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Reimagine Teaching With Project L.I.S.T
Project LIST Framework
Project L.I.S.T. is a district-tested approach that empowers students to think critically, write powerfully, and feel they belong by transforming teaching practices.
Our Integrated Framework
We blend research-backed pedagogies and modern tools:
  • Disciplinary Literacy: Elevating student thinking through deep engagement with subject-specific texts and reasoning.
  • Inquiry Design: Sparking curiosity and critical thinking using models like the C3 Framework and 5E Learning Cycle.
  • Social Justice Pedagogy: Building classrooms where every learner belongs by amplifying marginalized voices and honoring student identities.
  • Ethical AI: Leveraging technology thoughtfully to enhance learning and strengthen teacher practice.
Comprehensive Professional Development
Our model integrates these frameworks with practical, classroom-ready tools, transforming how students engage with content and how they see themselves in the curriculum. We achieve this through:
  • Professional Learning Communities: Iterative learning to build sustainable practices.
  • Hands-on Coaching Cycles: Direct support for educators to implement effective strategies.
The result is coherent, equitable instruction that moves beyond surface-level engagement to deep disciplinary thinking and authentic civic readiness.
What Educators Are Saying
Our impact is measured in the voices of the teachers, coaches, and leaders who experience Project LIST professional development firsthand. These testimonials capture the real shifts in practice, student engagement, and classroom culture that result from our collaborative approach to professional learning.
"Project LIST has influenced the way our curriculum teams are thinking about backwards design developing units around Science and Social Science contents. It has greatly improved our ability to develop essential and supporting questions that are compelling to students. That used to be an area we struggled with. Now it’s becoming a strength."
— Emily Weller, Elementary Instructional Coach,
"LIST strategies helped me create more inclusive and effective learning environments for multilingual learners. By moving away from traditional methods, these strategies leverage students' existing linguistic and cultural strengths . . . . Their frameworks enable multilingual learners to participate in authentic, high-level thinking tasks."
— Sonia Enriquez, Multilingual Instructional Coach
"Working with Project LIST helped teachers think about AI in a much more intentional and ethical way. Teachers learned how to guide AI to ask questions about students’ demographics or cultural backgrounds, and then use that input to generate activities that reflected students’ identities and experiences. That was eye-opening for many teachers."
— Caio Gomez, ESL Teacher & AI PD Leader
"The culturally responsive pedagogy series helped me see my students' identities as assets. Through generative AI, I was able to tap into the expertise of thousands of teachers, educators, historians, to add opportunities for inquiry and social justice. My classroom discussions are richer, more inclusive."
— Jacob Jackson, 5th Grade Teacher
My collaboration with the Project LIST team has been exciting and invaluable. We have shared ideas and co-presented district institute sessions. . . . Their insights have sharpened my thinking and offered perspectives I would not have considered on my own. I look forward to continuing this work in the coming years - hopefully it has only just begun :)
— Jennifer Miller, Middle School Literacy Leader
" Since starting with Project LIST, we're exploring all sides of history . . . . Students feel represented in books and videos that we read and watch."
— Hailey Howard, 2nd Grade Teacher
These outcomes represent systemic shifts in how teachers approach curriculum design, assessment, and student relationships. Our professional development model prioritizes transfer to daily practice through coaching cycles, collaborative planning, and structured reflection.
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Results, Artifacts & Classroom Spotlights
See the transformation in action. Our partner teachers create powerful learning experiences that generate authentic student thinking, writing, and engagement. From inquiry prompts that spark deep investigation to CER frameworks that scaffold scientific reasoning, from primary source analysis protocols to AI-generated differentiation tools—these artifacts represent real classroom innovation. Each resource reflects the practical application of Project LIST principles and demonstrates how theory becomes sustainable, replicable practice.
Each workshop comes with implementation notes and materials describing how it can shift teacher practice and elevated student outcomes. Teachers report increased student engagement in discussion, higher-quality written arguments, more inclusive participation patterns, and deeper content understanding. The materials are designed for adaptation, not adoption: they're starting points for your team's own context-responsive innovation.
Professional Development Workshops
