BEST (Building Educational Success Through) Collaboration in Los Angeles County
Throughout Los Angeles County, many school districts collaborate with other institutions in their efforts to advance educational opportunity, academic success, and college going for their students, especially their most disadvantaged students. Building Educational Success Through (BEST) Collaboration in LA County intends to create a web of such collaborations so that they can learn from each other, avoid duplication and enhance synergy, band together when useful, and support new collaborations in their efforts to improve K-12 public schools in Los Angeles County.
The initiative developed as a result of an agreement between the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) and the University of California (UC) to build P-20 regional alliances. CCSESA Region 11 is the only region composed on just one county, Los Angeles County, represented by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). In the county, UC is represented by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). BEST Collaboration in LA County was started by LACOE Superintendent Darline Robles and UCLA Co-Chair of Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership Programs Aimée Dorr and their colleagues.
The reports, guides and information sheets from BEST Collaboration in LA County conferences are available by clicking on the links below. Click here to access brief summaries of the reports, guides and information sheets.
- Together for High School Success: Learning from Our Partnerships (pdf)
- Creating a College Going Culture Conference (pdf)
- Creating a College Going Culture Resource Guide (pdf)
- Building On Our Partnerships to Create College a Going Culture Conference.pdf
- Inside School-University Partnerships: Successful Collaborations to Improve High School
Student Achievement.pdf
- Partnering to Create College Going Cultures: A Resource Guide
- Engaging Parents as Partners in Creating College Going Cultures Conference: Evaluation Report.pdf
- Engaging Parents as Partners in Creating College Going Cultures: A Resource Guide.pdf
- Engaging Parents As Partners - Developing Parent Centers_with_a_Strong_Academic, College_Focus.pdf
- Engaging Parents As Partners - Developing Parent Centers: A Practical Guide.pdf
- BEST November 19, 2009 Event -- Logic Model Handout.pdf
- BEST November 19, 2009 Event -- Logic Model Presentation Slides.pdf
August 2007 report of Los Angeles County K-12 districts' existing and desired partnerships with Los Angeles County Institution of Higher Education (IHEs):
One page information sheets from BEST Collaboration in LA County "Collaborating for College Success" Conference - November 19, 2008
- BEST_One Page Info Sheet_K12.pdf
- BEST_One Page Info Sheet_CC.pdf
- BEST_One Page Info Sheet_CSU.pdf
- BEST_One Page Info Sheet_UC.pdf
Link to Professor Patricia McDonough's PowerPoint "Building A College Culture" presented at the April 30, 2009 BESTinLA meeting.
Link to "Seizing the Middle Ground" reports on the Los Angeles United Way website