Robot-Assisted Home Inspection
Soon after retiring from the classroom in June 2022 with the Santa Clara Unified School District, I embarked on a self-guided learning journey to keep myself intellectually stimulated. The Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) is my go-to venue for interesting professional development (PD) programs. During one of such PD programs in the Summer of 2025,…
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.