Educators Receive Grant Awards to Improve Technology Integration in SW Washington Classrooms
Congratulations to our region's 31 educators who are this year's recipients of OSPI's Enhanced Peer Coaching Program grants! The awarded teachers will become peer coaches in their schools and share new instructional techniques that use technology designed to engage and motivate students.
Awarded with funds from the federal Title IID program entitled Enhancing Education Through Technology, these 31 teachers from SW Washington will join nearly 230 other educators across the state in the Peer Coaching project. All peer coaches will receive funds to purchase technology for their own classrooms and the classrooms of the teachers that they coach, as well as 10 days of professional development through their regional ESD Educational Technology Support Center.
“This is a great opportunity for schools in our region to develop the kind of instructional leadership needed at the building level to integrate technology into their standards-based curricula,” remarked Debbie Tschirgi, Director of Educational Technology Programs at ESD 112. “Not only will they increase their own technology literacy; they will also develop the skills to be able to coach other educators in their building in a ‘just in time’ format.”
The local recipients are:
• Kelso – Danielle Davis (Barnes Elementary), Marci McCoy (Butler Acres Elementary)
• Longview — Jessica van Son (Cascade Middle School), Deborah Christian, Michelle Glovick and Sarah Jordan (Kessler Elementary), Jason Hoover (Mint Valley Elementary), Joan Enders (Robert A. Long High School), Molly Jo Campbell Barton and Alice Sorensen (Robert Gray Elementary), Crystal Allen and Kelley Smith (St. Helens Elementary)
• Ocean Beach — Kelly Jacobsen (Ocean Park Elementary)
• Stevenson-Carson — Shelley Wilson (Carson Elementary)
• Vancouver — Ericha Anderson (Chinook Elementary), Michelle Lawrence (Discovery Middle School), Sherri Priestman (Fort Vancouver High School), Sarah Bergman and Holly Sprague (Harney Elementary), Kasey Maloney, Nancy Bacon and Mariko Walters (Hazel Dell Elementary), Cyndy Hagin (McLoughlin Middle School), Jennifer Neil (Sacajawea Elementary), Kelly Hathaway (Thomas Jefferson Middle School), and Denise Choate (Truman Elementary)
Debbie Tschirgi - May 26, 2009