Teachers Are the Center of Education: Profiles of Eight Teachers

Publication: Charleston Gazette
Date: October 17, 2009

Summary: A new report, Teachers Are the Center of Education: Profiles of Eight Teachers, describes several accomplished teachers, including Seth Mitchell, a technology liaison with the Maine Writing Project.

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Seth Mitchell likes kids and wants to help them find their way in an ever-changing and complex society. He is a teacher of English at Lisbon High School in Maine, population 9,077.

He believes in the use of technology in his classroom, and as a tech liaison with the National Writing Project he focuses on integrating technology into the teaching of writing.

What he is trying to do is find meaningful ways to include technology in instruction and assessment and enhance student achievement. He sees it as the wave of the future.