CEA's mission is to make it easier for Educators and Leaders to know more so that they can do more to move effective policies forward, to put better practices into action & to help ensure accountability for educating All Learners.
When we know more, we can do more.
Doing more looks like:
When we know more, we can do more.
Doing more looks like:
- Education for ALL Learners in CA
- Shared knowledge among leaders/admins/educators/ parents/kids regarding rights and responsibilities of all parties
- Collaborative, Student-Centered & Strengths-Based IEPs
- Focused guidance and well-supported resources through all transitions
- A culture of providing early supports, including Mental Health & Non-school resource guidance (ERMHS - Educationally Related Mental Health Services referral transparency)
- Best models for SELPA governance/key role
- Functioning CAC's Statewide for public accountability
- Partnerships with CSBA & CCBE to build knowledge base of Trustees & Superintendents
- Default Inclusive Classrooms & Practices
- Strengths-Based & Child-Centered Focus
- Streamlined SPED funding with increased visibility & control by LEAs
- Efficient collaboration among LEAs
- Transparent pathways to resources
- Anti-Ableist Policies & Practices
- Focus on Behavior as a Communication/ Output & finding the Root Causes/Needs, rather than provoking discipline, including suspension, expulsion, restraints & seclusion
- Broad-based Accommodations (i.e. Dyslexia strategies employed in all classrooms)
