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Our technology goals this year center around the new 21st Century Classroom. __September__: a staff meeting was held and teachers were shown a Power Point "Shift Happens" that discussed 21st Century learning and the future demands on our students. __September__: a staff meeting was held for teachers regarding the nature of the 21st Century classroom rationale and pitfalls. __Project Based Learning__: two teachers were trained over the summer for intergration of 21st Centuiry skills during the 07-08 school year. __Standards Based Grading__: many teachers upgraded to Grade Pro 4.0 and 3 teachers are piloting standards based grading. Cross Data Project: 10 teachers were trained to use MAP data effectively at the classroom level to improve instruction and evaluation.
 * 1st Semester Report

__END OF THE YEAR SURVEY__ __Implementing your Technology Professional Development Plan__ Most of our goal was acomplished. MAP scores are being evaluated more effectively and information and suggestions on how to improve scores are being generated at grade level. There have been no training technology meetings this yearexcept gradebook and Webedit training for new teachers, so any training, instruction, etc. has been during planning asnd after schjool on a one- to- one basis. Some teachers have beconme more self reliant in their technology skills and have even taken other teachers under their wings.

__Building Capacity__ One- on- one instruction and tutoring, sharing inforamtion from what other teachers are doing, recruiting other teachers to shre in their departments 21st Century instruction they have done this year. I think we are slightly above average as a whole in technology competence. We have some very talented individuals and then some teachers who prefer to not use their computers very much. I think the trend is swinging toward more teachers taking chances and trying new things.

__Incorporating 21st Century Learning Skills and Tools__ There is no formal evaluation at our site on student use of 21st Century skills. I feel the biggest impacts we have had is requiring each teacher to have a web page with current grades (updated a minimium of every two weeks) and a homewor/assignment calendar. More and more students are accessing teacher pages and exploring additional inforamtion found on them. We also are increasing the number of Smart boards at our facility adn stuents are being given another avenue to share and incorporate technology at school. Also, many classes routinely use software programs to have studetns present and share their work. We have also increased the availabilty of video cameras for teacher and student projects this year.

Students are primarily using Inspiration, Power Pt., Excel and Smart boards to show and share work. Our special education department is running at risk kids through self-paced computer learning lessons during several classes during the day.

The strength of our efforts this year would be the increase in willingness of teachers to try new things and share information with others. Also, the use of the Extenda systems allowed more 21st Century skills in our video technology department and a place for the special education department to use that would not interfer with the other computer lab use.

__Evaluating Effectiveness__ I feel that the individual training helped teachers improve communication betwewen teacher/student and teacher/ home. This lead to better grades. I also felt that by sharing what others shared with me, that an increased number of teachers tried new things this year and are more receptive to exploring other technology experiences.

By one-on-one help, I was able to work at the current ability level of individual teachers. One-on-one alse helped me more quickly evaluate areas of problems and give more personal time to fixing issues.

I think more focus on MAP scores helped us move from a high achieving to an excelling status as a school. I feel the increase of teachers trying new things helped show kids different ways to accomplish goals and to feel less stressful about trying new things.**