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• Digital photos and video
• podcasts, Guttenberg, iTunes, and shuffles
• iChat AV; video collaborating
• band practice and “you Are  There” w/ GB
• making movies
• web site authoring
• Magic DVDs

Hands-on w/ the iPod Touch in the Classroom

• 188,00 apps / 13,412 for Education

Photos…

• Use PhotoBooth..
  • take photos
  • shoot videos
• set hotspots for Widgets!
• Magic Widget Site….www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard….What is our objection to adding Widgets????  Find the Math ones for math teachers, etc?????  Trig table widget…Translator…..FREE….where is??  World Cultures,etc.
• Calculators on our Mac’s…regular, scientific, programing, Graphing……
• Cmd/Shft/3 or Cmd/Shft/4
• Ability to read from TextEdit w/ Voice…..how did he activate voice?
  • Set/turn on in System Preferences….voice….
    • click “speak selected text when the key is pressed”….”set key”  YOU DECIDE
    • Alex voice is best!!!!
  • Text Edit…
    • select Add to iTunes as Spoken Test
    • Open in iTunes…find “spoken text” playlist
    • Must first enable through Services: Service Preferences: scroll down to text tab and check “add to iTunes as  Spoken text”
    • Guttenberg.org
• Get FLIP cameras…about $170 w/ rechargable batteries….LET’s get these!!!
• iPhoto….
  • in Preferences…allow students to download or upload or add photos via email.
  • MUST have a MOBILE ME account
  • create classes and set accessibility for various classes, etc.
  • Face Recognition
  • Places!!!!
    • camera records long/lat and adds it to the picture data and is recognized in iPhoto
    • or you can add location after the fact to drop the pin
    • books…..printed through Kodak….
      • COST???
      • instead “print” to PDF  for FREE!  (send via e-mail to Parents for binding if they choose!)
      • IIT Curriculum–meets NET-S standards
      • Consider printing/binding the BEST OF for collection/samples
  • helping Algebra students!
• iTunes Store
  • Podcasts on Algebra…load to an iPod and “loan” to students for remediation
  • Any subject area…
  • We can even CREATE remedial videos!  Jason Allen
  • Enrichment as well!!!
• iChat AV
  • screen sharing
  • meetings?  training?
• GarageBand
  • capture a file as from online and save as a MIDI file
  • drop into new GB music projects
  • handpick instruments
  • GB separates each instrument into it’s own file.
    • solo tracks to hear only one e.g. only hear trumpet
    • or mute so you do not a particular track–e.g. don’t hear trumpet
• iDVD
  • magic iDVD
• iPod Touch
  • app called Kazan talks to Guttenberg to download.
  • can set w/ password/code to protect.
  • $12 microphone (red thumbtack)
  • Turning Technologies, Response Ware
  • eCove for student observations
  • look up that technology program that has the iPod app….
• iPad
  • all iPod apps run on iPad
  • 9×7
  • cover is necessary
    • Show/print Score for a particular track

• IL agreement w/ U.S. Dept of Ed
• Programs of Study…what are the key factors?  6 critical categories and self-assessment tool???
• Data and Accountability
  • how to deal with data for program improvement
• #6 is Program improvement and Accountability
  • what must you include?
    • inform culture
    • multiple assessments including PD
    • partnerships
    • labor market data (Perkins only) fore real world
    • data collection system–IL longitudinal data collection system, track students from entrance to college to work place
    • collecting reliable data at the education level….
    • requires setting performance targets–”they” decide and inform “us”
    • gap analysis data
  • Labor Market Element #4
    • need to look at the labor markets…
    • use that to examine the curriculum…should we walk away from a long-standing traditional program for something new and up-coming
      • e.g. Ag classes…should we move “green” rather than status-quo
    • Consider investing in re-newed training for CTE teachers which may be more expensive/out of state, etc., to specialize these courses….do we offer health care and technical areas?  yes, through GAVC
    • Should the district have a data team?  content teachers, Admin team, math teachers drive the team….ID students have low PLAN scores, taken ACT prep, taken an pre-ACT and examine if the intervention helped…so teams of teachers looking at “stuff”
    • Consistency of pulling data is HUGE….who should do it?
    • Evidence Data through Project Lumina?????
    • Element 8..
      • collected data are disaggregated and cohort based to provide gap analysis on different student groups of purposes of equity
      • grade distribution data….who sees it?
        • how many A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, F’s…..compare to discipline and attendance data as well as other classes.
        • maybe looks like “bad teachers” but really data analysis will show what the concentration of students in a class of high failures shows us in relation to a larger picture…NOT BAD teacher…but what about the students
        • changing software programs or adding programs…change the data is captured…does MM and PS show the same info….
      • Formulation of the Problem is far more essential than it’s solution.
      • The ability to raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

