Santa Clara County, California, officially the County of Santa Clara, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,781,642. The county seat is San Jose, the tenth-most populous city in the United States.
Santa Clara County is included in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. Located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, the highly urbanized Santa Clara Valley within Santa Clara County is also known as Silicon Valley. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area region, and one of the most affluent counties in the United States.
Please see our Guide to County Resource Organizations page a brief description of the following organizations.
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6203 San Ignacio Avenue
San Jose, CA 95119
Phone: (408) 374-9960
Fax: (408) 376-0586
Website: http://www.sarc.org
Areas Served: Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits – San Jose
1400 Parkmore Avenue, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95126-3429
Phone: 408-727-5775
CA Only: 855-727-5775
Fax: 408-286-1116
1290 Ridder Park Drive – MC 277
San Jose, CA 95131-2398
Phone: 408-453-6566
3434 Marten Avenue
San Jose, CA 95148
Phone: 408-223-3771
150 River Oaks Pkwy, F-1
San Jose, CA 95134
Referral: 408-487-0749
Fax: 408-487-0762
Website: http://www.4c.org
1290 Ridder Park Drive, MC 201
San Jose, CA 95131-2304
Phone: 408-453-6511
Fax: 408-453-6601
4000 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 200
San Jose, CA 95117
Phone: 408-260-3700
Fax: 408-296-5642
Website: http://www.first5kids.org
1290 Ridder Park Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131-2304
Phone: 831-466-5600
Website: http://www.sccoe.org
150 River Oaks Parkway, Suite F-1
San Jose, CA 95124
Phone: 408-487-0747
Website: http://www.4c.org
1290 Ridder Park Drive, MC 225
San Jose, CA 95131
Phone: 408-453-6900
Website: http://www.myheadstart.org
Campbell Union School District (CUSD) is a PreK-8 school district that includes parts of 6 cities in Santa Clara County. CUSD serves more than 7,500 students, including 560 preschoolers in 8 centers.
CUSD was an early adopter of the Teaching Pyramid and was one of the first Partner Sites, recognized in 2010-11. Because the framework fits with the district goal of provide a nurturing and caring environment that equips young children with the tools necessary for social, emotional and academic success, CUSD staff have incorporated the Pyramid approach into the overall school culture. Reviewing progress and challenges in implementation is a standing agenda item in teacher meetings, they have designated a teacher on assignment as a Pyramid Coach and Trainer, and have successfully blended Teaching Pyramid practices into other academic initiatives. Another notable feature of this Partner Site is that they have sustained Leadership Team activities over a number of years and have enacted almost all of the Program-wide Benchmarks of Quality. They have a Mentor Classroom operating with high fidelity to the Teaching Pyramid framework.
As part of the De Anza Community College Child Development (De Anza CDC) and Education Department, the De Anza Child Development Center (De Anza CDC) is a laboratory school that provides quality learning experiences for over 100 children and their families each year. De Anza CDC serves children from families affiliated with De Anza College as well as the general public and who range in age from 18 months to 5 years.
Like many of the Teaching Pyramid “pioneers,” their implementation of the framework began with a core group of teachers who attended training and saw the impact of the program on children’s social and emotional competence. The entire staff was trained in the 2012-13 program year and was also recognized as a Partner Site that same year, due to their earlier implementation effort and the ongoing work of their Leadership Team. A unique feature of this Partner Site is that the De Anza CDC serves as a laboratory/demonstration school for De Anza Child Development students, as well as for those in other disciplines. As part of this focus, the team is engaged in evolving new ways of communicating and demonstrating the Teaching Pyramid framework and strategies for interns and student teachers.
Parkway Child Development Center (CDC) is a State Preschool and Head Start program operated by the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). SCCOE provides Head Start services to 2,150 Head Start eligible preschool-age children in Santa Clara and San Benito Counties and state-funded preschool programs to 700 low-income children, ages 18 months to five years, at five locations in San Jose.
Parkway Child Development Center is one of the first Partner Site programs, recognized in 2010. One of the ways that Parkway has been able to sustain implementation over this period of time is through support from SCCOE’s Inclusion Collaborative. The focus of the Collaborative is the successful inclusion of children with special needs (including children with behavioral challenges) in childcare and preschool. As part of this focus, the Collaborative’s CA CSEFEL Authorized Trainers provide training in the four Teaching Pyramid modules each year. In this way, Parkway is able to train new teachers and provide refreshers for current staff. Parkway has also kept the program going through participation in an on-going County-wide Leadership Team.
St. Elizabeth’s Day Home (SEDH) was the first childcare center of its kind when the Sisters of the Holy Family established it in downtown San Jose in 1907. Today, St. Elizabeth’s Day Home serves children (ages 18 months to 5 years old) from a diverse range of cultural and economic backgrounds.
SEDH staff participated in the Teaching Pyramid Module training, coaching, and Leadership Team in the 2013-14 program year. A number of classroom teams were enthusiastic adopters and they developed a Mentor Classroom–operating with high fidelity to the framework–within their first year of implementation. This team employs a wide variety of strategies and uses key strategies with intensity. For example, teachers mastered the use of Positive Descriptive Acknowledgement (PDA) in teaching behavioral Expectations (we are safe-friendly-respectful) and began to use PDA to prepare “graduating” preschoolers for kindergarten by helping them see themselves as learners, as independent, as holders and sharers of knowledge, and as creative problem solvers.