Systems
Transforming Education in California
Our Mission
The College & Career Alliance Support Network (CCASN) partners with our collaborative network including school and district system leaders, teachers, counselors, educators, institutional partners, student-centered organizations and diverse learning communities to influence and impact California’s public education system. CCASN is committed to bold strategies that aim to transform public education in California and nationally.
Our Vision
CCASN strives in its partnerships to build equitable and accessible education systems and pathways that prepare all students for college, careers, and communal-civic life; supporting seamless intersegmental transitions and elevating accessible postsecondary opportunities for all students.
- We build partnerships for mutual learning utilizing design-based research, action research, data and improvement science methodologies to assess, diagnosis, analyze, and deploy strategies that enhance equity in instructional, structural and systemic practices.
- We center students and learning communities that have historically been furthest from opportunity in our work, including Black, LatinX, Asian American and Pacific Islander students, as well as English Language, Special Education and Neurodiverse Learners.
- We are proud to serve as a trusted partner focused on serving the education field and influencing impactful research, practice and policy..
Coming August 27th
UC Berkeley’s CCASN Presents:
The Courageous
Leadership Series
Next Event:
Leading Through Change: AI, Culture and
the Future of How We Work Together
Date: August 27, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00PDT
CCASN, What We Do
At the nexus of research, practice, and policy, CCASN facilitates practical research, and the use of research in partnership with learning communities, to produce research-based solutions to critical equity, access and success challenges, with a keen focus on addressing the opportunity gap for students furthest from opportunity
CCASN is comprised of several interconnected and intersectional lines of work: 1) research on increasing understanding, activation, and the implementation of equitable and effective systemic approaches to college and career pathways, across content disciplines; 2) research on understanding how education leaders learn, apply, and deploy improvement science methods in practice; 3) improving the research-to-practice evaluation of professional development and learning experiences that inform and influence policy changes. CCASN has played a central role in high-school and education reform initiatives nationally (across 22 states) and in California, providing the field with essential research, evidence-based practices and influential policies.
Our Teaching, Leading and Learning Stance
CCASN has extensive experience partnering with system leaders, educators, schools, districts and institutional and organizational partners to build capacity and support the use of evidence-based research to implement equitable and effective approaches. We seek to inform state policy, advance institutional equity initiatives, and provide guidance that influences and impacts California’s public education systems. We are an emergent learning organization that continues to build and learn with our network of partners.
CCASN’s Home
The College & Career Alliance Support Network (CCASN) is located at The Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. CCASN is grateful to be partnered with The Lawrence. We continue to collaborate authentically to integrate STEM/AI equity in college and career pathways and systems, building upon our common commitment to transform historic and systemic educational inequities.