Greenbriar

====    **Team Sprockets** - All Members   ====

Jill Weininger - Principal Judi Epcke - Tech Integration Specialist (Fellow) Ellen Feeney - 1st Grade Mandy Shulman - 2nd Grade [|Tracey Zimmerman] - 3rd Grade Mark Edwards - 4th Grade (Team Leader) Gay Dodge - 5th Grade Sherry Azaria - TSS Mary Paracka - Foreign Language

**Greenbriar's PLP Project: //No Teacher Left Behind//**

 * Goals: **
 * 1) Increase the use of technology across the building for students and teachers
 * 2) Create a venue for efficient professional collaboration

**Setting the Stage & Planning:** This fall, we began by creating an environment where people would feel comfortable and safe taking risks. First, our PLP members began trying out new technologies they were learning through PLP. We let them grow at their own rate and try technologies for themselves and with students. As a model for others and to further extend this freedom to explore, the building principal teamed up with the team fellow to run a wiki club for students. PLP members were encouraged to share their successes and challenges throughout the winter in our face to face team meetings and through the PLP Ning.
 * [|Initial Planning Document.pdf]

**Roll out to Staff:** In March, we had a full day of professional development where the PLP team presented our school Ning to our teachers. All teachers had the experience of joining the Ning, navigating the site, and time to let them explore with coaching. Each teacher then rotated through 3 breakout sessions where they were introduced to practical classroom applications of Web 2.0 tools. The key feature was that colleagues showed colleagues how to use these tools with their own curriculum and their own students. Because our PLP team spans grades 1-5 there were curricular examples for teachers at all levels.
 * [|Agenda for Professional Development Day.pdf]
 * [|A Vision of K-12 Students Today] (YouTube)
 * [|21st Century Learners PowerPoint.pptx]
 * [|Bloom's 'revised': Digital Taxonomy.pdf]
 * [|Web2.0 vocabulary handout.pdf]
 * [|Blog post on PLP Ning celebrating success of Professional Development Day]

**Building Community:** We chose to create a Ning for our staff to allow for asynchronous conversations and collaboration. This models for teachers 21st century practices while pushing everyone to get involved at their own level -- no one can opt out; however, because they are then left out and are seeking to make connections. Our school Ning has quickly become the go-to place for our staff for a multitude of purposes: curriculum planning, problem solving, social connections, vertical conversations about curriculum. The possibilities are just beginning to present themselves.
 * [|GB PD Day Slideshow.mov] (Quicktime)

**Results:**
 * **Student Learning: **
 * As our students became more engaged in their learning, teachers have become motivated to find additional ways to infuse technology into their classrooms. Currently our lab, and tech equipment are in constant use.


 * **Teacher as Learner:**
 * Teachers have shared their learning with their colleagues and we have seen a significant increase in the use of the computer lab and the laptop carts. Staff are actively seeking more information of how to integrate these new tools into their current curriculum and bring 21st Century teaching and learning into their classrooms.
 * Project Presentation for April 15 Cohort Elluminate session (QuickTime)

**Planning for the Future:**
 * We will be using the feedback from the professional development day to plan and create additional learning opportunities for staff
 * We will continue to operate as a PLP team and technology mentors for our staff

