AL+Brown+PD

 **Schoology - Learning Management System **  **Overview ** The purpose of this session is to familiarize teachers with the Schoolgy program and to establish this as the standard learning management system across the building. This will allow teachers, parents and students to have a uniform method on which to track student progress and achievement.

Approximately half of our teachers were trained on this program during the summer of 2010. At this point in time, Schoology was rolled out in a test phase. Administration has now mandated Schoology as the learning management system to use. In response to this mandate there is a need for additional professional development and an introduction for those teachers who were a part of the initial test group.

Our school has provided various summer PD sessions, where teachers have been introduced to various technologies, many of which were discussed in this Institute. Teachers have discovered what will work best for them in their classroom and have implemented those strategies in their classroom. We feel that this PD is crucial as we look at ways of bringing the staff together and “getting us all on the same page.”

**Time Allotted – **Focus group meeting during teacher planning block. Meetings will be approx one hour in length. Presenters will be those teachers who have mastered the program and use it on a daily basis. **Goals ** Our goals for this PD would be to standardize the way teachers track grades. It will also be a means for students to have ownership in their grades and track progress. Another goal would be to equip staff with a program that will allow them to track student’s progress as a whole not just in their class, especially the EC teachers. With the 1:1 iniaviative well under way, Schoology provides a standardized means for students to submit assignments as we embark into the 1:1 world.

Our goal would be for all teachers to feel confident and ready to implement Schoology in their classroom at the start of second semester. 

**Outcomes ** Our desired outcome would be to see teachers using Schoology in all content areas. We would hope to see an increased awareness and ownership of students and their grades. We also hope to see increased parent involvement in the classrooms.

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<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Instructional Strategy/Activities (Lecture, workshop, etc.) ** <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PD will be delivered by the teacher-leaders in the building via Internet platform. We feel that at this point an addition wiki or site to explain the program would be just one more thing for teachers to keep track of. By teachers leading the professional development, we are identifying people in the building who can help teachers troubleshoot. We feel that it important for our staff to see actual staff members who are in the classroom and using the program successfully. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1st block - Manus 2nd block – Baker <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3rd block – <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4th block - Bryant <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Resources (Rooms, space, materials, software, equipment) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Media Center Video Viewing Area, laptop and projector, access to Schoology, teachers should bring laptops with them to the meeting

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Evaluation (Observation, etc.) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">PD will be evaluated as we see teacher usage increase in the program.

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<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Lesson ** <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Log in procedures <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Creating Courses <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Adding students to the courses <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Creating assignments <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Drop box procedures <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Examples of how to grade digitally <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Returning work to students <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Blogs as a means of class discussion <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Creating a social network community within your class <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How to introduce students to the program