Our VISION
Our vision is to provide educators with customized, quality staff development, teaching materials and effectively priced and featured video distribution technology. Our EduVision, Grand Stadium and Video Furnace video solution offerings are tailored to work hand in hand with our Learning Symphony professional staff development or separately.

Our MISSION
Our mission is to create an environment that engages teachers and children in practical real-world projects that harness the power of technology toward the fulfillment of educational goals. This is based on the premise that we learn when we do through project based learning and we know students love to create and publish video.

Our STAFF DEVELOPERS
Our staff developers are former teachers, administrators, and curriculum and technology directors
with years of classroom experience. We bring our commitment and expertise into your school,
directly into your classroom!

Effective staff development focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of teachers,
administrators, and other school personnel so that all students may learn and perform at high
levels. (NSDC, 1997. What is Staff Development Anyway?)

Meeting the mandates of No Child Left Behind, we provide training for:

• Balanced Literacy
• Literacy through Content Area Reading and Writing
• Document Based Questions (Preparing for the SS Assessments)
• Social Studies Exit Projects
• Integrating Technology into the Classroom
• Problem Solving Strategies in Mathematics
• Project-Based Learning
• Student Publishing in the Classroom
• Multiple Intelligences
• Cooperative Learning and Classroom Management
• Creating and Using Graphic Organizers
• Listening Strategies
  

Our CORE
Our core management and technical resources have many years of experience and leadership working exclusively with schools. Our commitment and passion for supporting the true mission and goals of schools has been consistent over time. Our Executives bring a wealth of management talent and experience to its thought leadership effort. Read the biographies and perspectives of senior management who provide valuable expertise and insights into our offerings.

Our VALUES
Our values are based on believe that our guiding principals of honesty, accountability, consistency and integrity will guide all decision making and actions of the company and its employees at all times. We will align only with other organizations that share the same principles. We do well by doing good.

Our SITE
JDL Horizons' website is designed with the intent of providing an entertaining and easy to navigate environment that allows you to simply and quickly find information on who we are and what we do. As such, we are constantly modifying and tweaking aspects of our website based on the browsing habits of our visitors. Your privacy is very important to us, please review our Privacy Policy for a detailed list of what information we track, and how it will and will not be used.