Thank you SETDA Leaders and Corporate Sponsors
SETDA would like to thank our sponsors for supporting this effort as well as the SETDA members who completed the survey and led the development of these tools during planning calls and online collaboration.
SETDA Leaders
Monica Begleau, Missouri
Martha Donaldson, Alabama
Julia Fallon, Washington
Cathy Higgins, New Hampshire
Marlene Johnson, Maryland
Jeff Mao, Maine
Verda McCoy, Ohio
Cathy Poplin, Arizona
Robbie Reasoner, Georgia
Gloria Steele, South Dakota
Carla Wade, Oregon
Sponsors
CyberSmart! Education: CyberSmart! trains educators in 21st century knowledge and skills, identified by state and national standards as critical to K-12 students’ learning, achievement, and success in today’s digital world. CyberSmart! Online Professional Development is an educational suite of anytime/anywhere workshops for all K-12 subject area teachers, classroom educators, administrators and technology coordinators in the area of 21st century skills. Trained facilitators support each workshop. The suite of multimedia workshops uses live coaching, video, animation, and reflection within a supportive collaborative online learning community. It supports educators to safely harness the Internet’s potential — promoting students’ creative inquiry, collaboration and critical thinking. Educators experience, hands-on, the same kinds of learning they are expected to facilitate in the classroom. CyberSmart! online professional development aligns to NSDC and ISTE standards and is supported with a strong research basis. We have made a continuing effort to provide an exemplary and engaging product.
CyberSmart! also offers free student curriculum including a new free Cyber Bullying Prevention Package which will be available in the Fall 2008. The highly acclaimed free CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively. Key factors in the Curriculum’s ongoing appeal are its message of positive empowerment; ease of use; friendly, engaging tone; and focus on problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
School Improvement Network: The School Improvement Network is the leading provider of comprehensive, research-based professional development anytime, anywhere. As the home of The Video Journal of Education, PD 360, and the Leadership and Learning Framework, School Improvement Network resources focus on the most relevant topics, feature the top experts, and show educators how to put theory into practice. The School Improvement Network currently works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world. With its focus on long-term improvement, sustainability, and greater internal capacity, the School Improvement Network helps its clients close achievement gaps, meet high standards, improve educator practice, and most importantly, increase student learning and achievement.
PD 360, the School Improvement Network’s on-demand professional learning resource, gives educators instant access to hundreds of video segments that show what best practices actually look like in the classroom. A customizable and scalable resource, PD 360 helps bridge the gap between training and classroom implementation with integrated tracking, follow-up, and reflection tools. PD 360's flexible and convenient delivery system empowers you to provide every educator with what they need, when they need it.
For more information, visit our website or call 800-572-1153.
SMART Technologies: Strongly believing that one educator can make a difference in a student’s life, SMART Technologies Inc., has been supporting educators by providing innovative products and services since 1991. Educators were the first to take an interest in SMART’s interactive whiteboards, immediately seeing their potential as instructional, professional development and student collaboration tools. Since then, that initially small group of educators has grown into an international community spanning 75 countries. There are now hundreds of thousands of teachers and students who use SMART solutions daily to help make classroom lessons more engaging and effective.
