| Overview |
SHARE is a project involving
23 Central Washington school districts, 104 other school districts around the state, 2,252 teachers, 40,536+ students and the Educational Technology Support Center of
Educational Service District 105. It has been funded through Washington State Educational
Technology Competitive grants, Technology Leadership Challenge Fund grants, a US Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grant, corporate sponsorships and membership fees.
SHARE is the only project in Washington to be grant funded four times in three years. We also have strong partner support: the total of $6.96M in grant funds received to date has been matched to deliver $12.84M in benefit to Washington's classrooms. Only 3% of these funds are used for administrative purposes - the remainder goes directly to classrooms!
Expectations for grant participants are very high and yet 80% successfully complete them (as this WWW site demonstrates!) Over 96% of our participants who complete the expectations of the grant have chosen to continue participating in SHARE.
SHARE is also now "open" to any educator in the world and there are many teachers involved as "On-Line" Participants.
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| Educational Structure | 
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| Link to us! | Interested in creating a link to SHARE on your site? It's easy! We provide all of the necessary information. Webmasters and Webmistresses!! Create a link on your site that automatically displays all of the SHARE members from your district and/or specific schools. Check it out!
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| History |
The SHARE project has been awarded grant funding five times:
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June, 1996 - 135 teachers $.8M
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October, 1996 - 106 teachers $.7M
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November, 1997 - 365 teachers $2.2 M
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June, 1998 - 280 teachers and 144 Mentors $1.8 M
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March, 1999 - 25 teachers statewide $.26 M
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June, 2000 - $1.2 M over three years.
Each participating teacher (Grant
funded) received five days of training - currently involving Internet Usage
and Research, Project Based Learning, HyperStudio and WWW Publishing; equipment
and support to lead teams of students in the development of research projects
in multimedia form that will be published and peer evaluated through a
World Wide Web server.
Each classroom teacher participates in all aspects
of the project:
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www-based communication with parents/guardians/students through a classroom website, calendar, newsletter and syllabus
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guided on-line student research
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on-line collaborations with educators
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the creation, development and publication of student-researched projects
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facilitating structured student feedback on other student projects of
their on-line partners
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developing and sharing project-based aligned curriculum online
Participating educators from all grade levels and subject areas are involved.
Teachers who completed all of the expectations during the
grant year had the option of continuing with the SHARE project as long
as they wish to.
Including the grant funding, school district funds and
the in-kind contributions from ESD 105, school districts and other partners;
each classroom received over $12,000 in direct benefit through participating
in SHARE.
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| Awards |
In June 2000, SHARE was awarded a US Department of Education "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology" grant. Pre-service teachers, mentor teachers and college faculty from Central Washington University and Heritage College will be involved in SHARE project over the next three years.
SHARE was recently received an award from the North American WEB Conference on WWW-based Learning.
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| Staff | Forrest Fisher - Director and WWW Site Developer
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| Credits |
The project was conceived, developed, written
and implemented by representatives from Central Washington School Districts
and ESD 105. The original writing team in 1996 consisted of Sev Byerrum, Forrest
Fisher, Geneva Glanzer, Jane Gutting, Sharon Heath and Chuck Wahle. The Project Director and representatives
from each school district comprise the "Coordination
and Advisory Team" (CAT) which provides leadership and direction for
the project. During subsequent years the Educational Technology Support Center at ESD 105 has continued to develop and refine the curriculum.
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| Corporate Sponsors |
During the history of the project, the following corporations have made significant contributions in services, support and products in support of SHARE. We thank you!
- Apple Computer
- Hyperstudio
- Inspiration Software
- Intel
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| Privacy Policy |
SHARE does not share :-) with anyone!! View our specific policies.
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