The Practice & Operations Advisory Group identified how the data system could address improvement efforts at the institutional and regional level, support a case management approach to service delivery, and create tools that would be useful to students, families, and teachers.
Bakersfield College: Craig Hayward
Craig Hayward, Ph.D., is the Dean of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness for Bakersfield College (BC). Located in Kern County at the southern end of California’s Central Valley, BC serves over 36,000 students annually and is a leader in the use of intersegmental data to improve student success, such as by using high school performance data to place students and by pioneering the Program Pathways Mapper (http://bit.ly/BC-PPM) to clarify pathways to certificate attainment, transfer, and degree completion for high school students and other community members.
Campaign for College Opportunity: Sara Arce
Sara Arce is the Vice President of Policy and Advocacy for the Campaign for College Opportunity (Campaign). The Campaign is a statewide policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring all Californians have an equal opportunity to attend and succeed in college in order to build a vibrant workforce, economy, and democracy.
Child Care Resource Center: Susan Savage
Susan Savage, Ph.D., is the Director of Research for the Child Care Resource Center (CCRC). Through their mission to cultivate child, family and community well-being, CCRC provides quality improvement, support, development, and education services to almost 50,000 children, families, and providers in their 22,500-square-mile service area.
CORE Districts: Rick Miller
Rick Miller is the Executive Director of the CORE Districts. Powered by data, innovation, research and continuous learning, the eight CORE districts are collaborating to solve inequities and ensure every student has what they need to thrive.
Foothill College: Laurie Scolari
Laurie Scolari, Ed.D., is the Associate Vice President of Student Services at Foothill College. Foothill College is one of the 115 community colleges in California. Foothill Colleges serves northern Santa Clara County, offering 166 degrees and certificates for its 15,000 students. Foothill prides itself on providing access to outstanding educational opportunities for all students through basic skills training, career preparation, lifelong learning or transfer.
Futuro Health: Anthony Dalton
Anthony Dalton is the Chief Data and Technology Officer for Futuro Health. Futuro Health seeks to graduate 10,000 new licensed and/or credentialed allied health workers by 2024 by using an education-to-work model that supports candidates through career exploration and coaching, education financing, and determining the best pathway toward credential or licensure attainment.
Lancaster Unified School District: Michele Bowers
Michele Bowers, Ed.D., is the Superintendent of the Lancaster Unified School District (Lancaster USD). Lancaster USD provides high-quality education to its 15,000 preschools through eighth grade students.
Linked Learning Alliance: Roneeta Guha
Roneeta Guha is the Vice President for Strategy and Impact for the Linked Learning Alliance (LLA). The LLA is a statewide coalition of education, industry, and community organizations dedicated to improving high schools and preparing students for success in college, career, and life.
Poway Unified School District: Kathleen Porter
Kathleen Porter has been involved with adult education and workforce development in the San Diego area since 1987. Kathleen is currently the Executive Director of Career Technical, Adult, and Alternative Education in the Poway Unified School District. Kathleen serves in a variety of state and regional leadership roles; she is the State President for the California Council for Adult Education, a long-time member of CALPRO’s Professional Advisory Board, the K-12 chairperson to the Southern Border Region’s Strong Workforce Program workgroup, and a representative to the technical working group to the federal WIOA implementation study. A former teacher, resource teacher and career education specialist, Kathleen was formerly the manager of the East County Career Center, part of the San Diego Workforce Partnership’s One-Stop Career Center network (now known as the America’s Job Centers of California).
Riverside County Office of Education: Catalina Cifuentes
Catalina Cifuentes is the Executive Director of College and Career Readiness for the Riverside County Office of Education (Riverside COE). Riverside COE provides specific educational, financial, legislative, and leadership services to all K-12 school districts in Riverside County.
Santa Clara County Office of Education: Joell Hanson, Marcy Lauck, and Nabil Shahin
Joell Hanson is the Career Technical Education (CTE) Coordinator for the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). SCCOE CTE supports all 31 Santa Clara County school districts in building and sustaining high-quality, rigorous, and relevant college and career pathways and programs through partnerships with businesses, community colleges, and non-profit organizations. Our goal is to create equitable access to college and career futures for all students across Santa Clara County, ensuring a diverse, well developed, highly-skilled, future workforce.
Marcy Lauck retired as the Senior Advisor for Data Initiatives for the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). SCCOE is a regional service agency that provides instructional, business, and technology services to the 31 school districts of Santa Clara County. In addition, the SCCOE provides the DataZone data warehouse solution to 47 districts in 7 counties and is home to the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust, a tri-county data-sharing initiative among the Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz COEs, government agencies (Child Welfare, Probation and Behavioral Health) and the University of CA, Santa Cruz.
Nabil Shahin is the Director of K12 Data Governance for the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). SCCOE is a regional service agency that provides instructional, business, and technology services to the 31 school districts of Santa Clara County. In addition, the SCCOE provides the DataZone data warehouse solution to 47 districts in 7 counties and is home to the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust, a tri-county data-sharing initiative among the Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz COEs, government agencies (Child Welfare, Probation and Behavioral Health) and the University of CA, Santa Cruz.
Stockton Unified School District Board of Education: Lange Luntao
Lange Luntao is the Board President of Area 4 for the Stockton Unified School District Board of Education. The Board of Education governs the community’s public schools.Lange Luntao is the Executive Director of the Reinvent Stockton Foundation (RSF), a charitable organization that aims to invest in our city’s people by cultivating innovative community-responsive programs and policies that enhance educational, economic, and civic opportunities. RSF is the nonprofit home of Stockton Scholars, a privately funded college promise initiative, Stockton Service Corps, and SEED/Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. In addition, Lange served on the Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees from 2016-2020 and was President of the Board in 2019.
Thurgood Marshall Academic High School: Reynaldo Dulaney, Jr.
Reynaldo Dulaney, Jr. is a high school teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in the San Francisco Unified School District, where he teaches Ethnic Studies and AP United States History. He also serves as the Union Building Representative, for his local union (United Educators of San Francisco). Thurgood Marshall Academic High School is located in the southeastern part of San Francisco and offers a four-year college preparatory program to a diverse student body. The San Francisco Unified School District is the seventh-largest school district in the State, educating more than 57,000 students a year.
UNITE-LA: David Rattray
David Rattray is the President of UNITE-LA, a nonprofit organization that leads collaborative education reform efforts, promotes business-education partnerships, expand college access and provides workforce development opportunities for youth in the Los Angeles area to ensure underserved youth have the opportunity to participate in Los Angeles’ 21st century economy.
uAspire: Tyler Wu
Tyler is currently the California Policy Director for uAspire. uAspire is a nonprofit organization ensuring that all young people have the financial information and resources necessary to find an affordable path to and through college. In this role, he leads the strategy and execution of the organization’s California state-based policy agenda and systems change projects.
West Hills College Lemoore: Kristin Clark
Kristin Clark, Ph.D., is the President of West Hills College Lemoore (WHCL). WHCL serves a diverse community of students who seek an affordable, accessible, relevant, and rigorous education. The college community is dedicated to student learning and achievement by providing quality courses that lead to certificates, associate degrees, transfer, and career pathways.