To: Principals,
Superintendents, Teachers, and Technology Contacts
From: Joan
Hanor, Director, ILAST
Partnership
Date:
Topic: ILAST/Improving
Learning for All Students through Technology
In partnership with North County Professional Development Federation,
CTAP Region IX, CTAP Online, San Diego County Office of Education, and over 22
school districts;
ILAST
meets district professional development needs by combining academic content and
district prioritized instructional focus with technology training. In
consultation with contributing school districts, ILAST Instructors
customize 40 hours of instruction at regional institutes. Support continues
within classrooms and local sites for 80 more hours to ensure participants'
ability to apply technology to their own classroom and administrative settings.
Now in its second year, ILAST provides customized curriculum in four areas:
Foundation for new participants
Project-Based for year two participants
Administration for principals,
administrators and technology leaders
Mathematics /Technology ILAST
combined with AB 1331
ILAST
accommodates individual learning styles and competing pressures of professional
and personal time frames by providing multiple methods of instruction and
promoting field-based and self-directed learning as essential elements of
professional development. Through a personalized professional growth action
plan, participants select from the following activities:
·
Multi-point
videoconferences to connect participants with experts in their field
·
Support
from mentors for onsite assistance and feedback
·
Extensive
online staff development resources including discussion forums, courses and
professional materials to promote collaboration, exchange of resources and
reflective practice
·
A
wide array of Saturday and evening ILAST workshops
Each participant who completes the 120 hours of ILAST will
receive a stipend of $1000.
University credit is available from CSUSM. To register, submit an ILAST Team
Application with Administrator’s Commitment Statement for Team Registration of
$1000 (also
individual registration of $250for admin & Math)
For questions,
please contact Dr. Joan Hanor Voice: 760-750-4305 Fax:
760-750-3237 Email: jhanor@csusm.edu
ILAST Partnership
Fax
760-750-3237
Attention: Joan Hanor,
Director
CSU