• Flexible start times
• Understanding the foundations of differentiation
• Graduate Education Credit available
• Invigorate your PLC
• Facilitator Training for leading PLCs — providing structure and content

Choose from one or more of the following 3 courses:

1. Foundations I (Building common language and developing concepts)
2. Foundations II (Developing differentiated lessons/units)
3. Advanced Topics (Restructuring units of study/courses)

For an overview of the content, start/end dates, and technology associated with the DIAL e-Learning Program click here. You may also view excerpts from the course syllabus.

Costs
The cost per course is $350 per person. A learning community is defined as up to 9 participants from one or more schools within a district (optimal learning community size is 4-9 members). The course fee includes a DIAL e-Learning Community site license, training for one facilitator, and a kit of program support materials. Member districts of Northeast Metro 916 and Intermediate District 287 receive the per person discount rate of $285.

Facilitators
Minnesota-based national experts Nancy Guldberg and Sue Feigal-Hitch will provide training for one facilitator from each DIAL e-Learning Community. The will also provide content, process, and technical support to DIAL E-Learning Communities throughout the duration of the program. If you wish to have a co-facilitator trained for an e-learning site,the cost for training each additional person is $100. Each DIAL e-Learning Program course qualifies for 2 graduate semester credits through Hamline University. The cost per credit is $115.

Registration
To register to be a DIAL e-Learning Community, please complete the order form and send to Barbara Wojcik at Capitol View Center, 70 W. County Road B2, Little Canada, MN 55117. Questions about the order form may be directed to Barbara at 651.415.5607, or Barbara.wojcik@nemetro.k12.mn.us.  Individuals not in a learning community may register through the School of Education at Hamline University: www.hamline.edu

We hope you will consider creating Differentiated Instruction for All Learners (DIAL) e-Learning Communities

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