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KCIcon 2024: Innovate to Empower

July 17, 2024

We were thrilled to host the second KCI Conference on July 13, 2024, at the Krause Center for Innovation. This year’s theme, “Innovate to Empower,” resonated deeply with our mission…

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KCI 2020 Annual Report

KCI 2019-2020 Annual Report

October 14, 2020

This year the Krause Center for Innovation celebrated 20 years of delivering highly impactful professional development programs for educators, and achieved many successes during this unprecedented and challenging time.

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Distance learning in East San Jose requires everyone to step up

August 18, 2020

Chris Funk’s recent column in The San Jose Spotlight highlights the challenges faced by schools like East Side Union High as they prepare to start classes this Fall. It offers insights into how they met those challenges with help from KCI.

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Greg Brown Demonstrates Physics and Design Thinking Project

Teaching Physics & Design Thinking: A Sample Lesson from Our NGSS Instructor

June 4, 2020

Our NGSS Program Instructor, Greg Brown, has prepared a video lesson that teaches Physics and Design Thinking concepts with a simple and fun project…

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Now Is the Time to Become the Teacher You’ve Wanted to Be

April 16, 2020

As teachers, we are not always comfortable venturing into the unknown, but this is the perfect opportunity to do just that! Teaching and learning cannot be done as they have…

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Makerspace employee and Foothill College student, Jon Armer, works on prototype of PPE headband

KCI Makerspace Prints Face Shield Headbands for Local Healthcare Providers

April 6, 2020

Krause Center for Innovation, part of the Foothill DeAnza Community College District in Los Altos Hills, California, is taking on the fight against personal protective equipment PPE shortages. Since the…

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Message from Gay Krause (photo + text)

A Message from Gay Krause

March 26, 2020

I hope that each of you and your families are staying safe and healthy. The Krause Center for Innovation on the Foothill Campus is closed, but our staff is working…

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