SF Bay Teacher Preparation

https://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/Grants/Apprenticeship-Innovation-Funding.html

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Regional and Statewide UPDATES

CAI Grant Awards Announced:

Congratulations to colleagues who were awarded grants for their Teacher Preparation Programs under the California Apprenticeship Initiative New and Innovative Grant Program (CAI Program) funding by the Office Workforce and Economic Development Division, CCCCO. This sector and the region in general were WELL represented! Link to the WEDD Memo with all CAI awardees.

Of the 108 total applications statewide, 20 ECE/EDU program proposals were funded, which means that almost 20% of the funded categories statewide were in the ECE/EDU sector. 34 applications in total were from the SF Bay region. Please also note that a number of COE and high school programs were also included in the state. Local awardees:

Pre-Apprentice Implementation:

Oakland Unified for Childcare Worker

Apprenticeship Implementation:

Berkeley City College for Teacher Assistant

Contra Costa Co. Office of Education for Teacher Assistant, Preschool

De Anza College for Teacher Assistant

Merritt College for Teacher Assistant

San Jose City College for Teacher (includes Cabrillo and Hartnell)

Planning:

Salinas Union High for Early Childhood Education Assistant

Santa Clara Co. Office of Education for Childcare Worker

Santa Clara Co. Office of Education for Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School

For further information contact: Apprenticeship Program Specialist, Workforce and Economic Development, Sean McCobb, 916.322.9048; smccobb@cccco.edu

For information contact: Apprenticeship Program Specialist, Workforce and Economic Development, Sean McCobb, 916.322.9048; smccobb@cccco.edu

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Upcoming CAI Grants

The next round of CAI grants will be released in September. In excess of 30 million $$ is still available and apprenticeship funding for the upcoming year was approved in the CA budget. Priority details and requirements are similar to the last round with extra consideration given to those linked to community college credit and dual-enrollment. For further information contact: Apprenticeship Program Specialist, Workforce and Economic Development, Sean McCobb, 916.322.9048; smccobb@cccco.edu

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Promote Solutions to the Teacher Shortage in your Sub-region

The K-16 Educational Collaboratives Planning Grant includes Education as one of 4 priority sectors. Key sub-regions include the South Bay, the East Bay and the SF/SM Peninsula. Planning will be done sub-regionally and the CSU Deans of Education at SFSU, CSEUB and SJSU are the area leads. The planning grant has been awarded and the full grant application will be due in early fall of 2023. Contact trowland@clpccd.org, or leah_cadena-igdalsky@spra.com or kris_palmer@spra.com for additional information and to learn about opportunities to participate.

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Save the Date - Teach for the Bay is BACK!

Teach for the Bay 2023 is scheduled for October 26-28th, 2023! This free, virtual conference is student focused and designed to encourage and support careers in teaching at all levels!

Plan on presenting a virtual workshop and encouraging your ECE/EDU students to attend! If you are a teacher and are writing your course outlines for Fall 2023 or are working with your college and high school groups to create teacher pathways, include student incentives to attend Teach for the Bay 2023. Offer extra credit, or include the conference as a class assignment, or view the virtual conference together or offer a presentation with your college, high school or support agency. Stay tuned and let's Teach for the Bay! Visit www.teachforthebay.com for new updates as available.

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Celebrate Apprenticeship

National Apprenticeship Week is Nov. 13-19, 2023. The SF Bay Region will focus on specific sectors and industry groups throughout the week. The ECE/EDU sector will be featured, and John Dunn is working with the Northern California Apprenticeship Network to draft a list of activities in the Bay Region. Successful grantees, CAI recipients, employer partnerships and college and high school efforts can be featured. Stay tuned for opportunities to highlight your efforts and programs!

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Need Marketing Inspiration?

Watch the new CCSF Apprenticeship Recruitment Video developed by Tracy Burt. The ECE & Special Education Apprenticeship Video is an invitation for students to " Come join our dynamic team of educators. Our mission is to recruit, inspire, train and retain talented, diverse educators committed to creating a more just and equitable world, and serving *all* our students".

