In 2002, IBM and the Miami-Dade Public Schools, the fourth largest district in the United States, launched a Reinventing Education partnership designed to give teachers better instructional tools that meet the specific learning needs of individual students.
To meet this goal, the grant is developing and implementing a Teacher Workbench, a seamless system that will provide teachers with instructional resources linked to timely data on their students. The tool will integrate the district's student information systems, test data, student portfolios, national and state standards, and curriculum and instructional content into a single user-friendly interface. With this technology, teachers will have up-to-date information on each student in their classroom and will be able to apply varied approaches to meet their unique learning needs and styles, enabling them to have an immediate impact on student performance.
School district leaders also will tie teacher training, lesson plan development, and best practices directly to student and district data to enhance the overall teaching and learning environment.
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