Our workshop catalog offers targeted professional learning experiences designed to transform practice across all grade levels and content areas. Each session combines research-based frameworks with hands-on application, ensuring teachers leave with immediately usable strategies and materials. Filter by grade band, subject area, or focus to find the perfect fit for your team's needs.
Developing Inquiry and Engagement Lessons for Social Studies and Science Units
Master the art of crafting compelling questions that drive student-centered investigation, using C3 (Social Studies) and 5E (Science) frameworks to structure units that build critical thinking, disciplinary literacy, and civic engagement.
Tags: 6–12, Social Studies, Science, Inquiry
Hands-On Inquiry & Writing That Sticks
Transform your course concepts into tangible learning experiences through makerspace activities, simulations, hands-on models, and primary source investigations that generate authentic writing opportunities and deep content retention.
Tags: 3-12, All Subjects, Disciplinary Literacy
Swift Scaffolds: Leveraging AI to Develop Evidence-Based Writing Models, Activities, and Lessons
Discover how to use AI ethically and strategically to generate sentence frames, Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) and Role-Audience-Format-Topic (RAFT) templates, genre models, and differentiated writing tasks that accelerate student success while honoring teacher expertise.
Tags: 3–12, ELA, All Subjects, AI, Writing
History and Science in Your Hands: Active Learning & Primary Source Thinking
Engage students in disciplinary thinking through document analysis, artifact investigation, and hands-on experiments that build historical and scientific reasoning skills.
Tags: 3–12, Social Studies, Science, Inquiry
Culturally Responsive Classrooms Part 1: Bridging Curriculum with Student Experience
Learn practical strategies to connect mandated curriculum with students' cultural knowledge, using inquiry prompts and text selection frameworks that honor identity and amplify relevance.
Tags: K–12, All Subjects, Social Justice
Culturally Responsive Classrooms Part 2: Representation & Perspective Taking
Gain tools for evaluating representation in your curriculum. Design lessons that center marginalized voices and develop students' capacity for critical perspective-taking through curated text-sets, counter-narratives, and structured dialogue protocols.
Tags: K–12, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Civics, Social Justice
Literacy Across Disciplines: Strategies for Disciplinary Literacy
Teachers learn how to facilitate disciplinary literacy so that their students can think, read, write, and speak like experts in (ELA, Science, and social studies). Teachers gain content-specific reading and writing strategies that build disciplinary expertise, from sourcing historical documents to analyzing scientific reasoning.
Tags: K–12, All Subjects, Literacy
Talk-Centered Classrooms: Building Voice Through Inquiry
Implement discussion protocols and collaborative inquiry structures that elevate student voice, develop academic discourse skills, and build inclusive classroom communities.
Tags: K–12, All Subjects, Inquiry, SEL
Regulate to Educate: Building Co-Regulated and Conscientious Classrooms
This interactive session helps educators create emotionally attuned environments where both teachers and students can regulate together. Participants will explore neuroscience-based coregulation strategies, routines that promote calm focus, and SEL classroom rituals that strengthen relational safety.
Tags: K–12, SEL, Class Management
Restorative Practices: Circles and Reader's Theater for Inclusion and Repair
Learn to facilitate restorative circles and use theater-based strategies to build community, repair harm, and create brave spaces where all students feel valued and heard.
Tags: K–12, All Subjects, Restorative, SEL, Class Management
Trauma-Informed Literacy: Affective Practices for Healing Classrooms
Integrate trauma-informed reading and writing approaches with inquiry-based learning to create emotionally safe environments where students can take intellectual risks and heal through engaged learning. Teachers may also learn how to leverage AI to create activities up request.
Tags: K–12, All Subjects, Trauma-Informed, Literacy, SEL, Class Management
AI in the Classroom: Ethics, Plagiarism & Purposeful Use
Navigate the ethical landscape of AI in education, establishing clear guidelines for student use while leveraging AI as a tool for scaffolding, feedback, and differentiation that enhances rather than replaces learning.
Tags: 6–12, All Subjects, AI, Technology
Not Neutral: How AI Shapes Race, Power, and What We See
AI is not neutral. This presentation and workshop gives educatiors hand-on experience and to identify how AI reflects and amplifies historical and structural racial biases. It ultimately calls for the development of critical AI literacy, empowering users and educators to recognize, challenge, and redesign AI systems toward racial healing and more just futures
Tags: Civics, Ethics, Social Justice
Meet the Project L.I.S.T Team
Our team brings decades of combined expertise in teacher education, curriculum design, and classroom practice. We're not consultants who've forgotten what it's like to teach—we're active scholars and practitioners who work daily with K–12 educators to build more equitable, engaging learning experiences.
Dr. Razak Dwomoh
Assistant Professor
(Social Studies Methods)

