Active Learning Framework Workshop at Lee Elementary

Instructional leaders from throughout the region and country were in EPISD on Nov. 30, 2018 to speak with students and teachers about how the Active Learning Framework is transforming education in our schools. The visit to Lee Elementary gave dignitaries like Texas State Board of Education Member Georgina Perez and Amy O’Rourke, a former educator and the wife of Congressman Beto O’Rourke, a glimpse of the successes EPISD has had implementing the Framework in the classroom. Principals and educators from Canutillo ISD also took part in the visits. EPISD is considered a national leader in the implementation of Active Learning strategies, which changed instruction from a sit-and-get model into an engaging, small-group and project-based model. EPISD’s Active Learning Framework allows teachers to use interactive, technology-based and researched-backed strategies to let students learn state standards in a much more effective and long-lasting manner. (Leonel Monroy, Jr./El Paso ISD)