With an emphasis on regional cooperation for improved teacher effectiveness, Minnesota established nine regional Teacher Centers. Each includes partnerships with K-12 school districts, educational service cooperatives, and higher education institutions. The Centers are located in Thief River Falls, Mountain Iron, Fergus Falls, Staples, Marshall, St. Cloud, Mankato, Rochester, and Plymouth. In preparation for the 2008-2009 school-year, districts in each region sent teams of teachers to one of the Centers for training. In turn, these certified trainers will train teacher in their home districts for improved instruction skills in mathematics and science.

Funding was approved during the 2007 legislative session with additional money made available through a grant from the National Governors Association.

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September 17, 2008 11:32 AM | Posted by Ann B. Hutton

Good question. The summary on the new Math and Science Centers, as announced by the Minnesota Department of Education, was posted because it deals with other types of regional structures within our state. The regional teacher centers are not specifically linked with libraries, although in some parts of the state there may be cooperative ventures, and the new centers do not receive library funding.

While the content of SELCO's Structure blog deals primarily with items of significance to SELCO-SELS-Libraries-Minnesota, the blog also serves as a collection point for information gathered during the initial environmental scan and which may be of interest as the Structures Study continues. Examples of the versatility of the posts include a November 2006 chapter summary from a book on organizational change or the January 2007 post about re-structuring a division within the American Library Association. Posts fall into broad categories related to organizational structure including but not limited to:

Governance
Mergers
Services
Finances
Technology
Leadership
Change
Personnel
Membership

August 25, 2008 11:03 PM | Posted by Mary Mataitis

I have found the information on the structure blog interesting for the most part. However, while this is interesting, I guess I do not understand how it is connected to the topic of the blog. Will the math and science teacher centers be linked in some way with library services? Is the funding stream in any way linked?

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