Academic Decathlon
Student-Centered Teaching & Learning
GLAEF is focused on ensuring that all LA County Districts and schools have the resources and capacity to ensure that all students are able to thrive in college, career and life.
Regional Research
GLAEF works with community partners to conduct original research, invest in educators, and build deep partnerships with educational and community leaders throughout LA County. Over the past several years GLAEF and LACOE have successfully partnered on research papers that have reached thousands of regional educators and leaders, been promoted formally through LACOE, earned media coverage, and been featured in national conferences.
The most recent works have been centered on LA County’s Multilingual Learners, aiming to better understand and prioritize services of support within the broader policy context of California’s public schools.
English Learning Workforce Investment Network (EL-WIN)
The expansion of universal pre-kindergarten and transitional kindergarten offers a historic opportunity to strengthen California’s early educator workforce in ways that explicitly center the assets and needs of its youngest multilingual learners and their families. The English Learners Workforce Investment Initiative (EL-WIN) provides philanthropic resources to local education agencies, working to build pipelines of the best early education teachers. EL-WIN is funded by the six funders that make up the Emerging Bilingual Collaborative (EBC): California Community Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, James B. McClatchy Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Silver Giving Foundation, and Sobrato Philanthropies.
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In collaboration with LACOE’s Head Start division and Multilingual Academic Support unit, EL-WIN and GLAEF will build capacity within LACOE to support the hiring of thousands of educators across the mixed delivery system who are ready to serve multilingual learners.
EL-WIN will help LEA leaders center young multilingual learners in their UPK educator workforce efforts by building intentional partnerships with institutions of higher education. The pilot project will take place in 2024-2025 and include 2-4 regional partnerships between LEAs, 2- and 4-year IHEs, early education providers and other local stakeholders. Regional partnerships will focus on recruitment and preparation of early educators prepared to meet the needs of multilingual learners by assessing their needs, mapping their assets, and creating a collaborative agenda. Program structure includes:
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Building a consortia of partners across the mixed delivery system, including LEAs, IHEs, early education providers and other local stakeholders
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Hosting a Community of Practice
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Free grant writers to unlock state workforce competitive grants and other funding opportunities
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Data Technical Assistance to gather data and track progress
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Flexible funding for each regional partnership to support the work