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Deer Park Elementary SchoolCentreville, VA
Replication Details
Technology and subject area committee members meet once a month on an early release Monday afternoon. The committees are comprised of grade level teachers and specialists. The technology committee has four sub-committees: software, hardware/grants, inservice, and Computer Club. The Teacher-Research Team members meet monthly for a half-day session. Deer Park ES usually has between 6 to 12 members each year on this team. Members comprise specialists and classroom teachers. Grants must be written to find substitutes for teacher-research members to be released from teaching responsibilities in order to meet.
Funding to support teacher-research comes from a series of grants that are awarded to teams conducting site-based research. Grants have been received from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE), and several Impact II grants. Fairfax County Public Schools also funds teacher-research through the Teacher-Research Network which it supports. This network supports a yearly conference where teacher-researchers from all over the county present their findings and hear a key-note speaker (teacher-researcher) address site-based research. The county also supports a countywide teacher-research web page. Go to http://www.fcps.k12.va.us and click on Index and the letter T and follow the links to teacher-research. This conference is also supported by the Greater Washington Reading Council and the Northern Virginia Writing Project at George Mason University. Approximately $1200 to $2,000 is spent on substitutes for Deer Park's Teacher-Research Team each year. An additional $200 for dissemination and research materials is usually needed. To attend the annual countywide conference, the cost would be approximately $20 per person. |
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