Apply now to bring the Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) in the Classroom Residency to your school or district. This is a unique and intensive professional development experience in which your team will receive coaching, facilitation and technical assistance from Dr. Adeyemi Stembridge, author of "Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom" and his longtime colleague and CRE Coach, Vickie Onodera.

1)    Because it is imperative that CRE be understood and supported by those in administrative and instructional leadership, all applications must have an administrator and an instructional coach/mentor or other instructional leader on the team who is committed to joining all sessions and residency opportunities.

2)   Applicants must commit to covering the cost of release time, substitute teachers, and/or stipends for team members as well as copies of "Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom". TPEP iGrant 664 funds and Title II Part A funds may be used to cover these expenses, but the applicant will be responsible for applying for these funds directly with OSPI. CSTP will cover all expenses related to time and travel for Dr. Adeyemi Stembridge and Vickie Onodera to meet with your educators.

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact Lindsey@cstp-wa.org.

CSTP has received a grant from the Professional Educator Standards Board to create a PLC of educators focused on working on and completing Professional Growth Plans (PGPs) focused around the LIFT Framework during the 2021-2022 school year. Applicants selected to participate in this PLC can earn 25 clock hours toward certification and salary advancement, learn from educators and facilitators from around the state, and receive a $300 stipend as they build skills as an instructional partner in their school. 

Using the newly released LIFT Framework, you will:

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, contact anzara@cstp-wa.org.

CSTP is solidifying the schedule for National Board Component Support for the 2021-2022 school year with our facilitators. We anticipate offering support virtually and in-person for Components 1, 2, 3 and 4. If you are interested in being notified when our program registration opens, please sign-up here.

Are you running a course, professional development or book study and want to offer Washington State clock hours? CSTP is an approved Washington State clock hour provider and can approve your courses for clock hours. It is free for the course instructor to apply for the course with course participants paying a nominal fee for clock hours.

WEA is offering several synchronous courses supporting inclusionary practices for Washington educators throughout July-September. All courses are free and offer clock hours.

Collaborative Learning Solutions is a member of the statewide professional development cadre for the Inclusionary Practices Project with OSPI. They are offering free training, resources and supports to educators, students and schools to create conditions for all learners focused on restorative practices and equity emphasizing the educational and social-emotional needs of all students. The training they are offering is comprised of distinctive targets including Restorative Practices, Community of Equity and Inclusive Practices, and Restorative Justice Centers. The target audiences for their trainings are district leaders, school leaders, teachers, counselors, parents and students.

The latest posts from CSTP's teacher bloggers on www.storiesfromschools.org.

"Now, as I have grown to see how narrow a view of the world my district’s high school English reading lists represent, I can see why it is a problem that the only approved major work of literature in the 9th grade curriculum with a female narrator, let alone a female author, still centers much of its story on the experiences of boys and men."

Are you looking to learn some new tricks on your Learning Management System for next year? Resource Guides for Canvas, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Schoology and Seesaw, the five most frequently used LMSs in Washington, were designed by teachers to help you hone your skills! The Teacher Tech Project's LMS Resource Guides have a new site where you can find information for beginner and advanced users with all platform-related content. The Resource Guides are free, easy to use, and available any time of day. Come check them out, create a bookmark for later, use, and share them with colleagues at https://sites.google.com/view/wa-teacher-tech-project-resour/home.

On December 31, 2020 CSTP added four new modules designed by educators for educators in grades K-12. Badges and clock hours are available for those completing any of the 20 available asynchronous modules in the Teacher Tech Project. Each completed module is worth one clock hour.

Learn more on the CSTP website.

Need a wildlife fix? Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park has a great live camera view of brown bears catching salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. During popular meal times you will see a dozen or more bears around the falls, tons of jumping salmon and plenty of seagulls to clean-up the leftovers.

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