Location: Preston, Room P2
Schools Represented: Bemis, Boyd, Casey, Fitzgerald, Henry, Morgan, Morris, Myers, Preston, Simpson, Trapp, Werner
Inventory & Professional Development Participation:
- Noelle provided a site printout of the current/missing inventory #'s. Please send missing RUSD/Serial numbers to Noelle asap.
- Site printout also indicated the number of hours teachers have participated in eSTELLAR activities so far. Please contact those teachers who have little/no participation and remind them of training dates.
Preparing for Mid-Year Data Collection in January: a mid year report is due in February which requires us to indicate our progress toward all benchmarks. Please do the following to prepare your site for this.
- Please verify your participating teachers have a class page with resources for parents, such as the beginning of the year parent letter, links to websites, etc.
- Be sure all students in the target group know how to access Grolier. (The target group is all eSTELLAR classes at Round 6 schools and only lead teacher's classes at Round 7 schools.)
- Laptop Cart Checkout Log: use it! Download from Lead Teacher folder on the eSTELLAR group page.
Other:
- Please post lessons! Leads and participating teachers can get eSTELLAR pay if they share a lesson in the eChalk lesson planner that integrates teacher or student use of technology in science. (Round 7 schools may not have Lesson Planner yet - email lessons to Noelle.)
- Leads can claim eSTELLAR time for providing parent training at your school site on the use of online resources. Parents from eSTELLAR classes must be included; science must be addressed.
- Please encourage participating teachers to implement the use of science notebooks. This is where they collect the information from their online research, record reflections about their technology-based learning, etc.
- The Public Library is willing to visit your class to show how to use their online reference databases. See Noelle for contact info.
- Funding for Round 7 has still not arrived. Due to state budget issues, the district cannot spend this money before it is received.
- We reviewed how to access the online math textbook. Directions are posted on the Elementary Math page in eChalk.
- All students in the target group should have eChalk accounts to store their work, turn it in electronically, and participate in class discussion boards. The student handout is available on the eSTELLAR page and tutorials are available for teachers in the Professional Development System.
WIFTS: (What I Forgot To Say)
- Administrators at Round 6 schools should be doing one classroom observation per month in each eSTELLAR classroom. Teachers are encouraged to invite administrators to their class when they are doing a lesson integrating teacher or student use of technology in science.
- Don't forget to update your iGoogle lead teacher log!
