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A Summer Prep Course for AP Students

Interdisciplinary, Santa Clara County, AP Bootcamp, 2014, High School, Funded Projects

Five teachers representing a wide range of subject areas are teaming to create an intensive summer “AP Bootcamp” to help prepare their students for success in their Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

A Common Core Professional Learning Community

Interdisciplinary, Santa Clara County, 2014, High School, Funded Projects

The team of three teachers is investigating and reviewing best practices for student success with the Common Core Standards by creating a Professional Learning Community.

Peer Coaching to Augment Literacy Content Instruction

Reading/Writing, San Mateo County, Elementary School, 2014, Funded Projects

The team of six teachers is using the LIGHT Awards grant to learn skills in collaboration and coaching.

A New Computer Science Principles Course

Santa Clara County, STE(A)M, 2014, High School, Funded Projects

A team of high school Computer Science teachers from multiple school districts is collaborating to create a Professional Learning Community to prepare to teach a new AP Computer Science course.

A School-Wide Approach to Teaching Writing

Reading/Writing, Santa Clara County, Elementary School, 2014, Funded Projects

The team of six teachers is working on a site-based shift to the way that writing is taught, with a particular emphasis on Common Core, differentiated opportunities for students, and equal access for English Language Learners.

2022

  • Deeper Learning & Stronger Support for Teachers
  • Differentiation through Student Self-Efficacy
  • Equity Learning Walk
  • Improving Outcomes for Multilingual Scholars through Collective Capacity Building
  • Operation Lesson Study
  • Studying Climate Justice Through Science, Art, and Action!
  • Cultivating Anti-Racist Bilingual Learners Through Service and Action

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

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