Major Projects
Teacher Leadership Project
The Teacher Leadership Project (TLP) was developed
at Northwest ESD 189 in 1997, and through a grant from the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 has trained over 3500 teachers in Washington
and Mississippi in using technology as a tool to enhance instruction.
For more information visit here.
Sustainable Classroom
Project
The Sustainable Classroom is a classroom technology model developed
at ESD 112 that utilizes a broad number of highly visual, interactive
technologies with a single computer in order to support the nine instructional
strategies that are identified in Robert Marzano's book Classroom Instruction
That Works (Marzano, Pickering and Pollock, 2001). This model promotes
a realistic approach to using technology in ways that yield big results.
For more information visit here.
SHARE
SHARE is a project involving 23 Central Washington school districts,
104 other school districts around the state, 2,202 teachers, 39,636+
students and the Educational Technology Support Center of Educational
Service District 105. It has been funded through Washington State Educational
Technology Competitive grants, Technology Leadership Challenge Fund
grants, a US Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to
Use Technology grant, corporate sponsorships and membership fees. For
more information visit here.
Peer Coaching
The Peer Coaching Program is designed to help schools implement a professional
development model that can enhance standards-based instruction by assisting
teachers to offer students engaging, technology rich, learning activities.
Developed by the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
and disseminated by Microsoft, this program is now being offered through
the each of the Educational Service Districts in Washington, as a grant-funded
and/or fee-based service. For more information visit here.
Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century (TL21)
Take the first step toward highly effective technology
integration--register today for a new professional development program
- Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century (TL21).
Get the hands-on technology training you need combined with an in-depth
study of lesson design and powerful strategies for instruction.
TL21 is a two-year PD course with a variety of course delivery formats.
Sessions include face-to-face instruction, online seminars, discussions
and webinars.
Is TL21 For
You?
