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Kern County regional BLA workforce planning pilot

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Description

A regional BLA workforce planning pilot that "brought together county, district, and educator preparation program partners in Kern County for a series of planning workshops in 2025 to examine recruitment and retention data and identify workforce strategies." The pilot is presented alongside the EL-WIN initiative as a scalable, replicable proof point demonstrating how districts, counties, and preparation programs can jointly analyze and coordinate supply and demand to address critical workforce needs.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Partnership among county offices, districts, and educator preparation programs; internal collection of workforce data where state systems do not provide it

Constraints

  • The pilot county office of education collects some data only for some districts, and pilot districts have varied internal collection practices

Target Learners

  • Multilingual Learners in Kern County bilingual instructional programs

Learning Goals

  • expanding access to bilingual instructional programs that improve student achievement

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Grayson, D., & Jacobson, A. (2026). Advancing achievement through biliteracy: Brief #2: State policy levers to support a strong and sustainable bilingual teacher workforce in California. WestEd. https://WestEd.org
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type design
id kern-county-bla-workforce-planning-pilot
title Kern County regional BLA workforce planning pilot
description A regional BLA workforce planning pilot that "brought together county, district, and educator preparation program partners in Kern County for a series of planning workshops in 2025 to examine recruitment and retention...
status review
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-10
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