Soquel Elementary School

Soquel Elementary School is in its second year of the Cotsen program partnership. The Cotsen program was established to target and select the most gifted and talented teachers from a school campus who become Cotsen Fellows with one teacher becoming the campus Mentor. Soquel El has nine Fellows selected to participate in this special program. They a... re lead by Ann Cardoza serving as their Mentor. These nine Fellows have been busy for the past year with seven of them attending Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York over the summer to study Readers and Writers Workshop. In addition, the Soquel Elementary School fellows participated in the National CGI Conference in Iowa, the National ORFF conference of music in Denver and a Writers Workshop in Los Angeles. This would not be possible without the financial commitment to the school district of over $400,000 from Cotsen for the next three years. Cotsen has changed the culture of Soquel Elementary School by supporting the school as a true learning community where teachers collaborate to talk about student growth and outcomes. The program will help the school best adapt to the Common Core standards going into the future.Read More