January 22, 2018
CHARTERS
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Quality for all students
There are three avenues to successful
charter-authorizer experiences in ensuring
quality education. First, authorizers can
build their own capacity to support and
monitor. In California, 92 percent of the
authorizing agencies oversee six or fewer
charter schools, while 67 percent of autho-
rizers oversee just one or two schools.
Many times, the LACOE charter office
received phone calls from a panicked district
administrator wondering what the EdCode
and legal timelines were with her “other
duties as assigned” role as a charter school
authorizer.
By working together to share resources
and best practices, authorizers and char-
ter schools can better follow the law and
regulations, and equally important, provide
students a high-quality education their local
district school may not be offering.
Second, authorizers can work togeth-
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And, McDonald said, Burgess is not your
typical motivational speaker. “She touches
me most as a classified leader,” she said. “A
lot of us just immerse ourselves in work. …
(Burgess) talks about grabbing on to that
work and harnessing the passion.”
Burgess has served as an award-win-
ning teacher, principal, director of student
achievement, and assistant superintendent
of educational leadership. She now works
as a full-time partner with her husband in
Dave Burgess Consulting Inc. Her highly
respected work focuses on building a posi-
tive culture of change, leading to dramatic
improvements in teaching and learning.
McDonald and her CEL Institute plan-
ning committee have worked hard to make
sure this year’s institute provides a variety
of breakout session that will address current
topics and challenges faced by all classified
educational leaders.
Sessions focus on technology tools for
busy leaders; how to lead challenging peo-
ple; trust as a learnable skill; working with
millennials; exceptional customer service;
mindfulness and balance; learning from
business about productivity, creativity and
engagement; mindset and skills to build the
most collaborative teams; and how to live,
er with their schools to produce annual
school reports or other formative assess-
ments to monitor progress and identify
areas of improvement prior to the char-
ter school renewal period. Local districts,
county boards, and the SBE must renew
qualifying charter schools as written in state
law and regulations.
Both authorizers and charter schools
should know how students are performing
on local charter school internal benchmarks
as well as state assessments to qualify, and
successfully be renewed, well before their
five-year charter term is completed.
Finally, authorizers and charter school
leaders must work together to achieve qual-
ity schools for all. Our students are enrolled
in our charter schools, and authorizers,
by law, must support and monitor these
schools.
There are several examples of positive
charter-authorizer relationships that do
serve as a framework. Whether you are
a charter school leader or authorizer, I
encourage you to take personal responsi-
bility to form, or continue, this student- centered relationship with one another for
quality school experiences for our com-
munities.
Resources recommended by the author
include: California Charter Authorizing
Professionals’ California charter laws, www.
calauthorizers.org; California Department
of Education, Title 5, California code
of regulations, www.cde.ca.gov; Fiscal
Crisis and Management Assistance Team
(FCMAT). Extraordinary audits, http://
fcmat.org; National Association of Charter
love and lead.
Antonio Romayor Jr., chief technology
officer for El Centro USD has been on the
internet touting his session, titled Leaders
Lead Safely.
The session is billed as a lively discus-
sion about how to navigate digital safety
in a modern connected environment. Best
practices will be shared related to Microsoft
Office 365, Google G-Suite, encrypting
e-mail and cyber security. Information will
be applicable to beginner and intermediate administrators, Romayor said.
In addition, Jennifer Looney, former
ACSA president and Personnel Academy
coordinator, will be presenting a pared-
down version of her stand-alone profes-
sional development event, The Human
Resources Office: The First 90 Days and
Beyond. Participants new to HR or with
experience will benefit from this compre-
hensive overview of the myriad tasks and
responsibilities of the job.
The CEL Institute is open to all educa-
professional
development calendar
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New Superintendents Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monterey
New Superintendents Seminar Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monterey
Building a Successful Attendance Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Woodland
Superintendents Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monterey
A Day in the Life of a Co-Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Jose
The Skillful Certificated Leader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National City
Master Schedule Training. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Burlingame
How to Get Your Next Job in Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sacramento
A Day in the Life of a Co-Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanger
The Human Resources Office/First 90 Days. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Rafael
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Making Schools Better for LGBT Students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anaheim
Every Child Counts Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anaheim
The Human Resources Office/First 90 Days. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lemon Grove
Classified Educational Leaders Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Redondo Beach
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12-14 Lead 3.0 Symposium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Francisco
june
24-30 Principals’ Summer Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Los Angeles
25-29 New & Aspiring Principals’ Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Los Angeles
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School Authorizers “12 essential practices,”
www.qualitycharters.org; and the Center
for Research on Education Outcomes
(CREDO). “Charter school performance
in California 2014,” https://credo.stanford.
edu.
Brooke Soles teaches courses such as the
Role of Schooling in a Democratic Society.
She also teaches Education Law and Policy
with the Charter School Policy, Finance, and
Administration Program at UCLA.
CalPERS board elects first woman president
The CalPERS Board of Administration
elected Priya Mathur as board presi-
dent and Rob Feckner as vice president.
Mathur is the first female elected presi-
dent of the CalPERS board.
“It’s a great honor for me to serve as
president of the CalPERS board,” Mathur
said. “I’m proud of what we’ve accom-
plished over the 15 years I’ve been on the
board, but there is still so much to do. I
look forward to working with my fellow
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have sustainable pensions and access to
quality and affordable health care.”
Mathur is a principal financial analyst
for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District,
serves on the Principles for Responsible
Investment Board, and is a member of
the Investor Advisory Council for Astia,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to
the success of women-led, high-growth
ventures.
tors, is a great value, and an opportunity to
network with colleagues statewide. Join this
multifaceted and diverse group that works
so hard to support and serve students in the
California public school system.
Register today at www.acsa.org/celinsti-
tute.