Welcome from the Interim Executive Director Patrick L. McDaniel
Welcome to the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium's website. As interim executive director of Florida's oldest regional educational consortium, I am excited about being able to provide easily accessible information for our member and participating public school districts and the communities we serve. Since the creation of PAEC in 1967, our school districts have benefitted from shared services made available through leading edge technology. This site demonstrates our continuing commitment to that networking legacy.
Over the decades, we have prided ourselves in being one of Florida's leaders in multi-district initiatives. Success stories include leadership in staff development initiatives, such as Florida's first multi-district Teacher Education Center, accountability in business support operations, such as Florida's first self-insurance for property casualty and employee benefits, and Florida's first in multi-district distance learning, such as the PAEC electronic Professional Development Connections, and PAEC's Tuesday Teacher Training, a nationally recognized professional development model using distance learning, broadcast over the Florida Education Channel housed at PAEC.
While the school districts access our teaching and learning, training and technology, and business operations services in varying degrees of need, all come for the mutually beneficial purpose of reaching their goals...together.
