Alameda County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects
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.
Language, Alameda County, 2024, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects
Our project aims to transform our classrooms into spaces filled with the voices of our English language learners and newcomers (rather than teachers).
Reading/Writing, Alameda County, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects
We will reinvigorate SEED’s mission by designing Project-Based Learning units infused with best practices in Dual Language and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Alameda County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2023, Elementary School, Funded Projects
Play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith concluded, ‘The opposite of play is not work–the opposite of play is depression.’ While research supports this, traditional schools continue to treat play as frivolous and double down on the pressure to raise students’ standardized test scores.
Interdisciplinary, Alameda County, 2023, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects
We want to deepen our understanding of environmental justice, indigenous wisdom and creative practice, to better understand our world, and as educators advocate for just climate solutions. Working with local experts/organizations in our community, we will deepen our knowledge and our facilitation practices to make more meaningful connections with each other, build knowledge across disciplines, and apply new learning in our classrooms.
Alameda County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2022, Middle School, Funded Projects
This team of middle school teachers will cultivate a transformative learning community committed to anti-racist and inclusive education for all students, staff, and families. In the first year of the grant, they will apply the skills from Jenjii Hysten and Blaze Consultancy’s Emotional Intelligence, Equity, & Inclusion training to design and pilot a preliminary equity learning walk.