Michigan Department of Education / REMC - ALP

District Overview

ALP & Dell EMC partner with Michigan Department of Education and Regional Educational Media Center Association to deliver diverse, advanced pedagogical support to educators across the State.

By coordinating these Professional Learning Services through REMC, ALP and Dell EMC are able to leverage the existing logistical network to reduce cost without compromising district choice regarding high-quality professional learning options.

Today, Advanced Learning Partnerships, Dell EMC and REMC continue to partner around the design and implementation of customized professional learning services aligned to the State #GoOpen, Top 10 In 10, MITECS, Competency-Based Education and K-12 Literacy initiatives.

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Key Services

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Leadership Learning Series

Learner-Centered Experience Design

Strategic Planning and Implementation

Virtual Course Facilitation

Learning and Leadership Institutes

Highlights

The Michigan Department of Education serves 1,520,065 students in over 900 intermediate school districts (ISD), lead education agencies (LEA) and public school academies (PSA).
The Regional Educational Media Center Association of Michigan (remc.org) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1969 to support quality teaching and learning and provide equity to Michigan’s preK-12 students.

District Timeline

2013 - 2018

2013 - 2014

Learning and Leadership Institutes

At the outset of this Professional Learning partnership, ALP and Dell EMC partnered with the Michigan Department of Education and REMC to facilitate a wide range of customized, pedagogy-focused training sessions across the State. Initially focused on assisting educators as they unpacked the Next Generation Assessment targets aligned to Common Core State Standards, these regional and site-based institutes and seminars evolved to engage educators and administrators in best practices associated with technology integration, personalized, blended and inquiry-based learning as well as scale leadership development around navigating cultural change. In 2014, these daylong seminars were integrated into an extensive virtual and job-embedded coaching model.

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2014 - 2018

Virtual Course Facilitation

Since April of 2014, a 16-member cadre of ALP and Dell EMC consultants has designed and delivered over 500 virtual professional development courses to over 6000 educators in over 200 school districts. Ranging from nuanced literacy instruction and open education resources to competency based education models as well as personalized and blended curriculum development, gamification and best practices in deeper learning, these courses have earned superior reviews by attendees for the richness of resources and practical application to student learning.

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2015 - 2018

Leadership Learning Series

Members of the Advanced Learning Partnerships team have earned a reputation for purposeful and dynamic collaboration with school districts across the State of Michigan. Since 2015, ALP consultants and Dell EMC Education Strategists have worked with superintendents, executive cabinet teams, directors and site administrator teams to scale a range of learning initiatives. Through a combination of job-embedded coaching, personalized, blended and video-based professional learning efforts, this partnership has directly contributed to measurable enhancements in professional practice across diverse grade bands, content areas and community demographics. The collective ability of ALP and Dell EMC to operate at strategic and tactical levels of support allows partner districts and schools to ‘walk the walk’ of learner-centered models within the realities of a busy academic year.

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2016 - 2018

Strategic Planning and Implementation

Senior consultants from ALP and Dell EMC have and continue to lead as facilitators, subject matter experts and committee members in service to the Michigan Department of Education #GoOpen initiative. In collaboration with leadership representing over twenty-five State and regional organizations, ALP ad Dell EMC actively support the curation, storage, communications and professional learning work streams that scale robust open education resource (OER) materials for Michigan educators. Today, this work is evolving to serve strategic initiatives around competency-based education, personalized learning and K-12 literacy.

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2017 - 2018

Learner-Centered Experience Design

Career exploration at the secondary level is a critical component of college and career readiness. In partnership with educators and students in Northwest Community Schools, ALP developed a trimester course that incorporates elements of STEM and current and emerging technologies to further enhance 21st century skills of research, information fluency, communication, collaboration, critical and creative thinking. Two ALP coaches facilitated job-embedded (push in) professional learning for lead teachers to support refinement of the authentic learning experiences for other teachers to implement in future years.

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Advanced Learning Partnerships and Dell EMC are proud partners in the ongoing professional learning support for this district.

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