19/20 Evidence & Reflection

Objective 1

Over the course of the 19/20 academic year, the MTAC team will work with the Digital Learning Coordinators in our area to better meet the Technological Curriculum needs of our students.

Evidence & Reflection

Teachers have worked with the DLC's on Google Suite training offerings and how best to share and reflect on student work.
We have purchased a subscription renewal for PebbleGo and increased our print collection of classics early readers, biographies, choose-your-own-adventure, and graphic novel series based on teacher feedback regarding shortage areas and student interest.
Over the course of schools being closed for Covid-19, teachers have been offered Professional Development with Seesaw, Google Classroom, Google Meet, and Screencastify. Teachers have successfully been able to implement these tools in order to provide remote learning to all students.

Objective 2

Over the course of the 19/20 academic year, our media program will take a look at how we can strengthen our Family and Community Partnerships by working on common Grade Level Websites to help parents with finding resources on teacher websites. We also assisted students with the creation of a Digital Portfolio in order to share their best work with parents.

Evidence & Reflection

Digital Portfolio Work

This year, all students at our school will showcase their best work in a Digital Portfolio. K-2 students are using Seesaw and 3-5 have created Google Sites, with 3rd grade being a transition year and doing both. Digital Portfolios help celebrate student successes; show how a student has progressed over time; allow better communication between school and home; and help students take responsibility and ownership for their learning, to name a few.

Digital Portfolios also allow students an opportunity to share their best work with parents and the community. They allow family and friends to have access to what students are doing, from any device at home 24/7. Our Digital Portfolio Team works closely with MTAC to ensure that staff have the knowledge base to effectively implement Digital Portfolios effectively. Beginning Teachers were provided training at the beginning of the year, and we created a survey at the last Digital Portfolio training day where we are gathering teacher feedback on how to proceed with implementing portfolio work for next year.

More information on this initiative can be found at:

https://sites.google.com/wcpss.net/wcpss-digital-portfolios/home

Grade Level Websites

Next year, we will be converting teacher websites into a standardized Grade Level Website. This year--following input from the DLC's and our school's Leadership Team--we have created a template in Google Sites. We researched website exemplars and went through many draft forms before finalizing a template that would work for all grade levels. This standardization of websites is similar to what has already been implemented on a county level. It will help with ease of access for parents by allowing teachers to better communicate what is happening at school and in their grade levels.

An example of what the websites will look like is available via the ARES Specialists Team website, a collaborative effort by Technology, Media, Music, Art, Science, P.E., and Character Education.

Family & Community Outreach

We partnered closely with the PTSA to determine school-wide goals and prizes for literacy events such as READvolution, in order to excite our children about reading in fun, new ways. More evidence of our increased partnerships is showcased on the ARES Media Center website in two places:

Prior to COVID-19 via the Literacy Events page
During distance education learning initiatives as a result of COVID-19, via the Online Learning Resources page

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