Links to Exisiting Solutions

Successful Teacher Professional Development Programs
Existing Technologies to Support Collaboration and Communication in the Workplace

Successful Teacher Professional Development Programs

"Rethinking Professional Development"
Improving America's Schools: Newsletter on Issues in School Reform - May 1996
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/profdev/pt1.html

National Staff Development Council
Standards for Staff Development
http://www.nsdc.org/standards.html

Helping Teachers Teach Well: Transforming Professional Development - June 1995
Consortium for Policy Research in Eduction (CPRE) Policy Brief
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CPRE/t61/t61b.html

Learning to Walk the Reform Talk - A Framework for the Professional Development of Teachers
National Center for Research on Teacher Learning
http://ncrtl.msu.edu/

Transforming Professional Development for Student Success
The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education
http://www.nfie.org/exec.htm

New Directions in Professional Development
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI)
http://carei.coled.umn.edu/ResearchPractice/v4n1/NDiPD.html

Curriculum Improvement and Professional Development
San Francisco Unified School District
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/programs/cipd/index.html

Schools in California, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts Cited By Riley For Excellence in Teacher Development - December 1996
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/12-1996/profdevi.html

Existing Technologies to support Collaboration and Communication

Electronic Paper
Developed by the MicroMedia group at the MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu

Digital Ink
Developed by Carnegie-Mellon University with Intel, Corporation
http://www.edrc.cmu.edu/

Tangible Interfaces
Interval Research Corporation
http://www.interval.com/frameset.cgi?research/index.html

Digital Clipboard and Ink Manager
Developed by IBM
http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/popups/innovate/hci/html/ink.html

Zombieboard
Developed by Eric Saund, Xerox PARC
http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/members/saund/zombieboard-public.html

TeamBoard Electronic WhiteBoards
http://www.teamboard.com/

Smart Technologies
http://www.smarttech.com/

Tegrity - Interactive Presentation Tools for Anytime, Anywhere Education
http://www.tegrity.com/

SoftBoard
Developed by Microfield Graphics
http://www.softboard.com/

Hitachi-Software Whiteboard
http://www.hitachi-soft.com/

Ideaboard
Developed by 3M
http://www.3m.com/meetings/ams/11_whtbd.html

CrossPad
Developed by Cross Pen Computing Group
http://www.cross-pcg.com/

IBM Pen Technologies
Developed by IBM, used by CrossPad
http://www.research.ibm.com/handwriting/

CalliGrapher
http://www.paragraph.com/products/internetink/calligrapher/index.html
Effective online demo using Java
http://www.paragraph.com/javapad/JavPad.html

NetMeeting
Developed by Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/reskit/?/netmeeting/reskit/NMRK21CH1.HTM

Enthusiasm for classroom experimentation gathers momentum and direction cumulatively, like a train rushing downhill without obstacle (Rosenholtz 1991).

Enthusiasm for classroom experimentation gathers momentum and direction cumulatively, like a train rushing downhill without obstacle (Rosenholtz 1991).