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Greetings, friends in Christ!
We continue to work behind the scenes to develop Season 15 cohorts and we’re connecting with you as we can to discern your interest for joining them. Please, if you have plans to participate, take a moment to register if you haven’t already. While you have plenty of time from now through the summer to put names to the spots you hold with just your (principal’s) name when you register, it helps us more than you know to understand which cohorts are filling and which have too few participants. Thank you for your attention to this!
Principals, I am routinely copied on the reports our TEC21 facilitators send to their teachers as a follow-up to the month’s workshop program. Here’s one from March:
Now that you are all green screen experts, I expect your schools will be asking for promo videos in your spare time! I know you left today with some good resources you can use. Don't forget to try out Vocaroo for an easy way to have your students read or explain a project.
It brings me so much joy to read these reports and see the responses that come through from many of our participating principals. Thank you for your affirmation and special thanks to those of you who share TEC21 news with your principal counterparts!
If you ever wondered what you could share about TEC21 to encourage a teacher on your faculty to participate, here’s what we hope you might say:
The TEC21 professional development series of monthly sessions—called the TEC21 Workshop Program—begins in September 2023 and ends in April 2024 (with the exception of December). TEC21 walks alongside Lutheran school teachers as they learn about and implement technology tools to enhance what they do. The Workshop Program engages teachers in a fun, safe, and uplifting environment as they consider new ideas and challenge each other to try new things. The Workshop Program is spread out over the entire school year to support ongoing development in thinking and technology implementation.
And if you want 10 minutes of complete affirmation for participation in TEC21, watch a Celebration Day 2022 screencast video from Nathan Doell, a returning TEC21 participant from St. Martin’s in Minnesota. Nathan’s journey using 3D printers, Canva, paper slide videos, and more is a huge testimony for the vision and mission of the TEC21 Workshop Program. Wow! Nathan, I hung on to every word.
Thank you, principals, for your support! Sign up now here for one of our virtual cohorts, a CUNE face-to-face faculty cohort, or one of 30 traditional, face-to-face, multiple grade-level cohorts impacting EC-12.
If you’d like a peek inside the TEC21 community or have questions, I invite you to schedule a video chat here. I’d love the opportunity to show you how the Workshop Program gives Lutheran school teachers the gift of time to examine, question, evaluate, and understand technology and develop practical applications for their classrooms. We are told every month by participants that they are refreshed spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and intellectually. Just ask Nathan.
Link to Workshop Program information for our traditional and virtual cohorts
Link to STEM Workshop Program information
JoyFully HIS,
Brent Dieckhoff
TEC21 Founder & Executive Director
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