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Anytime, Anywhere Learning Professional Development School
AALPDS
STANDARDS-BASED TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A partnership among Fordham University's Graduate School of Education, Classroom Connect Inc. and North Carolina's Partnership for Excellence.
"Bringing the power of online learning and site-based leadership to the challenge of developing standards-based classrooms."
Funding in part by a FIPSE LAAP Grant
At a time when schools are facing severe teacher shortages and an urgent need to improve the quality of learning provided by existing teachers, an alternative delivery model in distance learning could be a valuable solution to help resolve some of these problems.
The Anytime Anywhere Learning Professional Development School (AALPDS) partnership is working together to develop flexible, online professional development that addresses critical needs of today's schools. The partnership will rely to a substantial degree on the resources brought to it by Connected University, an online learning community managed by Classroom Connect, Inc. Connected University is an online institution designed to meet the needs of today's educators for dynamic, learner-focused, project-based and instructor-led courses.
Educators who participate in this project will be part of a local school-based team in web-based courses and engage in professional collaboration, dialogue and peer assessment. Through the use of many Internet technologies, the teachers taking these courses will be developing and sharing curriculum resources not only with their own school, but also through a national network of educators.
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The Anytime Anywhere Learning Professional Development School (AALPDS) partnership is working together to develop flexible, online professional development that addresses critical needs of today's schools. Project goals include the development of:
a customizable professional development curriculum that prepares classroom teachers to design, develop and implement effective programs of instruction that produce objective, measurable gains in student achievement,
cultivating local leadership, and
elaborating new professional development technology tools.
The second year of AALPDS began in September 2001, with fifty-four participating schools representing seventeen districts throughout the United States. Six additional districts may participate in the 2001-2002 school year. Additionally thirty districts are expected to participate during the 2002-2003 school year. If your district is interested in transforming and learning through Internet-based professional development contact us to consider participating in this project.
Please watch this site for more detailed information as we continue its development.
For more information about participation in this project please contact:
Fordham University Graduate School of Education 113 West 60th Street, Room 1102 New York, NY 10023 AALPDS@fordham.edu |
Classroom Connected University 8000 Marina Boulevarb Bribane, CA 94005 Snoon@Classroom.com |
Fordham University Graduate School of Education 113 West 60th Street, Room 1102 New York, NY 10023 Telephone: (212) 636-6772 AALPDS@fordham.edu |
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| AALPDS Partners |
AALPDS partner districts
| Los Angeles Unified School Districts |
| Yonkers Public Schools |
| Prince George's County Public Schools, MD |
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Funded in part by a Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) grant. Federal Funds will finance 31% of the project's total cost of $4.5 million over three years. The remaining 69% ($3,148,602) of the cost will be shared among the partners. |
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