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Effective
July 1, 2005 the Arizona Department of Education entered a
3-year agreement with ASSET to pay the ASSET membership fee
on behalf of all Arizona K-12 public schools districts and
charter schools. This partnership allows all educators in
those educational organizations to access all of ASSET’s
professional development and curricular resources. ASSET’s
education portal can be accessed through the IDEAL (Integrated
Data to Enhance Arizona Learning) infrastructure. For more
information on ADE, please go to www.ade.az.gov.
For more information on the IDEAL initiative visit www.ideal.azed.gov/cas/.
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Arizona
State University (ASU) West offers graduate credit options
to AZ educators completing online professional development
through ASSET’s PBS TeacherLine courses. For more information
about programs at ASU West, please go to www.west.asu.edu. |
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Northern
Arizona University (NAU) offers graduate credit options to
Arizona educators completing online professional development
through ASSET’s PBS TeacherLine courses. For more information
about programs at NAU, please go to www.nau.edu. |
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University
of Arizona South (UA South) offers graduate credit options
to Arizona educators completing online professional development
through ASSET’s PBS TeacherLine courses. For more information
about programs at UA South, please go to www.uas.arizona.edu. |
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ASSET partners
with the Intel® Foundation to offer the Intel® Teach
to the Future (www.intel.com/education/teach)
programs in Arizona. ASSET is a Regional Training Agency for
the programs, training over 10,600 Arizona in the past 5 years.
Arizona educators have participated in the 40-hour Essentials
Course, 24-40 hour Workshop on Teaching Thinking with Technology,
and the 4-hour Leadership Forum. ASSET looks forward to offering
additional professional development opportunities for Arizona
educators through support from the Intel Foundation. For more
information, please go to www.intel.com/education |
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TrueNorthLogic
is an application service provider for ASSET, offering the
360° Full Circle Achievement tools to Arizona educators.
This is a suite of educator tools, including 360 Technology
(to ascertain technology integration skills) and 360 Math
(to ascertain mathematic concept knowledge and pedagogical
practices). Each creates a customized professional development
program and provides aggregate data for organizational planning.
For more information about this partner, please go to www.truenorthlogic.com. |
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ASSET is
a MarcoPolo Rollout Partner Organization that provides the
local infrastructure to share the program throughout Arizona.
The Verizon-MarcoPolo Program (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/)
offers high-quality, standards-based, commercial-free Internet
resources across the disciplines designed to integrate into
the K-12 curriculum. ASSET and MarcoPolo have agreed to work
together to deliver MarcoPolo content and training to all
K-12 educators in the areas served by ASSET. |
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ASSET is
partnering with Microsoft Education’s Partners in Learning
program to deliver School Leader Development: Building 21st
Century Schools. This instructional leadership tool for leaders
of primary and secondary schools serves as a guide for creating
a learning environment that prepares students for a modern
world.
The unique curriculum combines video, challenge questions,
discussions, and expert resources to focus on the following
issues facing primary and secondary school leaders:
• Dimensions of change within schools in the 21st century
• Guidance for student learning
• Strategies for success for all students
• Innovative approaches for education
• Strong leadership for all schools
For more information go to www.microsoft.com/education/partnersinlearning.mspx |
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ASSET, a
self-supporting department of Eight/KAET, is proud to offer
PBS TeacherLine to ASSET members across Arizona. ASSET is
one of the original 16 local PBS stations selected by PBS
to offer TeacherLine’s online professional development
opportunities. To learn more about PBS TeacherLine go to www.pbs.org/teacherline. |
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ASSET partners
with the LA County Department of Education Office to offer
TEAMS Teaching Circles. (http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu/)
This resource, only available in Arizona through ASSET, focuses
on providing teachers with online mentoring, resources, and
support. TEAMS Teaching Circles provides K-12 classroom teachers
with anytime, anywhere eModules that support professional
teaching standards, individualized mentoring, teaching tools,
and access to hundreds of resources to improve teaching and
facilitate learning. Topics include the areas of standards-based
instruction, classroom management, classroom environment,
test-taking preparation, and much more. To learn more, please
go to techingcircles.lacoe.edu |
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ASSET has
partnered with Discovery Education to provide unitedstreaming™.
This is a collection of over 5000 digitally streamed instructional
videos, and thousands of still images all available via the
ASSET Education Portal. Even students can have direct access
to this resource collection as provided by their classroom
instructor. These videos are aligned to Arizona Academic Standards
and some are close captioned. For more information about unitedstreaming™,
please go to www.unitedstreaming.com.
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ASSET has
partnered with the Qwest Foundation to create an online educator
self-assessment tool designed to improve Early Childhood instruction
throughout Arizona. ASSET will also create a free, online
kindergarten readiness assessment tool for use by parents
and care providers. These assessments, 360° Early Childhood
provided by Qwest and Qwest KIP (Kindergartener In-Progress),
form the core of a program with the overarching goal of increasing
kindergarten readiness levels of Arizona children. |
