Pays UC Berkeley's Bay Area Writing Project up to $14,225 for teacher writing training at Dewey Academy

The Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley will run a series of professional development sessions for teachers at Dewey Academy on teaching writing, especially argument writing, and on building a positive classroom culture. The agreement runs from March 16, 2022 to June 30, 2023 and is capped at $14,225. The agreement period began before the board vote.

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Vendor / partner: The Regents of the University of California (Bay Area Writing Project) · Berkeley, CA
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Mar 16, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023
This vote: $14,225
Schools: Dewey Academy
Funding: Title I
Resource / site: 3010-310
Vendor no.: 000637
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 22-2324 · agenda S.-61
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Oct 26, 2022

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement by and between the District and the Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to provide a multi-session professional development series that advances practice in the teaching and uses of writing in the content areas, with special emphasis placed on expanding practices for teaching argument writing as well as addressing the social-emotional contexts students bring to the learning environment, building strong student identities, and developing a positive classroom culture and community, as described in Exhibit A of Agreement, at Dewey Academy, for the period of March 16, 2022 through June 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $14,225.00.

History

Oct 26, 2022 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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