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Elizabethtown Team 2: Bear Creek Babes

Becky Bair- Team Leader: 5th grade teacher / building Tech Liaison at Rheems Elementary Melissa Anderson: Middle School Special Ed / Tech Liaison for Special Ed. teachers Katie Niven: 6th grade Science teacher Heather Geist: 4th grade teacher East High Street Elementary School

Currently the Bear Creek Babes teach at three different schools in the Elizabethtown Area School District. Next year we will be part of the faculty at our new intermediate building, Bear Creek, which will house all of the district's 4th, 5th and 6th grade students.

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**Team Name - Etown Peeps & Bear Creek Babes** =====

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**Team members - T** odd Davis, Mike Sernoffsky, Nancy Weikel, Jeanette Norton, Jason Kingsborough, Melissa Anderson, Becky Bair Heather Geist, Katie Niven =====

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**School -** Bear Creek Intermediate School ~ opening August, 2011 =====

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//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 development. With budget situations as they are there will be no funds to provide additional coaches to support the teachers as they begin using their new tools. With this in mind our plan includes professional development to provide teachers knowledge of the tools available to them and how to use those tools for instruction. We plan on organizing the teachers into professional learning communities based upon the tools they would most like to learn so that they can participate in job embedded professional development that helps them recognize themselves as life-long learners. While working together, the teachers will provide support for each others’ learning and use of technology and promote effective educational practices for student learning.// =====

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**Problem, Issue, or Possibility** =====

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//Our main issue is that the faculty of our new school will have a variety of technology tools but believes that they do not / will not have the support necessary to use these tools effectively. We want to show the teachers that, as life-long learners, they can support each other during the implementation of new instructional strategies.// =====

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//**Objective 1**//  //- Provide teachers with background knowledge about the basic technology tools Web 2.0 that are available for use in the classroom.// ===== //**Objective 2**//  - Allow teachers the opportunity to select a tool they would like to learn about during the school year. //**Objective 3**//  - Develop PLCs based upon the teachers' self-selected tools so that teachers can work together to implement their selected tools. //**Objective 4**//  - Each PLC will create a goal that they will work together to meet over the course of the school year. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Objective 5**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Create a wiki where individuals and PLCs can share websites, artifacts of student work and artifacts of teacher lessons that can be used by other people when they are ready to try using a new tool.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Assessment** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Redo the teacher survey from February 2011 in May of 2012 to see teacher growth. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reinterview teachers at the end of the 2011-2012 school year to see if their ideas of support have changed (from needing somebody else to support us to we can support ourselves. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Review the artifacts uploaded to the wiki.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">September 1st, 2011 ===== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and Wiki’s) Showcase the potential of each software & how it can be implemented in ‘their’ classroom. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Teachers decide which of the four technology tools they would like to learn more about
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8:00 - 8:30 - Introductions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 8:30 - 9:00 - Layout the frame work for the entire day. Answer teachers questions/concerns/comments
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 9:00 - 11:30 - Introduce the four technology tools being offered (Glogster, Google Docs, iMovie,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 11:30 - 12:00 - Place teachers in PLC’s based on which technology tool they selected
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1:00 - 3:00 - Paired PLP members will teach the teachers and demonstrate how to use their desired technology tool. Teachers will have time to experiment and ask questions about their technology tool while paired PLP members walk around and help out the staff
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3:00 - 3:30 - Reconvene to debrief about the day

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Action Research__] =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|__BC Technology Survey__] =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__BC Technology Survey Results__] =====

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> [|__BC Technology Survey Results Excel__] =====

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Movie Etown PLP]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Movie Teaser]