ICPALMS: a Portal for Standards-Based Instruction

Posted Fri, 10/22/2010 - 5:49pm by rrazzouk
Grant Number: 
DUE - 1044315
Target Audiences: 
Math and science K-12 teachers
Partners: 
Florida State University (FSU), Florida Department of Education, Duval County Public Schools, Seminole County Public Schools, Brevard Public Schools, Panhandle Area Educational Consortium (PAEC), Sciberus: software development, Broadband Knowledge LLC: project evaluation

The ICPALMS pathway at the Florida State University is designed to provide a widget-based portal into content, services, professional development, research, and dissemination that will result in a scalable, sustainable infrastructure to support individual and collaborative standards-driven instructional planning with K-12 NSDL resources. It will include standards-based planning tools that recommend relevant digital resources just-in-time and continuously. ICPALMS will integrate within the context of teacher practice in Florida, as a test bed, including rigorous alignment with state content standards, but transition to use the Common Core Standards. Teachers will collaborate with other teachers, library media specialists, content specialists and school leaders to create effective plans that integrate NSDL resources. ICPALMS will contribute 3,000 K-12 resources to NSDL. These resources are recommended or created by educators. All resources are vetted through a rigorous review process that involves teams of content, pedagogy, and practitioner experts to ensure that tools, services and the connected content are standards-based, reflect appropriate levels of cognitive complexity and utilize evidence-based instructional strategies tied to improved student outcomes. 

ICPALMS will help NSDL realize its vision to attain deep and meaningful integration into educational practice. ICPALMS meets challenges repeatedly cited as barriers to wider digital library use, by providing a system to enable educators to wed high‑quality resources, vetted by experts, with time‑saving planning tools.

ICPALMS will make accessing and implementing digital resources relevant in the day-to-day roles and responsibilities of educators.  Integrating the Common Core and other national standards will facilitate expanding implementation and expandability into other states.