EDCO Seefurth Education Center

The EDCO Seefurth Education Center assists member school districts in strengthening their curriculum, instruction, and professional development programs through interdistrict cooperation. Senior curriculum administrator representatives to the EDCO Program Advisory Committee (PAC) develop program goals and activities are developed in concert with PAC and members of a range of topical or subject-centered interdistrict subcommittees.

Seefurth Center Program Objectives:

 • Establish and support networks and forums for sharing information, curriculum products, and state-of-the-art theory and practice about teaching and learning.

 • Expand the capacity of participating school districts to provide professional development for school personnel.

 • Extend member systems’ access to programs, resources and materials through collaborative projects and alliances with local institutions.

Activities Conducted by the Seefurth Center:

 Interdistrict Curriculum Committees serve as a grassroots network for communication among member districts and between districts and EDCO staff. The following EDCO interdistrict groups meet to exchange information, provide forums for discussion of instructional issues, and serve as task groups to develop collaborative projects: 

Arts, English Language Learners, Foreign Language, Health, Language Arts, Library, Mathematics, Technology Leadership, Network Managers, Program Advisory, Science, Social Studies, and Technology Integration Specialists

Professional Development Programs are designed to address mutually held system wide goals of the school district members of the Collaborative and provide access to state-of-the-art practice and research on teaching and learning. Program offerings range from single session workshops to multi-session courses and conferences.