Project TELL emphasizes a process of systematic reform using leadership teams made up of educators, community members, and students to create schools that effectively integrate technology into the K-12 curriculum in ways that improve all students' higher-level thinking skills. The strength of our process is its emphasis on leadership development throughout the school system at multiple levels.

The five basic components of the project include:

1. LEADERSHIP
   "Breaking the Mold: A New Vision for Student Achievement" is an innovative leadership development program brings together teachers, students, administrators, support staff, and community members in project-based action learning teams. The teams work on technology-rich projects designed to enhance student achievement. Breaking the Mold rests on the notion that leadership is best pursued in the midst of real, relevant, and necessary work.

    

2. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
   This program promotes comprehensive reform through effective professional development by providing the level of support necessary to effectively use technology to improve the curriculum and classroom instruction in 100% of our core academic K-12 classrooms.

    

3. TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
   This project supports learning teams made up of teachers and community members to develop instructional units that improve student learning through the effective use of technology.

    

4. INFORMATION LITERACY
   This project develops students' information literacy skills, including both traditional communication literacy and network literacy, through the effective use of technology.

    

5. PRODUCTION/MEDIA LITERACY
   This project develops students' ability to become producers of information through the use of socio-dramatic instruction and effective use of technology, including multi-media programs, telecommunications, and interactive video conferencing.