PBL Pilot: Empowering Oakland
West Oakland Middle School, Oakland This team of middle school teachers plans to implement Project Based Learning (PBL) at our school. The team will attend trainings with the Buck Institutes and PBL Works to better understand how to design and implement a PBL...Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development
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...Indigenous Voices in the Music Classroom
Oakland Unified School District This team of teachers plans to learn more about the musical origins and current practices of its schools’ indigenous communities and grow its curriculum and practice. The first year, the team will learn from local culture bearers and...Developing Teacher Leaders for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
The team plans to study best practices for facilitating Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with the goal having the same intentionality for educator staff meetings as the plans they make for their students.
Complex Instruction at the International School of Monterey
This team plans to deepen their knowledge of effective teaching practices and, in the process, build the capacity of the math team to serve as peer coaches.