Funding Prospects and Opportunities

What are the Most Promising Strategies we Currently See?  Uniformity in collecting data and quality indicators to help us identify what works, what doesn ’ t and validates our request for funding.  Paraprofessional Programs – Provides funding sponsored by the CTC teacher development programs providing scholarships to candidates to help them toward degree completion, through preliminary credential and assist them in becoming classroom teachers.  Strong partnerships between Community Colleges and UC ’ s, CSU ’ s and Private Colleges.  Uniformity in collecting data and quality indicators to help us identify what works, what doesn ’ t and validates our request for funding.  Paraprofessional Programs – Provides funding sponsored by the CTC teacher development programs providing scholarships to candidates to help them toward degree completion, through preliminary credential and assist them in becoming classroom teachers.  Strong partnerships between Community Colleges and UC ’ s, CSU ’ s and Private Colleges.

What are the critical Success Factors?  Identify measurable benchmarks  Counseling, Outreach and Stable Funding  Policies that support effective programs  Become part of the policy making body  Identify measurable benchmarks  Counseling, Outreach and Stable Funding  Policies that support effective programs  Become part of the policy making body

What immediate steps can be taken to grow the success of these strategies?  Create and articulate the complex portrait of what it means to be a teacher that we can all use in dialogue with prospective teachers and the community.  Setting realistic benchmarks and celebrating them along the way.  Continued Collaboration between CCC’s, Four Year Institutions and School Districts  Target Legislature  Create and articulate the complex portrait of what it means to be a teacher that we can all use in dialogue with prospective teachers and the community.  Setting realistic benchmarks and celebrating them along the way.  Continued Collaboration between CCC’s, Four Year Institutions and School Districts  Target Legislature

What immediate steps can be taken to grow the success of these strategies?  Explore joint funding opportunities that can follow students from the community college through four year institutions.  Work collaboratively (CC’s and 4YI’s) to secure funding sources.  Access Private Industry for funding.  Start With Public Affairs and Philanthropy – at the company headquarters.  Explore joint funding opportunities that can follow students from the community college through four year institutions.  Work collaboratively (CC’s and 4YI’s) to secure funding sources.  Access Private Industry for funding.  Start With Public Affairs and Philanthropy – at the company headquarters.

What are our initial strategies and action steps?  Work with legislative liaisons  Continued collaboration between all policy makers and stakeholders  Reach out to private enterprise for funding sources  Explore marketing strategies  Rethink Teacher Preparation as an area of study  Continue to work collaboratively!  Work with legislative liaisons  Continued collaboration between all policy makers and stakeholders  Reach out to private enterprise for funding sources  Explore marketing strategies  Rethink Teacher Preparation as an area of study  Continue to work collaboratively!