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CAWS IB Workshops At Lake Tahoe In June 2025

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We hope to see you next summer for our 2025 workshops. Register early to ensure you can join us in person in the mountains near beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA.
 
 
REGISTER NOW
 
MYP, PYP, IB Leadership 19 June - 22 June, 2025
 
 
PYP, IB Education 27 June - 30 June 2025
 

Please contact Matthew Davis if you have any questions: Matthew Davis or 619 631-5444.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Warm regards,
Mike, Robin, Jerry, Matt and Tom

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Capitol Advisors Update: Important Education Bills Clear Deadline in Legilslature

May 2 was the deadline for policy committees to act on bills that have been tagged with a cost. Bills that fail to pass out of their policy committee today are effectively dead for the year. This week’s deadline forced hearings on several highly contentious bills related to charter schools and literacy instruction, among others, which we discuss below.

Now that we have a sense of bills that are moving forward, and in many cases with more clarifying language, we want to provide you with a summary of some of the major education-related bills that are still moving through the process in the areas of:
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IB Program UC A-G List: Important Updates and Reminders

Updating your School A-G list: This is the time to work with your school and

district to ensure your school A-G list accurately reflects your Middle Years

Program, Diploma Program and Career Program course offerings for 2025-2026.

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CAWS Schools and We Help Two: Making Twice the Difference!

CAWS is excited to be partnering with WE Help Two to make twice the difference through their funky sock fundraising program.

There is no upfront cost to the program and schools can keep up to 50% of the total sales.

Socks can be sold online and/or We Help Two can send a box of socks to your school at NO UPFRONT COST! That means schools will only have to pay for the inventory sold. Leftover packs are sent back and schools will be invoiced for what was sold. 

The service focus for 2025-26 will be raising funds for the fire and flood victims in California. Schools will also be able to select their own cause or one of the three international programs offered by We Help Two. 

Open for details:
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Overview and Slide Decks from CAWS 2025 Spring Seminar

What Sets IB Apart?
 
Keynote Speaker
Phil Evans, IBO
Designing and Co-Creating Inclusive High Quality Education
 
 
 

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Federal Executive Orders Relating to Education

Yesterday President Trump signed several executive orders advancing policies of the new administration and overturning executive action President Biden had taken. Though some of these might be slowed or stopped by lawsuits challenging their legality, many could have impacts on education programs and funding (all executive orders are posted here). With assistance from our colleagues at the Committee for Education Funding in Washington D.C., we wanted to list these in one document with links so you would have the text available for your review. In the coming weeks and months, we will keep you posted on the details and implementation issues involved with many of these that have the most significant impacts on TK-12 schools in California. The Executive Orders include:
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Slides for Insight to the CP, Let's Talk About It - Chad Lower

We understand that not everyone could attend Chad's engaging and informative session on the "Insights on CP, Let's Talk About It." To ensure you don't miss out on the valuable information shared, we are pleased to provide you with a copy of his slides. We hope these materials serve as a helpful resource.
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UC IB Programs A-G Updates and Deadlines, 2025

The UC A-G Course Management Portal is now open for course submissions and updates. This is the time to work with your school and district to ensure your school A-G list accurately reflects your Middle Years Program, Diploma Program and Career Program course offerings for 2025-2026.

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