PAEC History Panhandle Area Educational Consortium

PAEC Horizon
  Wednesday, January 10, 2007Volume 2007 Issue 42   
Calendar of Events
Making it personal
Dr. Kathy Oropallo, right, coordinates the script with Jon Haines, FEC technology support technician, before taping begins.
By the second week of school, teachers are beginning to know their students: there are the shy ones, the talkative ones, the organized ones and the ones who have boundless energy. Skilled teachers take this basic knowledge further, capitalizing personality traits like these to differentiate learning and increase student achievement.

Learn more by watching the Jan. 23 episode of Tuesday Teacher Training.


Circuit riders tackle alcohol, drugs
Six PAEC staffers are in schools sharing the Too Good for Drugs curriculum as part of a three-year grant to combat teen alcohol abuse.

PAEC adopts 2007 Legislative Platform
With the 2007 Legislature, with many new faces, set to convene March 6, PAEC's directors have compiled a list of issues they'd like to see addressed, including the teacher shortage, salaries and school safety.

FEC and DOE launch new program
The Florida Department of Education and PAEC’s Florida Education Channel have teamed up to create a new television program to highlight teacher innovation. Teacher Talk taped its first show today.

Prep now for Black history month
The Florida Education Channel offers video resources to help students understand the challenges faced by Black Americans during the nation’s past and their contributions to its present and future.

Districts join charter school commission challenge
Two PAEC participating school districts have joined nine others in a law suit aimed at voiding a law that created the Florida Schools of Excellence Commission, which they contend is unconstitutional.

 
1/11/2007
Reading First Principals and Coaches Meeting Principals Cadre
1/16/2007 - 1/18/2007
ISRD 2006-2007 Mid-Year Institute for ESE Administrators
1/17/2007 - 2/10/2007
PLS - Competency 4/5 - Differentiated Instruction (Winter, 2007)
1/23/2007
Tuesday Teacher Training - Differentiating: By Interest, By Learning Styles, By Multiple Intelligences
1/23/2007
FLaRE Reading Coach Training 2006-07
1/25/2007
Strategic Intervention Model (SIM): FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Device Strategy
1/25/2007
WINGS Site Coordinators Meeting
1/26/2007
Reading First Professional Development 2006-07
1/27/2007
FLDOE/WOGI Parent Workshop: Understanding and Supporting the Complexity of Your Child: It Isn't Always Easy Being Gifted
1/30/2007
Teaching Children with Disabilities: Tips, Tools, and Techniques
2/3/2007
Florida Council for the Social Studies 50th Anniversary Recognition, Drive-In Conference
2/3/2007
2007 North Florida Regional Social Studies Conference
Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
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Patrick L. McDaniel, Executive Director - mcdanielp@paec.org

The PAEC Horizon is a communications initiative in support of the PAEC Strategic Plan 2005 and Beyond, "Strategy 1", which states, "We will develop and implement a consistent and congruent communication system that is used by all staff of PAEC member districts to achieve our strategic objectives." If you have suggestions for future articles, please contact us at consortium_news@paec.org.


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