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California’s State Educator Workforce Collaborative brings together key staff from major state agencies and institutions implementing the state’s educator workforce initiatives, including the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, State Board of Education, Student Aid Commission, Department of Education, and state and private higher education institutions. With support from the EBC and other funders, the Collaborative is facilitated by WestEd.

The systems change work of the Collaborative is structured to facilitate dialogue across agencies to address critical challenges facing California’s educator workforce, improve implementation of one-time investments, and establish sustainable cross-agency collaboration and coordination mechanisms.

The first phase of the Collaborative’s work produced resources for prospective teachers and preparation program providers to improve access to and affordability of preparation pathways, with a focus on increasing the number of educators of color, educators of multilingual learners, and early childhood educators. WestEd also supported the Collaborative with disseminating these tools to educators-in-training and program leaders.

In the second phase of the work, the Collaborative is focused on establishing a long-term, sustainable infrastructure for statewide educator workforce planning, including developing recommendations for measurable statewide educator workforce goals and the state-level roles and systems to achieve the goals.