Location: Preston, Room P2
Schools Represented: Curtis, Garcia, Morgan, Morris, Preston, Trapp
- Laptop carts:
- The new laptop profile allows students to save files to the laptop's hard drive in the My Documents folder. This requires students to have the same laptop the following day (unless they save their file in their eChalk account).
- Noelle will provide stickers to label the side of the laptops with numbers so students can easily retrieve the same laptop the following day.
- Schools should develop a cart rotation schedule that works best for the eSTELLAR teachers. All eSTELLAR teachers should incorporate student use of technology at least once a week, on average.
- Carts can be used after the school day for other site purposes such as parent training, staff development, or after school programs. The site lead should work with the site administrator to determine protocols that will ensure appropriate use and security of the equipment.
- eChalk:
- Lead teachers should have the Manage Site function in their eChalk account so they can assist other teachers and address site issues promptly. If you don't have this button in the left sidebar of your eChalk account, contact Noelle.
- All student accounts were uploaded into eChalk on 8/8/08. All eSTELLAR teachers need to enroll their students in their eChalk class pages so they can use these accounts effectively.
- Noelle and Debbie Genz are working on lesson plans that introduce the various functions of students' eChalk accounts including class discussion board, student email, submitting work to the homework drop box. The lessons will be available in the eChalk Lesson Planner under the Shared Lessons area.
- New eSTELLAR Teachers:
- Of the 41 teachers in the eSTELLAR program at Round 6 schools, 14 (34%) are new to the program in this second year of the grant. Site leads need to meet frequently with these teachers to assist them in rapid implementation of the program.
- Noelle will post the teacher role description and grant overview presentation on the eSTELLAR website for new teachers to access.
- Lead Teacher Role:
- This year the school Science Lead Teacher (previously called Science Specialists) and the eSTELLAR Lead Teacher are one-in-the-same. The eSTELLAR Grant will cover the extra-duty for attending the monthly lead teacher meetings. Ed D'Souza has asked the principals to fund an additional 20 hours of time for you to address K-3 needs and site level tasks related to the performance assessments.
