Vision 2020 Blog

We are happy to announce the launch of the Vision 2020 Learning Platform! The video below will help you understand, in very simple terms, what the Vision 2020 learning journey on the platform will be all about. Some teachers have already been invited to join it as early adopters. Do you want to be a Vision 2020 early adopter? Click HERE and find out how. We hope to see more and more of you engaging in our Vision 2020 Shared Learning Platform!

We are currently offering an online professional development opportunity for our teachers: the Digital Learning Labs. Right now, we have a group of 35 teachers finishing module 1 | Google Drive. There has been a very high level of engagement in this module, with lots of interaction and discussion about possible applications and uses of Google Drive in our professional practice, in and out of the classroom. Registrations are now open for module 2 | Google Docs. Many of the folks taking module 1 are moving on to take module 2, as well, for they feel the need to keep developing their knowledge and skills on these tools. If you're interested in joining our learning party, click HERE and fill out our registration form. We ask you to please join by no later than August 27th . Lab modules go on for about 2 weeks and are 100% online and self-paced. They are a great opportunity for those of you who need some introductory hands-on experience on these core Google tools: Drive, Docs, Slid

We are thrilled to share some news about a great innovation initiative which has just begun in our school. It's the JDO Global Partnership Program, a partnership between the JDO Foundation and Casa Thomas Jefferson whose main goal is to develop teachers' and students' global and digital citizenship skills. The partnership was born of a recent connection made between Beth Rabello, Denise De Felice, Mariana Sucena and JDO's CEO Heather Rooney during the 2018 ISTE conference in Chicago in March. JDO's misson is to provide an enriched educational experience for U.S. and international classrooms (students aged 8-14 years) by providing state of the art technologies (if needed), and professional training to the educators managing these technologies. JDO facilitates global collaboration among partner schools to enable students to be accomplished, well-informed digital citizens. The Program matches international partner teachers and provides a framework to build co-curric