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**Standard 10** **Teachers communicate well with other teachers and the community.** The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.

__**Evidence 1: [|Wix Website] **__

Rationale 1: The concept of 21st century learning was introduced to our district in the year 2010-2011 with our administration taking an aggressive approach to adopting this concept. The district's new mission statement, "Together with our families and community, we will inspire students to be passionate learners, creative thinkers and innovative leaders who enrich our world," embraces the philosophy of the 21st century approach to student learning.

Along with this comes the challenge of preparing our teachers to become 21st century educators. The educator's methods of teaching have evolved from "sage on the stage" to "side-by-side" learning with the student, offering the students guidance to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving skills in an effort to enhance the student's education. To assist the teachers, as well as inform the parents, I created this website for the BDMS faculty and community members that introduces the concepts of 21st century learning as well as provides them with a summary of the Web 2.0 tools that are available.

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 * 10.K.1** The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within whichs/he works.

The community, as well as the faculty, have their reservations about this new approach to learning for their children and students. With the unknown comes a degree of apprehension on the part of the educator as well as the parent. In contrast, the student has embraced-or, rather, //insisted//-on a new approach to their learning, having discovered many of the tools available to them through their inquisitiveness and exploration. This website is designed to help the faculty, as well as the community, understand the powerful tools that are at our disposal to use to give the students what they have clearly demonstrated a need for.


 * 10.S.1** The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment.

Serving as a member of the PBIS committee at our school (school year 2010-2011), I was on the communications committee. This committee was charged with creating and maintaining a webpage on the district's website dedicated to informing the school, as well as the community, the efforts of the PBIS program the goals of the program as well as the results of its efforts. Currently, I am a member of the newly formed committee //Personalized and Blended Learning//, charged with researching the role of Brown Deer School District within the concept of blended learning and developing an environment conducive to personalized learning.


 * 10.D.5** The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students.

In conjunction with our monthly staff development meetings, I was asked by the administration to conduct an exploratory session with members of the faculty to introduce them to the Web 2.0 tools available to them. Along with introducing the website I designed, I demonstrated the many uses of Edmodo, taking them through the registration process and the mechanics of how to set up groups for fellow colleagues and their classrooms. We have continued to use Edmodo as a collaboration tool amongst our faculty as well as Diigo to share common interest resources.