Safety and Security

1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and implement policies and procedures for safe and secure educational environments; and

2. Demonstrate the means to address emergency and crisis situations.

Artifact 1: Digital Citizenship Advisory Lessons (Sub-competency 1)

Description:

Staying safe online is important for students of any age. In our district, we have found that middle school is the age group where we find most of our issues with online interactions. I was tasked with developing and setting up lessons related to digital citizenship topics for delivery on a monthly basis in advisory. I worked to develop lessons that spiraled topics from grades 6-8. The topics included: Media balance and well being, privacy and security, digital footprint and identity, relationships and communication, news and media literacy, cyberbullying, digital drama, and hate speech.

Reflection:

I found it important to create lessons from current resources, such as Common Sense Media, while also putting them into a format that was easy for teachers to review and deliver in a short amount of time. I also tried to focus on creating lessons that are interactive for students. For these reasons, I utilized EdPuzzle as the main delivery strategy. By using EdPuzzle, teachers could add interactive video lessons into their Schoology courses and check for understanding and completion easily through the tool.

Artifact:

Digital citizenship lesson spreadsheet

Artifact 2: Science Safety Vertical Team Presentation and Resources (Sub-competency 1 & 2)

Description:

Safety is an essential element of the science classroom. As science coordinator, I was able to organize and deliver a presentation to all secondary teachers reviewing the basics of safety in the science classroom as well as provide resources for them to use to maintain a safe environment.

Reflection:

I enjoyed creating and giving this presentation. It was a great reminder to me for all of these requirements and guidelines that all of our science teachers need to be mindful of. The National Science Teachers association is consistently updating these guidelines, so it is important to do frequent reminders for teachers at all levels.

Artifacts:

Science Safety Presentation and resources.

Artifact 3: Data Protection Agreements (Sub-competency 1)

Description:

Student data privacy has become a hot-button issue in education, especially in Minnesota with the passing of HF2353. One of the things district 742 has done to insure that student data is not used inappropriately by third party vendors is to require a data privacy agreement with each vendor. I've worked with our director of technology to obtain these with vendors.

Reflection:

While protecting student data is important, it is also a difficult at times to work with vendors to come to an agreement. Often the roadblocks are just language in these contracts, but those can be difficult to negotiate. Ultimately, a district should not provide data to a third party vendor if that vendor cannot or will not protect it.

Artifact:

Edpuzzle DPA (public information)

Artifact 4: Crush Academy (Sub-competency 1)

Description:

Assisted in management of staff and students during Crush academy, a summer opportunity for recommended students for enrichment and addressing learning gaps. Helped students with class materials, assisted teachers with technology needs, coordinated breakfast and lunch and helped keep students in their assigned spaces. I also contacted parents with behavior and transportation needs.

Reflection:

I found this experience to be one of the most difficult, but valuable. In this version of "summer school", students were recommended, but not required, to attend. They were not making up needed credits toward graduation. Many students did not want to be attending or did not find it valuable. That, coupled with general middle school brain development, led to challenging times keeping students in their assigned areas.

Activities:

• Phone calls to families for attendance, behavior and transportation

• Hallway supervision and management

• Transportation and food service coordination