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…
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…
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…
Important Partnership for STEAM Leadership
The Synopsys Outreach Foundation devotes energy and resources to ignite interest and cultivate potential for all of the Bay Area’s K-12 students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). They have been responsible for investing millions of dollars into programs, non-profits, and schools so that Bay Area students will be positioned to attain the jobs…
KCI offers our SPACE Program Tuition Free for the First Time in Summer, 2022
Dr. Mae Johnson, America’s first Black Female Astronaut said, “Never be limited by other people’s imaginations.” We expect our students to define their success by what THEY have accomplished. We want them to take ownership of their thoughts, ideas, and contributions to their classes and society. We want them to think outside-of-the-box to come up…
KCI is Looking for our next MERIT Assistant Director
Since 2000, KCI has hosted innovative technology integration workshops and programs for educators all around the globe. Blossoming instructional leaders have participated and led these programs, keeping the content fresh and engaging from year to year. KCI’s MERIT Program, previously known as Earn While You Learn, provides many educators’ their first steps into the KCI…
2020-2021: A Retrospective Take on KCI’s Instructional Impact
Our annual fundraising season is upon us, and we are excited to share a retrospective look at the 2020-2021 school year.
Silver Linings with an LMS
Learn about one school district’s journey to adopt of new learning management system and implement it with the help of the Krause Center for Innovation instructional team.
Get Your Students Ready for the 2021 US Inauguration!
January 20th is right around the corner, and teachers have the opportunity to inform your students about the powerful tradition of officially welcoming a newly-elected US President to the office. See the KCI instructional team’s curated Choice Board for K-8 teachers to send home with their students to inspire curiosity and family conversations at this crucial moment in our national history.
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.
Now Is the Time to Become the Teacher You’ve Wanted to Be
As teachers, we are not always comfortable venturing into the unknown, but this is the perfect opportunity to do just that! Teaching and learning cannot be done as they have been in our classrooms, so don’t expect it to look the same. Now is the time to try out some of those online tools or…