For more than 20 years, the award-winning Krause Center for Innovation has championed professional learning for educators. KCI’s approach to innovation through educational technology emphasizes STEAM education and provides teachers with the practical experience needed to successfully integrate media-rich, computer-based technologies into the K-14 curriculum. 

For educators, by educators

At the heart of KCI you will find teachers who care. Founded by an educator, run by educators, and benefiting educators, KCI understands that it’s about more than just subject matter expertise. This team brings together some of the most talented and experienced professionals with the goal of improving education in our communities. The KCI team understands that the classroom truly is the place where systemic change begins, where ideas take shape, where growth is nurtured. Through partnerships and various collaborations, KCI is constantly growing and expanding its reach, scope and services and making a big difference.

From on-site classes in its state-of-the-art facility to engaging online/blended programs, KCI’s strategies empower teachers to become adept at using a wide range of technology tools and techniques that they can then incorporate into their own classrooms. KCI’s facility includes an advanced Makerspace lab, allowing program participants to master advanced hardware tools and software programs. Equally important, KCI provides teachers the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other, creating lasting networks of support and mentoring that encourage creative solutions to educational challenges.

The enthusiasm and gratitude KCI participants report after completing programs—along with stories of how their students also benefit—is what inspires the KCI team and keeps them passionate about the work they do. Since 2000, more than 22,000 educators have benefitted from KCI’s programming and have gone on to implement changes in their own classrooms, positively impacting upwards of 2.2 million students. That’s quite a return on investment!

We can’t do all this alone.

And this is where KCI’s valued donors come in. Affecting all this change takes a strong team, a singular vision, and funding. Giving to KCI allows you to see the benefits of your support in action. With guidance from the Foothill-De Anza Foundation, KCI’s stewardship of resources is stellar and your contributions directly support teachers and students with a minimum of overhead. 

By investing in the KCI, you’re allowing our team to maintain programs and continue to train thousands of the state’s teachers so they can go back to the classroom and inspire their students. Donations at all levels translate into meeting specific needs—whether supporting groups of teachers to attend KCI’s year-long programs, supporting one teacher, supplying technology, or supporting KCI operations. We’ll allocate your gift to meet our most pressing needs.

So if you truly believe in education and are looking for a cause you can put your whole heart into, join the KCI family today and make a big difference where it really counts. Together we can transform teaching and learning.