The SHIFT experience begins with a summer workshop where participants collaborate through a project-based learning approach to the filmmaking process, in order to model teaching strategies for use in a classroom setting. The workshop is followed by varied levels of support from SHIFT throughout the academic year. The intended outcomes of this professional development training are:

• Implement an effective media-based professional development model that can be replicated and scaled-up in successive years.
• Increase access and opportunities for student learning through standards-based, integrated multimedia instruction.
• Enhance and strengthen educational partnerships among schools, districts, community organizations, and after school programs.
• Improve students' multimedia skills and understanding, and their engagement in 21st Century Skills.

For more information about the Spy Hop Institute For Teachers (SHIFT), please contact Stacy Ringo, SHIFT Program Director, at 877.842.6126 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .