Content-delivery system for ASCD helps ‘teachers become better educators’

Washington, DC – If improving the knowledge and learning of students around the world hinges on the skills and abilities of today’s educators, then an award-winning online professional development tool built for international education leadership organization ASCD may help usher in a new era of educational excellence.

“PD In Focus™” is a Web-based multimedia system developed by digital agency Q-Industries to help ASCD deliver interactive, on-demand professional development to its global members, which include 175,000 principals, teachers, superintendents and professors of education in 119 countries. Named a winner in the Teacher Tools category of the ComputED Gazette’s Education Software Review Awards (EDDIEs), PD In Focus was cited as “a unique technology tool for expanding professional development, and we highly recommend it.”