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Bilingual DEI Learning through Project Based Learning

2024, Social & Emotional Learning, Alameda County, Elementary School, Funded Projects

Yu Ming Charter School, Oakland This project aims to develop and implement DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) curricula through project-based learning that incorporate diverse perspectives, cultures, and voices in a K-8 Mandarin immersion school. We aim to create...

Inquiry to Empower Collective Efficacy

Marin County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2024, High School, Funded Projects

Tomales High School, Tomales Our goal is to empower staff to conduct classroom inquiry to galvanize our collective efficacy – a shared belief that through our collective action, we can positively influence student outcomes. This grant would enable us to contract...

Cultivating Conversation: Increasing Student Talk in the Classroom

2024, Alameda County, Language, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects

Madison Park Academy 6-12, Oakland Our project aims to transform our classrooms into spaces filled with the voices of our English language learners and newcomers (rather than teachers). With this funding, we will hire Lead by Learning (LxL) to get much more out of our...

Transforming Our Kinder-First Grade Literacy Program

Reading/Writing, Santa Clara County, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects

Cadwallader School, San Jose Our team is committed to doing all we can to ensure that all our students are successful readers. We are setting out to transform our kinder-1st grade literacy program by doing a series of personalized professional development with The...

Unlocking the Science of Biliteracy

Reading/Writing, San Francisco, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects

JOHN MUIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO This project serves to enhance our professional capacities as teachers by providing us with the requisite knowledge and skills to instruct emergent biliteracy students effectively. We will cultivate our content expertise...
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2024

  • Cultivating our Collective Efficacy to Support Future Social Justice LeadersJune 10, 2024
  • Ecosystems of Ethnic Studies for Social Justice (ESSJ)June 10, 2024
  • Equity for SMHS Science StudentsJune 10, 2024
  • Bilingual DEI Learning through Project Based LearningJune 10, 2024
  • Inquiry to Empower Collective EfficacyJune 10, 2024
  • Cultivating Conversation: Increasing Student Talk in the ClassroomJune 10, 2024
  • Transforming Our Kinder-First Grade Literacy ProgramJune 10, 2024
  • Unlocking the Science of BiliteracyJune 10, 2024
  • Returning to our Roots: Crafting Empowering LearningJune 10, 2024

2023

  • Using Science and Social Justice to Raise Teaching Practice
  • The Power of Play
  • Raising a Community of Writers
  • Project Based Geometry and The Trades
  • PBL for Newcomers: Language Development, Engagement and Empowerment
  • Our Changing Planet – Community of Practice
  • Engaging Diverse Youth through Strong Dual Immersion

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Sept 17, 2024 /  LOI application opens


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