Pays Bay Area Writing Project up to $16,400 to help Korematsu Discovery Academy teachers improve writing
The Bay Area Writing Project of Berkeley will support teachers at Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy in school-wide work to improve student writing. It will look at how grammar, structure, voice and content are best taught and help develop ways to help students revise their writing. The agreement runs April 11 to September 30, 2023, and the board is approving it after it began.
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- Vendor / partner
- Bay Area Writing Project · Berkeley, CA
- Action
- New agreement
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Apr 11, 2023 – Sep 30, 2023
- This vote
- $16,400
- Schools
- Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy
- Funding
- Light Awards Grant
- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
23-1912· agendaT.-83- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Sep 13, 2023
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2023-2024 by and between the District and Bay Area Writing Project, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to support teachers to engage in a school-wide conversation about improving student writing across the multiple subjects taught, to investigate how elements such as grammar, structure, voice, and content are most effectively taught, and to develop best practices to help students revise and refine their writing at Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy, for the period of April 11, 2023 through September 30, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $16,400.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report