Effective Delivery of Professional Development
Good Spirit School Division Team Members: Andrea Hnatiuk, Jan Neibergall, Susan Robertson, Tracy Huckell, Charlotte Raine, Susan Muir. Community: Canadian Year 1, 2010-2011 Good Spirit School Division’s Powerful Learning Practice cohort is a connected network of instructional coaches whose mandate is to deliver teacher professional development. The modality and efficacy of service delivery for professional development was examined in the action research project. The desired outcome is to influence teacher instruction and student learning...
read moreGoing paperless with parent communication
ELCO Intermediate School Team Members: Judy Uhrich, Kim Sandoe, Amy Zelinski, Tara Perlaki, Sue Gingrich Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 This year we moved grades 3, 4, and 5 from 4 elementary K-5 schools into one Intermediate School where grade levels teach students in a team format instead of conventional classrooms. Teachers continued to try to communicate with parents via the standard Friday hard copy newsletter. This was not working. Our action project addressed this situation. Our goal was to discover/create a method for communication...
read moreAiming for Authenticity with Connected Learning
Brecknock Elementary School Team Members: Kelly Dupas, Greg Frederick, Lyn Hilt, Beverly Libell, Amber McCabe Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 The goal of our action research project was to institute changes in teaching practices that would involve students in more authentic learning experiences, the impact of which would expand beyond classroom walls, and to consider the effects of these changes on students’ knowledge of the use of technology for communication, collaboration, and research. A secondary goal of the project was to evaluate...
read morePiloting integrated studies with PBL
Chinquapin Preparatory School Team Members: Susan Davis, Liz Thornton, Janet F. Ott Student Advisors: Karely Osorio, Alexadriana Thammavongsa, Christian Su Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 Our goal is to create an integrated studies program serving the seventh grade. Liz will teach History, English and Language Arts, and Jan will teach Science, Math and Health/Skills. We will cover the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through the age of exploration. We will create a theme for each quarter, such as the one in our pilot project...
read moreDeeper Thinking with Social Media
Solebury School Team Members: Cari Nelson, Steve Buteux, Erika Bonner, Diane Downs Community: ADVIS Year 1, 2010-2011 We decided to look at the use of social media in our 7th grade English class while doing a unit on the script 12 Angry Men. Throughout the unit we incorporated different uses of social media tools to get the students more active in covering the lesson and get them to be thinking deeper about characters within the play. They were also writing more with the use of the Ning instead of writing journal entries that the English...
read morePreparing for a new, high-tech space
Elizabeth Town Area School District Team Members: Todd Davis, Mike Sernoffsky, Nancy Weikel, Jeanette Norton, Jason Kingsborough, Melissa Anderson, Becky Bair Heather Geist, Katie Niven Community: IU-13 Community Year 1, 2010-2011 Our district is anxiously awaiting the opening of a new building which will see classrooms equipped with SmartBoards, six laptop carts, two computer labs and a more stable network. While teachers are excited about this new technology they are also apprehensive because we have had little technology professional...
read moreImproving Student Engagement
Chinook’s Edge School Division Team 2 Team Members: Georgie Perigny, Carolyn Massel, Sandi Berg, Dr. Jennifer Lock, John Ferguson, Carmen Christie-Bill Community: Canadian Community Year 1, 2010-2011 Our team’s project has focused on the levels of student engagement with their own learning, and the teaching and learning strategies that can be used toincrease engagement and increase student learning. Problem, Issue, or Possibility Objectives and Assessment Implementation Plan ...
read moreUptick in Collaboration with PLNs
Hampton Roads Academy Team Members: Leanne Reynolds (fellow), Becky Deeley (team leader), Rhonda DeChirico, Ashley Diette, Patti Grayson, Elizabeth Hollingsworth, and Bridgitte Thompson Community: Dublin-Dallas Community Year 1, 2010-2011 The HRA team identified collaboration among HRA faculty as a need in our learning community. Our action research targeted increase in collaboration by assisting our faculty and staff to begin constructing their own personal learning network with our help and positive reinforcement. We asked faculty to join...
read moreMaking Connections with Moodle
Pope John Paul II High School Team Members: Pat Cebula, Mary Sevon, Nancy Sullivan Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Community Year 3, 2010-2011 For our project, we have chosen to implement Moodle at our school. The Montgomery County Intermediate Unit has agreed to act as the server for our school. Pope John Paul II High School is redesigning its website, and we are going to integrate Moodle into the new website so that teachers, students, administration, staff, and parents have a central place to communicate and collaborate. The features...
read moreAssessing 1:1 effectiveness
The Haverford School Team 1 Team Members: Nancy Agati, Dan DelDuca, Sandy Krieg, Tracy Nelson, Nate Pankratz, John Suter Community: ADVIS Community Year 1, 2010-2011 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – 6th grade 1-1 netbook program. The question: What is the value of 1-1 netbooking and is it helping us to implement web 2.0 tools? We began a 1-1 netbook program with our 6th grade students this year. Our curriculum has clearly changed throughout this process and we decided that there was significant value in researching how our lessons and...
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