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UC Davis Drives Collective Impact Across Three California Regions
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What this means for UC Davis
As the grant-funded phase of the K-16 Collaboratives comes to a close, UC Davis’s role is shifting from implementation to reflection, relationship-building, and longer-term stewardship of the work. Across the three regions, the grants represent $54 million in funding distributed among many partners, including K-12 school districts, California State Universities, community colleges, and UCs. UC Davis received approximately $3 million, supporting projects that helped scale promising work, fill gaps, and pilot strategies with potential for longer-term institutionalization. Some of the programs directly supported by this funding are listed at left.
Just as importantly, this work created opportunities for UC Davis programs to deepen relationships with intersegmental partners across the regions. We are now focused on identifying where those relationships can continue to add value, especially where existing synergies, shared goals, or target populations make continued collaboration worthwhile.
The K-16 Collaborative has also challenged us to think across segments, center equity, and support accelerated pathways that respond to California’s workforce needs. At this stage, the emphasis is on thoughtful transition planning, preserving relationships, and connecting with key stakeholders in ways that are collaborative, community-minded, and responsive to local context.
Research and Evaluation Partner
The California Education Lab in the UC Davis School of Education has been an important partner in helping UC Davis understand and assess the work of the K-16 Collaboratives. The Lab supported evaluation, survey development, dissemination, and implementation of the Warm Hand-Offs Framework, bringing a research lens to the collaborative’s ongoing learning and assessment. They also helped ground this work in the PACE report Improving College Readiness, which identifies aspirations and beliefs, academic preparation, knowledge and information, and fortitude and resilience as key predictors of educational attainment.