Regional Institute

For the past eight years, CalSTAT has selected 58 local education agencies including school site teams, county offices of education, or district site teams that have delivered 180 distinct events to over 13,000 participants. These selected sites become members of the CalSTAT Leadership Community and serve as Regional Institute providers.

CalSTAT selects 10 Regional Institute Sites each year that are identified through a competitive Request for Application process. Sites selected in 2011 receive $18,100. Regional Institute Host Sites provide institutes at the regional or local level. An institute is a two-day conference that also offers four days of follow up learning over time. The content of the institute must concentrate on one or more of the five CalSTAT Core Message Areas.

What makes an Institute unique is the guiding principles that inform its design and delivery of information. Applicants must demonstrate how their design accomplishes the following:

Adopts a whole system approach focused on the region
Builds connections over time
Emphasizes shared leadership and capacity building
Delivers high priority school-focused content aligned with identified State Performance Plan (SPP) indicators for the region. Visit http:www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/qa/documents/consolspp.doc

These guiding principals are aimed towards a set of desired outcomes that applicants strive to deliver. They include:

Expand the capacity of attending school-site teams to improve academic outcomes for all students.
Identify and share successful and evidence-based practices that improve student outcomes.
Create an ongoing learning community
Sustain and expand systems change efforts to close the achievement gap.
Encourage and support meaningful family involvement

2012 - 2013 Regional Institute Dates

2012-2013 Regional Institute Dates
Site	Team Leader	Institute Dates
South East Consortium for Special Education	Jennifer Willis	September 11-12, 2012 February 27, 2013
Sonoma SELPA	Nikarre Redcoff	September 24, 2012 November 5, 2012 January 29, 2013 March 8, 2013
San Diego COE	Carolyn Nunes	October 23-24, 2012 November 8-9, 2012 December 10-11, 2012 February 19-20, 2013 March 20-21, 2013 April 17-18, 2013
Ventura COE	Jane Wagmiester	October 17, 2012 February 7, 2013
Glenn COE and Transition Alliance	Vicki Shadd and Sue Sawyer	October 24, 2012 TBA
Riverside COE/SELPA	Gail Angus	October 23-24, 2012
Modesto City Schools	Rob Williams	January 18, 2013 February 1, 2013
San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools	Gil Diaz	October 9-10, 2012
Whittier Career Connections (with Irvine)	Richard Rosenberg	January 23-24, 2013
San Mateo PBIS	Brian Simmons	November 7, 2012 March 21, 2013
Desert Mountain SELPA	Sheri Wilkins	February 1, 2013 March 13, 2013
San Mateo Collaboration – Inclusion	Rona Jawetz	February 1, 2013 March 13, 2013
Hayward USD and Hayward CRIL	Donna Knox and Dolores Tejada	December 12-13, 2012
Solano SELPA	Sam Nuestadt and Victor Romualdi	October 3, 2012 February 26, 2013
Lodi USD	Liz Zastrow	November 27, 2012 January TBA
Butte COE	Rusty Gordon	December 1 December 8, 2012

For information about the Regional Institutes please contact the site directly. Site contact information is available in each site’s profile list on the link below.

For a list of the current regional institute host sites and descriptions of their respective events go to the regional institute Web pages
http://www.calstat.org/regionalInstitute/index.html.

All questions and communications related to attending a regional institute should be addressed to the Regional Institute contractor.

Contact Information

All questions and communications related to Regional Institutes competition should be addressed to CalSTAT project coordinator Marin Brown at (707) 849-2265 or marin.brown@calstat.org.

Last updated: 10/16/2012