Contra Costa is about to be the place I live. I live now in Alameda. These two counties make up the inner East Bay part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California.

Everything I have worked on and worked for on this or that national or international stage is in play in this place. I am referring to the nature and purpose of higher learning, and increasing the quality of and access to higher learning.  As an endless number of reports from both public and private sectors now relentlessly assert: higher learning is no longer only a matter of personal achievement, economic benefit, and quality of life; it is a matter of economic survival and quality of life for communities, states, and the nation.

But what does this mean when it comes to actually improving learning outcomes for students at Richmond High School in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, and what can I do to make it happen?

That is what I need to know and do now.

My professional life does not intersect with my personal life automatically. In my professional life, I operate on a national stage with the intention of having a positive influence on the lives of many learners in many places, mostly urban centers like New York City, Baltimore, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, Reno, and Oklahoma City.

I live in the inner East Bay part of the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes several cities like Fremont, Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond. My work for NAF is intended to improve learning outcomes here too.   But it is not in my job description to work with or in specific schools or other organizations where I live, to actually be the change I want to see.

That is up to me and how the professional is about to get personal for me, in the inner East Bay.

Join me.

W3Workshop is about to undergo a major transformation. From lots of generalizations and few specifics to lots of specifics and few generalizations. Well, fewer generalizations, and none that are not coupled with specifics.

Please join in when it serves your purposes.

I am employed by the National Academy Foundation, a national non-profit organization. NAF for short. W3Workshop is my personal website and DBA name.