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Stick to Your Core Beliefs

How to use AI to stay super aligned to your values Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.” — Elvis Presley So here’s a question for ya: What kind of fingerprints are you leaving behind in your classroom, your meetings, your plans? Because whether we…

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Upping the Ante in Math PD

KCI doubled down on math professional development this summer. Not only was the FAME (Faculty Academy for Mathematics Excellence) program for middle and high school teachers offered for the ninth year, but KCI also launched EMPowered, a new math PD program specifically for 4th and 5th grade teachers. FAME is a blended program that consists…

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Makerspace Certificate Program in class

Makerspace Certificate Program Provides Training for New Career Path

Makerspaces are popping up across the educational spectrum, at schools, libraries, and youth centers. The Maker Movement has revitalized an interest in hands-on projects and the use of various tools for designing and prototyping. Once-empty school shops and computer labs are being reborn as makerspaces, and the curriculum is gender-neutral so girls and boys have…

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Message from Gay Krause (photo + text)

Message from the Executive Director

The Krause Center for Innovation experienced an exceptionally successful summer since beginning our professional development work in 2000. We have served 565 educators in 15 intensive PD programs and trainings since spring. Many of those programs are new this year. In addition to serving educators, we also conducted six technology camps for almost 100 youth,…

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MERIT 2018 Update & 2016 Retrospective

The MERIT program continued to shine this July as 44 educators started the 2018 program, a 10-month journey to transform their teaching. They represent districts from across the Bay Area and California. While the two-week Summer Institute is rigorous and demanding, it is only the start of the journey as participants will attend four follow-up…

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CIO Program Speaker & Students

KCI Launches New CIO Program for Educators

School districts across California face a critical staffing gap that can impact whether they are able to adequately prepare students for the future. To take full advantage of technology integration in the classroom, districts obviously need the infrastructure, but what is often lacking is the staff who understand both the back-end hardware and network side…

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KCI’s Popular Crash Course Hits the Road

KCI successfully conducted two Computer Science Crash Course workshops for educators last summer, sponsored by Google’s CS4HS initiative. Over 60 teachers participated and the feedback was positive with high teacher satisfaction levels. As a result, the Infosys Foundation has selected KCI’s CS Crash Course to be included as one of the offered programs at its…

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