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AIF Funds in Review

Applications were due in May 2023 and are currently in review. The Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF) is a new funding source in the state of California as of 2022 for new and innovative apprenticeship programs, defined as apprenticeships associated with the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships (IACA). The AIF aims to support IACA apprenticeship program sponsors to sustain and scale their programs and train apprentices. The State has allocated $175 million over three years to support ongoing costs of these programs and classroom trainings, with $55 million specifically allocated to FY 2022-2023. The intent of the funding is to support both new and existing IACA apprenticeship programs to grow and scale to meet the needs of more employers and create more earn and learn pathways for job seekers. To learn more about this funding opportunity, click the link here.

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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE DATA

The latest Teacher Occupations Full Report produced in August 2022, is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UrMSKH57EJudSjw2PgwWRBNSdGsU04dw/view

ECE/EDU Sector Data in the SF Bay Region by county, as well as a profile of the Out-of-School Time sub-sector is available.

The latest Teacher Occupations Brief produced in June 2022, is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xABLWsVZXevLC4faGJPvRxc4Ou0EhbHw/view

The new Teacher Occupations Dashboard developed by Chris Lee and John Carrese at the COE includes county by county data on the sector. It can be found at: Teacher Occupations Dashboard:

https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/e6faae36-a5ce-47a3-972e-5abbda52315d/page/hvlmC

Data for your grants, projects and sector use is available! Produced by the Centers of Excellence with assistance from, RJV Coordinator, Kathleen White

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ECEPTS UPDATE

Join the ECEPTS Institute which begins in September and includes a year-long intensive program of training and technical assistance. Collaborate to design and implement new ECE programs to launch in 2024. For information and to enroll, please contact Sandra Moore, ECEPTS at SMoore@ecepts.org

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NEW RESOURCES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Review the Federal Resources Playbook for Registered Apprenticeships at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19uRLc7oZU2q6YvSw1vaQgVCLXk0HpkFh/view?usp=sharing

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Interested in Youth Apprenticeship? Stay tuned for information on the California Youth Apprenticeship Grant which is a new funding source to develop and test innovative practices to increase the participation of opportunity youth in pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs, and to demonstrate the impact of apprenticeship on employment and earnings outcomes for opportunity youth. Over 20 million dollars will be available, and distribution will be made by the DAS.

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The Association for California Community College Teacher Education Programs (ACCCTEP) is the professional organization for community college-based teacher education programs in California. For membership information and updates on current projects visit ACCCTEP at https://accctep.org/

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Follow AB 938 by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) which would commit California to raise educator and school worker pay by at least 50% over the next 7 years. For information on status, contact Matthew Hardy, AFT at 510 703-5291.

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Stay up on California Apprenticeship NEWS! Subscribe to Grow Apprenticeship California at: https://growapprenticeshipca.org/apprenticeship-expansion-project/

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We Need Black Teachers has developed a Pipeline and Apprenticeship Focus for recruiting black teachers. Take a look at the statistics and the strategies for addressing this specific teacher shortage area!

Equity in teacher recruitment and preparation is critical. Additional resources will be featured regularly in this email, as will the link to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing Community of Practice recording of panelists at the July 17, 2023, CTC workshop on, "Recruiting Men in ECE" which contained strategies for recruiting and retaining men in teaching, (especially those of color).

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Please contact Kathleen White at kwhite@ccsf.edu and John Dunn at john@baccc.net to schedule sub-regional or local team meetings to discuss ECE/EDU pathways, pipelines, dual-enrollment, and apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship options.

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Grantees for the second round of the 2022 California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) grant were announced in June 2022. Congratulations to the following ECE/EDU Grantees: Mission College, Santa Rosa JC and Chabot College join Skyline College and Hartnell College as recent CAI grantees from the BACCC region. An additional college planning to create ECE/EDU Programs is De Anza CC. Operating programs include those at Berkeley City College, City College of San Francisco and Foothill CC. Congratulations!

>If you are interested in applying for an ECE/EDU Sector CAI grant, please complete this quick CAI apprenticeship grant survey: https://forms.gle/iL2LWbNN4NvoTuJQ9

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The Biden/Harris Administration announced plans to support teacher recruitment and fund programs to address staffing needs in the sector. Press announcement at: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USED/bulletins/32a64b5

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Growing ECE/EDU Workforce Pathways, Pipelines and Apprenticeships - #RJV7!

