Cradle-to-Career Advisory Board Application

The California Cradle-to-Career (C2C) Data System was named in state legislation to be California’s source of actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.

C2C is envisioned to be the most inclusive data system of its kind in the country, and deploys a three-pronged approach:

community engagement to inform development, interpretation, and awareness building about available information
tools to support college planning and transition
an analytical data set on education and job outcomes

C2C seeks new Community Engagement and Data and Tools Advisory Board members to help shape the data system.

The Community Engagement Advisory Board examines whether the Office is creating strong feedback loops with data users, supporting evidence-based decision-making, analytical capacity, and ensuring equitable access to actionable information.
The Data and Tools Advisory Board examines whether the data system is providing actionable information and identifying ways to improve access to that information.

Application Opening Date:
April 29, 2024

Application Closing Date:
May 17, 2024

Authority

The responsibility of the Community Engagement Advisory Board is to examine whether the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data (the Office) is creating strong feedback loops with data users, supporting evidence-based decision making and analytical capacity, and ensuring equitable access to actionable information.

Membership and Terms

The Community Engagement Advisory Board members shall consist of 16 public members, appointed by the Governing Board. Members include the end users of the data system including practitioners, families, students, adult learners and workers, community organization staff, research organization staff, and advocacy organization staff.

Community Engagement Advisory Board members serve three year terms.

Representatives of specific institutions serve no more than one consecutive term and can only have one seat on the Community Engagement Advisory Board at a time.

Advisory Board members must be California residents and shall be subject to the requirements of the California Political Reform Act, including the C2C’s Conflict of Interest Policy, and Form 700 filing requirement.

Meetings

Meetings will occur at least three times a year. Tentative meeting dates include a member orientation on August 30, 2024, and Community Engagement Advisory Board meetings on October 16, 2024, March 26, 2025, and July 11, 2025.
In addition to regular meetings, the Community Engagement Advisory Board may establish ad hoc committees as needed.
All meetings are subject to the provisions of the Bagley-Keene Act.

Member Expectations and Responsibilities

All members of the Community Engagement Advisory Board are expected to attend meetings and advocate for the Cradle-to-Career System with key stakeholders.

Through feedback provided in meetings, the Community Engagement Advisory Board members offer suggestions for the Governing Board and the Office including, but not limited to:

Professional development and technical assistance models that foster evidence-based decision-making, strengthen analytical capacity to use available data tools, and enable end users to understand structural factors that influence outcomes
Communication structures that ensure a broad range of Californians know about and are using the tools
Feedback loops that ensure meaningful and equitable public input, access, and utilization of the available information.

When there are significant gaps regarding feedback loops with data users, evidence-based decision making and analytical capacity, and equitable access to actionable information, the Advisory Board may make formal

recommendations about the community engagement framework to the Governing Board for ways to improve feedback loops.

At the fall Advisory Board meeting, Advisory Board members may bring forward proposals for ways to amend the community engagement framework to address the significant gap.

At the spring Advisory Board meeting, the Office will present on the feasibility studies. The Advisory Board will discuss the findings, amend the proposal if needed, and then vote on whether the proposal should be advanced to the Governing Board as a recommendation. The same voting protocol will be used as in the decision to implement a feasibility study.

Members will be required to:

Attend three in-person meetings in Sacramento per year (note: reimbursement will be provided for travel within the State of California. Reimbursement covers public transportation, mileage, parking, as well as airfare and hotel for those located more than 100 miles away.)
Review draft documents in advance of meetings
Gather input from and share information with community members
Complete all required paperwork and trainings forms

Selection

Advisory board members will be selected to ensure a broad representation of perspectives and expertise will inform the resources developed by C2C. Specific desired characteristics include:

Ability to support community engagement with both analytical data sets (like dashboards) and tools for students and educators (such as resources for college and financial aid applications)
Understanding of community member needs and concerns or currently serve as an ambassador to a specific groups or communities
Familiarity with education issues ( particularly K-12, community colleges, universities, and teacher training) through personal and/or professional experience
Ability to make information about education more understandable, useful, and relatable
Ability to commit time to review materials, solicit input from community members, and participate in Advisory Board meetings
Willing to work collaboratively toward common solutions and share lived experiences that can be beneficial to the Advisory Board

Application

First Name
Last Name
Job Title
Organizational Affiliation
Email Address
Phone Number
Please describe why you would like to join the Community Engagement Advisory Board.
What communities are you affiliated with that will bring value to the Advisory Board (such as your experience as a student or teacher or with regionally focused work)? Please select all that apply to your contributions, experience, and/or work.
- Practitioner
  - Early Learning
  - K-12
  - California Community Colleges
  - California State University
  - University of California
  - Independent Institutions of Higher Education
  - Private PostSecondary Education Institutions
  - Workforce Development
  - Dual Enrollment
  - Undocumented Students/Learners
  - Adult Education
  - Non-Traditional Students
- Student
  - Where are you in your educational journey?
- Parent/Family Member
- Research Organization
- Advocacy Organization
- Community Organization
- Regional Level Focus of Work
  - State-wide
- Regional Focus
  - Bay Area – Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Solano, and Sonoma Counties
  - Central Region – Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne Counties
  - Inland Deserts Region – Imperial, Inyo, Mono, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties
  - North Central Region – Sacramento, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Lake, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Sutter, Plumas, Yolo, and Yuba CountiesNorthern Region – Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties
  - South Coast Region – Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties
- Other [describe]

Are you affiliated with any membership organizations, user groups, or affinity groups that relate to the work of C2C? Please add them here.
How are you an ambassador in the community or communities that you engage with? How could you solicit input from communities or draw from your own lived experience to share needs and concerns that are relevant to C2C?
What experience have you had supporting awareness of and access to student and educator tools, particularly regarding college, career, and financial aid planning?
Do you know of any conflicts of interest that would prohibit you from serving on this Advisory Board?
How did you hear about this position?

