Barbara Treacy is a Managing Project Director at the Center for Online Professional Education where she directs several online learning projects including EdTech Leaders® Online, a national capacity-building online professional development program for state departments of education, school districts, regional education service providers and teacher training institutions, with participating organizations in over 35 states.
Since the inception of EdTech Leaders Online® in the fall 2000, Barbara has led teams of curriculum developers, online facilitators, instructional designers and online specialists to provide graduate level training programs in online learning, a catalogue of over 25 online workshops in specific K-12 subject areas and grade levels, and a national forum for online specialists implementing local online programs. As part of this work, Barbara directs EDC's collaboration with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) to offer online professional development training for the 16 SREB State Departments of Education and with Los Angeles Unified School District's Virtual Academy to train online instructors for LAUSD students.
Barbara also directs EDC's participation in E-Learning for Educators, a nine state consortium led by Alabama Public Television and funded by the US Department of Education, to establish state-wide online professional development programs. EDC is providing online professional development training through EdTech Leaders Online, consulting on online professional development planning and implementation, and developing of a series of model online professional development workshops to meet high-priority state needs.
Barbara supports several other COPE projects including serving on the Strategic Planning Group of the Northeast and the Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium, one of the ten regional technology in education consortia funded by the U.S. Department of Education and co-developing EDC's leadership training program for the State Educational Technology Director's Association (SETDA). Barbara holds an Ed. M. in Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Contact: btreacy@edc.org