1. Christopher Steinhauser, Superintendent, LBUSD Marquita Grenot-Scheyer, Dean, College of Education, CSULB

2. How are you working to build bridges across institutions and agencies to cope with the challenges all educational institutions face? Long Beach Education Partnership & Seamless Education The Long Beach College Promise Community College MOU’s School District Partnerships & Demonstration Projects Support from the Business Community

3. What is the Long Beach College Promise? A joint commitment to make college an attainable goal for all students. Memorialized the Seamless Education Partnership. Represented a major step in implementing the Initiative. Educational benefits and services include: A tuition free semester at LBCC starting in 2011. Guaranteed college admission to CSULB for students who complete minimum college preparatory or transfer requirements. Early and continued outreach to students and parents beginning in the sixth grade and continuing through college. Support for the various pathways to higher education that students may choose to take. Alignment of professional development activities. “ A standard of K-12 / college collaboration that will serve as a model for many other districts nationwide. ” – Eli Broad, Founder of The Broad Foundation

4. What do you see as essential to achieve the goal of sustaining strong public schools in California and nationally? Institutional Commitment Articulation of Core Values Partnerships and Collaboratives Data Based Decision Making Intellectual Resources & Capacity Community Investment Linkage between educator preparation and student achievement

5. Strengthening STEM education is widely recognized as being critical to the nation’s economic prosperity. What do you consider the most promising opportunities and the highest priorities in this area? Multiple Pathways Project Teacher TRAC Pipeline with Community Colleges Collaboration with faculty in Natural Sciences and Mathematics Building teacher capacity in STEM content

6. What are you doing to provide strong leadership during these extraordinary difficult fiscal times? LBUSD Alignment of resources (fiscal & human) to support the Academic and Career Success Initiative Collaboration decision making (all stakeholders) Common goal setting process (PDSA) Use of data to make all decisions CSULB Civil and calm Transparent & collaborative Clear sense of priorities Data based decision making “Right people on the bus”

7. What is your most notable achievement as an educational leader? LBUSD AP Initiative Academic and Career Success Initiative CSULB Ethical & caring Faculty development Donor relationships