Reading and Writing For Real – We Love Lucy!
The team of elementary school teachers will study with literacy advocate Lucy Calkins on how to bring rich, collaborative writing and reading workshops into their classrooms.
GLAD Enhanced Project Based Learning
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.
Content Area Literacy in the Digital Age
This team of six teachers at 5 different school sites across the Bay Area aims to deepen teacher knowledge of digital literacy and adult learning while supporting each other in adapting instruction to support 21st century learning.
Upper Grade Writing Development
This team of four elementary school teachers hopes to implement skills and strategies learned at the Teachers College Writing Institute at Columbia University.
Developing Readers & Leaders in our School Community
A team of four elementary school teachers will attend the Teachers College Reading Coaching Institute at Columbia University in order to build teacher leadership and strengthen school-wide implementation of Readers Workshop.
Reader’s Workshop
Six teachers in grades three and four will deepen the implementation of the Reader’s Workshop (RW) model at their school.