• RTi is NOT a special ed initiative, it is a REGULAR ED initiative
• 5/233/08  All districts had to submit a self-assessment to state?
• Jan 2009 Submitted to state the plan through SIP
• May 2009…intro’d teachers…
• Aug 2009…intro’d / retaught again

Respect the Resistors in Educational Change

Leading n Culture of Change by Michael Fulian…focus on change, build relationships, respect divesity, share critical scrutiny

RTi – Good “IDEA” Policy

• Not new
• Not limited to special ed
• not a program, curriculum strategy or intervention
• approach for redesigning and establishing teaching & establishing teaching and learning environments that are effective, efficient, relevant and durable for aALL students, families and educators

RTi is a Paradigm shift…from teaching to learning

• consider teaching staff the history of RTi so they realize they’ve been doing RTi
• must now show the other piece….that we’ve been doing other interventions for the student before moving to special ed
• Why use it?
• Core Principals–problem solving, problem analysis, etc.
• RTi…use parents as partners in creating/implementing interventions
• Richard Dufore? ? ?  Parent Involvement

Consider a Homework Club for Intervention…

• Problem—not turning in homework
• Why?  work to do at home/babysit, etc
• Solution–homework club
• follow-up–student post-it notes the work and monitor places it in teachers’ mailboxes

What does Tier 1 look like?

• Universal Screening—we use SRI at freshman….Evergreen Park does every student, every year and every freshman does it without accommodations…plus EPAS…they also do Vantage, Learning Express
• Vision and Hearing Screenings
• Pyramids of Interventions for failures
• Professional Learning Communities (late-start each wed all teachers meet in teams from 8:10 to 8:50 and every other wed fresh/soph students come in for character ed w/ peer mentors and counselors/)
• Peer Tutoring
• ACT Prep for Juniors
• Parent-teacher conferences
• report card pick-up
• Mastery Learning…(they do in all Math courses)
• Re-teaching
• Professional development
• parent workshops
• HOmework club
• Other classroom intervention/instruction

Tier 2

• lots of before and after school tutoring/programs
• SXU sends tutors
• reading enricnments
• math maniacs, power hour, saturday morning breakfast club
• junior level co-teaching in math and reading
• english concepts for seniors
• Read 180
• Remedial math and english for seniors
• frosh/soph mandatory weekly tutoring

Tier 3

• 504 plan
• referral for IEP
• individualized instruction
• pull-out instruction
• health emergency
• homebound services
• alternative placement
• summer school for credit recovery
• other interventions

Behvioral Issues

• h.s. not required for behavior
• but must meet social-emotional learning standards…PD on these
• some behavioral interventions
• PBS :  required to a point, applicable, effective
• what is PBS:  behavior through positive reinforcement, plan appropriate interventions for behaviors w/ which students most struggle
• Mendler’s suggestions on using these principles…e.g. showing simple courtesies, etc
• create hope in students…..
  • acknowledge your mistakes
• respect power
  • allow students some choice
  • PEP:  privacy, eye contact, proximity
• Build Relationships
  • 21 day interventions—for 21 days make positive contact w/ an at-risk student
  • Staff and Pets relationship bulletin board—gives kids something to ask teachers about
• Express Enthusiasm
• Give kids Goals for PBS
  • positive place
  • closer community
  • rid of bullying
  • no negative behavior

Look at the PPT Mustang Matrix…how to act in each area of hte building

Tier @ Interventions……summer school for freshman?  math, english, science and how to be succesful in high school???

Allow teachers to deal with minor-incidents in the classroom….

• Ask teachers to define student achievement first…then what comes next?
• Answer traditionally teachers….
• STOP…THINK…teachers don’t cause student achievement, STUDENTS cause student achievement…
• Design lessons to get students to get involved/do what they need to do….because designing lessons has to be about getting students to do what students need to do to achievement.
• Ask yourself…what signs would you look for in a classroom that would predict student achievement will go up?  what behavior would predict that behavior…
  • students questioning
  • participation–explaining their learning/talking…Student voice
  • Self-relience
  • giving time to the work…
  • an emotion present..sometimes it’s a body language, sometimes a tone
  • risk taking
  • having Remedial kids observe AP kids….help the kids understand what the appropriate behavior is–not quiet but maybe demanding
• Step back from teacher behavior…to student behavior…then on to teacher behavior
• REMEMBER:  Teaching is a profession…that means EXPERIMENTING!!!  like doctors and lawyers, you tinker until you get it right…not one right answer…
  • high achieving cultures have different teacher strategies/behaviors but the common link is high-achieving students!!!
  • The way to decide what you’re doing is effective, the students are doing what they students have to do…THAT’s IT!

