Whole-Classroom Interactive Resource Development
Overview
The Whole-Classroom Interactive Resource Development (WIRED) program is a 2-year, $640,000 grant funded by the Colorado Department of Education’s Power Results Grant Program. The grant provides technology tools, training, and professional development for teachers of grades 3-8, as well as approximately $20,000 per school in new technologies.
Program Goals
- Improve student achievement.
- Engage and motivate students.
- Emphasize how new technologies can assist collaborative activities between teachers and students.
- Help districts achieve their own technology and information literacy goals for all students.
- Evaluate and disseminate material from this project so it may be successfully replicated to others.
Participants
The program covers 14 schools in five districts:
- Archuleta
- Pagosa Springs Elementary
- Pagosa Springs Intermediate
- Pagosa Springs Junior High
- Bayfield
- Bayfield Elementary
- Bayfield Middle School
- Durango
- Robert E. DeNier Youth Services
- Florida Mesa Elementary
- Fort Lewis Mesa Elementary
- Escalante Middle
- Miller Middle
- Ignacio
- Ignacio Elementary
- Ignacio Intermediate
- Ignacio Junior High
- Silverton
Major Technologies Provided
- SMART Interactive white boards: 73
- LCD Projectors: 40
- Laptop computers: 46
- Digital labs (digital microscopes, graphing calculators, temperature probes, motion sensors): 15
- Senteo interactive classroom response systems: 7
- AirLiner wireless slates: 7
- Plus associated accessories, hardware, and software
Training Provided
- Over 250 teacher-days of SMART Board and Digital Lab training sessions
- 2-day McRel technology workshop for 80 teachers and administrators
- 4-day Technology in Education conference for 15 teachers
- Hundreds of hours of in-class, in-person coaching
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