This grant enables school districts to adopt technology integration practices or technology professional development models by supplying the funds for hardware and software purchases as well as training. Grant recipients partner with the adoptive sites to receive consulting services and support. Examples of best practices are the Lighthouse Technology Sites and the recipients of the Model Professional Development Grants.
Adams-CheshireKathy Delisle
413-743-0876 |
This project will provide technology professional training of faculty in an effort to develop and clarify skills and content standards for at risk students at the elementary level. The school will establish a multi sensory approach to language arts through the use of computer technology. Students will be asked to create multimedia presentations, create writing overlays, newsletters, slide shows, and language experience stories using technology. |
BedfordJanet Tortora
781-275-6804 x108 |
This project will train a corps of teachers to integratie technology into the curriculum. These teachers will then train other teachers (train the trainer model). The grant will include money for portable computers. The portability of the laptops and display devices will allow the 21st Century Trainer an opportunity to go into classrooms to demonstrate lessons. Modeling lessons will enable teachers to experience how technology can complement instruction. Bedford is adopting the Lexington Public Schools Technology Training model. |
BrocktonAnn Thompson
508-580-8558 |
Two teams of Brockton teachers from the junior high schools have developed two project based activities on Immigration and Whales. The project based activities are based on the MA Curriculum Frameworks. Using a peer mentoring approach, the teachers will present their projects to their colleagues in all four junior high schools. The teachers participated in and are adopting the CyberWorks model. |
DanversLisa Dana
978-777-8932 |
The secondary art teacher in Danvers will work with both middle and high school art teachers to integrate technology into the arts curriculum. The classroom practices being adopted would begin with first year art students and expand for the advanced students. Students will create electronic portfolios and learn to manipulate graphics using Adobe Photoshop. The project is adopting Wareham High School's Lighthouse grant, Visual Design. |
EastonJean Churchill
508-230-3207 |
This project will develop the "Sparkling Business Plan," a multidisciplined project which provides high school students with experience in owning their own business. The students will create a product and execute a business plan. The major plan is to adopt this into a course offering in the 1999-2000 program of studies. The project is adopting the CyberWorks model of project based learning |
FalmouthAnn Bradshaw
508-548-0151 x130 |
This project will implement a Before School Math Club for third and fourth graders. Students will attend the Math Club twice each week for an hour. A mini computer lab will be used and students will rotate through the lab as well as other math stations. Enrollment will be open to students in grades 3 and 4 identified by teaches as needing additional support in math. The remaining slots would be opened up to other students in grades 3 and 4. This project is adopting the East Falmouth School, a Lighthouse site. |
Hampshire EducationalCecelia Buckley
413-586-4900 |
The Hampshire Educational Collaborative will implement a joint project serving nine school districts: Amherst, Belchertown, Easthampton, Frontier Regional, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton (including Smith Vocational School), South Hadley, Ware. This project will fund a "roving lab" equipped laptops which will reside in a given school for 3 weeks. The lab will be staffed by an expert teacher who will showcase new technologies, share expertise and offer teachers classroom demonstration on integrating technology into the history and science curriculum. The project is adopting the Williamsburg School, a Lighthouse Site. |
LeominsterGeraldine Ashe
978-534-7700 x.314 |
The goal of this project is to train a group of teachers to be technology leaders by using the "Train the Trainer" model. Training for these teachers will be provided in collaboration with the Fitchburg Public Schools through a series of after school seminars. In addition the teachers will participate in two summer institutes and develop technology based instructional units. |
LeverettRoxanne Schneider
413-548-9144 |
This project will fund a school website. The website will house student projects, school curriculum, and teacher contacts for parents. The sixth grade project will put information and photos on the site of the history of Leverett . This project is adopting the Erving School, a Lighthouse Site. |
LynnfieldPeter Manoogian
781-334-0015 |
This project supports classroom teachers who integrate technologies with their curriculum. Classroom teachers within the Lynnfield System will apply for hardware and software mini grants. The teachers with the best project based units that use technology will receive funding. The Global Classroom model has been funded in the past by the District. Lynnfield is adopting the Ipswich model of the 21st Century Classroom. |
MaldenClark Neily
781-397-7221 |
This grant supports the funding of the Microcomputer Based Laboratory for Malden High School. The Malden Science Department has completed a major review and revision of it 9th grade integrated science program. The new curriculum covers all topics in the Science and Technology Framework and incorporates the Microcomputer Based Laboratory activities. In the MBL each station consists of a Window-based PC, a Universal Laboratory Interface, and a suite of sensors for taking various kinds of measurements. This project adopts the Tufts Center for Science and Mathematics Teaching. |
MarshfieldLorraine Greenfield
781-834-5004 |
The goal of this project is to provide students with a systematic strategy for solving problems that require information. All students access information on an on line catalog and in electronic encyclopedias. The Library Media staff along with the classroom teachers will develop projects that are interactive and challenging . This project will adopt the Dale Street School in Medfield, a Lighthouse project. |
MillisGrace Magley
508-376-7022 |
This goal of this project is to add multimedia presentation skills to the curriculum of the Millis Middle School. The Middle School Art teacher will teach multimedia skills to the students and the classroom teachers will assign a multimedia project as part of their research projects. This project is adopting a model from the Concord Middle School and the Walpole Middle School. |
OxfordMr. Esposito
508-987-6050 |
This project will support a Technology Design Team. The team members will be supported with hardware, software, professional development in technology and stipends. The professional development will consist of 30 hours of computer skills and design of technology enhanced curriculum . The teachers will become teacher trainers. The project is adopting ideas from a 30 hour technology professional development course. |
Springfield Patricia Hunter
413-787-7091 |
Teacher participants will receive 21 hours of intensive professional development in new software applications as well as extensive instruction in capturing images. Teachers will then have a full release day to plan a new writing and publication project and will meet with colleagues every other week to report on progress/difficulties in implementation. This project is adopting a model used in other Springfield Public Schools and the Western Massachusetts Writing Project. |
TritonDorothy Natoli
978-462-1829 |
The Triton Regional District will initiate Writing Across the Curriculum: The Mobile Writing Lab. Six classroom units, each with thirty AlphaSmart keyboards, will be purchased, two per each elementary school in the district. Instructional Media Technologists will coordinate and design staff training sessions. Specialists will work with teachers in their classrooms during writing sessions on keyboards until teachers are comfortable with the technology. This project is adopting a model from the Bancroft Elementary School in Andover. |
WestfieldLaurene Belisle
Denise Quinn
413-572-6467 |
Funding from this grant will be used to train a 4-6 member team representing regular, bilingual and special education educators. Using release days and after school non contract hours this team ("expert learning team") will visit Ipswich and Lexington to observe their programs. Training will be given in designing lessons and developing strategies to seamlessly integrate technology into the curriculum. Once the model classrooms have been established the team will mentor other teachers within the school. |
Whitman-HansonRuth Whitner
781-447-7471 |
Grade six and seven at the Hanson Middle School will implement Historically Hanson, a multimedia project that builds on students' basic knowledge of their community. The PowerPoint presentation features archival photography to inspire students from the beginning of the unit by modeling the best classroom practices. This project involves a series of activities that will facilitate the students' discovery of their own town history through the study of local public buildings. The unit was created during a project based program, Cyber works, funded by a Technology Literacy Challenge Grant |
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