MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s
College of Education continued training recently to help area public school administrators
meet the state’s First to the Top goals.
The May 10 professional development training session brought
in about 30 principals from 11 southern Midstate public school districts to
help them establish or improve their own systems’ Professional Learning
Communities.
Professional Learning Communities, or PLCs, focus on student
learning and results by creating better collaboration and more accountability
for teachers and administrators.
Under the direction of President Sidney A. McPhee and Dean
Lana Seivers, the MTSU College of Education has been partnering with
surrounding school districts on a number of school improvement initiatives,
including PLCs.
Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the university’s Womack Family
Educational Leadership Department, conducted the recent training session at the
College of Education building. It followed a similar session in late March
comprised of directors and central office staff from area districts.
Both sessions were recorded by the Center for Educational
Media and will be available for other school districts’ training on the
center's website, http://www.mtsu.edu/education/cem.php.
MTSU collaborated with education consultant Battelle for
Kids, whose services are provided through First to the Top funds. Battelle’s
services are directed by the state Department of Education’s eight Centers for
Regional Excellence (CORE).
The recent training targeted the south central CORE
district, which includes Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence,
Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Perry and Wayne counties and city
systems in Manchester, Tullahoma and Fayetteville.
For more information about the MTSU Center for Educational
Media, visit www.mtsu.edu/education/cem.php;
for more on the Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, visit www.mtsu.edu/edu_leadership.
About MTSU
Founded in 1911 as
one of three state normal schools for teacher training, MTSU is now the oldest
and largest public university in Middle Tennessee. With an enrollment of more
than 25,000 students, MTSU is the largest undergraduate university in
Tennessee.
MTSU remains
committed to providing individualized service in an exciting and nurturing
atmosphere where student success is the top priority. With a wide variety of
nationally recognized academic degree programs at the baccalaureate, master's
and doctoral levels, MTSU takes pride in educating the best and the brightest students
from Tennessee and around the world.
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