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Transforming Our Kinder-First Grade Literacy Program

Reading/Writing, Santa Clara County, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects

Cadwallader School, San Jose Our team is committed to doing all we can to ensure that all our students are successful readers. We are setting out to transform our kinder-1st grade literacy program by doing a series of personalized professional development with The...

Unlocking the Science of Biliteracy

Reading/Writing, San Francisco, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects

JOHN MUIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO This project serves to enhance our professional capacities as teachers by providing us with the requisite knowledge and skills to instruct emergent biliteracy students effectively. We will cultivate our content expertise...

Returning to our Roots: Crafting Empowering Learning

Reading/Writing, Alameda County, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects

Manzanita SEED, Oakland 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). The Units will incorporate reading, writing, math, language and...

Using Science and Social Justice to Raise Teaching Practice

2023, Marin County, STE(A)M, Middle School, Funded Projects

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, Sausalito Our project will serve teachers of students in a historically Black, disadvantaged, and low-income community facing severe environmental and social issues. This grant will fund an educational consultant skilled in the...

The Power of Play

2023, Social & Emotional Learning, Alameda County, Elementary School, Funded Projects

William G. Paden Elementary School, Alameda 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...

Raising a Community of Writers

2023, Yolo County, Reading/Writing, Elementary School, Funded Projects

PATWIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DAVISBIRCH LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DAVIS Two Team Members teach 5th grade at Patwin Elementary, one Team Member teaches 4th grade at Birch Lane Elementary, and one Team Member teaches 2nd grade at Pioneer Elementary. We aim to cultivate...
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2024

  • Cultivating our Collective Efficacy to Support Future Social Justice LeadersJune 10, 2024
  • Ecosystems of Ethnic Studies for Social Justice (ESSJ)June 10, 2024
  • Equity for SMHS Science StudentsJune 10, 2024
  • Bilingual DEI Learning through Project Based LearningJune 10, 2024
  • Inquiry to Empower Collective EfficacyJune 10, 2024
  • Cultivating Conversation: Increasing Student Talk in the ClassroomJune 10, 2024
  • Transforming Our Kinder-First Grade Literacy ProgramJune 10, 2024
  • Unlocking the Science of BiliteracyJune 10, 2024
  • Returning to our Roots: Crafting Empowering LearningJune 10, 2024

2023

  • Using Science and Social Justice to Raise Teaching Practice
  • The Power of Play
  • Raising a Community of Writers
  • Project Based Geometry and The Trades
  • PBL for Newcomers: Language Development, Engagement and Empowerment
  • Our Changing Planet – Community of Practice
  • Engaging Diverse Youth through Strong Dual Immersion

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