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Spotlight on Collier County Public Schools

Embracing the Future, Today, with Digital Textbooks


Collier County Public Schools LogoCollier County Public Schools in Florida serves approximately 44,000 students. In an era of having to do “more with less,” while maintaining the level of excellence that Collier's parents have come to expect, the leadership within the district decided to make calculated steps towards the future by reinventing their science curriculum.


Goals

The district identified three goals that they believed would help improve instruction within their classrooms and ultimately lead to improved student outcomes:
  • Support 21st Century teaching and learning
  • Instruction through the inquiry method and project-based learning
  • Promotion of higher-order thinking and increased student performance

Solution


The district worked with Discovery Education to implement a digital textbook replacement for their science curriculum that included:

Results — Excited, Engaged Students

Initial indications are that students, teachers, and administrators are excited by how students are embracing inquiry and project-based learning. They are proud that they are one of first districts in the country to successfully shift to delivering their science instruction through a fully digital program.

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“After a thorough evaluation of a variety of textbook options, our instructional materials committee concluded that the Discovery Education Science Techbook was the resource best suited to meet the needs of our teachers and students in Collier County."
Curt Witthoff
Coordinator - K-12 Science & Environmental Education
Collier County Public Schools
 

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