Through an opportunity made available by Texas Education Agency (TEA), Dell Technologies and Advanced Learning Partnerships (ALP) served approximately 300 Independent School Districts (ISDs) as they strived to facilitate equitable, high-quality learning experiences for students in 2020 and 2021.
This Dell Texas Learning Network (DTLN) united and empowered educators across every region of the State through a responsive and inclusive range of professional learning pathways facilitated by our ALP team:
- Learner Engagement – What pedagogies best reach children of varying ages, backgrounds, and development levels? How can technology be purposefully applied to reaching learners in remote, hybrid, blended as well as in face-to-face learning modes?
- Professional Networking – What happens when educators easily and frequently learn from each other? Where can they gather to validate, enable, and uplift colleagues under ever-changing, challenging circumstances?
- Innovation for Impact – How are promising new approaches in teaching, learning, and leadership spreading? What are the data sources that convince educators to learn and apply innovative pedagogies and tools?
- Leadership & Service – What does it mean to lead and serve during a pandemic? What opportunities might exist in a post-COVID landscape that we can begin to prepare for now? How can we more sincerely and effectively reach all families and learners in our communities?
- Honest to Goodness Training – So much change, so little time. How do educators navigate the shift from face-to-face to remote learning modes (and back again)? In what ways can they apply the new technology tools made available by their districts?
Between November 2020 and December 2021, educators within the DTLN accessed a rich and ever-expanding portfolio of facilitated webinars, virtual courses, networking events, and even personalized small-group coaching sessions. ALP coaches, with established skill and rich experience in a wide array of leadership roles, attentively facilitated these experiences.
Teachers, coaches as well as school and district administrators were given the opportunity to participate in diverse professional learning experiences in one or more of these pathways. Educators could participate in multiple PL formats and through multiple pathways as their needs, as well as those of their students, evolved.
