Starting in Fall 2017, the REL West California Rural Partnerships Alliance hosted a series of webinars focused on supporting rural cross-sector career pathways partnerships to improve their data-based decisionmaking.
Webinar 1: Cross-Sector Data Sharing in Rural Partnerships
September 20, 2017
The first webinar in this series highlighted the challenges that rural partnerships face and identified resources and tools to improve cross-sector data use, sharing, and capacity development.
Webinar 2: Putting Data Use Strategies into Practice
November 15, 2017
Webinar 2 examined the following question: how can data be used as a catalyst for regional conversations around high-demand and high-wage career pathways?
Webinar 3: Building Sustainable Cross-Sector Data Strategies to Support Career Pathways Regionally
April 30, 2018
The third webinar in this series shared strategies and resources for advancing and strengthening regional, cross-sector career pathways work in California.
Webinar 4: Capacity Building for Rural Data-Driven Education and Career Partnerships
June 5, 2019
This fourth webinar in the series shares practical knowledge for collecting, sharing, and using cross-sector data to inform actions in regional career pathways.
Webinar 5: Four Pillars for Sustaining Rural Cross-Sector Data-Driven Decisionmaking
May 14, 2020
The fifth webinar in this series provides an overview of a four-pillar framework to guide data-driven decisionmaking and featured a panel of speakers from rural and rural-serving consortia discussing how they collect, share, and use cross-sector data to sustain activities in their regional career pathways.
AUDIENCE
Members of the California Career Pathways Trust consortium: Career Pathways Trust Directors, LEA data analysts, and community college institutional research staff; anyone responsible for or directly using data to inform and improve regional career pathways work.
Speakers
Webinar 1:
- Valeria Lundy-Wagner, Jobs for the Future
- Nidhi Sen, Jobs for the Future
- Joel Vergas, Jobs for the Future
Webinar 2:
- Kathy Booth, WestEd
- Laura Coleman, Centers of Excellence for Labor Market Research
- Ken Sorey, Educational Results Partnership
Webinar 3:
- Tessa Carmen De Roy, California College Guidance Initiative
- Valeria Lundy-Wagner, Jobs for the Future
- Nidhi Sen, Jobs for the Future
Webinar 4:
- Tim Gill, Kelseyville Unified School District
- Mara Lockowandt, Jobs for the Future
- Mary Rauner, REL West
- Alice Rice, Jobs for the Future
- Joy Soares, Tulare County Office of Education
Webinar 5:
- James Crandall, North State Together
- Mara Lockowandt, REL West
- Alice Rice, REL West
- Ann Marie Sakrekoff, Growing Inland Achievement
- Joy Soares, Tulare County Office of Education
- Jamie Spielmann, North State Together
- Sorrel Stielstra, Growing Inland Achievement
- Sheila Thornton, OneFuture Coachella Valley
