Projects:

Western Cluster Projects
Brief Abstracts

Teacher LED Technology Challenge
A carefully staged 5 year implementation strategy led by the Berkeley Unified School District in California will train classroom teachers to provide leadership for technology-based learning in each school...(MORE)

Pass Internet Program: Cyber High
Disadvantaged students can access their course work, participate in exciting learning activities, receive instantaneous feedback on test items and scores, and review progress toward graduation... all with the click of a mouse!(MORE)

Project LemonLINK
The Lemon Grove School District in California will connect all district students and their parents to the classroom at home through development of a District Internet/Intranet system...(MORE)

New Spectrum Learning Program
Through this program, teachers and students will master the use of multimedia to create new learning content, and they will be able to see and experience an "infostructure" that enhances their ability to meet the new century's challenges...(MORE)

The Triton Project
The Triton Project is a multi-partner educational reform effort that blends a unique ocean-theme curriculum with several technologies to create new learning opportunities for students and teachers in the San Diego Unified School District in California... (MORE)

Technology in Nature in Sanger (TINS)
The TINS project, sponsored by the Sanger Unified School District in California, proposes a linkage between the Sanger Nature Area and technology. This linkage will provide "real-world, real-time" school-to-career education in the areas of science and technology...(MORE)

ACT Now! Project
The ACT Now! (Advanced Curriculum through Technology) project will create an extensive bank of teacher-developed, technology-enriched learning activities, and it will support the development of multimedia electronic portfolios by all students in the Sweetwater Union High School District in California...(MORE)

Hawaii:

The Electronic School
In collaboration with Tech Corps Hawaii, the Hawaii State Department of Education is developing a comprehensive program using innovative technologies to raise the achievement of at-risk students and their families... (MORE)

Idaho:

"Just in Time" Technology Training Project
The "Just in Time" Technology Training Project pilots a product-driven process to integrate technology into the teaching and learning of science and social science... (MORE)

Nebraska:

The Connection Project
The Connection Project will enable middle school and secondary school teachers in Seward, Nebraska, to create and implement integrated curricula supported by technology... (MORE)

The Community Discovered
The Community Discovered program is a multi-element education program that uses technology to bring art museums and other educational resources to K-12 classrooms in Nebraska and 10 other states... (MORE)

New Mexico:

Four Directions
Four Directions, created by Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education in New Mexico, blends American Indian culture with new educational technologies to revitalize curricula and instruction in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools... (MORE)

Texas:

San Antonio Technology in Education Coalition (SATEC)
The SATEC seeks to connect student learning to concrete experiences through the seamless integration of technology into curriculum and instruction by developing an innovative training and application model... (MORE)

A Community of 21st Century Learners for El Paso
A Community of 21st Century Learners for El Paso is an ambitious program created by the Socorro independent School District to rejuvenate the schools in El Paso, Texas... (MORE)

Utah:

State of Utah Resource Web (SURWEB)
The SURWEB is a telecommunication project providing educational opportunities for Utah students who live in poor, rural, or culturally disenfranchised communities... (MORE)

Washington:

Manson's Wireless Intranet System
The Manson School District is developing a wireless intranet system linking five school districts and communities across Washington State. The wireless system provides access to Cable TV, CD-ROM, videotapes, laserdiscs, satellite telecommunication, video conferencing, and the Internet... (MORE)

Generation Why
The Generation Why Project, led by the Olympia School District in Washington state, focuses on today's new generation of youth as partners, and often as leaders, in bringing technology into the classroom... (MORE)

The Seattle Community of Learners System
The Seattle School District in Washington is developing a comprehensive approach to school improvement by creating new learning environments in which students, parents, and educators will be connected to workplaces through electronic information systems... (MORE)

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