Tag Archives: Professional Development

SAFARI Montage

6 Steps to Getting Started Using SAFARI Montage

SAFARI Montage is a Learning Object Repository (LOR) and Digital Media and Curriculum Delivery solution. It is being adopted more and more by districts that want a single interface for accessing and managing all of their digital resources.

As with any enterprise-wide solution, there is a professional development component to help the district’s administrators and … Read more

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Q & A with Teq!

Over the years we’ve been to your schools
Taught you iPad, SMART Board, and other great web tools
Now it’s your turn, so ask away…
It’s time for some Q & A, the Teq way
On May 29th join Joseph and Lin
Here are the rules and the prizes you’ll win

Do you have a … Read more

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A view from a hallway at Avenues: The World School in Manhattan.

Event a Success at Avenues: The World School

Over the weekend Teq co-hosted the Digital Learning Summit with Avenues: The World School. The sold-out event provided teachers and administrators with the inspiration, strategies, and confidence to actively pursue a transformation in teaching and learning practices.

To see and hear more, check out this video!

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Embedded PD

Improving Student Achievement in the Bronx

Teq has been working with the Archdiocese of New York for months on a targeted plan to help teachers and students enhance student achievement in mathematics for grades 4, 6, and 8.

From the planning stages to execution, this video showcases the work of Curriculum and Professional Development Mentor Marc Brea and the professional development … Read more

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Events: SMART Board Conferences & Bring a Friend

This Saturday, April 27, we’ll be hosting a SMART Board User Conference at Stimson Middle School in Huntington Station, New York. Here’s the list of courses for the day, and there are still tickets available (register online):

  • Learning with the iPad
  • SMART Board Basics
  • Intro to SMART Notebook
  • 20 Coolest Things (You Can
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Custom Professional Development for the JEP

Classroom instruction isn’t one-size-fits-all and professional development for teachers shouldn’t be either. That’s why Teq recently partnered with the Jewish Education Project on a custom PD program, meant to give teachers training specific to the needs of their schools and students.

Instructional Technologists Gershom Tave and Ben Cebulash first got teachers certified on interactive whiteboards, and … Read more

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SAFARI Montage

4 Ways SAFARI Montage Supports Common Core

The Common Core State Standards offer educators an opportunity to rethink and refocus the ways in which they facilitate learning in and out of the classroom. Schools and districts using SAFARI Montage can leverage the platform in several ways to support and deepen the implementation of the Common Core.

  1. Access to high quality content that
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STEM

NYC Grant-Funded STEM Project a Success

New York, NY — About a dozen New York City teachers worked together recently to build wooden structures used to fling balls of wadded paper across a classroom. They weren’t developing new ways to frustrate janitors, the group was learning new ways to create accessible lessons in the areas of Science, technology engineering and Math Read more

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Teaching Channel

Professional Development on the Teaching Channel

Teachers design lessons with the very best instructional strategies in mind and constantly seek new ideas to support the learning in their classrooms. With a library of high quality videos, the Teaching Channel website is a source for continued professional development related to best instructional practices.

The site is easily searchable by Subject, Grade, or … Read more

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South Huntington to Implement Virtual Program with Grant

HUNTINGTON STATION, NY –– The South Huntington School District has chosen to work with Teq and SAFARI Montage after receiving a New York State Education Department grant to implement a program that will increase targeted students’ access for Advanced Placement (AP) courses.

The district has been awarded $500,000, a slice of $17.3 million in Race … Read more

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