Robot-Assisted Home Inspection
Soon after retiring from the classroom in June 2022 with the Santa Clara Unified School District, I embarked on a self-guided learning journey to keep myself intellectually stimulated. The Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) is my go-to venue for interesting professional development (PD) programs. During one of such PD programs in the Summer of 2025,…
Justin’s Story
Learn how Justin is establishing the level of trust essential to effectively teaching online health education classes.
MERIT20
Meet four teachers who recently participated in MERIT20, KCI’s premier professional learning program. Find out how it has benefitted their students during this challenging year and provided valuable methods and tools for years to come.
KCI 2019-2020 Annual Report
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.
Distance learning in East San Jose requires everyone to step up
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.
Teaching Physics & Design Thinking: A Sample Lesson from Our NGSS Instructor
Our NGSS Program Instructor, Greg Brown, has prepared a video lesson that teaches Physics and Design Thinking concepts with a simple and fun project…
Now Is the Time to Become the Teacher You’ve Wanted to Be
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 been in our classrooms, so don’t expect it to look the same. Now is the time to try out some of those online tools or…