During last week’s Jan. 14 Culver City Unified School District School Board meeting, the Culver City Education Foundation presented a $155,000 check for a two year grant from the California Community Foundation.
The $125,000 grant will support the ART of TEACHING program during the course of two years, providing professional development training in mathematics for nine teachers and creating mentor teachers in two of our CCUSD schools.
Each of these teachers will receive approximately 130 hours of training to further develop their pedagogical repertoire. These teachers will also be a part of the Mathematics Leadership Corps (MLC), collaboration between CCUSD, the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING, and Loyola Marymount University, with support from the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation, Louis L. Borick Foundation, and California Community Foundation.
MLC provides two research-based professional development programs: the ART of TEACHING for elementary schools and LMU’s Center for Math and Science Teaching for secondary schools. Working with these programs will enable teachers throughout the district to develop more resources for engaging their pupils in math, thus increasing student interest, knowledge, understanding and success.
The remaining $30,000 from the two-year grant will help CCEF pay for two annual independent audits (audits are a critical requirement for many major grant applications) and will enable the licensing and implementation of new donor-tracking database. This will help build the capacity necessary to generate even more funding for our Culver City schools in the years to come.
CCEF thanks the California Community Foundation and everyone involved for giving our teachers this incredible opportunity.
