1. Janet Corbin Education and Technology Summer 2010

2. Use Google Docs as an online school-wide collaboration to narrow the academic achievement gap for African American males at Pocomoke Elementary School.

5. OUR ACADEMIC AFG PLANINDICATORS OF SUCCESS  Differentiate Math & Reading Instruction  Plans for Success  Intervention Groups  Project Intervene  Success Maker Lab Improved Student Performance:  Reading Inventories  Selected Responses  Brief Constructed Responses  Benchmarks  Formatives

6. Implement Collaborative Teaching Model Indicators of Initiative Success  School Collaboration  Team Planning  School/Community Communication  Meet student needs  Improved student academic and behavioral performance  School Web Page

7.  Only Team Members  Time Element  Lack of Specialists Input  Needed Support and Ideas  Information Sharing  Efficient Communication

8. Online Collaboration Free Edits Simultaneously Many Viewers Instantly Saves Revisions Prints Documents

9.  Share instructional plans  Specialists participation  Available resources and ideas  Collaboration made easy

10.  Set purpose  Introduce Google Docs  Demonstrate  Actively Engage  Practice

11. Awareness InformationalPersonalManagementConsequenceCollaborationRefocusing

12. Multiple Intelligences Time Personal Meaning Conflict Technological Ability

13.  School leader  Implement Professional Development  Collaborate with Others  Technical Support for Google Docs

14.  Weekly Use  School-Wide Collaboration  Improvement in African American male academic scores

15.  Free  Title 1Funds

16. II. Communication IV. Assessment for Administration and Instruction VII. Professional Growth

17. Google Docs will be used as a school- wide based collaboration to enhance efficient and effective communication. All stakeholders will play an essential role in student learning and classroom instruction. This will attribute to building academic achievement and narrowing the gap for our African American males.

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