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Social Media. Why are you using it? Interacting with the public Or Informing the public. Interacting with Public. You must monitor what is being said You must check it often You must post often for it to be useful and create interest

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Social Media

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  1. Social Media Why are you using it? Interacting with the public Or Informing the public

  2. Interacting with Public • You must monitor what is being said • You must check it often • You must post often for it to be useful and create interest • This may be difficult to do without a person dedicated to this

  3. Informing the Public • Create interest with posting many items about school activities • Post articles about education or of interest to public • Needs to be updated daily but not as much monitoring

  4. Keeping your Eye on Strategic Plan • Discuss student achievement more than once a year especially since the state assessments cannot be acted upon • Going from 60% to 85% is easier than 85-90% this is when you need to become super focused especially with gap groups

  5. Instead of student performances, have principals present data from assessments • Share the principal goals for the individual schools with board members at the board member visit to the school • Increasing the ADM is extremely important

  6. Partnership with three school divisions with virtual schools Goals: Breakdown barriers of time and space Provide real educational choice for students Maximize resources for efficiency and cost

  7. Partnership • Start with courses that were strengths for each school • Home school pays the teacher • Home school contacts the parents if there is an issue • Home school also gives the amount of credit per course • Employed a lawyer to create the legal documents for the continuation of the program cost shared by each school

  8. Partnership • Check NCAA because these may be non-traditional course work • Used several different interfaces/software: Open Source, Moodle, LibreOffice, OER, Word Press, ck-12flexbooks • Sapphire for grading books

  9. Tour K-6 One to One Initiative • One to One initiative for k-6 chose schools with lowest performing students • IB and Spanish immersion • Ipads were chosen because of the apps and flexibilities for each student • Created their own case for the Ipads • Garden/wellness plan started with nonprofit organization

  10. Issues that needed to be addressed: • Blocking content at school but not at home, lots of parent education was done • Insurance plan for each child, $50 or $25 for FRLP. Replacement of unit is $500. • IT dept. audits the Ipads after each year. • No app store on device • Trained the older children to fix issues, they are capable of replacing a screen individually!

  11. Professional Development • Teachers have common planning time and they use some of that time to present new apps that they are using • They piloted the Ipad in one class per grade before it was implemented • Because of the programs they are using, they chart progress of students automatically.

  12. Educational Apps and Software • Lexia reading, success maker, imagine, learning, ixl, reading counts, st math, Myan io, geo games, garage band, math facts in a flash, sketchbook, myplate • This allows students to practice skills without direct instruction and observation

  13. Your Brain in School • 1965 • Only 12% of the year is spent in actual school and on academics. • 9 minutes is the average attention span of any brain • 6 hours of activity a week is necessary for brain function • 5 senses are constantly engaged

  14. Using what we know about brains • Brains love pictures not text • Brains need lots of practice that is different and creative • Minimize interruption • We can multi task not multi focus • Professional development must be brain focused

  15. Using what we know about brains • Hippocampus consolidates memories (used most in the schools) it works better with exercise • Require movement in classrooms • Make room for fitness, open fitness room before/after school with fitness trainer for faculty and students • Walking class • WII fitness used twice a week

  16. Using what we know about brains • Five senses are always engaged • Evaluate teachers how many senses are they engaging • Use color/design to better your outcomes • Alternative education center is the most beautiful building • Bathrooms are extremely clean as well as all facilities • Diplomas of all teachers are posted in entry

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