Projects We’ve Funded

The Power of Play

• Alameda County
• Social & Emotional Learning
• 2023
• Elementary School
• Funded Projects

William G. Paden Elementary School, Alameda Play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith concluded, ‘The opposite of play is not work–the opposite of play is depression.’ While research supports this, traditional schools continue to treat play as frivolous and double down on the pressure to raise students’ standardized test scores. Meanwhile, teachers are leaving the profession and students […]

Equity Learning Walk

• Alameda County
• Social & Emotional Learning
• 2022
• Middle School
• Funded Projects

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 codifies the expectations and supports for teaching lessons during daily RISE time, mentoring advisees, […]

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 with the team and facilitate monthly workshops on radical self-love and anti-racist leadership. Through its learnings, the team will […]

Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development

• 2021
• Social & Emotional Learning
• San Mateo County
• 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 through Verbalicity and attend trainings by the Center for Applied Linguistics […]

Meaningful Integration of Special Needs Students in PE

• 2020
• Social & Emotional Learning
• San Francisco
• 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

• Social & Emotional Learning
• 2020
• Santa Clara County
• San Mateo County
• Alameda County
• 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

• 2018
• Social & Emotional Learning
• Santa Clara County
• 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.

Culture of Mindfulness

• Social & Emotional Learning
• San Francisco
• High School
• 2016
• Funded Projects

The team of five high school teachers, representing a variety of subject areas and grade levels, will participate in a series of mindfulness courses and retreats over the course of two years.