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Incorporating Lean Principles into Professional Development for a Western Association of Schools and Colleges Mid-Cycle Review

The goal of this project is to incorporate lean business management principles into school-wide professional development to assist staff as they prepare for a WASC mid-cycle review. Lean principles were developed by Toyota to successfully manage their organizations internationally.

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Math

Multi day (90min+)

High School

Introduction to the Engineering Design process through the creation of a catapult

The main objective of this lesson is to enable students to practice the engineering design process and recognize different actions as part of specific steps in the design process.

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Math

Block period (60-90 mins)

High School

Mathematical Discussion Circles

The goal of this ETP is to prepare students to equitably engage in mathematically rigorous group discussions. Using roles, sentence starters, and scaffolded activities, students will develop their communication skills with a focus on questioning in the context of a geometry classroom.

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Math

Block period (60-90 mins)

High School

Modeling Electrodialytic Desalination

This lesson series asks students to use a simulation applet for electrodialytic desalination to explore the functional relationships between various engineering design parameters and output measures of practical interest.

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Math

Block period (60-90 mins)

High School

Modeling Linear Relationships in the Classroom

Linear relationships and functions are modeled using scatter plots and linear regression (line of best fit) in order to determine a function that best describes the data.

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Math

Multi day (90min+)

Middle School

Organizing Data

Organization is an extremely valuable skill that is critical to the success of all responsible students.

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Math

Multi day (90min+)

High School

Teaching Cyber Security

This ETP will address teaching cyber safety to staff and high school students.

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Math

Multi day (90min+)

High School

What's in a formula

This laboratory exercise encourages students to perform data collection, and learn how to use formulas at the same time. Students will design a cantilever object using tongue depressors. The tongue depressor will be a substitute for a physical 2x4 beam.

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Math

Multi day (90min+)

Middle School

Where Does the Cloud Live?

The VBLOCK system is the industry standard for Converged Infrastructure, which integrates multiple components into an optimized computing package. Together with virtualization software, it forms an important foundation for modern Cloud computing and managing modern data centers.

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