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Sara Dexter
Sara Dexter
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For the years of 2014-2016, Covington City Public Schools’ math and science teachers, grades six through eight will participate in the CANLEAD research and development project at the University of Virginia.
The acronym of CANLEAD stands for, Collaboration and Networking Learning Environment and Database.
The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES).
It focuses on technologies that support multiple representations of math and science content, which is known to deepen conceptual understanding.
CANLEAD schools participate in project activites over a two-year period.
All participants will consider and adapt CANLEAD’S leadership tools, routines, and structures that foster meaningful interacitons among leaders and teachers.
School leadership teams will plan and implement the training as well as provide the support needed to integrate these technologies into all of their school’s math and science classrooms, grades six through eight.
During the summer of 2015, the school leadership team will participate in a fully funded, face-to-face three day summer institute in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia, Curry School of Education.
Sara Dexter, an associate professor of education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is the principal investigator for CANLEAD.
Dexter’s expertise in technology leadership and experience in administration at the public school district level brings awareness, understanding, cohesion, and research to the exciting nature of learning with technology.
