Participate and share: Interactive session 
Recorded Session
The purpose of the session is to provide educational leaders with a framework that may be used to create collaboration between cities, community-based organizations, and schools.
Participants will gain an understanding of how to engage cities, schools, and community-based organizations.
Participants will learn about funding sources and in-kind resources.
Participants will learn of barriers and lessons learned from this 13-year-long project.
Brief History of Digital Divide in Southeast Los Angeles - 10 min
Disconnected: A Community and Technology Needs Assessment of the Southeast Los Angeles Region (SELA). Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley. Jan 1, 2008 - 10 min
STEM School Programming: Discussion of best practice and the struggle for more learning opportunities - 10 min
City investment in afterschool programming: Our role in youth development and how we can help with STEM youth programming - 10 min
Community-based organizations focused on STEM and youth development: The need for free community makerspaces to give students opportunities for honing their STEM skills. - 10 min (Video)
Summary of framework for creating a collaborative effort to close the digital divide and strategies for for leveraging our resources - 10 min (Kahoot Quiz)
Disconnected: A Community and Technology Needs Assessment of the Southeast Los Angeles Region (SELA). Disconnected: A Community and Technology Needs Assessment of the Southeast Los Angeles Region (SELA).
Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley. · Jan 1, 2008
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2016/07/PH_2016.07.21_Broadbank_Final.pdf
Deidra Fryer & Mary J. Granger (2008) Closing the Digital Divide: The Role of Community Based Non-Profit Organizations, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 11:1, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2008.10856458
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