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February: How ABEL Supports Its Partners
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2/1/2010
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2/1/2011
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February Featured Article:
Partnering with ABEL: How ABEL Supports Its Partners
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ABEL's Monthly Featured Article is updated on the first Monday of every month.
ABEL engages in and maintains successful and beneficial collaborations that allow its business, government and non-profit partners to improve results and transform practice. ABEL’s partners are organizations in the public and private sector as well as institutions involved in research and in the community. And since ABEL works with a variety of partners in different fields, the program offers a range of services to meet their partners’ diverse needs. These include technology and professional learning services; videography, webhosting and streaming services; and consulting services that support learning and training, community outreach, research goals and collaboration for sustainable partnerships.
For example, ABEL’s technology services include offering partners expertise on videoconferencing. ABEL’s expertise ensures quality support that leverages technologies and connects people regardless of geographical distance. By removing geographical barriers, ABEL’s partners can increase contact hours and reduce the time and cost of travel, allowing them to better manage their budgets and increase the impact of their work.
Also, ABEL provides an audience for the various events that ABEL’s partners provide by making this information readily available to ABEL members and the community. ABEL’s members benefit from the information available to improve their knowledge and professional learning, and the organizations gain a wider audience for which to share their work.
ABEL and Pearson Education Canada
An example of ABEL’s community partnerships includes ABEL’s work with Pearson Education Canada. ABEL has worked with Pearson in developing engaging and informative professional learning videos to inspire and inform educators on new ways of teaching. This past year, ABEL and Pearson worked with author Karen Hume on developing a set of webcast videos on differentiated instruction.
The webcast videos were launched in early 2009 on the ABEL website as part of the ABEL Speaker’s Series. The videos were released in two parts: the first part was entitled “Grouping For Learning” and the second was called “Knowing Your Learners”. Both videos were developed from Karen’s book, Start Where They Are: Differentiating for Success for the Young Adolescent, and focused on strategies for teaching in a classroom where all student individual needs are met. Karen presented two strategies: learning how to group different students’ needs and interests effectively, and knowing the students’ needs and interests.
Back by popular demand this year, ABEL and Pearson are working together again with Karen for a new series of videos for the ABEL Speaker’s Series. These webcast videos will be based on Karen’s new book and will be made available to all ABEL members. Be sure to check back at the ABEL website often for updated information on this exciting new edition to the Speaker’s Series.
Other examples of ABEL’s partnerships include ABEL’s work with the Canadian Museum of Nature and Teach Magazine on pilot applications for K-12 educators and ABEL members. ABEL also works with the Knowledge Mobilization unit, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Health and other faculty units at York University by providing them with video capturing services. As well, ABEL has worked with the Institute for Health Research, the Centre for Refugee studies and the Ontario Justice Education Network.
To learn more about ABEL’s latest collaborations and partnerships, click here to visit the Collaborations & Partnerships bulletin in the portal.
For More Information
Public and private sector partners will benefit from lower costs by reducing the amount of time it takes to promote broadband dependant services and products. For more information on the benefits of partnering with ABEL, please click here.
To watch Karen Hume's "Grouping for Learning" Speaker's Series video, please click here.
To watch Karen Hume's "Knowing Your Learners" Speaker's Series video, please click here.
ABEL’s February Podcast
ABEL values it private a public sector partnerships and sees them as an opportunity for both organizations to grow and learn from each others’ knowledge and expertise. For more information on ABEL’s work with various partners, listen to the February edition of the ABEL Podcast Series.
 to listen to the February 2010 edition of ABEL’s Podcast Series.
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