Dover+Area+School+District

Dover Area School District in York County

Team Members:
 * Davonna Rickard - principal (Weigelstown Elementary)
 * Courtney Riley- 3rd grade teacher
 * Jon Marc Murphy- 4th grade teacher
 * Molly VanBalen @mvanba- 5th grade teacher
 * Deborah Wirth @DebWirth- 2nd grade teacher
 * Rebecca Haldeman @rzhalde024 - Team Leader- 6th grade teacher

PLP Fellow Ann Johnston - @amjohnston

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**Team Name Dover PLPeeps**
Team members


 * Davonna Rickard - principal (Weigelstown Elementary)
 * Courtney Riley- 3rd grade teacher
 * Jon Marc Murphy- 4th grade teacher
 * Molly VanBalen @mvanba- 5th grade teacher
 * Deborah Wirth @DebWirth- 2nd grade teacher
 * Rebecca Haldeman @rzhalde024 - Team Leader- 6th grade teacher

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//Our project is to use professional development to provide the staff with the skills needed to collaborate and communicate (NETS standards)using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.// =====

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Due to survey results that displayed a need for professional development, we chose to enhance classroom collaboration and communication, using Web 2.0 tools. Education in the NETS standards will guide this process. =====

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The teachers will be able to use the NETS standards in their everyday teaching. We will assess this by looking at Performance Tracker and checking for integration on curriculum maps. =====

The team used data collected from surveys to look for interests/needs from the staff.
The team will provide professional development during a 2011 summer technology camp to meet the needs of the staff.

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Provide teachers information about the NETS standards. (in the 2011-2012 school year) =====

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Provide teachers with training on how to incorporate the NETS standards into their curriculum maps. =====

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Some of our lessons learned include: Small steps are okay. We had a very wide lense at first with our implementation and decided to take a more narrow approach. We are about half way through our project. We are getting ready to try to lure our staff into committing to the technology summer camp to learn more about Web 2.0 tools to incorporate collaboration and communication into classrooms. We are working with adminstration to get a keynote speaker to come in next year to speak to the distrcit about the NETS. The NET books for the staff have already been ordered.=====

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__September__ -PLP Kick-Off: We left full of new ideas and energy. -21st Century Curriculum Committee meeting =====

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__October__ -1st webinar: Setting the Stage -Introduction to NETS (Ann Johnston) =====

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__November__ -NETS-S and NETS-T distributed to PLP committee =====

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__December__ -2nd webinar: Network Driven Inquiry -21 Century Curriculum Committee meeting DECISION MADE: Action Research Project- Tackling K-12 District-wide Professional Development for Web 2.0 Technology and understanding the NETS, created surveys to receive feedback about current curriculum (NETS) and technology use =====

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__January__ -21 Century Curriculum Committee meeting, Discussion about keyboarding in schools-new survey to be sent out -Surveys distributed to entire district through SurveyMonkey after holiday break -Survey results: observations and analysis Technology Curriculum Survey Professional Development Survey =====

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__February__ -3rd webinar: Network Literacy -21st Century Curriculum Committee meeting: Used Inspiration to connect current curriculum to NETS -Keyboarding Survey -Powerpoint for 4th webinar in March: Expanding Our Technology Horizons: Presenting to PLP =====

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__March__ -4th webinar: Project workshop and building community -Presented project and received constructive feedback from PLP community DECISION MADE: -Narrowed focus to school-wide approach instead of district-wide because of time barriers and setbacks with k-12 implementation -Mini professional development sessions within buildings of PLP members during faculty meeting or before school: use what the PLP member have already used in the classroom. =====

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__April__ -Final webinar: Long range planning and implementation -Develop "teaser videos" to increase staff interest and attendance in Dover Summer Technology Academy -Topics would include: Using Technology to Communicate and Collaborate (Skype, Edmodo, ePals) =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">21st Century Committee meeting- DECISION MADE- before the end of the year share technology trailers with entire staff as advertisement for Dover Summer Technology Academy =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">-: June 13-16, 2011 -2011-2012 Professional Development Days: =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">-September faculty meetings (building specific by central office personnel): PD Emphasis on Technology =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">-October 6th (2 hour PD): K-12 Roll out of NETS (introduction to standards, common language, curriculum connections)Video clip-Technology PSA - Why does DOVER needs to shift? =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">-October 10th (full day PD): Speaker coming in to discuss NETS with staff k-12, =====

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<span style="font-size: 1.03em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">-February 13 ( 2 hour PD): staff will start to allign core maps to NETS standards (administrators will monitor progress through the end of school year) =====

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