I spent most of my time in June working on the TEACH Academy initiative. If you didn’t make it, you really missed a great opportunity. TEACH was a 3 day technology professional development experience. We took over the Starbase Victory facility and ran 7 hands on concurrent sessions every day. Wow. We even had a strand for administrators on Thursday the 19th. We had a great mix of presenters: Debbie Rollins, Tom Spencer, Doug Adams and Paul Barron as well as our own folks.
I gotta give props to Christine Munroe who handled all the registration and all the changes. Karen Streeter who was the visionary who knew we could do it back in January when she dreamed it up and the TRTs who both taught sessions and assisted throughout the week. Special thanks (what is this an Emmy speech?) needs to go to Jason Sullivan, AJ Boone, Bob Roberts and Tami Barker from the engineering and applications groups who gave both remote and onsite assistance troubleshooting and getting things fixed. All hail the Great PPS Websense Nazi who unblocked sites as necessary at the last minute so the show could go on…I know I’ve forgotten folks…you all did so much to help.
Between the preparation and the actual event, I thought I was going to die. When I finally got my car unloaded on Friday and had a chance to unwind, I just fell out. I didn’t leave my house all weekend. My good friend Melissa is a TRT for Bristol Schools and she does a teacher academy all on her own…don’t know how she does it.
I still have to finish the debrief but overall we got lots of positive comments, some lessons learned, and 115 teachers who were immersed in technology and will be ready for followup in September…Oh - I’ve got some pictures…
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