California Administrator Resources

Aspiring and Current Administrators and Educators - Resources for Important issues in Education

Proverb: By doing it alone…you can do it fast To do it well…do it together

“All organizations (and systems) are designed, intentionally or unwittingly, to achieve precisely the results they get.”
-R. Spencer Darling

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~ David Brinkley

I'm preparing for the CPACE exam and tried to organize what I believe are important links for learning about issues facing schools, especially schools in California. I hope you find the following resources helpful:

National School Lunch Program (NSLP), Food and Nutrition Services (FNS), (USDA) provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or no-cost lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1946.

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, 2019


Difference Between Services and Support for Kids with Learning and Attention Issues


Opportunity Gap


IDEA

National Center for Education Statistics: Children and Youth with Disabilities

CDE - CA Curriculum and Instruction

California School Dashboard


EdWeek - Attributes of an Effective Teacher: Part 1 (click to continue onto part 2)

National Alliance of Specialized Instructional Support Personnel


Michael Fullan's - Phases of Change https://www.teachingandlearningnetwork.com/uploads/1/2/7/6/12764277/phases_of_change_fullan_unit_1_ho_3.1.pdf

Eight basic lessons of the new paradigm of change:
Lesson 1 You can't mandate what matters. (The more complex the change the less you can force it.)
Lesson 2 Change is a journey not a blueprint. (Change is non-linear, loaded with uncertainty and excitement and sometimes perverse.)
Lesson 3 Problems are our friends. (Problems are inevitable and you can't learn without them.)
Lesson 4 Vision and strategic planning come later. (Premature visions and planning blind.)
Lesson 5 Individualism and collectivism must have equal power. (There are no one-sided solutions to isolation and group-think)
Lesson 6 Neither centralisation nor decentralisation works. (Both top-down and bottom-up strategies are necessary.) Lesson 7 Connection with the wider environment is critical for success. (The best organisations learn externally as well as internally.)
Lesson 8 Every person is a change agent. (Change is too important to leave to the experts, personal mindset and mastery is the ultimate protection.)
Source: Fullan, 1993; 21-2


14th Amendment


Additional resources for improving teaching and learning for ALL students:

CDE - Quality Schooling Framework


Character Education Partnership


Wallace Foundation - Three Essentials for Improving Schools


Does Your LCAP Plan Deliver on Promised of Increased Results or Services for English Learners (includes rubrics)


Tools for Quality School Framework including videos


Learning Policy Institute - Teacher Turnover

Public Policy Institute of California - Financing California's Public Schools


Addressing Bias - Teaching Tolerance - Family and Community Engagement (explore do's and don't when planning instruction and communicating with families - please no more family-tree assignments! / use "Dear Family" instead of "Dear Parents")

The Lemon Test - violation of the First Amendment Lemon vs. Kurtzman

Education Technology Blueprint - CDE

Healthy schools initiatives - task force report from CDE