Equitable Grading Strategies through Portfolio Projects
This team plans to build student-centered classrooms through relevant curriculum and equitable structures for student feedback.
Developing Teacher Leaders for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
The team plans to study best practices for facilitating Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with the goal having the same intentionality for educator staff meetings as the plans they make for their students.
Complex Instruction at the International School of Monterey
This team plans to deepen their knowledge of effective teaching practices and, in the process, build the capacity of the math team to serve as peer coaches.
Building a Community of Literacy Leaders
This team of teachers plans to level up their existing Literacy Inquiry Group by attending literacy and EL trainings and partner with experts.
Berkeley High School World Language Makeover
This team’s goal is to modernize their World Language Department by training in teaching strategies that focus on communication and meeting the national standards created by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL).
Amplifying Student Voice: Developing Teachers to Support East Oakland’s Young Writers
This team will regularly meet with the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) coaches to design a project-based, action-oriented, writing curriculum that integrates expository, persuasive, and narrative writing into standards based social studies and science units.