About
The Technology in Education Partnership of Western Massachusetts (TEP) is a project of the Collaborative for Educational Services.
The mission of TEP is to plan, implement and sustain the development of integrated multimedia technologies and electronic information resources in order to promote successful teaching and learning in the pre-elementary, elementary, secondary and post-secondary education institutions of western Massachusetts.
Spearheaded by public education organizations TEP encourages institutional cooperation to ensure equal access to technological resources for rural Massachusetts. Partnering organizations share technology infrastructure, electronic information access, and cooperate in the provision of professional development training and technical support to education workers to assist them in their use of electronic and multimedia technologies.
TEP was formed in 1997 by Greenfield Community College and the school districts of Franklin County. In 1999, the partnership was expanded to include schools outside of the county. TEP resources have been used to provide a legally-approved Acceptable Use Policy for its members as well as for bulk purchases of an assortment of software that is used by many of our members. For the past several years, using the resources provided by three DOE grants, TEP has been in the forefront of adopting data warehouse technologies to provide the necessary data and tools to encourage data-driven decision-making in our schools.
