BRINC consortium
The BRINC is a consortium of nine Delaware school districts (Appoquinimink, Brandywine, Caesar Rodney, Capital, Colonial, Indian River, NCC Vo-Tech, Red Clay, and Poly Tech) working to transform the way students learn and teachers teach using 21st century tools and approaches. Collectively, the Consortium districts serve over 40% of the state’s PK-12 traditional public school enrollment.
The Consortium came together to develop a plan to support students to ensure they are ready for college and/or a career. The vision is for students to learn in different styles and paces to meet their needs, including large-group instruction, small-group instruction, project-based collaboration, virtual learning, online coursework, or independent learning.
The BRINC Consortium has contracted with Dr. Shawn Smith, author and CEO of Modern Teacher, to assist with the professional development to make the pedagogical shift from teacher-centered instruction to student-centered instruction. While this personalized approach to education has many components, the Consortium has chosen to begin with blended learning. Together, teachers from across the Consortium will share in the work creating high-quality blended learning lessons and units that will be made available to all teachers and students within the Consortium through a shared learning management system. Creating a new digital curriculum in a single subject area in a single discipline is a daunting task, let alone all subject areas. Pooling the best educators and curriculum writers from across the Consortium districts and strategically dividing the work will not only ensure high quality curricular resources, but will dramatically reduce the time and cost of individual districts trying to complete such a challenge alone. It is estimated that even as a Consortium, the creation of a digital curriculum could take between seven and ten years to build.
The Consortium came together to develop a plan to support students to ensure they are ready for college and/or a career. The vision is for students to learn in different styles and paces to meet their needs, including large-group instruction, small-group instruction, project-based collaboration, virtual learning, online coursework, or independent learning.
The BRINC Consortium has contracted with Dr. Shawn Smith, author and CEO of Modern Teacher, to assist with the professional development to make the pedagogical shift from teacher-centered instruction to student-centered instruction. While this personalized approach to education has many components, the Consortium has chosen to begin with blended learning. Together, teachers from across the Consortium will share in the work creating high-quality blended learning lessons and units that will be made available to all teachers and students within the Consortium through a shared learning management system. Creating a new digital curriculum in a single subject area in a single discipline is a daunting task, let alone all subject areas. Pooling the best educators and curriculum writers from across the Consortium districts and strategically dividing the work will not only ensure high quality curricular resources, but will dramatically reduce the time and cost of individual districts trying to complete such a challenge alone. It is estimated that even as a Consortium, the creation of a digital curriculum could take between seven and ten years to build.