Adventures in After School Learning Blog

-By Mike DeBritz on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Have your students take a shot at a $30,000 scholarship in Google's Doodle contest, where students compete to create a logo based on "If I could travel in time, I'd visit…" theme. 

This could be great fun as an after school project that everyone could try. Here's the kicker the school would also benefit by receiving $50,000 technology grant!! 

 Take a look at the video below or click here to get all the details.  Good luck!

-By Mike DeBritz on Wednesday, August 17, 2011

It seems more and more these days, time for specialized training is at a premium. When I say specialized I mean, a training on a particular process, software or curriculum that only applies to one or two staff members.  

Maybe it’s the strain on budgets or just the impracticalities and inefficiencies of bringing so many people together at once. It’s hard to say exactly.

Many site leaders I know will kick off the year with a one or two day training to cover everything needed to get operational like working with a student information system for attendance, lesson planning or a refresher on classroom management.  They get a lot of business done here and also get to check off the mandatory training hours many states require for certification.

So to help our customers with individual training needs, we’re continually working on discrete “train-the-trainer” materials designed for site leaders working with one or two instructors.  This seems to work better for most sites’ time budget and applies the training only to the teachers that have an immediate need. Once a couple of teachers have run through a course, they’re in excellent position to be a training facilitator for the next block.

Here’s a sample “train-the-trainer” presentation for “Being an Artist: A Cubism and College Experience.” 

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