Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
Last month, 125 low-income youth from under-represented groups in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) from around Oakland, California became developers of technology rather than just consumers at the Level the Coding Field Hackathon. Working through a curriculum grounded in design thinking and mobile app development, 25 teams of five students in the 6-12th grades
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This is to report on the first of three Pathways to Prosperity Institutes (Institute) that was launched yesterday in Sacramento under the auspices of the California Department of Education (CDE), the California Community Colleges, the California Workforce Investment Board and the Pathways to Prosperity Network. These organizations showed strong united leadership to promote effective Career
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Every student in the Foshay Tech Academy – and a large percentage of all students at Foshay in grades in K-12 – have completed the Hour of Code <http://csedweek.org/> challenge. The goal is to get 10 million students to code for an hour this week – the site is now up to nearly 9 million
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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
-> Continue reading UCCI Spring Institute Includes ICT Coursework