Regional Institute

Regional Institute Award Competetition

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

REGIONAL INSTITUTES 2011-2012
Sites	Institute Dates
South East SELPA	September 29 - 30, 2012
Folsom Cordova USD SELPA	October 5, 2011 December 7, 2011
San Diego COE	October 10-11, 2011 November 16-17, 2011
Ventura County Office of Education	October 26, 2011 February 8, 2012
Glenn COE and Transition Aliance	October 2011 TBA
Riverside County SELPA	November 3, 2011 February 16, 2012
San Joaquin SELPA	January 13, 2012 January 26, 2012
Whittier UHSD Career Connections	January 25-26, 2012
Desert Mountain SELPA	February 27-28, 2012
Fresno COE	March 29-30, 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: 01/05/2012