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Verizon Wireless Stores throughout Tennessee are collecting School Supplies to ...

Nashville, TN – Middle Tennessee residents can drop off new school supplies at their local Verizon Wireless stores to give students back-to-school essentials for the new school year. The items collected will help local organizations serving underprivileged and low-income youth throughout Middle Tennesse better prepare students to learn and excel in school.

The nonprofit organizations receiving the supplies include: Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Clarksville; Big Brothers of West Wilson County; the Boys & Girls Clubs (Middle Tennessee and Rutherford County); Dickson County Help Center; East Lincoln Elementary and East Middle School in Tullahoma, TN; Maury County Schools Needy Student Funds; and Sumner County United Way.

“No child should have to start the school year without the basic supplies and tools he or she needs to succeed in the classroom,” said Jerry Fountain, Verizon Wireless president for the Carolinas and Tennessee. “We take great pride in the community in which we live and work; and our employees are proud to spearhead this effort to assist community organizations that help every child feel excited and prepared to go back to school.”

Verizon Wireless is hosting school supply drives at stores throughout Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina through August 15th, 2011. Customers and employees are encouraged to donate #2 pencils, magic markers, colored pencils, plastic rulers, spiral notebooks, crayons, glue sticks, white glue, dry erase markers, pocket folders, construction paper, pencil bags, erasers, index cards, and children’s scissors. The Middle Tennessee area stores accepting donations include:

Tennessee Teachers Begin Using Online Professional Development ...

Tennessee Teachers Begin Using Online Professional Development to Sustain Quality Learning

Wilson County School System focuses on developing teachers’ skills by using PD 360’s customizable online software.

Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) July 28, 2011

By most accounts, the Wilson County School System (WCS) in Tennessee was already doing a great job of teaching its 15,000 students in 2009. But it lacked one important thing that could take its program to the next level—a strong professional development solution for teachers.

With a staff of nearly 1,000 teachers, 48 percent of whom had a master’s degree or higher, WCS had its hands full ensuring each teacher received the specific training he or she needed. Luckily, WCS administrators found a simple solution to this challenge in an online program called PD 360.

PD 360 the online library of professional development resources that gives teachers and administrators access to the largest cache of education videos in the world. New content is constantly being added to PD 360’s more than 200 hours of research-based videos.

At the start of the 2009-2010 school year, Wilson County teachers joined a network of more than 700,000 educators in North America who use PD 360. With the online platform, they could instantly connect with other professionals in their field in many locations to learn and share key insights. They also found content tailored to each teacher’s needs.

“Many of our teachers are saying that this is the best professional development they have ever experienced,” said Monty Wilson, supervisor of secondary curriculum and instruction at WCS. “In addition to providing high-quality presenters, PD 360 also excels in sharing practical, real-life teaching examples in current classroom environments.”

PD 360 is meeting the needs of Wilson County teachers in several ways: Each school customizes PD 360 lesson plans to address its specific needs. Principals observe teachers in the classroom and then suggest PD 360 lessons to help teachers improve in certain areas. Administrators track teachers’ PD 360 usage and progress.

Thanks to PD 360 and a lot of hard work by Wilson County teachers, WCS maintains uniformly high teaching standards, even as it dramatically expands its staff size. Each year, its students outperform the state average in virtually every academic category, including reading, writing, math, and science. WCS is on the right track to ensuring its students succeed by taking advantage of PD 360’s advanced professional development features.

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