Process

How do you provide work embedded support and follow-up experiences to sustain your **endeavors? (Process)**
//Our DITS, team leaders, and building leadership continually focus on job embedded follow-up an d support.// // Our DITS (coaches) provide vision, leadership, scheduled PD, and follow-up/support that fully engages our students and educators in learning. Focusing on content standards and assessments, they work collaboratively with grade level/ academic teams, individual teachers, buildings and administrators. ////Using email, iChat, blogs, wikis, etc, new and exciting ways to communicate, collaborate and celebrate new learnings have been created//.
 * Extensive PD around leadership and adaptive schools for Team Leaders and administrators – Lynn Sawyer/ Data Driven Dialogue and Toni Prickett/Leadership in Adaptive Schools , plus book studies. Here is a PDF of a synopsis or the key points of this workshop [[file:AS - DR's model pdf.pdf]] and a summary of Data Driven Dialogue. [[file:DR's summary of DDDpdf.pdf]]
 * Collaborative Teams focusing on improved communication & collaboration
 * Baker Graduate Credit for many district created courses that resulted from our needs assessment
 * PD on a Shoestring allowing for quality PD without resources





//Within our district and beyond, we celebrate learning. We are moving from theory to practice by focusing on 21st century skills and content. Our journey continues. . . //
 * How do you encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration among all participants? (Process) **
 * PLC collaborative groups, sharing/collaboration
 * Faculty meetings, sharing, modeling, exploring
 * Building PD Days: teams in the morning, buildings in the afternoon
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Providing 24/7 support and follow-up by DITS to “stamp out boring!
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Personal/professional learning networks (PLNs) - within and outside the district
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Grade level wikis, classroom blogs, discussion forums in Moodle
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Presentations at many state conferences, KSDE Spring Conference, KSDC, KEEN, USA, MACE, KSDE Assessment, NCA

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Collaboration Videos
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online Tools of the DITS
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|A Chat with Mary Blog] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Out of the Ordinary with Rosemary Blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mary's PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Buhler Technology Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Buhler Keys Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Buhler Pages Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Interactive Whiteboard Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Countdown to Christmas Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Moodle Courses with credit through Baker University: Using various technology tools (iPods, GPS's, IWB's), beginning Moodle, intermediate Moodle, book studies and more. An online needs assessment was given to all staff members that determined the need for these courses.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blogs
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mrs. Bolton's High School Spanish Blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Prairie Hills Middle School Book Blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Prosperity 6th Grade 'Dr. Data' TRC Blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Obee 5th Grade TRC Blog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Smith's 4th Grade TRC Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Goertzen's 4th Grade TRC Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Styes 4th Grade Classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> McLean's McBloggers

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Portaportals
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prairie Hills Middle School Library PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mary Frazier's PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Elementary Music PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Babcock's 5th Grade PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Gilley's 5th Grade PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4th Grade Collaborative Team PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Goertzen's 4th Grade PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. McLean's 1st Grade PortaPortal <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Mrs. Adkins' Library PortaPortal

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Class Wikis
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mrs. Whisler's Science Wiki <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Book Study Daily 5

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grade level wikis
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kindergarten <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> First Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Second Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Third Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Fourth Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Fifth Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Sixth Grade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> R.E.A.D. Council

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Prairie Hills Middle School 8th Grade Tech Assessment Wikis__**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tech Assessment Hour 1 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tech Assessment Hour 2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tech Assessment Hour 3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tech Assessment Hour 4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tech Assessment Hour 6