Want to learn more about our Collaboratives’ progress? Check out our 2025 End of Year Reflection, and regular updates on our LCInsights blog and social media pages.
“Working with Learning Collaborative Institute has been an incredibly positive experience, as they truly understand and want to support students and schools succeed. Their real-life, relevant experience in collaborative work allowed them to meet our needs where we needed support, providing both
technical assistance and valuable training on facilitating our steering committee meetings. They also supported our project with data analysis, offering clear communication and regular check-ins to analyze a complex and diverse set of data for our needs and assets analysis. What stood out most to me was their genuine willingness to collaborate with small, rural schools, approaching our work together with thoughtful kindness and skill.”
Serena Johnson,
Community Schools Coordinator at Inyo County Office of Education
Our work began in 2015 with the Pomona Unified School District in Pomona, California. Our pioneering work led to unprecedented increases in college attainment for low-income and minority students. Some of the results are outlined in the case study below. The Framework validated through this pilot program laid the foundation for our work with educational institutions in other communities around the U.S.
Our proven model of success focuses on core strategic priority areas with the greatest improvement in social impact.
We offer community members, researchers, practitioners, leaders, and learners a variety of effective, research-based resources and tools.
The work of LCI in the LC@Pomona (formerly known as Regional Learning Collaborative) was awarded the 2022 California Educational Research Association (CERA) Research-Practice Partnership Award for exemplary collaboration between researchers and practitioners resulting in improved student equity outcomes in California.
When research revealed only 14% of a neighboring high school’s graduates who enrolled in their local community college went on to complete credit-bearing college courses, we knew we had to help. With a student-centered, collaborative, and evidence-based approach, we achieved 85% college course enrollment in just two years.