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Social Justice and Empowerment Through Literacy and Dialogue in English Classes

Reading/Writing, Santa Clara County, 2020, High School, Funded Projects

This team to implement and improve curriculum in their English department to make it more relevant to 21st century notions of social justice and empowerment.

Facing History’s Professional Learning Community for Ethnic Studies

Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2020, 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.

Promoting Bilingualism and Biliteracy through DI in SCUSD

Language, Santa Clara County, 2019, Elementary School, Funded Projects

This team of elementary school teachers plans to expand their knowledge of best practices and structures for Dual Language (DI) Immersion programs as their site transitional bilingual program transitions to DI.

Graham Middle School STEAM Digital Heroes

Interdisciplinary, Santa Clara County, 2019, Middle School, Funded Projects

This team of middle school teachers will collaborate with the Krause Center for Innovation to develop and pilot pathways for Project Based Learning (PBL)-based, technology enhanced electives and create curriculum for all students in media, technology, broadcasting, engineering, leadership, and visual art courses.

GLAD Enhanced Project Based Learning

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

This team of five elementary school teaches will learn and implement GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) strategies to build academic language and the ability to express learning through writing.

Fluency First

Language, Santa Clara County, 2019, High School, Funded Projects

Five high school world language teachers at schools across San Jose seek to train teachers in implementing the proficiency levels of language to better assess students and to use comprehensible input as the main method for teaching fluency.

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2020

  • Social Justice and Empowerment Through Literacy and Dialogue in English Classes
  • Meaningful Integration of Special Needs Students in PE
  • Literacy GLADiators
  • Integrated Learning for Equity
  • High School Teachers in Lodi Making Sense of Earth Science
  • Facing History’s Professional Learning Community for Ethnic Studies
  • Equitable Grading Strategies through Portfolio Projects
  • Developing Teacher Leaders for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Complex Instruction at the International School of Monterey
  • Building a Community of Literacy Leaders
  • Berkeley High School World Language Makeover
  • Amplifying Student Voice: Developing Teachers to Support East Oakland’s Young Writers

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