Project LUCID - Literacy Unifying Children in Diversity
Howard Gunther Barbara Haeffner

Students and teachers from diverse schools throughout Connecticut have the opportunity to videoconference and participate in collaborative tasks that foster interpersonal relationships and extend their curriculum.

Project LUCID has been a highly successful interdistrict grant program for the past eight years. With the emergence of new technologies, this program has been designed to incorporate a technology component that will allow students to increase academic achievement in the areas of written and verbal communication, technology and cultural understanding while helping districts reduce issues of economic, ethnic and geographic isolation. This program will provide students the opportunity to become virtual partners. Students will work collaboratively to complete authentic tasks and activities to enhance their reading achievement and increase their knowledge of diversity. When designing a task, the participating teachers evaluate the students' achievement as measured by the Connecticut Mastery Test. All tasks use technology as a tool to further instruction and collaborative interactions between students.

Professional Development Dates for Participants Project LUCID

*All tasks must be submitted by May 7, 2010.