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:

• 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)