Associate Professor Ronald Leon is liaison to this group of 55 districts and supports their professional development and meetings throughout the year.
The five districts are the target districts for the TQE—Teacher Prep Grant. As a result their administrators have participated in the Great Leaders for Great Schools Summer Institute (2008) and are part of ongoing conversations this year leading to a second Institute next summer. The themes for this ongoing professional development include: Culture, Collaboration and Coherence as they relate to raising student achievement and supporting new teachers.
To help young people in need develop into respected, self-dependent and productive members of our communities by supporting and implementing teen pregnancy prevention with mentoring, educational assistance and child care programs. http://www.buenanueva.org/
The Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center is an inviting place where the University and the community work together to promote the unique cultural heritage of Pomona. We respond directly to the needs of the community as articulated by our community partners and advisors.
The Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center provides programs in the performing arts, technology, and small business development. We also present a wide variety of learning opportunities in a multitude of disciplines.
http://www.class.csupomona.edu/Organizations/downtowncenter/
Partner for Public Arts Inventory service-learning project in EWS
http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2FPubArt
Math Project funded by the TQE grant
Project REACH GEAR UP is to provide students and parents with a comprehensive support system that result in improving academic performance and increase high school graduation and enrollment rates in colleges and universities. http://www.lphsgearup.com/
Professional Development School collaborating with Cal Poly for improved student achievement.
The Historical Society of Pomona Valley, Inc. was organized on March 2, 1916 in the committee room of the Pomona Public Library with a charter membership of 28. The organization came as a result of the vision and inspiration of Mrs. J.W. Wilkinson, who recognized the importance of the history connected with the lives of the early settlers of this valley and the distressing lack of recorded data concerning these people. Miss Sarah Jacobus, the Librarian, was the driving force behind the creation of the Society.
The Society set about collecting and preserving these important documents and photos. The descendents of the early California Settlers were very cooperative and the Society gathered a vast collection of manuscripts, documents, papers, maps, books, and photos which were placed in the Pomona Public Library under the protection of the Librarian who was also the Curator of the Society. The materials were made available for reference. Today, these materials are still available in the Special Collections section.
http://www.pomonahistorical.org
http://www.pomonafolk.org
The Administrative Leadership Program is in partnership with the Council and their Executive Director, Don Sachs, regarding support for the Administrative Leadership Program.
Central partner in the Federal Leadership Development Grant focused on identifying and supporting future secondary administrators in Pomona Unified (Steve Davis is project director).
Great Leaders for Great Schools Academy (grant)
Through the TQE grant, Cal Poly Pomona is in partnership with the Springboard Schools delivering staff development and coaching support to administrators in the San Gabriel Valley.
It is a comprehensive model of reform aimed at significantly improving the preparation of teachers for the challenges of the region’s diverse 21st century classrooms.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~academic/teacher_prep/index.shtml
