CSULB Receives $249,752 CPEC Grant To Prepare Teachers For New Common Core State Standards

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has received a $249,752 grant from the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to help prepare teachers for new Common Core State Standards with English Learners. The funding to CSULB is part of $3.5 million in grants awarded statewide by CPEC for 14 K-12 teacher professional development projects. It is provided by the Improving Teacher Quality (ITQ) State Grants Program which supports projects designed to improve instruction skills and content knowledge of teachers and principals in an effort to raise student achievement.The 14-month project, which began in October, represents a collaborative effort involving CSULB, the Lennox School District, and the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) to help Lennox teachers strengthen their content knowledge to effectively implement the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. It will involve selected K-8 teachers in all district schools, with a key focus being the implementation of the Common Core State Standards with a significant English language learner population.

Faculty participating in the project include Rhoda Coleman and Leslie Reese from the Center for Language Minority Education and Research in the College of Education, Fay Shin and Paul Boyd-Batstone from the Dept of Teacher Education, and Carol Zitzer-Comfort from the Depts of Liberal Studies and English.