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School Transformation/Improvement Special Issue |
The school year is well under way - we hope you are immersed in the excitement of the school year and that you are starting to see results from all your hard work. We at JP are ready to support your goals, and this issue is packed with our latest and greatest. This issue of our Responsive School Network News is focused on School Transformation/School Improvement and how JP can help you achieve your goals by utilizing our personalized professional development program. |
 Lesson 129- Using a smartphone to uitilize the whiteboard
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Our School Improvement Specialists are always searching for ways to impove the personalized professionl development we provide to schools. Pamela Toburen (we call her PJ) shared her most recent "lightbulb" experience with us, and once we heard it we knew we had to share it with you, too! From PJ, "I knew this gal had a smart phone so I asked her to take a picture of the kid's writing and e-mail it to herself. She could do that very easily. Once it was e-mailed to herself, all she had to do was open the attachment and BINGO, the document was projected on her whiteboard. The advantage of projecting it on the whiteboard is that you can write on the document with a dry erase marker."
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School Transformation Workshops |
Have you been to our website, lately? We have an entire domain of workshops dedicated to school improvement, our Factors Influencing Student Achievement Domain. For example... Restructuring Curriculum for Student Success This session will identify the effective practices used in DI that can be generalized to other curricular areas at all grade levels to increase teaching effectiveness and student achievement in those areas. The process will be modeled in examples, and then, participants will have the opportunity to prepare a lesson, using their knowledge of DI practices. Participants will leave with an outline for using the process with the adopted curricula in their own school. Click the Explore Button to experience more school improvement workshops listed on our website.
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 Lesson 129 Continued |
One of her students asked, "Will you do that to mine?" She said "It's so messy, I can hardly read it," to which he promptly replied, "I'll write it neater!"
So, we've got two things going here: 1) the opportunity to display student work and 2) motivation to do the work well. And that's to say nothing of the financial benefit of not having to buy a document camera!
The teacher was really jazzed. I did tell her that if she uses this procedure, she MUST be able to do it without compromising the integrity of "time on task." It has to be done so quickly that it doesn't prevent them from completing a lesson.
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