Ready to Reignite Your Teaching? The STEAM Leadership Program Is Back This Summer
What if one program could change the way you teach — forever? That’s not a marketing line. It’s what educators who’ve been through the KCI STEAM Leadership Program keep telling us. And this summer, a new cohort kicks off, with spots open for passionate educators across California. What Is the STEAM Leadership Program? The STEAM…
A KCI Impact Interview Featuring Jesus Huerta
“My goal is to show teachers that the classroom can go beyond pencil and paper. With a focus on innovation (educators) allow students access to the next level of technology. The hope is students will learn how to be entrepreneurs, gain interest in STEAM and understand the design process.” – Jesus Huerta Recently, we interviewed…
Cybersecurity Remains Top Issue Per SETDA Survey
October marks the 19th year of raising awareness around cybersecurity issues. Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an initiative founded and led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA). However, despite having almost two decades worth of awareness efforts being driven around the issue, educational cybersecurity continues to lack appropriate funding for it,…
Edtech Trends Help Inform Professional Development Experiences at KCI
The tech trends of 2022 are not the shiny, new tools of 2021 that many educators grew accustomed to while remote teaching. Rebecca Torchia, a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12, wrote an article earlier this year on “5 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2022.” In it, Torchia explained that “The biggest trends…
KCI Helps Make Cybersecurity Accessible for Educators
This October marks the 19th year of raising awareness around cybersecurity issues. Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an initiative founded and led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is a “collaboration between government and private industry to raise awareness about digital security and empower everyone to protect their personal data from…
Online Learning Continues to Trend Among Students and Learners
It’s no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted how students, educators, and even employers conduct their studies and business online. According to a recent article on the World Economic Forum website, writer Johnny Wood concluded, “The number of students accessing its online courses now exceeds pre-pandemic levels, a leading global online learning platform reports.”…
Letting Assistive Technology Do Its Job
This summer, in between weeks at camp, activity workbooks, and crafts that now litter our kitchen table, my daughter learned how to use our Amazon Echo. My daughter has used our Echo frequently these past few months – issuing commands to play the Sing 2 Soundtrack, tell her knock-knock jokes, setting her own timer for…
#MERIT22 Brings HyFlex Learning to KCI
Since 2001, the MERIT Program has been a staple at The Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA. MERIT, Making Education Relevant through Innovative Teaching, has become synonymous with developing innovative teaching practices, affordable professional learning, and technology-enhanced pedagogy for educators across the state of California. The MERIT Program is…
Getting Started with Coding in the Classroom
Computer coding has long been seen as a valuable skill for students. But teachers are often stumped on where to begin. From which coding language to start with to first activities to transitioning students to more complex programs, teachers are seeking a roadmap for teaching coding. KCI Instructor Sheena Vaidyanthan recently wrote an article for…
Increasing Teen Nutrition and Produce Consumption Through Cultural Recipe Interventions
Why? Frequency of produce consumption is one of the most accurate methods of assessing nutrition quality, an indicator for other health measures that are linked to long-term well-being and thus quality of life. While most studies recommend 5+ servings, over 70% of adolescents do not meet such standards and thus increase their likelihoods of developing…
Combating Social Media’s Effects on Body Dysmorphia
Many social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook continue to promote negative content for those susceptible to eating disorders and social body dysmorphia (BDD). Body dysmorphia is a mental health disorder where one may be constantly obsessed with a perceived flaw and will go through great lengths to fix it. Social media is one of…