assuring diversity….growing california’s leaders : the california aspire achieve lead pipeline...

Assuring Diversity….Growing California’s Leaders : The California Aspire Achieve Lead Pipeline Project (CalAAL)

Winston C. Doby

Doby@gseis.ucla.edu

September 25, 2007

“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves…..we have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking unilateral educational disarmament”

Nation at Risk (1983)

“Anyone who really understands the problem doesn’t have a solution; Anyone who thinks he has a solution doesn’t understand the problem”

David P. Gardner (1983)

The ProblemThe Problem

The fundament problem underlying the underachievement of America’s youth, especially those who happen to be African American or Latino is disengagement in the formal student development process called school

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Intellectual Capital

Financial Capital

Social Capital

Leadership

ServicePersonal

Development

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Academic Academic CoreCore

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Academic Core

LeadershipLeadership

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Leadership

Career Career DevelopmentDevelopment

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Leadership

ServiceServiceCareer

Development

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Intellectual Intellectual CapitalCapital

Leadership

ServiceCareer

Development

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Intellectual Capital

Social Social CapitalCapital

Leadership

ServicePersonal

Development

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Intellectual Capital

Financial Financial CapitalCapital

Social Capital

Leadership

ServiceCareer

Development

Academic Core

Generic Model of Student EngagementGeneric Model of Student Engagement

Intellectual Capital

Financial Capital

Social Capital

Leadership

ServicePersonal

Development

Academic Core

The Plan: California ALLThe Plan: California ALL

• P-20 Educational Pipeline

• Collaborative Strategy

• Career Focused

• Outcome driven

Diversity in the Legal Profession of Diversity in the Legal Profession of CaliforniaCalifornia

Pre-College

Interest in the Law School

Planning for Law School During College

Admission to Law School

Graduation from Law School

Passing the Bar Exam

Recruitment and Retention in the Legal Profession

Advancement

Educational Pipeline

“ future generations of Americans will not be competitive for high quality jobs in a global market place if the country fails to shore up the educational pipeline….laying the foundation for a scientifically literate workforce begins with developing outstanding mathematics and science teachers”.

Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2005)

California higher education institutions are graduating fewer students with Bachelors degrees in mathematics and physical science than the number of annual secondary teacher openings in these fields.

– California Department of Education– California Postsecondary Education Commission

The number of under-prepared math and science teachers will increase disproportionately in schools serving predominantly low income and minority urban communities.

Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning (2006)

The 800 ClubThe 800 Club

• Bunche Elementary (Compton)

• Bursch Elementary (Compton)

• Cowan Elementary (LAUSD)

• Kaiser Elementary (Oakland)

• Peralta Elementary (Oakland)

• Watts Learning Center (LAUSD)

• Wilder Prep (Inglewood)