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FOCUS
The main focus of this office is to collaborate with district and school-based personnel in the development of training and to provide resources that will support and enhance student achievement. This will be accomplished in two primary ways:
- Providing curriculum training and resources for content area teachers, especially in the area of technology integration.
- Providing curriculum training and resources for all curriculum contacts at district and school levels.
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Pat Lusher, Supervisor
Brenda Hayes, Secretary/Bookkeeper
Cecelia Nauda, EETT Competitive Grant Coordinator
Michelle Frankich, EETT Entitlement Grant Coordinator |
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Professional Development
- Collaborate with supervisors and their teachers to develop curriculum and technology integration training initiatives (e.g. CTIP)
- Help design and/or deliver training aligned with curriculum needs
- Support textbook software
- Provide training for supervisors
- Provide distance learning opportunities
- How To Master
- Atomic Learning
- Curriculum/Technology Integration Project (CTIP)
- Support ESOL online training
- Assist in the roll-out of focused teacher training in specific content areas (CTIP model)
- CTIP
- Collaborate with supervisors to develop the application process
- Collaborate with supervisors on the participant selection
- Provide summer training for participants
- Design monthly online training
- Provide lesson plan support
- Atomic Learning
- Manage accounts
- Provide support to users
- Provide usage data to district
- How To Master online training
- Manage accounts
- Provide support to users
- Manage components and award component points
Referendum
- Collaborate with district, school, and community committee members to design projects and support with referendum dollars
- Collaborate with schools on project planning
- Provide training and support
- Collect data for evaluation
Components
- Review and revise all technology components to ensure alignment with curriculum objectives
- Approve the opening of components authored by the Office of Curriculum & Applications
- Offer tech coordinator components as a train-the-trainer model
- Award component points
DOE Initiatives
- Collaborate with DOE , the district, and schools on state initiatives (e.g. STAR Survey, STAR Inventory, etc)
- Understand and inform of District and State mandates and initiatives as they pertain to technology training (i.e. NCLB, STAR)
- Provide property records data to schools for completing the survey
- Provide training and support for schools on completing the survey
- Review all school surveys
EETT Grants
- Develop and manage curriculum and technology integration grants and funding (e.g. EETT, PSTF, etc.)
- Provide ongoing support for grant projects
- Collaborate with private schools on projects and budgets
- Provide curriculum training on grant projects
- Coordinate grant purchases
Novus
- Set up teacher accounts
- Provide training for supervisors and teachers on creating Novus websites
- Provide email and phone support for teacher and school websites
- Create and maintain office website
Curriculum Collaboration and Support
- Assist in the evaluation of curriculum technologies
- Collaborate with supervisors and schools on recommendations and implementation of curriculum-based software
- Support principal walkthrough software
- CD-ROM duplication for training handouts
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