Projects We’ve Funded

As of Spring 2024, we have supported the professional learning of over 500 Bay Area teachers as part of 105 funded projects.

Year Awarded

Level

Subject

County

Igniting Educator Passion Through Service-Learning

Six teachers across disciplines will cultivate a service-learning focus that can help them meet their academic goals and ignite their passions as educators towards addressing real community needs. Team members will work in a professional learning community in partnership with the National Youth Leadership Council to develop skill sets in collaboration, unit design, and creating meaningful partnerships.

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School of Environmental Leadership: Community Engagement – Climate Equity

This team of high school teachers seek to learn how to teach through a racial justice lens using cutting edge instructional practices that promote inclusivity, social emotional learning for universal student thriving, and equity building with and centering local Indigenous, Latinx and Black climate-vulnerable communities.

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PBL Pilot: Empowering Oakland

This team of middle school teachers plans to implement Project Based Learning (PBL) at our school. The team will attend trainings with the Buck Institutes and PBL Works to better understand how to design and implement a PBL curriculum.

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Operation RISE Above

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, maintaining relationships with RISE-ee’s guardians, and other advisor duties.

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Know Better, Do Better – The Science of Reading

This team of primary grade teachers strives to learn more about evidence-based best practices to support early reading acquisition for all students, including English Learners and students with disabilities. By attending training sessions with a variety of professional development providers like The Reading League, as well as working with various consultants like those from the Right to Read Project, the team aims to transfer current research findings in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to classroom practices.

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Investigating Illuminated Inequities as an Opportunity to Transform

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.

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Improving Instruction and Engagement through Spanish Professional Development

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 to connect their language lessons to their teaching.

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Indigenous Voices in the Music Classroom

This team of teachers plans to learn more about the musical origins and current practices of its schools’ indigenous communities and grow its curriculum and practice.

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Educators Designing History Curriculum Through a Global Lens

This team of teachers plans to become globally competent educators through reflection, equity-based curriculum design, and culturally responsive teaching practices. The project includes educators from two elementary sites who will examine and supplement its history curriculum using an equity lens.

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