What do you students look like in each of these stops on a continuum:  ……..Fear……Attention…..Comfort……Bored……

Suggestions:  maximun student effort “just in time learning” between Fear and Attention…cannot be too scared!  This is why one-on-one tutoring is so effective…allows you to jump to the next level or pullback to repeat…no getting bored, no fear, ….no over-exertion, but no boredom…like a personal trainer @ the gym…

Fear in a high school student looks like bored….need to engage…how ??  Raise the anxiety level!! give a harder problem, move closer, etc…students may act out BAD…

Efforts x Ability (focuses on a manageable task) = Success

• View of Ability….Fixed? Growth?  Ability is cultivated through effort….Ability grows then if you believe this…and effort multiples ability!!!
• many kids think Ability = Success …. parents reinforce this…ooops
• some kids think Ability + Effort = Success …. use weight-lifting as example..set benchmark and each 8 week checks on ability…
• kids think Smart = NO effort!!!!
• Kids need a picture of success…the most successful students have a picture of their future…work toward it…#1 behavior with successful kids was that the most successful adult in that kids life was an adult who always talked about the future with them….
  • 5th grade teachers takes kids to auditorium 1st day of school and dresses them in cap and gown and takes their “graduation photo”…paste it in planner…10 minutes everyday to reflect, think, comment oh what you are doing to get their…for 180 days this vision is before them….LIFE SKILLS?????  PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Updraft/Downdraft about peer group and teachers that the kids get caught in a group at high school……
• Teach kids what effort is…If you want the kids to put in effort, you have to teach them what effort is…help differentiate among ability, effort, degree of difficulty  or luck.
• Teach EFFORT…the majority of freshman cannot explain your learning style, then how can you put a study plan together…so need to teach them how!!!!  Help them uncover how they best learn…then teach them how to study to for their style–kinesthetic kid…vocab on note cards, definition on the back…cards on ground….dribble to each..check definition…do it until you can dribble to all without looking at the card
• Outliers by Malcom Gladwell….exceptional time practicing…
• Repetition of success…..continue to practice even after you get it…NOPE…keep practicing
• Ask kids to give themselves an “Effort Score” w/ explanation of why?????  Why not???? Get kids to recognize their effort contribution  Begins a conversation…!  Why low grade and high effort
• Manageable Task….if you know how to do?  do these two   if you need practice?  do these  If you don’t know how to begin?  do this  gets all kids to put forth effort

Tapping Students Efforts by Steven Barkley

comment:  We need to do this!!!!  Let’s do a one day on this with teachers….as we determine all the “best practices”

• #1 realtor in US:  tapped into 3700 moving employees for husband’s company….what was it?  A willingness to tapped into the list
• from mailroom to CEO:  talk really well behind peoples backs and it will get back to them…not so smart, not so successful….but talked really good behind people’s backs because he was trusted and their stories became “good news”  Becomes influential.  Now managers come to him, so middle-management, etc., etc….until he becomes CEO…typically use tactices that work
• teacher…extraordinary success w/ her students who went on to do great things:  secret–always acted interested in what students said “tell me more about that” and “wow, really” buZz words that kids responded to and would open up to her…acted amazed about her students (even when not!) and her kids seemed amazed by themselves…be impressed by what they bring to her room..students acted to impress her even though her amazement was sometimes mechanical and forced.  Not a great teacher but got the kids to perform
• Paris Hilton’s ex-publicist:  not the wonder-kin but why her?  Created her own fame by faking her fame until it became real…willing to do what others were not willing to do
• take advantages of your advantages…make it work
• 3 Lies:  positive attitude is paramount; genuius is the platform; better idea/product/offer/concept…believe these and we have to reinvent yourself and have to do this and it’s not you so cannot get “it”..success
• Most successful:  negative thinking; know I can do this because I saw the problems because I’m a problem person…if you see it half empty you’re more likely to try to fill it up!  Decide to fix the problem not believe in the “good”….smartest person isn’t the top-dog—smartest persons tend to work for the boss, genius tends to lack clarity  Keep it clear, level is too high to be influential–need to be smart and clear…but ego gets int he way of seeing your lack of clarity by talking above people…..don’t need to change your attitude or self to succeed…need to take advantage of who you are…don’t need to be marvelous and wonderful–not charismatic or brilliant
• Behavior will Betray your Skill…doesn’t matter how “smart” and “good” you are if you create holes in with bad behavior  Bad plumber, Tonya Harding/Michael Jackson….people are looking for a reason to choose someone else….ARE YOU PREFERRED?!?!?!?!?  Being good at what you do is one thing…being preferred is something else?
• Do you make good impressions on people?  the most successful are the ones who deliver what they have to offer into the arms of what others believed in in the first place…first impression…be clear, and good, and let mediocre ideas rise…Great idea presented badly and mediocre idea presented well….Bad/Mediocre wins.  Are you realistic for how you’re viewed?????  People don’t choose what’s best, they choose what’s comfortable.  Being seen matters, impression matters…going to get your idea sold.
• Take advantage of advantages; take a look at how you’re viewed.
• Take a journey to see how you’re actually viewed.
• Your gift if your curse…what you’re best at, holds you back…shy allows you to push; not that smart makes you less threatening and will create trust/more info; look to your problem to find your advantage
• Is that problem an advantage ?
• Are you willing to leverage your relationships to get ahead?  Are you willing to move past those people who don’t move you forward?
• You get to define your life!  Life is not fair so take all your advantages.

