Alliance partners include: Stevens Institute of Technology, The League for Innovation in Community Colleges, PBS Station Thirteen/WNET, Cuyahoga Community College & Polaris Career Center's ILT Leadership Institute, Maricopa Community College Phoenix AZ, and Miami-Dade Community College Miami FL.
The Alliance partners will collaborate with neighboring schools in each or their respective cities to create turnkey trainers for the use and integration of information technologies in K-12 science and other disciplines. Trainers will serve as staff developers in their schools and districts and they will help to increase the number of teachers who can effectively and meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum, as called for by President Clinton's '21st Century Teachers' initiative.
The three year grant involves the training of Community College and ILT Leadership Institute teams in January '98, a sequence of ten 3 hour workshops for the Spring of '98 for 20 to 40 "turnkey trainers", followed up with the turnkey trainers reaching out to 100 teachers providing similar internet training for the fall '98. This cycle will be repeated in each year of the 3 year grant.
We look forward to this opportunity to strengthen Polaris' ILT Leadership
Institute as a regional resource center for teacher/technology professional
development in partnership with Cuyahoga Community College. Stevens Institute
Director Dr. Edward Friedman notes "This program builds upon and expands
the linkages which already exist between schools and community colleges
and provides additional vehicles for ongoing collaboration to enrich and
enhance schools' use and integration of technology."
Noted expert on Multiple Intelligences, brain research and integrating technology in education, Janie Varner spoke to teachers of the Polaris Vocational District, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997. The event was The Leadership Institute Teacher's Academy's first session of the 1997-98 school year. Coverage of the event was provided in Cleveland Live, an on-line magazine.
The Institute thanks those who helped make this event the success that it was! More than 190 Ohio teachers from Berea, Fairview, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, and Strongsville attended this one day event.
Janie Varner recommended this web site to the audience:
You may view Janie's slide presentation .
As our kickoff to the 1997-98 series of workshops offered to the Polaris District's school teachers, the Institute presented Janie Varner. A noted expert on Multiple Intelligences and brain research, discussion and activities focused on incorporating these ideas in their classrooms with the assistance of educational technologies.
This page last updated 8/25/98