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Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development

San Mateo County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2021, Elementary School, Middle School, Funded Projects

East Palo Alto Charter School, East Palo Alto This team of reading teachers has been teaching in East Palo Alto for 7-20 years, and they want to become conversationally fluent in Spanish. Team members will each complete an intensive program of online Spanish tutoring...

Facing History’s Professional Learning Community for Ethnic Studies

Santa Clara County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2020, Alameda County, San Mateo County, High School, Funded Projects

This team from across the Bay Area will launch a professional learning community focused on learning and growing in the area of Ethnic Studies.

Content Area Literacy in the Digital Age

Reading/Writing, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, 2019, Elementary School, Funded Projects

This team of six teachers at 5 different school sites across the Bay Area aims to deepen teacher knowledge of digital literacy and adult learning while supporting each other in adapting instruction to support 21st century learning.

Vertical Alignment of School-Wide Advisory Curriculum

Interdisciplinary, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, 2018, High School, Funded Projects

The goal of these five high school teachers is to strengthen their school’s Advisory program.

Orchestra Teacher Professional Development

2017, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Arts, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects

The team of five middle and high school music teachers will organize and take part in a twice-monthly Orchestral Methods class.

Transformational Teacher Mentoring

Alameda County, San Francisco, San Mateo County, STE(A)M, 2016, High School, Funded Projects

The team of five high school teachers and one middle school teacher at four schools across the Bay Area are part of the Trellis Mentor Fellowship, through which they have all made a five-year commitment to mentoring new teachers.

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2022

  • Deeper Learning & Stronger Support for Teachers
  • Differentiation through Student Self-Efficacy
  • Equity Learning Walk
  • Improving Outcomes for Multilingual Scholars through Collective Capacity Building
  • Operation Lesson Study
  • Studying Climate Justice Through Science, Art, and Action!
  • Cultivating Anti-Racist Bilingual Learners Through Service and Action

2021

  • Igniting Educator Passion Through Service-Learning
  • School of Environmental Leadership: Community Engagement – Climate Equity
  • PBL Pilot: Empowering Oakland
  • Operation RISE Above
  • Know Better, Do Better – The Science of Reading
  • Investigating Illuminated Inequities as an Opportunity to Transform
  • Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development
  • Indigenous Voices in the Music Classroom
  • Educators Designing History Curriculum Through a Global Lens

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