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A sequence of instructional units, often a semester long, designed by a teacher (or a faculty or other group of teachers) to advance significantly student skills, knowledge, and habits of mind significantly in a particular discipline and to help students meet specified requirements (as set forth in curricula or district or state policy).

• Georgetown - Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy (OCP), within the Center for Social Justice
  Within the Center for Social Justice, the Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy assumes three major responsibilities. (1) To promote, expand, and integrate community-based intellectual work within the curriculum.
• Houston Consortium Of Urban Professional Development And Technology Centers
  A consortium of nine institutions including the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District to produce teachers who are effective in culturally diverse urban environments.
• Literacy Cluster
  A California State University, Los Angeles Charter School of Education and Los Angeles Unified School District collaborative effort to improve teacher preparation and development in literacy .
• New Trends in language Education For Hispanic Students
  This digest summarizes the effective bilingual strategies described in Transforming Education and HDP's recommendations for bilingual education at all school levels. While the strategies are specifically oriented to the needs of Hispanic students, most can improve the education of all students with immigrant and limited English speaking backgrounds.
• Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Curriculum: A Guide for Strategic Analysis, Participatory Research, Civic Action, and Effective Advocacy
  The Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Project has developed an innovative educational and training curriculum to help equip current and future nonprofit leaders to meet the complex challenges facing the nonprofit sector.
• On-The-Job Urban School Teacher Preparation Program
  A partnership program between the California State University, Northridge and the Los Angeles Unified School District to address the critical shortage of fully certified special education teachers and the need for alternative preparation programs to prepare on-the-job teachers. The program was designed to develop teacher competencies specific to serving urban students with special needs.
• PEF and Osborne Foundation Implement Urban Masters Program
  The Osborne Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to the Public Education Foundation (PEF) to implement a master's degree program for urban educators. The PEF, who will raise an additional $500,000 for the project, will coordinate the Osborne Fellows Project.
• Poverty Around the World
  This program will help us to explore some of the issues that people living in poverty face. Exploring the issues of poverty can help us to find solutions.
• Project FUSE (Field-based University and School Education)
  A program developed by Florida International University and implemented in the Dade County Public Schools to prepare teachers for urban classrooms.
• Project Site Support
  Since 1999, Project SITE SUPPORT (PSS) has made unmatched contributions to the Baltimore City Public School System by providing hundreds of highly qualified teachers who have been specially trained to meet the diverse learning needs of students in this challenging urban environment.
• Southern University At New Orleans And New Orleans Public School Partnership
  A collaborative program to implement the Comer School Development Program and enhance teacher preparation programs. In 1990, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) formed a partnership, in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center and the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a viable, collaborative and cooperative project to replicate the School Development Program (Comer Process).
• Teaching, Technology And Restructuring Partnership (T2ARP)
  A partnership program between the San Diego State University, School of Education and Department of Educational Technology, and O'Farrell Community School, a charter school within the San Diego Unified School District to prepare teachers for middle school.
• The Urban Impact Project - Curriculum Redesign
  The Urban Impact Project's first goal is to restructure university coursework and university/school partnerships to better equip preservice teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed with urban student populations, utilizing technology enhancements where appropriate. The Curriculum Redesign teams strive to reach this goal in three areas: science, reading, and math education.
• Urban Specialist Certificate Program
  With funding from URBAN IMPACT, a U.S. Dept.
• Urban Teacher Academy Project (UTAP)
  This site is designed to help school districts and schools, colleges, and departments of education learn about high school teaching career academies -- programs that encourage high school students to consider careers in teaching.