Can Obama save teachers jobs?
By Tami Luhby, CNNMoney — President Obama is looking to send $30 billion to the states to stem the crush of teacher layoffs. The proposal, unveiled Thursday night as part of Obama’s jobs agenda, goes far beyond a $10 billion measure he signed last August to minimize the downsizing of teachers and first responders. That […]
Huntington Library Institute for the ART of TEACHING Begins
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens hosted a special two-week institute for the Primary Source Network and other Cotsen teachers interested in the use of primary sources in social studies. Held the first two weeks in August the institute, “California’s Place in […]
Cotsen-UCLA Lab School Join Library of Congress Consortium
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — The Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING, in its partnership with the UCLA Lab School, has been selected to be a member of the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium. Joining Stanford and the University of California at Davis, the Cotsen-UCLA […]
End-Of-Year Luncheon Celebrates the Class of 2011
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — Noting that this is the ART of TEACHING’s tenth year, Executive Director Judy Johnson greeted the 2011 graduating cohort of mentors and fellows, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cotsen, members of the board and guests in the Cotsen Auditorium of the Skirball Cultural Center on […]
Teachers Talk About Their Experiences as Cotsen Fellows
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — Teachers Jennifer Moore, Mediha Din and Elizabeth Wystrach talk about what their experience as Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING fellows means to them and how it has helped to improve their teaching.
What Teaching Excellence Looks Like: Jodi Manby Teaches Reading
By Cotsen Staff, Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING — Former Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING fellow Jodi Manby teaches reading to her first grade students at Billy Mitchell Elementary School in Lawndale. Watch as she takes them ‘deep‘ into an exploration of a new book. She isn’t just teaching them to […]