• show little ice breaker movies while you set up
• put students into groups…use deck of cards to put people into groups.
• need four per group…move singletons/pairs into groups of 4..
• pass out toolkit, 3 minute timer to decide what to do/read directions, 20 minutes to DO, 3-5 to discuss/reflect/decide how to use in my classroom/subject
• box w/ directions….
• Reflection…use related vocab to subject area…change the relationship…..Accounting transactions….hardware/software…use as Quiz or a review–each answer without looking at the other answer –steps, problems, short answer to a discussion,

M&M ideas…each color means something/requires the answer to a question…you decide what each color is–a concept, skill, problem

Acrostic Self-Esteem Activity….use vocabulary words from class, review, etc.

goal is always to have students active in someway…

Everyone’s a Liar: 2 facts and 1 lie (which one is the lie–discuss to determine)

Comma Challenge:  sentences in an envelopes….determine the comma rule that applies….vocabularly, proofreading rules, …use arrows to identify the rule????  Use post-it tags rather than cut-out arrows.

Back drawing….draw a shape with your finger on the first person’s back in a line person to person….do with proof marks…sports things???

Getting to know you….paper bags, covered with items/pictures from magazine and determine/introduce classmate the bag belongs to…but can do it with accounting principles, skills, etc.  Need enough materials for everyone.

BeQueath: name, describe, give, hope, and then a script to read the pieces together/aloud!

