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Dual Enrollment Equity Conference 2025

The Bay Area K-16 Collaborative was honored to lead and facilitate two breakout sessions, highlighting our collective efforts in building equity-driven occupational pathways and expanding dual enrollment opportunities. Agustin Cervantes, Ed.D. and Marcella Cardoza McCollum presented "Advancing Occupational Pathways in the Bay Area: Dual Enrollment Through Intersegmental Collaboration." Janene Perez, Karisa Scott, and Sandy Ho shared "Dual Enrollment in Occupational Pathway Design: San Jose K-16 Collaborative’s Education Pathway."

HP Black Students Day

Thanks to our partnership with Silicon Valley Leadership Group and their work with HP, our SJSU students had the opportunity to attend HP's Black Students Day in Palo Alto! SJSU joined other local university students in a tour of the HP campus, learned about new product development, and engaged with a panel of recent interns. We are so appreciative of our employer partners and their support of the K16 Collaborative!

Career Summit

The San José K-16 Collaborative and SJSU Career Center co-hosted 120 local high schoolers to learn about careers at the intersection of Education, Health, and Community Advocacy. After an inspiring keynote from Vondell Pilcher (SJSU alum, Speech Language Pathology graduate student, and HDCC Wellness Programming Coordinator), students engaged in a networking lunch and resource fair with employers and SJSU degree programs. Thank you to our campus partners and employer partners for providing students with such a robust experience as they explore college and career options!

SJSU Lurie College of Education Wins 2024 Christa McAuliffe Award

Congratulations to SJSU Lurie College of Education on receiving the 2024 Christa McAuliffe Award: Diversifying the Teacher Pipeline from American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)! This award recognizes Lurie's commitment to has advancing policies and practices designed to reduce barriers to entry, prioritizing culturally sustaining pedagogies, deepening partnerships with community, and centering the strengths of students from diverse backgrounds. The Bay Area K-16 Collaborative is grateful for the leadership of Heather Lattimer and Janene Perez in the San José subregion of our Collaborative.

SJK16 Historical Archive

• Pathway Communities of Practice

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    In April and May, practitioners from across the three Bay Area K-16 Collaboratives (East Bay, San Francisco/Peninsula, and San José) convened for virtual Communities of Practice. Executive Director Agustín Cervantes, with support from Backbone Organization Social Policy Research Associates, hosted sessions for the Education, Engineering/STEM, and Health/Biotechnology pathways. K-12, community college, CSU, and UC representatives from each subregion gathered to share challenges, learnings, and plans, building connections and breaking down siloes. Recognizing that Bay Area students are all of our students, these Communities of Practice will continue throughout grant implementation to build cohesion and coherence across systems.

• Health Pathway Exploration

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    Close your eyes and picture a health worker. Who comes to mind for you? A doctor? A nurse? Many of us hold on to limited perspectives on the careers within the health field. In fact, there are hundreds of professions within health. These jobs in-demand across the Bay Area, with about a quarter of major employers in our community in the health science and medical technology sector.

• Dual Enrollment Conference
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    Thank you to Career Ladders Project, The Education Trust–West, California Alliance of Dual Enrollment Partnerships, and Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges for hosting an amazing California Dual Enrollment Equity Conference last week. Practitioners from across our Collaborative networked with leaders from across the state and learned about promising practices to increase access and equity to dual enrollment opportunities for our students.

• SJSU and Bay Area K16 Collaborative Funding

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    How can universities, community colleges and school districts partner to streamline pathways from education to career? 

    This November, Governor Gavin Newsom awarded four $18.1 million grants to regional collaboratives across the state to find creative ways for high schools, colleges and universities to address systemic inequities in higher education. The funds were awarded by the Department of General Services (DGS), Office of Public School Construction and the Foundation for California Community Colleges. 

• Salinas Site Visit

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    San José State University (SJSU) led education partners from the San José region of the Bay Area K16 Collaborative in a full, dynamic day of learning about dual enrollment (DE) with neighboring members of the Central Coast K-16 Collaborative, Hartnell College and one of its feeder K-12 partners, Gonzales High School, on November 7, 2023.   Hartnell College has been intentional about its DE implementation, tracking student outcomes closely and teasing out practices that best advance student achievement.  SJSU and its partners observed high school dual enrollment classes at Gonzales High School, spent several hours engaged in structured conversation with the architects of the dual enrollment program at Hartnell College, and participated in San José dual enrollment planning teams to apply what they learned.  The San José partners learned about Hartnell’s dual enrollment approach while strengthening connections among its own K-16 cross-segmental planning team. 

    Over 25 people from the San José region participated including SJSU, San José City College (SJCC), Evergreen Valley College (EVC), East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD), San José Unified School District (SJUSD), Milpitas Unified School District, and notetakers from Social Policy Research Associates participated in the exchange.

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