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Take a closer look at how educators across the state are using the K-20 Education Network to enrich their students’ educational opportunities.
A CLEAR PATH FROM HOME TO COLLEGE A measurable, positive difference in life-long learning and the public good. Find out how the Enduring Legacies Project brings equal access and relevancy to education for Native Americans. Read Story >> SAVING LIVES, SERVING MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS Essential education and information services keep rural communities alive. What happens when someone born, raised and living in a small rural community in northeast Washington becomes a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and opens her practice where she lives? The suicide rate drops. Read Story >> COMMUNITIES PRESERVE HISTORY, ART, AND CULTURE ON THE K-20 NETWORK Communities preserve history, art, and culture on the K-20 network. A visioning workshop held in Forks raised an issue that had troubled community members for a long time—the history, art, and traditions of the NW Olympic Peninsula were at risk of vanishing from the landscape of our state. Find out more here. Read Story >> LIFE-LONG LEARNING, EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL. Learning and human experience become one on the K-20 network. It’s a commons where people communicate, connect and discover the stories hidden within the lives of people we may never know. And, UWTV brings this new and dynamic community to life. ReadStory >> BUILD A FAST, RELIABLE, HIGH-CAPACITY NETWORK INSTRUMENT AND THEY WILL COME Gary Bortel, IT Service Manager for the Washington State Library’s Library Development Program, believes that the K20 network transforms a small town library into a marketable commodity. ReadStory >> A MEASURABLE, POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN LIFE-LONG LEARNING…FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. The spectacular boom and bust of the dot-coms was over in 2001. But it inspired an ongoing series of small Internet-based businesses with the same cycle—burn hot and bright for a short time and then, lacking money or a competitive strategy, fail and hope the customers understand. ReadStory >> TEACHING YOUNG DIGERATI Where in Washington? connects young learners, unfolds geography, history, culture. Behind the scenes, the best, most forward-looking, and reliable network instrument stands ready to promote new and innovative educational programs—the only limit is human imagination. ReadStory >> VIDEOCONFERENCE MARKS CONSTITUTION DAY IN A NEW AND HIGH-TECH WAY We are more than a high-speed, high-capacity technology pipeline. On the K-20 network, events such as America Reads the Constitution embody our passion to empower all Washington state students to achieve their dreams. ReadStory >> AUTISM OUTREACH PROJECT MOVES ITS PEOPLE NETWORK ONTO THE K-20 NETWORK How do you reach, instruct, and support the thousands of individuals across Washington who deal directly with autistic children in our education system, and in our communities, without spending most of your program funds on time, travel, and administration? ReadStory >> GOING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM VIRTUALLY! Cleveland Metroparks Zoo invites teachers to bring their classroom to the Zoo—virtually! Go to places in the Zoo that you may never have seen before. Ask questions of Zoo staff and interact with other schools around Ohio and beyond. All without leaving their school! ReadStory >> SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICT, BIG SUCCESSES As news stories and a flurry of state and national awards suggest, something remarkable is going on in Eastern Washington’s small, remote Bridgeport School District. And Superintendent Gene Schmidt will be the first to tell you that it couldn’t happen without the K-20 Education Network. ReadStory >> SERVING MILLIONS, SAVING MILLIONS IN ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS Today the Washington Schools Information Processing Cooperative delivers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions that manage student, human resource, and financial data for 281 of Washington’s 296 school districts. Cost-effective and user-friendly, WSIPC applications are at the center of school operations. ReadStory >> DIGITAL LEARNING COMMONS HELPS TEACHERS TO ASK MORE OF STUDENTS The Digital Learning Commons was a visionary investment that created a K-20 network access point to high-value online courses, web-based teacher and classroom resources, college and career planning tools, library databases and more. ReadStory >> K-20 PARTNERSHIP WITH INTERNET 2 BRINGS THE OCEAN FLOOR INTO THE CLASSROOM Through the NEPTUNE ocean research and education program at the University of Washington, K-20 students will eventually be able to access—from their desktop—real time data and images of ocean and sea floor activity associated with the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Read more here. ReadStory >> 21ST CENTURY LEARNING SKILLS THAT EMPOWER ALL STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE Something remarkable happened in Kim’s senior year—her math grade jumped from an F in the first semester to a B- in the second semester. On a subsequent standardized test, Kim’s math score soared 10 points. Her teacher credits the motivational power of cybermentoring on the K-20 network. ReadStory >> |