Authority

The responsibility of the Data and Tools Advisory Board is to examine whether the data system is providing actionable information and identifying ways to improve access to that information.

Membership and Terms

The Data and Tools Advisory Board members shall consist of 16 public members, appointed by the Governing Board. The Data and Tools Advisory Board members will consist of end users of the data including practitioners, families, students, adult learners and workers, community organization staff, research organization staff, and advocacy organization staff.

Data and Tools Advisory Board members serve three year terms.

Representatives of specific institutions serve no more than one consecutive term and can only have one seat on the Data and Tools Advisory Board at a time.

Meetings

Data and Tools Advisory Board meetings will occur at least three times a year. Tentative meeting dates include a member orientation on August 30, 2024, and Data and Tools Advisory Board meetings on October 1, 2024, March 19, 2025, and July 11, 2025.
In addition to regular meetings, the Data and Tools Advisory Board may establish ad hoc committees as needed.
All meetings are subject to the provisions of the Bagley-Keene Act.

Member Expectations and Responsibilities

All members of the Data and Tools Advisory Board are expected to attend meetings and advocate for the Cradle-to-Career System with key stakeholders.

Through feedback provided in meetings, the Data and Tools Advisory Board members will provide suggestions to the Governing Board and the Office, including, but not limited to:

The usability, accessibility, and usefulness of dashboard visualizations
Operational tools
Data points to include in centralized data sets

Each year, the Data and Tools Advisory Board will also review all prior data requests from the researcher data request process to facilitate the continuous improvement of the data request process and ensure that it is clear, transparent, fair, and efficient, including identifying mechanisms that would enable appropriate data requests to be fulfilled.

When there are significant gaps regarding whether the data system is providing access to actionable information, the Data and Tools Advisory Board may develop recommendations for the Governing Board on which tools to provide or which data points to include in centralized data sets.

At the fall Advisory Board meeting, Advisory Board members may bring forward proposals for ways to address the significant gap.

At the spring Advisory Board meeting, the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data (the Office) will present on the feasibility studies. The Advisory Board will discuss the findings, amend the proposal if needed, and then vote on whether the proposal should be advanced to the Governing Board as a recommendation. The same voting protocol will be used as in the decision to implement a feasibility study.

Members will be required to:

Attend three in-person meetings in Sacramento per year (note: reimbursement will be provided for travel within the State of California. Reimbursement covers public transportation, mileage, parking, as well as airfare and hotel for those located more than 100 miles away.)
Review draft documents in advance of meetings
Gather input from and share information with other data experts
Complete all required paperwork and trainings forms

Selection

Advisory Board members will be selected to ensure a broad representation of perspectives and expertise that will inform the resources developed by C2C. Specific desired characteristics include:

Experience with and understanding of how data and data tools impact the lived experiences of end users
Familiarity with state data sets and the way information is gathered and ability to ensure that accurate and aligned data can be integrated into the analytical tools (the dashboards, query builder tool, and data set available for research requests)
Experience with conducting analyses using education-related data (particularly K-12, community colleges, universities, teacher training, and employment data)
Ability to commit time to review materials, solicit input from other data experts, and participate in Advisory Board meetings
Willingness to work collaboratively toward common solutions

Application

First Name
Last Name
Job Title
Organizational Affiliation
Email Address
Phone Number
Please describe why you would like to join the Data and Tools Advisory Board.
What communities are you affiliated with that will bring value to the Advisory Board (such as your experience being a student or teacher, or with regionally focused work)? Please select all categories that apply to your contributions, experience, and/or work.
- Practitioner
  - Early Learning
  - K-12
  - California Community Colleges
  - California State University
  - University of California
  - Independent Institutions of Higher Education
  - Private Postsecondary Educational
  - Institutions
  - Workforce Development
  - Dual Enrollment
  - Undocumented Students/LearnersAdult Education
  - Non-Traditional Students
- Student
  - Where are you at in your educational journey?
- Parent/Family Member
- Research Organization
- Advocacy Organization
- Community Organization
- Regional Level of Focus of Work
  - State-wide
  - Regional Focus
    - Bay Area – Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Solano, and Sonoma Counties
    - Central Region – Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne Counties
    - Inland Deserts Region – Imperial, Inyo, Mono, Riverside, and San Bernardino CountiesNorth Central Region – Sacramento, San Joaquin, El Dorado, Lake, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Sutter, Plumas, Yolo, and Yuba Counties
    - Northern Region – Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties
    - South Coast Region – Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties
- Other [describe]

Are you affiliated with any membership organizations, user groups, or affinity groups that relate to the work of C2C? Please add them here.
Review the one-page description of our planned data tools (dashboards, query builders, and research request process) and share relevant experience or expertise that will meaningfully contribute to the Advisory Board. In particular, please share if you have experience conducting data analysis or dealing with data alignment issues related to the C2C’s data points.
What experience have you had supporting awareness of and access to data and data tools, and how have you seen the lived experiences of end users be impacted?
Do you know of any conflicts of interest that would prohibit you from serving on this Advisory Board?
If additional relevant information about you is available online, such as on a website or LinkedIn, please provide a link.
How did you hear about this position?