Teachers Teaching Teachers

Don’t Miss the Second Annual TTT Conference: March 28, 2007

Teachers Teaching Teachers (affectionately known as TTT) is an exciting new professional development opportunity for elementary, middle, and high school teachers who teach in Western Pennsylvania. TTT was created from the fundamental idea that there is an abundance of outstanding teachers right here in Western Pennsylvania that have great teaching techniques, and that use best practices, methods and strategies that have been proven to work in their classrooms. TTT offers these master teachers a venue to share their insights, ideas, methods and expertise with fellow teachers.

TTT is designed to go well beyond what we, as educators, are accustomed to. It is the beginning of a series of conferences and events that will provide teachers from Western Pennsylvania with an opportunity to network with, learn from, and honor their peers. TTT is designed to provide teachers with useable, practical, time-tested ideas that have been proven to work successfully in the classrooms.

The Teachers Teaching Teachers Professional Development Series will launch its second annual conference on March 28, 2007 at the beautiful new Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry Township, PA.

Here are some of the components that will make this an extraordinary event for teachers…

The Venue

The Regional Learning Alliance Conference & Learning Center in Cranberry Township is truly one of the region’s nicest and most technologically advanced facilities. It is the premier conference and learning center in Western Pennsylvania and it is an amazing place to teach and learn.

The Presenters

The driving force behind TTT is the teachers in the school districts in Western PA. Teachers have made the following point very clear year after year:

"The greatest in-services/workshops are presented by high-quality teachers that are in the classrooms every day."

TTT provides an opportunity for these outstanding teachers to share their expertise with fellow teachers in Western PA.

The Content

The only topics that will be presented at the event are practical, usable, accessible ideas and strategies. The most important guideline for determining the topics that will be presented is: Can the teachers go back to their classrooms tomorrow and use the idea? There is a time and place for theory and generalities – TTT is not that place. The focus of TTT is 100% real, practical, ideas that have already been proven to work successfully in the classroom.

The Follow Up

Even the greatest one-day conference in the world can only go so far to significantly improve education. Experience tells us that typically, teachers will leave a conference and return to their busy schedules in the classrooms the next day without scheduling time to share what they have learned with their fellow teachers. TTT builds in a Pay it Forward component that encourages and rewards (earn Act 48 hours) teachers for extending what they have learned into not only their classroom but also other classrooms in their district. The learning does not stop at the end of the day. It will be extended back into the school districts so that hundreds, even thousands of teachers will benefit!

Call for Presenters

The only presenters that will be considered for the TTT conference come from nominations by school administrators and educational leaders. We are reaching out to administrators all across Western PA and asking them to nominate outstanding teachers to present at the TTT conferences.