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#BestSchoolDay for Students and Teachers in San Joaquin County

#BestSchoolDay for Students and Teachers in San Joaquin County

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 #BestSchoolDay Across the USA We are excited to share news of a recent effort by a partner in championing teachers. In an “act of mass philanthropy” called #BestSchoolDay, DonorsChoose.org has coordinated a flash-funding of teacher projects in cities and counties...

In the Driver’s Seat: PacTIN Survey Highlights Benefits of New Models for Teacher Professional Development

Education News, News

The Pacific Coast Teacher Innovation Network (PacTIN), housed at the UC Davis School of Education, was an early inspiration for the LIGHT Awards. Like the LIGHT Awards, PacTIN supported small teams of California teachers to implement professional development adapted...

Teachers Know Best: Gates Foundation Findings Highlight Importance of LIGHT Awards Strategy

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“Teachers who choose most or all of their own professional development opportunities are more than twice as satisfied with professional development as teachers with fewer options.” In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contracted with the Boston...

2019

  • Writing Achievement for All: A Path for 9th – 12th Grade
  • Revving Up for Dual Immersion
  • Reading and Writing For Real – We Love Lucy!
  • Promoting Bilingualism and Biliteracy through DI in SCUSD
  • Practical Skills to Develop Creative Interdisciplinary Literacy
  • Math Teaching for Inquiry and Problem-Solving
  • Making Sense of SCIENCE with Earth Science Phenomena
  • Increasing Access to AP Curriculum for Language Learners
  • Graham Middle School STEAM Digital Heroes
  • GLAD Enhanced Project Based Learning
  • Fluency First
  • Deepening Mathematical Practices and Improving Student Access to College Math
  • Content Area Literacy in the Digital Age

2018

  • Vertical Alignment of School-Wide Advisory Curriculum
  • Upper Grade Writing Development
  • Si Se Puede: (Re)Building Community Through Teacher Development
  • Revolutionizing How Students Engage With Climate Change Education
  • Project Based Learning to Improve Equity in Learning
  • Project Based Learning to Develop Language Skills
  • Learning to be Glad
  • Leadership with Passion
  • Improving Personalized Learning: School-Wide, 4-8
  • Cycle of Inquiry Committee Looking Closely
  • Teacher Learning Lab

2017

  • STEAM Team
  • Assistive Technology Team
  • Building Teacher Leadership Capacity
  • AP Success & Equity Project
  • Mathematics and Industry Curriculum Redesign
  • Making ELD Hands-On for New Speakers of English
  • Developing Readers & Leaders in our School Community
  • Bringing World Languages Alive in Davis Joint Unified
  • Spanish Teacher Professional Learning Community
  • Be GLAD
  • Orchestra Teacher Professional Development

2016

  • Transformational Teacher Mentoring
  • Project Based Learning with a Maker Mindset
  • Algeomulus Prep Academy
  • Interdisciplinary Real World Challenges
  • Teaching Garden
  • Improving Mathematical Literacy: School Wide, TK – 12
  • Building NGSS Knowledge and STEM Education
  • Reader’s Workshop
  • Culture of Mindfulness
  • “¡Adelante Juntos!” Developing a Dual Immersion Model in a Blended Program
  • Taking Flight

2015

  • Reading Lab Sites
  • Spanish for Native Speakers Professional Learning Community
  • Peer Coaching: Using Video in Collaborative Inquiry Groups
  • Inquiry into ELD
  • STEM Writing Project
  • Blended Practices to Achieve a Project-Based Learning Culture
  • Deepening Student Engagement: School Wide, K-12
  • Bringing AVID Back
  • World Language (Japanese)

2014

  • A Summer Prep Course for AP Students
  • A Common Core Professional Learning Community
  • Peer Coaching to Augment Literacy Content Instruction
  • A New Computer Science Principles Course
  • A School-Wide Approach to Teaching Writing
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