The Chancellor’s Office has curated and invested in a set of curated support and technical assistance opportunities colleges can engage in. Colleges are invited to participate in Chancellor’s Office sponsored curated support and technical assistant offerings in addition to the AB1705 funding allocation to assist with implementation requirements outlined in ESS 23-08 Required Action: Equitable Placement, Support and Completion (AB 1705) Funding Allocation and the Submission of Funding Plans (PDF). Please review the overviews of each of the exciting opportunities below.
The Equity Accelerator
The Equity Accelerator’s (EA) mission is to create more equitable learning and working environments. They work with colleges and organizations to help them create and sustain Cultures of Growth, where all people have the support, opportunities, and resources they need to thrive. They offer high-impact, low-lift, evidence-based approaches for advancing equitable experiences in higher education and workplace settings that are practical, adaptable, and integrate into what you’re already doing.
The Chancellor’s Office is partnering with EA to implement the evidence-based belonging program at California community college campuses in the fall of 2025. This 30-minute, online program helps newly matriculating students understand that initial belonging worries are common and diminish with time, effort, and effective strategies. With this mindset shift, students engage more with their social and academic environment, leading to increased persistence and higher achievement.
Email contact@accelerateequity.org with questions or for more information.
Motivate Lab
Motivate Lab is proud to be collaborating with the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office in their initiative dedicated to achieving equitable placement for enhanced student success under the AB 705 and AB 1705 legislation, and ESS 23-08. Through this partnership, we’re offering research-based support, at no cost to the institution, to help campuses advance their equitable placement and professional development goals.
The Motivating Learners Course is a faculty development initiative focused on enhancing pedagogical practices and strengthening student learning mindsets, so students can thrive and persist. Our team is dedicated to supporting faculty through professional development opportunities, aiming to uplift pedagogical practices that support students’ learning mindsets. This collaboration contributes to broader efforts aimed at enhancing student outcomes and closing equity gaps while driving impact in the classroom. We are currently recruiting for our 2025-2026 cohort and would love for your campus to join us.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming an institutional partner, please reach out to Antoinette Magee at Antoinette@MotivateLab.org.
Resources
Supporting Student Motivation In Corequisite Courses (PDF)
The National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET)
The National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) provides Just In Time Math -- a competency-based, interactive platform for identifying individual strengths and gaps in math concepts and operations. It provides quick, efficient, formative cycles of assessment and tutorials to provide feedback to students and accelerate them towards more complex math concepts. In addition to co-developing the content, assessments and platform with CA Community College faculty, NLET also facilitates several communities of practice for faculty to learn from each other how best to serve our diverse learners in math.
Just In Time Math covers content spanning basic numeracy to Calculus (and Statistics) and has a WorkReady Math component that provides contextualized math support for career education pathways in Nursing, Automotive and even Chemistry where prerequisite math courses may no longer be offered. The flexible platform can expand to other career education and math reliant subjects based upon demand.
Contact ken.sorey@nlet.org with questions or for more information.
Resources
The deadline to apply has passed. NLET is no longer accepting applications for this project. Please contact ken.sorey@nlet.org with questions or for more information about the Just in Time Mathematics platform.
California Corequisite Initiative (PDF)
Partnership Resource Teams (PRT)
Partnership Resource Teams (PRT) provide colleges with technical assistance to support the development of innovative strategies, best practices, resources, and tools. For example, a PRT can help a client institution create a development plan centered on achieving racial equity in educational access, support, and outcomes for students. A PRT can also provide guidance and support in the cultivation of inclusive classrooms and anti-racist curriculum, and the integration of evidenced-based pedagogical strategies that promote equitable placement, support, and completion. PRTs serve as peer guides, helping colleges improve their developmental education reform implementation.
To work with a PRT, please visit the Letter of Interest (LOI) web page for guidelines on submitting your letter.
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Carnegie Math Pathways at WestEd
Carnegie Math Pathways has over a decade of experience working alongside educators to implement mathematics reforms and develop impactful solutions to support all students for success in math. With deep expertise in mathematics curriculum and courseware development and design, a focus on equity and excellence, and a commitment to centering educators and students, we look forward to supporting California colleges in navigating AB1705. Over the next three years, Carnegie Math Pathways will offer individual and community-based professional learning and technical assistance in mathematics course and curriculum development, equitable instructional practice, data analysis, and continuous improvement.
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If you’re interested in engaging in a partnership with Carnegie Math Pathways, complete the application. Applications are due by July 8th.
For questions or if you are seeking more specific information, please contact Dan Ray at dray@wested.org.
Education Trust -West
EdTrust-West, an education research and advocacy organization with a focus on racial justice, is thrilled to introduce an opportunity for teams from California community colleges. We are launching a hybrid Community of Practice (CoP) designed to help these teams create and apply strategies that ensure effective course placement and completion in mathematics. This initiative directly addresses the reforms mandated by AB 705/AB 1705, aiming to significantly enhance the educational experiences and outcomes for students of color and multilingual learners. The Equity-Focused Community of Practice (CoP) for Community Colleges offers free technical assistance to community college teams to transform students' course placement and completion rates at their campuses.
For questions, contact Camille Medrano at Cmedrano@edtrustwest.org.
The NROC Project - Ed Ready
The NROC Project (NROC) is a 501c(3), California-incorporated non-profit organization that has been in operation for over twenty years developing, deploying, and supporting technology-enabled solutions for improving student readiness for college and career. NROC built a platform for adaptive and personalized learning, called EdReady, that has been adopted throughout the country by partner institutions as a solution for improving the readiness, persistence, and success of their increasingly diverse student bodies. NROC is working with interested California Community Colleges to help implement changes to math pathways motivated by AB1705; for example, college partners can use EdReady as an embedded support tool to improve mastery of critical corequisite math skills that broaden student options, improve persistence in their studies, and support all students in reaching their goals.
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Learn more about the NROC partnership project
Apply to the NROC Partnership Project
