GUIDING QUESTION How can leaders create welcoming, inclusive environments that foster family engagement focused on student success? LEARNING OUTCOME Leaders can identify the various considerations to ensure family engagement is culturally affirming, responsive and leads to partnerships focused on student success.

The RTI at Work associate will deliver these customized workshops with a focus on how to create and lead a tiered system of support by examining the four essential elements of a successful RTI at Work model: collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access. The content for the workshops will be geared to the specific needs and challenges of the audience as determined by the associate in collaboration with school and district leadership.

GUIDING QUESTION How does attending to social emotional development support school readiness and increased access to learning? LEARNING OUTCOME Leaders have a deepened understanding of the social emotional development competencies and how they relate to increased access to learning and decreased racialized, exclusionary discipline practices.

Join us for a transformative workshops and summer institute designed to equip educators with cutting-edge STEM skills, tools, and resources to inspire the next generation of innovators! Program requirements: A two-week Summer Institute, July 14-25, 2025 with an emphasis on completing a pre-selected project customized to the learning needs of your community Five half-day Community of Practice meetings over the course of the Fellowship An observation related to coaching colleagues on implementation of your Summer Institute project A commitment to fulfill around 20 hours of independent self-paced components of the Fellowship over a period of 12-16 months

GUIDING QUESTION: How can leaders create welcoming, inclusive environments that foster family engagement focused on student success? LEARNING OUTCOME: Leaders can identify the various considerations to ensure family engagement is culturally affirming, responsive and leads to partnerships focused on student success

GUIDING QUESTION What does purposeful, play-based, inquiry-driven instruction look like in a TK classroom? LEARNING OUTCOME: Leaders deepen their understanding of high-quality TK classrooms by observing and experiencing play-based and inquiry-oriented TK instruction.

GUIDING QUESTION: How does California’s UTK policy support principals and district leaders to expand TK and elevate classroom quality in order to reduce unfair disparities for children? LEARNING OUTCOME: District and school leaders know how California’s UTK initiative may narrow disparities in young children’s growth and development.