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Brief Abstracts

Interactive Educational Television Consortium
Capital School District and the State of Delaware have formed an Interactive Educational Television Consortium that is bringing unique and engaging classroom learning activities directly into the homes of school children throughout the state... (MORE)

Florida:

Career Connection To Teaching With Technology
CCTT proposes to involve outstanding teachers from geographically diverse schools and districts in the development of educational resources, aligned with challenging state and national standards... (MORE)

Louisiana

A Systemic Model to Enhance Student Achievement by Networking Underserved Communities (Louisiana Challenge)
The Louisiana Challenge Grant Project is developing comprehensive programs that use telecommunications to increase participation in high-tech learning by K-12 students in five underserved Louisiana school districts... (MORE)

AMERICA 2000:Making Inroads to the Backroads
The goal is to expand an existing Trainer of Trainers professional development model to other poor, rural school systems in order to enhance student learning opportunities in real world applications of challenging new Louisiana content and performance standards in English/language arts, mathematics, science and social studies... (MORE)

Maryland

The Baltimore Learning Communities Initiative: School to Career on The Information Highway and The Maryland Electronic Learning Community
The Baltimore Learning Communities (BLC) project is a multi-faceted education program that utilizes distance learning, interactive cable TV, and the Internet to connect schools to homes, places of work, and the community at large... (MORE)

The Maryland Tech Consortium
The Maryland Tech Consortium is composed of representatives from the state department of education, local education agencies, higher education institutions and the business community. It employs a multi-component approach to provide high quality professional development experiences to Maryland educators by bringing into strategic alignment a number of successful staff development practices that have been developed and implemented by the consortium partners... (MORE)

North Carolina

ABC Technology Partnership
The specific goals of this challenge grant include: (1) providing a comprehensive staff development program that emphasizes follow-up, coaching, and teaching behaviors; (2) developing and utilizing an infrastructure of interactive telecommunication connectivity for student and teacher collaboration... (MORE)

Education Future Now
Now takes already existing partnerships and outreach in distance education and combines them with statewide professional development services to seven remote, low-wealth regions, recently equipped by NCSSM with advanced technology facilities... (MORE)

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Technology Consortium
Incorporated within the Philadelphia School District's systemic reform effort, "Children Achieving," the plan utilizes many of the latest developments in telecommunication, multimedia, and computer instruction... (MORE)

Greene County Technology Initiative
Mission: Create long-term economic stability by developing a technology based education system that prepares students and adults for college, the workplace and entrepreneurial opportunities... (MORE)

South Carolina

Richland Clicks!
This project will develop a core curriculum database that will give teachers on-demand access to high quality learning activities in the classroom. This strong teacher training model will use technology to reconnect the schools and their community to extend powerful learning opportunities into every sector of a student's life... (MORE)

The Village Green Project
This professional development initiative will train teachers to integrate interactive computer learning activities into the curriculum to reach Greenville County's learning goals. The community's educators, students, parents, businesses and community organizations have forged a common commitment to use technology to help all students meet high standards... (MORE)

Extending Learning through Family and Community
A diverse consortium of businesses, schools and community organizations will create a new learning community by embedding educational technology in schools, work and community activities. Sumter will use technology to connect themselves with each other and the world to improve learning for all of its citizens... (MORE)

Tennessee

The Alliance for Schools for Thought
The Alliance for "Schools for Thought" (SFT) in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is composed of a well-tested partnership of educators, business executives and education advocates, anchored by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College Learning Technology Center (LTC), and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce... (MORE)

Virginia

The Education Connection
The Education Connection features a five year collaboration by six public broadcasters with 21 partner schools throughout the United States. The project partners are committed to developing curriculum for K-12 using new telecommunications technologies, implementing infrastructure for teachers, students and parents in at-risk school districts to assure the appropriate use of the curriculum... (MORE)

Accepting the Challenge
Franklin County Public Schools is committed to preparing young people for further education and employment. While we believe that children must demonstrate mastery of basic skills and fundamental processes, we recognize and embrace technological literacy as an essential "basic" in a child's preparation... (MORE)

West Virginia

Your Future in West Virginia...Growing Together
This project is composed of two interdependent tracks, (1) basic and advanced training of teachers with respect to computer skills and classroom integration, and (2) parent and community training on the use of technology with a focus on preparation for new careers... (MORE)

The West Virginia TurnKey Solution
The project focuses on statewide high-quality professional development that fosters the appropriate integration of technology, curriculum, teaching strategies, learning activities and student evaluation... (MORE)

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