Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program Information

Teachers say it all the time: Teachers make the worst students. While we know there are no bad students, we do agree that PD needs to be truly excellent to make an impact. From the thousands of PD sessions weve delivered, we learned there are five key insights that help you develop and deliver effective PDespecially when tech is part of the mix. Our district has been very happy with the services that the ILTPP offers. By providing us with pricing from a variety of vendors they help us perform our due diligence when it comes to procuring products and services. Free or paid, the ILTPP is one of the most valuable resources we have access to. For years, Merlyne Graves spent several hours every weekend reading text aloud and recording it for her students who struggled with reading. Graves, a fourth-grade English language arts teacher at Garfield Preparatory Academy in Washington, D.C., would line up 10 unused iPods she borrowed from the school, then read and record the text her class would work on the following week. Her improvised method helped introduce struggling readers to the text, but it was time-consuming and limited.