CALSA Summer Institute 2025

Staying connected with fellow CALSA members has never been easier! With our CALSA Comunidad, we’re excited to offer a dynamic, inclusive network designed to strengthen communication and collaboration. You may already be familiar with ParentSquare’s unified communication platform, which helps districts organize their school-home communications and keep families engaged in their school communities. The CALSA Comunidad utilizes ParentSquare’s Community Groups feature to enhance our ability to connect, learn, and grow together.
By joining the CALSA Comunidad, you'll stay informed on valuable opportunities to actively engage with CALSA’s mission of empowering leaders and uplifting communities.

Leaders, teachers and students face unique challenges every day, which is why it is so important to create a campus environment that fosters safety, connection, and well-being at all levels.
We believe, “if you have a child’s heart, you have a child’s mind.” If teachers create a relational connection to students, or “Capture Kids’ Hearts ,” performance accelerates, and behaviors greatly improve because kids want to be in school. The same can be said of leadership and all staff who face challenges. When school culture is built on relationships that tend to overall well-being, it is proven that campuses, districts, and entire communities can be transformed.

Join your CALSA hermana Superintendent Yolanda Valdez for a journey into her district's classrooms in the beautiful Central Valley to see the incredible results her teachers have experienced with students across the curriculum by leveraging "instructional AI." Two Cutler-Orosi JUSD teachers will share how they have improved students' writing, critical thinking, and confidence by making data-driven decisions in their classrooms and fiscal areas through Packback's writing platform.