News of particular interest to teachers.
The University of California Curriculum Integration Institute (UCCI) has announced the Spring Institute will be held April 10-13, 2014 at the Hyatt SFO in Burlingame. The UCCI Institutes’ purpose is to bring teachers together to develop new model integrated courses designed for UC “a-g” approval — meaning they satisfy UC’s “a-g” subject requirements for freshman
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This is to share with you a great example of a successful business/school partnership around game design. Zynga is located in San Francisco and recently met with teachers at Balboa High School’s Academy of Information Technology to plan, design and pitch a new game. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PBwqXPkkjtA Volunteers from the online social game
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President Obama has announced Youth CareerConnect, a competitive grant program administered by the Department of Labor (DOL) in collaboration with the Department of Education (ED). The grant program seeks to bring to scale models for high school transformation that emphasize public-private partnerships. Inspired loosely by IBM’s P-TECH model, Youth CareerConnect has already been compared to
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The TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) program is ready to start recruiting new school partners for the 2014-15 school year. TEALS (www.tealsk12.org) is a Microsoft YouthSpark program that helps high schools build a sustainable computer science (CS) program. I’ve heard from many teachers that they would like more professional development to better teach
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