Thank you for supporting the ECE/EDU Sector Regional Joint Venture for 2022-2024. RJV7 titled, Expanding ECE/EDU Pathways, Pipelines and Apprenticeships, was approved for funding by our region! Proposed activities posted at: https://baccc.knack.com/swp-tracking#rjv-r7-vote/

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Download the newly released Five Point Action Plan from the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and view briefings on budget components related to workforce development and Apprenticeship Innovation Funding are posted on the LWDA Youtube site. Join Secretary Palugyai on an overview of opportunities and workforce projects at: LWDA Link

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Past Meetings

Thank you to the 32 participants that attended the DAS presentation with Kao Saetern and Doug Kawa from the Dept. of Industrial Relations, Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Thank you both for presenting at the May 24th RJV Meeting!

The presentation included updates from DAS as well as support functions available from DAS when considering launching an apprenticeship and a Q&A session. Info and recap below!

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Thank you to the 35 participants that attended the ECEPTS Conference workshop presented by, John Dunn and Kathleen White entitled, "How Apprenticeship can Solve the Teacher Shortage" at the 2nd Annual ECEPTS Conference on ECE Apprenticeships - MAY 1 - 4, 2023. Please review below!

https://ecepts.org/events/

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Thank you to the 23 participants that attended the technical assistance workshop on February 22, 2023 featuring Pam Knapp, San Joaquin County Office of Education. She provided an overview of how SJCCOE operates an apprenticeship program for teacher aides in the school district and includes 16-18 year olds as full apprentices.

Powerpoint - Announcements

Powerpoint - SJCCOE

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Thank you to the 26 participants that attended the technical assistance workshop held on October 12th, 2022 with Phuong Tran, Apprenticeship Director, Foothill College. She provided an overview of how Foothill schedules apprenticeship classes, creates cohort codes, registers apprentices and reports attendance for RSI and apportionment.

Supplemental Resource - Student Attendance and Accounting Manual

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Thank you to the 36 participants from the SF Bay Region who attended the technical assistance workshop held on September 14, 2022 at 3PM with Adele Burnes, Deputy Director, DAS and Douglas Kawa, DAS.

Adele covered funding in the 22-23 budget for apprenticeships, growth areas at DAS and introduced Douglas Kawa as an ECE/EDU area specialist. He can be reached at DAS at: dkawa@dir.ca.gov.

Introductory Powerpoint

DAS Powerpoint

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Teach for the Bay #3, hosted on September 29th and 30th, was attended by 1009 participants!

Workshop recordings are posted at: www.teachforthebay.com in an updated flip book.

Thank you SF Bay Region for offering workshops and a warm thank you to team Teach for the Bay which included, Conference Coordinator, Tracy Burt, CCSF and Jerica Coffey, CCSF Faculty lead, Lea Martinez, Rio Hondo, Andrea Medina, DVC, and Anne Chan, CCSF.

Keynotes, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Ph.D. and plenary presenter, Farima Pour-Khorshid shared riveting presentations attended by over 250 participants.

The purpose of Teach for the Bay is to encourage those in our region to consider careers in teaching (at all levels) and to promote our regional higher education partners!

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Our ECE/EDU Workforce Development Symposium was a success! Thank you to the 229 CA educators who registered for the symposium, held on Friday, May 13th, 2022, from 11AM -3PM! We had participants joining throughout the day including faculty, staff, and administrators from California Community Colleges from throughout the state, as well as our higher education transfer partners, K-12 school districts and employers.

Opening statements from Marty Alvarado, CCCCO Vice Chancellor, and Mary Sandy, Executive Director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing set the tone for the day,

A warm thank you to Steve Bautista, Santa Ana College and ACCCTEP President and Lea Martinez, Rio Hondo College and Renee Marshall, TPP and ED. Consultant and, Tracy Burt, CDEV CCSF, for the support and leadership during this event. A special thank you to Teach for LA. Teach for the Bay and the BACCC ECE/EDU Apprenticeship RJV for supporting this work!

Missed the symposium? Want to revisit the information?

PowerPoint - Recording - Jamboard Notes - Input from Participants

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Thank you to the 18 RJV participants that joined us at our two "Open Office Hours" for ECE/EDU California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) Grant Applicants on March 1 and 9th, 2022!

