May 24 and May 31. This two day workshop addresses the key role that content area teachers play in providing contextual understanding and instructional practices for building reading, writing, speaking and listening skills found in the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts....Read more

Choose one of these three-day sessions:
July 29-31, 2013 or January 14-16, 2014
A three-day workshop for K-12 educators to learn how to utilize Project Based Learning (PBL) as an instructional approach to implement Common Core State Standards. In PBL, students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge....Read more

Investigation, Service, and Civility for the 21st Century
The Initiative will engage ten high schools in Los Angeles County to work as professional learning communities for three years to receive (at no cost) professional development, resources, guidance, coaching assistance, and teacher stipends to implement effective civic practices in classrooms....Read more

for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards
Guidance for states to use in enhancing their standards for rigor in civics, economics, geography, and history in K-12 schools

The Vision for the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Inquiry in Social Studies State Standards provides guidance for states to use in enhancing their standards for rigor in civics, economics, geography, and history in K-12 schools. 

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A California Guide to Align Civic Education and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects.
This guide is intended to achieve a dual purpose: to provide English-Language Arts teachers a civic education context for improving literacy skills and, to provide social studies teachers a pedagogical framework for building literacy competencies needed for civic life....Read more

Teaching 20th Century American History in Alternative Education Settings 
This project is developed in collaboration with the National Center for History in the Schools is designed to improve the teaching of 20th Century American History to students largely under-served in conventional history education programs:  students in juvenile hall, court and community schools, continuation schools, and other alternative education settings.
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