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Operation RISE Above

San Francisco, Social & Emotional Learning, 2021, High School, Funded Projects

KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory At this team’s school, every staff member serves as an advisor to a cohort of 12-16 students (a ‘RISE’) from freshman year to graduation. The team of teachers plans to create a professional learning series that...

Investigating Illuminated Inequities as an Opportunity to Transform

San Francisco, Social & Emotional Learning, 2021, Funded Projects

Sherman Elementary School, San Francisco A team of six elementary school teachers will engage with professional learning provider Feathership to create a structure and space for an Equity Centered Professional Learning Community. Feathership will strategically partner...

Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development

San Mateo County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2021, Elementary School, Middle School, Funded Projects

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...

Meaningful Integration of Special Needs Students in PE

San Francisco, Social & Emotional Learning, 2020, High School, Funded Projects

This team plans to implement the Unified PE curriculum, bringing together special education and general education students in an atmosphere of inclusion and acceptance.

Facing History’s Professional Learning Community for Ethnic Studies

Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2020, High School, Funded Projects

This team from across the Bay Area will launch a professional learning community focused on learning and growing in the area of Ethnic Studies.

Leadership with Passion

Santa Clara County, Social & Emotional Learning, 2018, High School, Funded Projects

This team of six high school teachers from Eastside Union High School District will finish the creation of a five year-long comprehensive A-G leadership courses, and strengthen their shared passion for being Leadership Teachers.

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2021

  • Igniting Educator Passion Through Service-Learning
  • School of Environmental Leadership: Community Engagement – Climate Equity
  • PBL Pilot: Empowering Oakland
  • Operation RISE Above
  • Know Better, Do Better – The Science of Reading
  • Investigating Illuminated Inequities as an Opportunity to Transform
  • Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development
  • Indigenous Voices in the Music Classroom
  • Educators Designing History Curriculum Through a Global Lens

2020

  • Social Justice and Empowerment Through Literacy and Dialogue in English Classes
  • Meaningful Integration of Special Needs Students in PE
  • Literacy GLADiators
  • Integrated Learning for Equity
  • High School Teachers in Lodi Making Sense of Earth Science
  • Facing History’s Professional Learning Community for Ethnic Studies
  • Equitable Grading Strategies through Portfolio Projects
  • Developing Teacher Leaders for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Complex Instruction at the International School of Monterey
  • Building a Community of Literacy Leaders
  • Berkeley High School World Language Makeover
  • Amplifying Student Voice: Developing Teachers to Support East Oakland’s Young Writers

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