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Blended Learning | Classrooms | Curriculum Strategy & Adoption | Teachers
I work to help schools integrate technology into their instructional models, I am continually inspired by the promise of digital technology to enable collaboration among teachers across the school. It’s not clear to me if today’s technology providers are building their programs with teacher collaboration in mind or if the collaboration is a positive, yet unintended consequence discovered by clever teachers. However it came about, I am certain that this sort of cross-classroom collaboration is key to delivering better student-centric instruction.
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Innovative Leadership | School Districts
Big congratulations are in order for the Race to the Top District Competition’s 16 winners, who were announced yesterday. The winners spanned the great diversity of school districts nationwide – from the country’s fourth biggest district in South Florida (Miami-Dade County Public Schools) to a consortium of 24 largely rural districts in Kentucky (Green River Regional Education Cooperative) and from a charter management organization based in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley (IDEA Public Schools) to a consortium of districts bordering Washington’s Puget Sound (Puget Sound Educational Service District).
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Please join us on December 11, 2012 9 am PST/12 pm EST for an Education Elements Webinar:
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Education Week
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When I taught in a large public school district, the first meetings after a short summer break were often full of surprises. Staff members, instructional coaches, and curricula frequently shifted, often within the context of leadership changes and new instructional initiatives. At times these initiatives felt unsupported, with one-and-done professional development sessions meant to sustain a year’s worth of practice. Perhaps more damaging, they could seem disjointed from one another and disconnected to the instructional challenges at hand. It became all too easy for teachers to disengage as the year went on and we awaited the next new thing. Our statewide work in Pennsylvania demands deep consideration about these types of experiences as teachers and students manage the transition to blended learning for the first time. The Pennsylvania Hybrid Learning Initiative (PA HLI) spans 14 schools across several school districts in the central and eastern parts of the state. We work with Dellicker Strategies, a Pennsylvania-based strategic consulting firm, to coordinate support for schools through Pennsylvania’s Intermediate Units as well as Harrisburg University. It’s the type of project that maximizes the strengths of each organization, but also carries the danger of overlaps in implementation or gaps in support.
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