DLC Newsletter: December 2007

Professional Development through the DLC

You don’t have to leave your desk to expand your horizons. Sign up for a DLC online/phone-based training to learn how to use our tools:
http://www.learningcommons.org/educators/pd/calendar/

Or earn clock-hour credits on your own time through online clock-hour workshops:
http://www.learningcommons.org/educators/pd/annenberg/

Train the Trainer Workshop

Our second Train the Trainer Workshop is coming up in January in Eastern, WA. Train the Trainer is a professional development opportunity for staff that are interested in playing a more active role in providing DLC assistance and support in their local schools and/or districts.

We don’t have an exact location yet for the January workshop, but if you’re interested in attending email Maile at mhadley@learningcommons.org.

DLC Support Knows No Bounds

See how far we’ll go to help DLC member-schools make the most of our resources:
http://www.learningcommons.org/about/stories/2007/12/holdenvillage.php

Conference Debriefs

We’re happy to report that 55 educators attended our second annual Innovative Practices for Student Achievement Conference in November. Here’s what a couple of the participants had to say:

“My goal for this conference was to come away with resources and knowledge to come back to my school and train individual teachers and students on how to use the resources. I not only learned more about the uses for these resources but also where to find training resources for the people I’ll be working with.”

“I imagine myriad ways in which I will be able to use the various DLC resources I was exposed to at this conference. My approach will be, one situation at a time, to identify a need, choose the appropriate DLC tool, and achieve implementation through successful communication. I hope to accomplish these goals on an ongoing basis, beginning today.”

In other conference news, the second cohort of educators started Teacher2Teacher in October. They attended a three-day retreat and will meet again twice more this school year. Learn more about Teacher2Teacher below; and email Maile at mhadley@learningcommons.org if you’d be interested in attending in the future:
http://www.learningcommons.org/t2t/