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Thank you to the 27 participants that joined us at the first ECE/EDU Apprenticeship RJV meeting on Feb. 1, 2022, featuring John Dunn, Director of Apprenticeship at BACCC to hear about his plans to support our sector work, including pre-apprenticeships, apprenticeships, grant opportunities and working with the CCCCO, CDE and workforce development boards.

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Thank you to the 26 participants that joined us at the, "Understanding Workforce Development Boards - 101" presentation on December 1, 2021 from 1:00 - 2:00PM, with Charles Henkels, LAUNCH Network, Riverside County;

Bob Lanter, CA Workforce Association; MaryAnn Pranke, Verdugo Workforce Development Board. The role of WDB's, funding available through WDB's, links to apprenticeship and challenges in building collaboration between ECE/EDU and Workforce Development Boards were covered.

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Randi Wolfe, ECEPTS; Tina Watts, Skyline; Tracy Burt, CCSF; Joya Chavarin, Berkeley CC shared apprenticeship launch, standards, CAI grants and management tips with 18 participants at an open "Coffee Chat" on Monday, November 1, 2021-2:00PM - 3:30PM.

Powerpoint - Recording

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Thank you to the 31 participants that attended the Regional Employer Panel - Hearing Employer Needs in ECE/EDU as a Basis for HRTP/Apprenticeship Formation with Kai Ming Headstart, Kidango, Bright Horizons, Mountain View Wiseman SD, Girls, Inc, YMCA East Bay - and High Road Alliance on October 13, 2021 from 2:00-3:30PM.

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Thank you to the 1187 students that attended a Teach for the Bay workshop at the second annual conference! Thank you also to all of our college and community partners for presenting over 30 workshops on October 6-8, 2021!

Workshop recordings are posted at www.teachforthebay.com

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Thank you to the 58 participants that attended the October 7, 2021 workshop on the YMCA East Bay Apprenticeship Program - a Grow your Own Model with Pamm Shaw, Director and Apprentices: Tayilar Henderson, Andrea Cruz, Erica Davis, Yvette Perez

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Thank you to the 53 participants that attended the October 6, 2021 workshop on Becoming an Apprentice in Early Childhood Education with Skyline College, City College of San Francisco and Berkeley Community College

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The Bay Area Youth Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship Community of Practice and the ECE/EDU RJV Community of Practice joined forces with our Dual-enrollment, K-14 Directors discussed Dual Enrollment in ECE/EDU Apprenticeship with 31 participants on Tuesday, September 28, from 2:00-3:00PM.

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An overview of, "What are High Road Training Partnerships and Why are they Important in Apprenticeship"? - with the High Road Alliance - Thank you to the 34 attendees on September 23, 2021 from 1:00 - 2:00PM

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Grant Writers Roundtable for the Bay Area College Apprenticeship Connection; September 8, 2021, from 10:00 -11:00AM to prepare for the CAI Grant; ECE/EDU co-sponsored.

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"Paving the Way- Developing Pathways for Expanded Learning Educators into Teaching"; Monday, August 23, 2021, from 10:00 - 12:30 PM. The SF BAY Region ECE/EDU Programs held a meeting with the California After-school Network (CAN) at 12:30-1:30PM to discuss developing pathways for extended learning and after-school educators into teaching.

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Virtual Practitioner FREE Statewide TPP Conference “ Bringing Systems Together” - August 18th and August 20th, 2021- For Faculty, Administrators, K-12 and Partners of California Community College TPP Programs. We hosted two workshops for the ECE/EDU Apprenticeship RJV:

Workshop #1 - Growing Apprenticeships in the San Francisco Bay Area - Wednesday, August 18, 2021- 12:30-2:00PM - Powerpoint - Recording

Workshop #2 - Accessing and Utilizing Data to Prioritize the ECE/EDU Sector with the Centers of Excellence - Wednesday, August 18, 2021-2:15-3:30 PM

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 2:30 - 4PM

New to Apprenticeship? Apprenticeship Overview - Summary and Nuts and Bolts, Adele Burnes, Regional Apprenticeship Director, BACCC; Community College, Employer and College Responsibilities, Monique Pascual, Apprenticeship and Instructional Services, CCSF; RJV News, Kathleen White

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - 2:30 -4PM