North Islington Zone wins prestigious ICT award
North Islington Education Zone has won the 2005 national Becta ICT in Practice
Award for Advice and Support.
Kirit Modi, Assistant Director, CEA@Islington said: ‘Congratulations to all at
NIZ for receiving such a prestigious award. Becta has recognised NIZ’s ability
to inspire and motivate learners and colleagues to improve their use of ICT in
teaching across all stages of the curriculum. It is fantastic that NIZ will be
used as an example of best practice nationwide.’
The annual Becta awards aim to identify models of excellence and use these to
highlight exemplary practice. The awards allow the sharing of good practice
with the wider educational community while rewarding individuals who
demonstrate exemplary practice using ICT.
NIZ secured the award for commitment to the use of ICT for learning and
teaching; understanding the benefits of ICT in raising standards; the ability
to inspire and motivate learners and colleagues; and visionary and sustainable
ongoing plans.
NIZ will be celebrating their success at a ceremony on Thursday 12th January
2006. The ceremony will form part of a wider "Day of Good Practice" organised
by Becta and the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
Gaynor Cashin, Director of NIZ said: ‘We won this award in the category called
‘Advice and Support’ which recognises the work that we have done with local
schools in the area of professional development. It was very exciting when the
announcement was made in Birmingham at XChange 2005, a new international event
for all leading educational ICT practitioners and experts from across the
globe.’
Notes
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An EiC Action Zone is a cluster or group of schools working in partnership to
raise the aspirations and achievements of all pupils. The Islington Zones are
supported financially through partnerships with the DfES Excellence in Cities
Program, the Fischer Family Trust, and the Dame Alice Owen Foundation. Each
zone designs a specific program that focuses on raising standards of
achievement in key areas, such as thinking skills, literacy, numeracy,
information and communications technology, personal and social development and
professional development. Zones focus on the professional development of
teachers and other school staff, as well as working directly with pupils and
teachers. For more information please visit
www.islingtonschools.net/Schools/eaz/
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Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and
delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning
strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors. We are a UK
agency which supports all four UK education departments in their strategic ICT
developments. Our purpose is to provide strategic leadership in the innovative
and effective use of ICT to enable the transformation of learning, teaching
and educational organisations for the benefit of every learner.
www.becta.org.uk
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