Krause Center for Innovation

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.

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.

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

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…

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…

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…