📅 Date: Friday, September 12, 2025
🕑 Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
📍 Location: CLSBA Unity 2025 Conference – Pacific A

At Orenda, we believe lasting transformation begins with understanding the systems that shape student outcomes. This powerful session—Acceleration Formula: Baseline Systems Studies that Advance Educational Excellence and Academic Achievement for Every Student—will provide district and school leaders with a clear path to uncover the conditions driving achievement and equity gaps.

Facilitated by Orenda Vice Presidents, Dr. Sarah Mott Gonzales and Scott McGuire, this workshop will highlight how a Baseline Systems Study helps leaders identify which systems are working—and which are standing in the way of student success, particularly for the most vulnerable students.

You’ll also hear directly from Dr. Darren McDuffie (Superintendent, Santa Maria-Bonita School District) and Dr. Rebeca Andrade (Superintendent, Salinas City Elementary School District), who will share how their districts leveraged study results to make systemic changes that led to tangible, measurable improvements in student outcomes.

This session is designed to equip you with the tools and insights to:

• Recognize and dismantle systemic barriers to student achievement

• Adopt systems that accelerate outcomes for all students

• Learn from real-world examples of districts that are leading transformative change

If you are committed to ensuring every student receives a premium education—true, right, and just—this is a rare opportunity to learn from leaders who are making it happen.

🔗 Join us for this important conversation and be part of the movement to reimagine education systems for all students.