In August 2008, the Department of Education and the Department of Defense Education Activity co-sponsored two Teacher-to-Teacher workshops in the Clover Park School District in Washington (serving both the Ft. Lewis and McChord Air Force Base) and the Morongo Unified School District at Twenty-Nine Palms Marine Combat Training Center in California.
Hear what these teachers have to say about the
Teacher-to-Teacher program.
(video courtesy of the U.S. Department of Education)
The workshops were a part of a series that the Department of Education hosted throughout the summer. These free sessions bring together some of the nation’s most effective teachers and educators to share successful practices for raising student achievement in key academic areas.
Topics of these two workshops were collaboratively designed with the school districts based on achievement data and district strategic plans. Both sites emphasized mathematics, science, literacy strategies, differentiated instruction and English Language Learners’ strategies.
Both areas have a high concentration of students from military families which presented a terrific opportunity for DoDEA to offer some specialized courses.
DoDEA conducted student transition and deployment-related sessions at each conference to include:
More than 150 K-12 teachers, counselors and administrators attended the two-day workshops at both sites with the majority of the participants working in schools serving military children.
In addition to the workshop sessions, all participants received overviews of DoDEA’s Educational Partnership, the MilitaryOneSource website and resources available through the program and the Sesame Street deployment video series.
Workshop evaluations were consistently high and addressed such factors as the instructor’s knowledge, organization, and respectfulness; and on whether the content was engaging, provided practical strategies, and deepened the participant’s understanding.
This initiative supports the objectives of the recent Memorandum of Understanding between the Departments of Defense and Education in the following ways:
Quality Education
Student Transition and Deployment
Communication and Outreach
