On March 29th, 2018, the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING, held a CGI counting collections lab day for grades 3-5 at Juan De Anza Elementary School. The focus of the day was counting collections and how it can connect to upper-grade math. Counting is an essential building block of mathematics. In many ways […]
Celia Sosa is a 2016 alumna mentor who teaches third grade at Braddock Drive Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Shortly after finishing the ART of TEACHING Fellowship in 2016, an opportunity to work with Megan Franke, a renowned expert in Cognitively Guided Instruction and a professor of education at UCLA, presented itself. Celia now opens […]
The Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING has awarded over $211,000 in grants to alumni schools and teachers in order to support teacher collaboration, professional learning and parent involvement for the 2017 – 2018 school year. Each year the foundation offers several categories of grants to support its participants’ continued professional growth. The categories include Parent […]
Over the course of three consecutive years of Cotsen Strategic Opportunity Grants, Fountain Valley School District has utilized collaboration as a tool for professional development to transform teaching and learning in the area of mathematics. The catalyst behind this transformation was a Cotsen alumna fellow, who had a big goal – to bring together teachers […]
We would like to take this time to welcome Angela Bae to the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING as our new Senior Program Officer. Angela comes to us from Growing Educators and was previously an ART of TEACHING fellow from the Lawndale Elementary School District from 2007 to 2009. As we welcome […]
Math Community Gathers in Lawndale for 2015 CGI National Conference Three-day conference sponsored in part by the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING was largest CGI National Conference to date with Cotsen teachers comprising nearly 20% of attendance. LOS ANGELES — The Eighth Biennial Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) National Conference took place June 25-27, […]
COTSEN FOUNDATION FOR THE ART OF TEACHING SPONSORS OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE CGI NATIONAL CONFERENCE Registration kicks off Thursday June 25th at 3:00 p.m. with a selection of gourmet food trucks sponsored by the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING. Other conference sponsors include the Orange County Department of Education and the Downey Unified School District. Please note that […]
In this video, Cotsen alumna Teri Malpass teaches a 1st Grade math class using “Math Wall” and cognitively guided instruction as students work to solve a word problem. Below you will find the Common Core State Standards addressed, as well as questions to consider while watching the video. Print in bold represents information found […]