Summer Professional Development

What do educators do during the summer? Well, they certainly make time to rest, refresh and renew after an invigorating school year. They also make time to learn for themselves: travel, reading, studying. What is truly changing for educators is the ways they can feed that need to learn and grow. Take, for example, the CRSTE offerings this summer for educators at all levels....

- Sixteen online courses offered through Virginia's North Tier Consortium to educators everywhere for only $100. All sixteen courses sold out quickly, even though registration was open until yesterday. CRSTE seeks ways to expand its offerings to reach out and serve more educators in the future. http://crste.org/summer10onlinecourses.html

- Fourteen Summer Boot Camps covering skills and strategies that empower educators to make use of a variety of tools in their instructional repertoire. Two courses are already behind us and twelve more are ready to go after the Independence Day weekend, and there's still time to join in!  http://crste.org/summerbootcamps.html

- Remote ISTE being offered next Tuesday, June 29th through a live feed from Denver, both at Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, Virginia and online via Elluminate. In this way educators who can't afford to be in Denver can partake in a full day of the conference from home from anywhere in the world where they hae an Internet connection. http://crste.org/remoteiste.html

These kinds of offerings are making it possible for educators to learn on the go from wherever they are this summer. Inexpensive and high quality, CRSTE is showing the way to a new age of educator professional development.