• one course learns the cooking/baking skills
• other course learns the business/marketing/Entrepreneurship skills
• open on Friday mornings
• during the semester the class runs
• opens from 6:50 to 7:50 a.m. (school starts in 7:30)
• located in the concession stands
• can start in faculty cafeteria…then move to new locations as business grows
• students back M-H in class / management with business person
• teams of 2-3 manage and marker for the week
• arrive by 6 a.m. on bakery days to set up
• clean up by 8:20 a.m. (end of 1st hour)
• currently 15 entrepreneurs for 2009-2010 year
• @ 2nd hour meet in business class to reflect on who things went…Friday after work, hold a business meeting.
• Rotate shifts on bakery days
  • barista
  • clerks
  • managers
  • assistants (make pre-order deliveries)
  • sanitation (@ least 3)
• Chemistry of Foods–cooking and science, two periods, earn sanitation license
• Reflect and improve each week
  • creative and flexible w/ business decisions
    • not immoral/unethical, illegal, factually incorrect, then you can try it
  • entrepreneur of the week!
• Teacher generated idea…things people want!
• start small, build over time—scone and coffee for a $…has grown since!
• class chose name!  Logo and name and color are all marketing decisions made…name stays, logo changes…mission statement remains!
• 4 school years, $95 to $509 from year one to year four!
• increase product lines…cappuccino/hot chocolate machine, big coffee canister, 2nd cash register, time clock for workers and are paid in points!
• class size 15-20 with a few drops every year
• merchandising every year!
  • travel mugs
  • t-shirts ($10)
  • services…Pre-orders, catering, special events, staff Thanksgiving desserts, school events–math PI Day, Jazz Feast
  • holidays….Decorate, ribbon cutting, play-off cookies,
  • weekly promotion decided by the management team for the week–holiday, event, etc.
  • students present to PR/Activities decoration
  • cart on wheels for supplies needed weekly
• Giving back…organization @ school “Magic Closet” for helping those in need in the distract
• Make the kids be involved in the numbers…control of numbers, create charts, analyze sales figures
• Where do the profits go—back into the business…show students what the lack of profts would be with salaries included!
• Pastry cart and coffee makers are a must for the food!
• Mascot to generate business!  Run down the hallway in costume
• website,
• Future:  eventually a true Connections class!
  • two teachers for period with 40 kids
  • rotate kids in and out of kitchen and “office”
• Business side:
  • develop business plan
  • fresh ideas to start the year..brainstorm and get the way out ideas down (3-4 pages of ideas)
  • team work stuff…activities to build!
  • Market research…get to know staff/teachers
  • Rotations
    • create a rotation charts…code necessary events…
    • semester long project to do…build time into rotation
    • then business stuff always gets down
    • add a “make up week” to rotation
    • task list to complete
    • all do different, all plenty to do
    • Entrepreneurship: Ideas in Action (by Southwestern)
    • accounting software
    • $700 budget for ingredients
    • deposit made daily
    • teacher at register
    • Students are paid w/ free t-shirt, @ cost merchandise, 50% on pastries/coffee
    • interpret sales graphs, survey data, interpret break point analysis, cup and product testing (cups, etc), coffee experiment–test out variations on amount of coffee and filters; cash register and change counting simulations; payroll card and entrepreneur time cards–use to approximate business cost
    • a lot of work!!!
    • scheduling
      • class periods
      • conflicts
      • common planning
    • paperwork intense–stay organized, keep up
    • student buy-in for early morning/arrival time/finish time
    • you have to do a lot of the accounting work…use good accounting software because you’re the final eyes~!!
    • selling to students–legalities!  competition w/ cafeteria!  Cannot be in same vicinity as cafeteria if it’s food!  Minimal nutritional value items canNOT be sold; use some of cafeteria vendors is a must
    • ELECTRICAL–make sure the school’s electrical service can handle the equipment, especially if it’s professional grade, and accessibility to outlets.
    • equipment/supplies/stock to keep up with the demand
    • early morning
    • lab space, computers and kitchens
      • need continual access to computers for promotional, marketing and business needs
    • storage space
    • Admin support and community involvement, requirement, promotions
    • Great way to meet staff!  Bring people together!!!
    • Establish activities account and accounting week.
    • Have first week a practice week
    • start your scrap book early!  sell self and keep track of visuals
    • seek grants, get Sam’s clubs card, tax exempt letter, looking for good t-shirt printers, establish vendors, summer curriculum time
    • know your resources
      • Family Consumer Science, art for graphics on menus, web design
    • Thank like crazy…handwritten thank you letter, left-overs to bakery
    • Rolling Meadows was who  Schaumburg modeled after!

• USTREAM.tv  1,000,000 pieces of video-many live; space shuttle, political venues, games, etc.  Can we put up out own H.S. football games.  Started in 2007; military families connect with service personal
  • free log in; click “Broadcast Now”
  • other person/viewers:  log in and search for key word
  • FREE
  • classroom use:  teleconferencing, interviews, etc.  presentation skills for teleconferencing, lectures for absent or homebound students;
  • can record/save so available on USTREAM tv for watching later; privacy settings;
  • can do distance presentations with shared/passed control
  • bundle camera with books–buy at Walmart; other tools–chat, etc.
• Wordle.net
  • word clouds
• Bing.com MS new search engine
  • features?  famous pic of the day; hover over search results (orange dot) to preview…similar to_______?
  • image search—single page of results; can refine search by size, layout, style
  • video search–live preview on results page; limit video search; safe search on by default
  • news:  stories and maps of city
• Web 3.0:  What I’m looking for…
  • mapping services
  • opentable.com to make dinner reservations
• Google latitude
  • • track your phone
• Glympse.com
  • specified amount of time
  • notify others where I am
  • shoot a glympse on a timer…e.g. 30 minutes
  • send a weblink via text/e-mail
• ToonDoo.com
  • free log-in
  • create a cartoon…FREE
  • use stock background/characters or edit/create your own
  • Bald guy @ bottom allows the edit and creation of character
  • save/post/share online with unique weblink
• Cuil.com (gaelic for Knowledge)
  • search engine from former google employees
  • new layout
  • drill-down technology
  • hover over terms for preview
  • rated the top academic search engine
• Google.com
  • translates sentence/words but also entire website
• LiveMocha.com
  • learn a language
  • match you up with a user at the same level trying to learn each others language
  • match up with headsets or live webcam

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