![TROUT CREEK educator Daisy Carlsmith (center) directs the non-profit Western Montana Professional Learning Collaborative, which was a Featured Partner at Blackfoot Telecommunications’ annual meeting last Saturday, March 23. Also pictured are Jeff Crew (left) and Dean Phillips of Beyond the Chalk, popular presenters at WMPLC teacher training workshops. (Carolyn Hidy/Clark Fork Valley Press)](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_190329977_AR_0_VJQFKRWREAJA_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
TROUT CREEK educator Daisy Carlsmith (center) directs the non-profit Western Montana Professional Learning Collaborative, which was a Featured Partner at Blackfoot Telecommunications annual meeting last Saturday, March 23. Also pictured are Jeff Crew (left) and Dean Phillips of Beyond the Chalk, popular presenters at WMPLC teacher training workshops. (Carolyn Hidy/Clark Fork Valley Press)
March 27, 2019
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March 27, 2019 7:20 p.m.
Trout Creek teacher is featured at Blackfoot meeting
With a “passion for technology and for thinking outside here and now into the future,” as Daisy Carlsmith of Trout Creek puts it, she and a team of collaborating educators in western Montana have developed a highly successful non-profit to facilitate professional development on a host of topics for educators.