THE Journal — Professional Development

TEA Launches School Leadership Pilot Program

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has awarded a $3 million grant to APQC to develop and launch a "School Leadership Pilot Program" for principals. Through the program, up to 300 principals will receive professional development and training in an effort to "transform school leadership."
(3/9/2007)

PBS Launches Educator Site

PBS has debuted a new online portal designed specifically for Prek-12 educations: PBS Teachers. The portal, in development for more than a year, provides a "front door" for educational services offered by PBS.
(3/5/2007)

GACE Expands Faculty Resources

The Georgia Professional Standards Commission has expanded its resources for teacher certification. The new resources, developed by National Evaluation Systems, a unit of Pearson Education, have been added to the Georgia Assessments for the Certification of Educators (GACE) Web site.
(2/21/2007)

Pennsylvania DOE Adopts Real-Time Collaboration Tools

The Pennsylvania Department of Education will implement new real-time collaboration capabilities using LiveAccess from Vemics Inc., a developer of collaboration and learning tools. Live Access combines multipoint video, voice, and data technologies with content, consulting, and customer support.
(2/21/2007)

Labor Dept. Allocates $3 Million for Teacher Distance Learning

The United States Labor Department today announced that it's issuing a $3 million grant to the Western Governors University (WGU) in Salt Lake City, UT. The monies will be used to expand distance learning for students in the teaching profession, with particular emphasis on math and science.
(2/15/2007)

Cherokee County Uses ViewCast for Distance Learning

Cherokee County School District in South Carolina has implemented new technologies in two of its high schools to support its distance learning courses. The district has adopted ViewCast's Niagara GoStream portable streaming media encoder to capture and encode classes, which are then broadcast to students unable to attend in person.
(2/7/2007)

Brevard County Adopts Atomic's Tech Training

Florida's Brevard County Public Schools has implemented a new professional development and student training program using Atomic Learning's online training tools. Atomic is a developer of Web-based software designed specifically for training educators and students on the use of technologies. According to the company, this latest deal with Brevard County brings the total number os students and teachers using its software to more than 1 million and the total number of schools in Florida using its tools to more than 1,200.
(1/31/2007)

CoSN Announces AYP Pre-Conference Workshop

(1/1/2006)

Pearson Forms New Group to Address Need for School Improvement Solutions

(1/1/2006)

Warming Up To Wireless

(11/1/2005)

Online Education News

(11/1/2005)

The Rise and Fall of Educational Technology: Did We Miss the Point?

(11/1/2005)

The Power of Digital Integration

(11/1/2005)

Teachers Talk Tech

(10/1/2005)

University of Texas at Austin Explores LIFE

(10/1/2005)

Dissecting a Network-Based Education System

The methods used to design the Alabama Learning Exchange can be replicated to create your own efficient, cost-effective, network-based education systems.
(9/1/2005)

T+L2 Conference

(9/1/2005)

Calgary BoE Selects Desire2Learn to Replace LMS

(9/1/2005)

Interactive Books to Help Districts Reduce Injury-Related Costs

(9/1/2005)

Discovery Educator Network to Bolster Virtual Community

(8/1/2005)

Mobile Classroom Awarded to Ohio Elementary School

(8/1/2005)

Cisco Provides IP Video Distribution Solution to Mississippi DoE

(8/1/2005)

Midwest Assessment Forum Places Focus on the Child

(8/1/2005)

Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning

How one of Ohio’s lowest-performing elementary schools raised its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.
(8/1/2005)

A Second Look at the Nature of Technology in the Classroom

Four years ago, I set out to visit schools across the United States with a question: Why, after investing billions in computer technology for schools are the measurable results so meager?
(8/1/2005)