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Krause Center for Innovation

The KCI designs and implements innovative professional learning for educators & leaders with an emphasis on technology integration and STEAM curriculum. Our community of empowered practitioners serve as current and future thought leaders of excellent, integrated K-12 education throughout CA.

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  • KCI 2019-2020 Annual Report
    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.
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  • Distance learning in East San Jose requires everyone to step up
    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.
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  • Teaching Physics & Design Thinking: A Sample Lesson from Our NGSS Instructor
    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...
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  • Computer Science Programs Continue to Draw Educators
    Computer Science Programs Continue to Draw Educators
    KCI recognized the need for computer science professional development programs over four years ago, even as schools and districts were still trying to determine how CS fits within their curriculum offerings. Last September, the State Board of Education adopted California’s first-ever computer science standards. Although not mandatory, these standards are expected to increase the number…
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  • KCI Conducts Three Summer Math Programs
    KCI Conducts Three Summer Math Programs
    KCI tripled down on math professional learning programs for educators this summer, with programs geared for 4th-5thgrade teachers, 6th-10thgrade teachers, and a new audience of preservice teachers, earning teaching credentials at San Jose State University. First up, the EMPowered program took place July 12-19, led by experienced math teachers Cristina Bustamante (KCI’s math programs director) and…
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  • KCI’s NGSS Program Supports the New Standards for Science
    KCI’s NGSS Program Supports the New Standards for Science
    Clunk! Swish! Tong… TONG! These are the sounds participants in the KCI NGSS Program hear as they bump ordinary clothes hangers, connected to short pieces of string, against  different surfaces in the classroom. After two minutes of self-directed exploration, the students are “hooked” by this phenomenon! Questions begin to form: Why are the sounds so…
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