Welcome to the KCI Collaboration Lab Blog

Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) is working to continually outreach to all of the teachers who are part of KCI programs and provide ways for them to have access to resources and connect other teachers throughout the school year.  This blog, "The Collaboration Lab" is part of KCI's effort to keep teachers connected all year long and to also serve as a resource for some cool and interesting ways to supercharge your classroom. The posts here will be informational and designed to support teaching and learning in all classrooms.

Communities: 

One of KCI's new activities is the creation of three Google+ Communities to provide support to those teachers who have taken part in KCI programs,

MERIT Community: The MERIT community is for all teachers who have taken part in KCI's MERIT program. This community is designed to support those teachers who are currently going through the program, while also serving as a place for teachers in previous MERIT cohorts to connect with each other. You might even see Dr. Steve posting here from time to time.

FAME Community: The FAME community has the same support and connection purpose as the MERIT community for FAME teachers. As you would expect, the conversations in this community will tend to focus on Math instructional strategies and supporting those teachers who are currently going through the FAME program.

KCI Collaboration Lab: This community is open to everyone, whether you have attended a KCI class or program or not. This is designed to be a space to collaborate and connect with other teachers or educators who share an interest in improving their knowledge or to ask their peers for their assistance in implementing something new and exciting in their classroom.

Monthly Meetups:

To promote a healthy and supportive community at KCI, we are going to start a monthly meetup at KCI between 3:30 and 5:00PM on the second Tuesday of the month, where you can connect with other teachers, get answers to your questions or help in designing a new lesson or project for your classroom. Dr. Steve will host his "The Doctor is IN" group as part of these monthly meetups.  Our first meetup is this coming Tuesday, October 13th. 

Ongoing Blog Posts:

As mentioned above, this blog will post items that are designed to help teachers use digital tools to improve the teaching and learning that occurs in their classroom, as well as developing ways to engage and support the families of the students they have in class each day. The blog posts will be written in part by KCI staff, but we will also have posts from KCI instructors or program leaders. We will also provide opportunities for all teachers connected to KCI to submit blog posts to be posted here, so bookmark this blog or put it in your feed reader, because the content here will be frequently updated with new material from all of KCI's programs. 

Suggestions:

This blog needs to support the KCI Teacher community, so please feel free to comment and respond to the posts here and e-mail us for suggestions for new blog posts here. Remember, if you have the question, there is probably someone else who has it as well. Our overarching goal is to support all teachers and help them improve their instructional practice. Anything we can do to support better teaching and in turn, improved student learning, we want to promote.