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Beginning with our first newsletter, I hope to keep your district in touch with the latest developments on the education and technology fronts, including grant opportunities at the federal and state levels. Given that you may know little about JFYNet, below is an introduction of the organization.
With our highly experienced education/technology coaches at the lead, we have dramatically diversified and increased our services to school districts across over the past two years. With a goal to ensure that every young person in Massachusetts is proficient in mathematics and science by the time they graduate from high school, we partner with over 15 school districts to provide one-stop services for those seeking help with education/technology issues, including:
1) Online courses for underserved high school students in alternative education, credit recovery, or credit acceleration programs. Through a set of formal and informal assessments, our coaches help schools determine what intervention students need most and what would be most cost efficient and effective. JFYNet can then offer online courses in virtually every subject for credit recovery or acceleration backed by extensive support from our coaches to ensure that everything from technical to pedagogical issues are addressed.
2) Projects that create effective technology-rich environments that support existing tiered-instruction in mathematics and science. JFYNet's package is tailored to meet students where they are and to provide them with tiered instruction that helps them climb the cognitive ladder from basic understanding to application and finally generalization (analyzing, evaluating, creating). Our approach is aimed to immediately impact student performance and to build the capacity of the district to maintain and accelerate student progress over the long-term.
3) High quality professional development. The most effective professional development is built around the natural cycle of good teaching and learning. JFYNet coaches use an "action research" approach to professional development to build the capacity of your faculty.
4) Projects that use appropriate technology effectively to implement formative, benchmark, and summative assessments. JFYNet has partnered with ATI and its Galilleo assessment system. With the help of our coaches, JFYNet can offer districts a complete array of electronic assessment tools--formative, benchmark, and summative.
JFYNetWorks and several of our school district partners are currently in the process of writing several Title II-D technology funding proposals to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. At the federal level we are also monitoring Race to the Top funding opportunities. We anticipate that there will be many more funding opportunities at both levels and JFYNetworks will stay on top of all developments.
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Improvement of MCAS Scores across state
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JFYNet Achievement Awards
The 6th annual JFYNet Achievement Awards were held on June 3rd the State House. Mitchell D. Chester, the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, gave the keynote address and also received an award for Distinguished Service to Public Education.
The JFYNet Achievement Awards are given each year by JFYNetWorks to selected schools, individuals and community agencies that have made significant contributions to the cause of improving student achievement in Massachusetts through the use of the JFYNet technology-based academic support program.
Awards were also given to the hosts of the even, Senator Robert O'Leary and Representative Martha Walz, the co-chairs of the Joint House-Senate Committee on Education.
In addition, awards were presented to the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, Boston; Randolph Community Middle School; the Andrews and McGlynn Middle Schools, Medford; Knox Trail Junior High School and David Prouty High School, Spencer-East Brookfield; Randolph High School; Durfee High School, Fall River; Revere High School; Foxborough Regional Charter School; Plymouth Bay House and the Literacy Program of Greater Plymouth; Principal Elizabeth Ponte of Somerset Middle School; Educational Technology Director Cynthia Yetman and the Amesbury Public Schools, Charles L. Chaurette, Superintendent; Board of Education member Beverly Homes; Senator O'Leary and Representative Walz.
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Thank your customer, tell them how valuable they are to you, but don't go overboard. Insincerity is easy to spot.
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Sincerely,
Gary Kaplan
Executive Director JFYNetWorks |
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