Much of our world is moving online and as our technologies grow and change, our practice must follow. Six years ago, under the Project Enrich grant, I developed online courses based on instructional strategies that would work for all students. Over the years, I have pushed some tools to the limit to develop and offer [...]

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Our second day of collaboration was once again a great learning experience. The focus was on processes for meetings and conflict along with roles within a team.
We were able to watch a data team work through a five step process of looking at student data throughout the school year.
1. Collect and Chart Data
2. Analyze Strengths [...]

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Susan Sparks has been a great facilitator thus far for our Creating Collaborative Teams seminar. Today our goals were focus, structure and relationships.
Focus for team meetings, team expectations and team goals.
Structure: Identifying the differences between a group and a team from the start today. Many times in schools we look at teams and groups in [...]

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ETS ‘Assessment Training Institute’
Dylan Wiliam was our opening keynote on Tuesday.
Raising Achievement is Important
The personal: extended life and earnings, economic: more taxes paid and less money spent on health care and societal reasons: lower criminal justice costs, impact all of us and should be reason enough to raise student achievement.
Raising Achievement Requires Improving Teacher Quality
We [...]

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Take a minute to check out the Wagner School District’s unique professional development plan as it pertains to technology. Lisa, thank you for the great TIE session titled: Technology Professional Development in your School. The planning process you and your team have put together is amazing. Giving teachers the choice of technology professional development not [...]

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What is Thinkfinity? Watch this video to gain a quick overview of this powerful educational website:  http://www.thinkfinity.org/tour/thinkfinitytour.aspx
We have been working to increase the number of people in SD who can provide training on the use of Thinkfinity and its resources this past year. Two great cohorts of trainers are now providing PD on the use [...]

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