T.C. Roekle is a highly respected educator who has solid leadership experience with a focus on innovative strategies to raise student and staff performance at the building and district level. T.C. is a member of the National Speakers Association; she has addressed thousands of educators at State and National Education Conferences, Technology Conferences and school communities.
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of giving the opening Keynote for the 12th Annual SCOPE Technology Conference, “Lead By Design: Technology Integration Across the Curriculum”, in Long Island, New York. The SCOPE Education Services of Long Island, NY is a powerful example of educational leaders, passionate about effective staff development based on student learning, who has built an organization to make a difference.
SCOPE is a not-for-profit, private organization permanently chartered by the New York State Board of Regents to provide services to school districts. School superintendents founded SCOPE in 1964 as a cooperative venture for sharing resources to deal with common concerns. It is governed by a Board of Directors made up of school superintendents and college representatives and serves as a regional School Study Council and School Board Institute.
As I peruse the SCOPE catalogue of exciting fall course opportunities, consisting of 62 pages of “right on… use them today strategies”, (not to mention the full range of educational services), I am very impressed.
I was even more impressed with the leading educators I met at the conference. Dr. Joseph Del Rosso, Executive Director and former Superintendent, is passionate and knowledgeable about effective professional development design. His Professional Development Staff knows we cannot expect teacher and administrator training of the past to prepare our present students for the future.
Betty Westcott, Assistant Director of Professional Development, is the energetic key organizer for the conference. With her wit and skill, plus a very hard working staff, she ran an exciting professional development event designed around the Long Island learner. The SCOPE organization “gets it” … they demonstrate strong professional development is a process, continually evaluated, of improving educator competencies and skills for the purpose of accelerating student learning.
We can all learn from them: www.scopeonline.us
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I attended the conference in Long Island and could not agree with you more. Thanks for telling the world.
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