Dr. Diana Bonilla
Assistant Professor
(Science & Bilingual Education)

Dr. Eric Junco
Assistant Professor (Science/ELA/Social Justice)

Dr. Cansu Tatar
Assistant Professor
(Educational Technology)

Dr. Hyoju Ahn
Assistant Professor
(Digital and Multimodal Literacy)

Together, we've designed professional development that honors the complexity of teaching while providing practical tools that work. Our collaborative approach means you're not just getting a workshop—you're gaining thought partners committed to your team's growth and your students' success.
Outcomes and Impacts
At Project LIST, we believe that disciplinary literacy and inquiry are fundamentally intertwined. The C3 Framework and 5E Learning Cycle aren't just instructional models—they're pathways to deeper understanding that honor how students naturally learn. Social justice must be centered in both curriculum design and classroom culture, ensuring that every student sees their identity valued and every voice is heard in the learning process.
When AI is used thoughtfully and ethically, it becomes a powerful tool to accelerate scaffolding, provide meaningful differentiation, and deliver timely feedback that moves learning forward. But technology alone doesn't create change. Sustainable transformation happens through collaborative, iterative professional learning communities where teachers engage in cycles of inquiry, reflection, and refinement together. This is how we build classroom practices that stick and scale across entire districts.
Literacy
Disciplinary reading, writing, and thinking strategies that build content mastery across ELA, social studies, and science
Inquiry
Question-driven learning using C3 and 5E frameworks that spark curiosity and develop evidence-based reasoning
Social Justice
Culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies that center equity, representation, and student identity
Technology
Ethical AI integration and digital tools that enhance scaffolding, differentiation, and authentic assessment
Measurable Outcomes We Deliver
Enhanced Teacher Efficacy
Measurable shifts in instructional moves and pedagogical confidence
Inclusive, Inquiry-Driven Lessons
Replicable models that honor diverse perspectives and cultural backgrounds
Higher Student Engagement
Increased participation, voice, and civic readiness across content areas
Replicable, Scalable PD Model
Systems that support continuous improvement and district-wide implementation
Grounded in Evidence & Research
Project L.I.S.T is built on decades of rigorous education research and proven frameworks. Our professional development synthesizes the most credible scholarship in literacy, inquiry design, social justice pedagogy, and technology integration, translating complex theory into accessible, actionable classroom practice.
We align explicitly with the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards, which structures inquiry around compelling questions, disciplinary tools, and civic action. Our science workshop integrate the 5E Learning Cycle (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate), ensuring students construct understanding through active investigation. We ground all work in Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy research, ensuring curriculum honors students' cultural identities as assets rather than deficits.
Our approach incorporates Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to remove barriers and provide multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression. For multilingual learners, we integrate WIDA standards and frameworks, treating language development as inseparable from content learning. When it comes to technology, we advocate for wise, ethical use of AI—leveraging its power for scaffolding, differentiation, and timely feedback while never replacing teacher judgment or student thinking.
Critically, our professional development model itself is research-aligned. We know from implementation science that one-shot workshops don't change practice. Instead, we design collaborative, iterative learning experiences with job-embedded coaching, structured reflection protocols, and ongoing support. This ensures that new strategies transfer from PD sessions into daily instruction and become sustainable routines rather than fleeting experiments.

Research Foundations
  • C3 Framework (NCSS)
  • 5E Learning Cycle (BSCS)
  • Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, Paris & Alim)
  • Universal Design for Learning (CAST)
  • WIDA ELD Standards
  • AI Ethics & Pedagogy (emerging scholarship)
  • Professional Learning Communities research (DuFour & Eaker)
Every workshop, coaching protocol, and artifact we share is rooted in this research base. We're committed to helping educators understand not just what to do, but why it works—building the pedagogical reasoning that sustains innovation long after our partnership ends.
Ready to Transform Teaching & Learning?
Whether you're a district leader seeking systemic change, a principal building instructional culture, or a teacher hungry for practical strategies that honor your students' brilliance—Project LIST is ready to partner with you. Our flexible implementation models, research-grounded approach, and commitment to equity make us the right choice for schools and districts serious about elevating practice and outcomes.
Book a PD Discovery Call
Schedule a 30-minute conversation to explore your district's needs, our partnership models, and how Project LIST can support your instructional goals. We'll discuss timelines, budgets, and customization options.
Request a Custom PD Plan
Tell us about your context, challenges, and aspirations. We'll design a tailored professional development plan with recommended workshops, coaching structures, and success metrics aligned to your priorities.
Bring Project LIST to Your School
Ready to commit? Let's formalize a partnership. We'll work with your team to establish timelines, deliverables, and logistics for bringing comprehensive Project LIST professional development to your school or district.
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Project L.I.S.T
Empowering educators to build classrooms where literacy, inquiry, social justice, and technology converge—so every student thinks critically, writes powerfully, and belongs.
All professional development activities conducted with appropriate institutional review and ethical guidelines. We are committed to research transparency and educator privacy.