting or inviting members to participate?
• What your expectations for their participation? (e.g., mindsets, time, term, # of meetings, support or incentives for time)
• What challenges are you anticipating with building the team and how are you trouble-shooting?

Please put any questions that arise for you in the chat; we’ll capture them and respond after the panelists share their thinking!

• Building relationships even with “competitors” to collaborate
• Building an ecosystem to collaborate (e.g., IHE partners don’t!)
• I appreciate the focus group discussions because while partners may be geographically located in the same region accounting for the diversity within that region is essential to ensure the professional learning meets the needs of all partners.
• I like how you are getting input from multiple areas, not just districts
• How are we making sure all three subjects have and get equitable access in this work?
• Do our panelists have a final tip for us as we move forward?

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Q&A From Chat for Post-Panel

1. How will this discussion inform your goals and ideas for your local team and Action Plan B overall?
2. What one thing will you now do that you didn’t think you could do to build your local implementation team?

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Reflection and Action

Individual/quiet reflection (1 min)

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Share if you feel inspired (2 min)

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Next Steps

Upcoming Action Plan B Workshops (12pm)

• May 16: Measuring Your Goals to improve MSCS Professional Learning Systems

Action Plan B goals and budgets due by June 30

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