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Chris Lehman and Julia Torres Teach Literacy as a Tool for Collective Liberation in Alumni Speaker Series Workshop

Founder of The Educator Collaborative, Chris Lehman, and The Educator Collaborative Book Ambassador and teacher librarian, Julia Torres, led the first Alumni Speaker Series of the 2019-2020 school year. Their presentation titled, Literacy as a Tool for Collective Liberation: Culturally Responsive Teaching in the K-6 Classroom, centered on confronting the many challenges educators face on the […]

August 29, 2019

Cotsen Alumni Speaker Series and Study Network Take off in 2018-2019

This year, the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING is hosting its first-ever Cotsen Alumni Speaker Series. Throughout the course of the year, Cotsen alumni will have an opportunity to participate in workshops led by prominent speakers in the field of education. The first workshop in the series was led by Kristi Mraz in […]

December 21, 2018

Administrators Gather for the 2018-2019 Cotsen Principals’ Breakfast Meeting

Current and alumni principals, teachers, leaders and district office administrators gathered at the Centre at Sycamore Plaza on Sept. 14th for a working breakfast meeting to explore the professional development and grant opportunities that Cotsen is sponsoring for the 2018-2019 school year. The morning began with coffee, breakfast, and casual conversations following the summer break and […]

October 11, 2018

The 13th Annual ART of TEACHING Conference

The Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING hosted its 13th Annual ART of TEACHING Conference on Sept. 22nd at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach. Over 600 educators registered to attend the conference from across California, making this year the largest conference the foundation has ever hosted. The Hyatt Grand Ballroom was filled with the […]

October 10, 2018

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Report: Effective Teacher Professional Development Crucial to Common Core

By David Nagel, T.H.E. Journal The success of the largest education reform effort of the last decade — Common Core State Standards — is contingent upon effective teacher professional development, according to a new report issued today by the National School Boards Association. But the report, “Teaching the Teachers: Effective Professional Development in an Era of […]

September 27, 2013

Jerry Harris Begins Tenure as New Executive Director of the ART of TEACHING

Today, the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING welcomed Jerry Harris as its new executive director, succeeding Judy Johnson, the founding executive director of the ART of TEACHING, who retired at the end of June 2013. Mr. Harris has served as a program officer for the foundation since 2007, focusing on the development of […]

July 1, 2013

Ed Prof Challenges Professional Development Conventions

By Tom Chorneau, SI&A’s Cabinet Report Ivan Cheng, who spent more than two decades teaching math in Los Angeles schools, is one of a growing number of researchers who believe conventional methods for making teachers better don’t necessarily help their students. A professor of secondary education at California State University, Northridge, and a principal in […]

April 17, 2012

Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?

By Atul Gawande, The New Yorker — I’ve been a surgeon for eight years. For the past couple of them, my performance in the operating room has reached a plateau. I’d like to think it’s a good thing—I’ve arrived at my professional peak. But mainly it seems as if I’ve just stopped getting better. During […]

October 6, 2011

We Need a Different National Conversation

By Gene R. Carter, Education Week — From almost any vantage point, it is hard to find sincere concern about the productive future of our young people in the political debates occurring in Washington and state capitals. The passing references to children and students feel largely like rhetorical flourishes in the partisan and ideological fights […]

September 14, 2011

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