1. Chris Reising - San Diego County Office of Education Laurie Lorence – San Diego Mesa Community College Cindy Dunlevy – San Diego County Office of Education Cristina Trecha – Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

2.  Vision of Collaboration  Unique Perspectives & Partners  Challenging Times / Creative Responses  Current Collaborative Efforts

3.  Name  Organization  Role  Why you are here

4.  Across the Educational Landscape  Pre K – 16  Relationship Based  Shared Outcomes  Professional Development  Creative

5.  Future Educators Events  Communication to the Field  Serving on Boards  Presentations  Grant Application Support  Hire in Advance  Convening Rights  Making Connections  Unique Perspectives

9. Education 203: Field Experience Students will spend a minimum of thirty hours tutoring in a public school. Offered online K-12

14. What existing mechanisms and/or partnerships are you overlooking?

16.  MCC students ◦ Experience ◦ Contacts ◦ Training ◦ Established program ◦ Variety of grade levels ◦ Additional opportunities

17.  Everyone A Reader ◦ Tutors ◦ Role models ◦ Additional support ◦ Continuing volunteer time

18.  “Addie started tutoring at OPE today and is really lovely! Thank you for sending her our way!”

19.  “Cubberley students eagerly await their Everyone A Reader tutor; they’ve become a part of our school life.”

20.  “The Mesa CC tutors are a huge benefit to our school, we have very few parent volunteers.”

21.  San Diego County Office of Education, Literacy Initiative 1995  Additional support to struggling readers in the 1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd grades  150 schools  2,000 tutors  3,000 students  Goal – raise reading level

22. Student Mon. TutorTues.Tutor Wed. Tutor Thur. Tutor EAR Program School Site Coordinator SDCOE

23. Tutor Student 1Student 2Student 3Student 4

24.  Program modifications ◦ Training ◦ School sites ◦ Background checks ◦ Placement ◦ Timing

25.  Service Learning  Math Tutoring, Every 1 Counts  Spanish  Other ideas? Brainstorm with a neighbor

26. What other institutions in your region work with teachers and future teachers? Who, at your own institution, can help you begin to think about partnerships for field experience in new ways?

31. 145 Mesa students

32. Teaching Pipeline Connecting Future Teachers to Students Partnership with Mesa College

33. How could partnering with another educational stakeholder in the community increase the quality of the field experience your program currently offers?

34. Take Home Messages We can leverage existing education resources through community partnerships. Community partnerships can enhance student field experiences and benefit all involved. Your success can help someone else: share your story of partnership with your colleagues and the larger educational community.

35. Who We Are Cristina Trecha – ctrecha@rhfleet.orgctrecha@rhfleet.org Cindy Dunlevy – cidunlevy@sdcoe.netcidunlevy@sdcoe.net Chris Reising – creising@sdcoe.netcreising@sdcoe.net Laurie Lorence llorence@sdccd.edullorence@sdccd.edu