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Earn While You Learn Institute

The Krause Center for Innovation's Merit (formerly Earn While You Learn) and KCI Merit Fellows Institutes provide K-14 teachers with the opportunity to engage in yearlong technology integration staff development. Participants are chosen through a competitive application and must complete 2 units of FastTech/LINC classes prior to applying. Participating teachers receive $4000 and various hardware/software tools. The KCI Merit summer institute for the Foothill location is from July 7-25, 2008. The dates for the summer institute in Sonoma are TBD.

Click here to download flyer and application

EWYL Frequently Asked Questions (and answers!)

Click here to see Linda's Earn While You Learn Blog

Click here to search our data base of EWYL and EWYL Fellows Projects

Click here to see 2006-2007 participant list.

Sonoma Valley Cohort

The KCI Merit (formerly Earn While You Learn) Fellows Program provides graduates of the Merit program with the opportunity to use the Internet ,PDAs , iPods, and other innovative technologies to do collaborative, multi-classroom projects with their students.


Read the CTAP Portical Article on the Earn While You Learn Institute. They've called the institute "A professional development model worth thinking about."

EWYL Information in the George Lucas Educational Foundation's "Edutopia" Web site


Links of Interest

KCI Home Page
LINC-FastTech class schedule
Directions and Campus Map
CA Media and Multimedia Festival
Sonoma Valley EWYL Cohort