History of the Local Education Support Center Network
The original vision for these Local Education Support Centers is described in the New Hampshire Statewide Technology Plan as a way to provide technology enhanced support to all educators and schools within a thirty mile radius of a center.
The mission of these centers is to provide high quality training opportunities that will empower teachers and show a positive correlation to student achievement. Programs will provide high quality professional development to increase teacher quality by increasing their content knowledge, teaching skills, and use of classroom technology.
Consortia of school districts have collaborated with higher educational institutions and business to maximize the quality of professional development and to leverage resources in support of New Hampshire eduation. These centers will identify the specific needs of districts and offer targeted long-term professional development activities with a focus on technology. Centers will collect data and establish evaluation methods for these activities todetermine the effectiveness on student achievement. While many of the activities planned for these centers are state wide, each center is charges with meeting the needs of their region. Visit the LESCN course catalogfor statewide course offerings sponsored by the Centers.