On December 1, 2016, five LIGHT Awards team members from Lafayette Elementary School attended the “Linking the E and M in STEM” workshop at the Museum of Science in Boston. The Building NGSS Knowledge and STEM Education team shares about their experience.
In August 2016, the Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation hosted its third annual Convening honoring the teacher teams that received LIGHT Awards earlier in the year. The meeting brought together an impressive group of 37 educators along with members of Intrepid...
Summer 2016 – Congratulations to the Inquiry into ELD LIGHT Awards team at Life Academy in Oakland, whose work is highlighted in this video produced by Mills Teacher Scholars. Partnership with MTS provided the theoretical framework, timeline, and outside...
Grantees share accomplishments, ideas, and lessons learned On Friday, May 6th, 2016, the LIGHT Awards program hosted its first-ever reunion. Awardees from the LIGHT Awards’ first and second cohorts gathered in Redwood City to share accomplishments, exchange ideas and...
Spring 2016 – We are proud to share the recent accomplishments of Tomokazu Morikawa, teacher at George Washington High School in San Francisco and Cohort 2 “World Language: Japanese” LIGHT Awards project team member. Tomokazu has recently received two exciting...
