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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA), Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 350 hours of weekly one on one and small group coaching sessions to ASCEND's 16 classroom teachers throughout the school year, including collaborative planning, model teaching, and co-teaching of lessons, as well as after school professional development workshops; sessions to develop teachers' ability to accelerate the academic achievement of Title 1 students by showing them how to use the visual arts integrated with language arts, math, science, and history to strengthen students' vocabulary, improve their understanding of core content area concepts, and develop their ability to comprehend complex texts, at ASCEND Elementary School, for the period of November 23, 2009 through June 30, 2010, in an amount not to exceed $14,000.00.
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