| Organization |
Area served |
Purpose |
Amount |
| Downtown College Prep and ACE Charter Schools |
Santa Clara County |
To support the High Math Achievement program, which would provide participating teachers
with a four-week summer institute for professional development and an instructional mathematics coach to work at both schools. |
$60,000 |
| A collaborative of the Bayshore, Brisbane,
San Carlos and Belmont School Districts |
Northern San Mateo County |
To support the ACCESS Program, which seeks to strengthen instruction for students from four school
districts that have tested below proficient on the California Standards Test by investing in professional development
for middle school math teachers and building a multi-district learning community. |
$120,169 |
| Berryessa Union School District |
San Jose |
To support the Middle School Mathematics Program, which seeks to strengthen effectiveness of mathematics
instruction so all students successfully complete Algebra 1 by the end of 8th grade. Support will provide teacher training
and an on-site instructional mathematics coach. |
$60,600 |
| East Palo Alto Charter School - Aspire Public Schools |
East Palo Alto |
To support the Teacher Fellows Program, which seeks to address costly high teacher turn-over by investing
in teacher recruitment and training. The program would hire and train one first-time teacher, provide accelerated professional
development during the school year and add an on-site instructional mathematics coach. |
$52,540 |
| Foothill College’s Krause Center for Innovation
(KCI), and the Physical Science,
Mathematics and Engineering (PSME) division |
San Mateo and Santa Clara counties |
To support the Faculty Academy for Mathematics Excellence (FAME) program, a professional development
program focused on increasing the effectiveness of middle school mathematics teachers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
Specifically, the program will research and plan a new summer institute and recruit participating teachers. |
$29,400 |
| Jefferson Elementary and Pacifica School Districts |
Northern San Mateo County |
To support professional development for teachers and coaches from both school districts
and have on-site mathematics coaches available to strengthen classroom practices and build a multi-district
learning community. |
$75,000 |
| Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network |
San Mateo and Santa Clara counties |
To support the Math Matters program, which in partnership with Intel, seeks to provide an intensive
Math Institute with year-long coaching for San Mateo County teachers and professional learning communities in San
Mateo and Santa Clara counties. |
$75,000 |
| Moreland School District |
San Jose |
To support professional development for mathematics teachers, in-school learning communities
and partial funding for a middle school mathematics coach at Moreland Middle School. |
$29,780 |
| Mountain View Whisman School District |
Mountain View |
To support the Math Accelerated Program (MAP), a comprehensive program to increase mathematics
instructional support for lower-performing students who are mainly of Hispanic descent. The project is designed
to improve the effectiveness of middle school mathematics teachers by providing professional development, coaching
and learning communities. |
$77,189 |
| New Teacher Center and Silicon Valley New Teacher Project |
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties |
To support Project Algebra, which will provide newly developed, targeted professional development
for new mathematics teachers in grades 6-8, their mentors and administrators. |
$100,000 |
| Price Middle School |
San Jose |
To support professional development and opportunities for collaboration among educators, further
curriculum development, educational technology, and efforts to identify and address barriers to learning particular
to students in underperforming groups. |
$48,384 |
| Ravenswood City School District |
East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park |
To support the Middle School Mathematics Program, which seeks to improve teacher instructional skills
in algebra through extensive professional development and training in an intensive one-week summer institute and on
Saturdays and on-site instructional coaching. |
$75,000 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation |
Santa Clara and San Mateo |
To support the Silicon Valley Math Inintiative in providing a comprehensive professional development
program to middle school teachers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The aim is to increase the number of teachers
whose understanding of mathematics enables them to provide the highest quality instruction, particularly in algebra,
through intensive professional development, coaching and participation in learning communities. |
$100,000 |
| Santa Clara County Office of Education |
Santa Clara County |
To support the Algebra Success Initiative: Ensuring Equity (ASI) program, which will provide
professional development to teachers in districts with high percentages of students of color, students who are
English Learners and low-income students. The program provides a week-long summer institute and monthly follow-up
sessions during the school year |
$80,436 |
| Springboard for Improving Schools |
Half Moon Bay and San Jose |
To support the design of a professional development program serving Oak Grove School District
in San Jose and the Cabrillo School District in Half Moon Bay. |
$35,000 |
| Sustainable Valley Foundation of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group |
Santa Clara County |
To support Silicon Valley: A Laboratory for Learning, an initiative of the Silicon Valley Leadership
Group and its Sustainable Valley Foundation to provide professional development for mathematics teachers in Santa
Clara County using the Intel curriculum. |
$75,000 |
