Cost Efficiencies/Quality Programming For Students

• Technology Directors provide technology workshops for staffs in each district.
  

• Exemplary teachers from one district provide professional development to teachers in other districts within the consortium.
  

• Consultants provide professional development to teachers; each district shares the cost.
  

• High School science teachers representing each of the four districts collaborated with the East Bay Collaborative to write science curriculum; cost shared by each district.
  

• Multi-district curriculum teams create shared curricula, scope and sequence documents, and unit plans.
  

• Special Education Directors are collaborating to reduce costs and meet student needs by combining, offering, and sharing resources.
  

• Facilities Directors have shared equipment and jointly purchased materials creating cost efficiencies for each district.
  

• Business Managers created a NWSC Request for Proposal (RFP) and they also have oversight of all fiscal matters creating cost savings.