Janet Corbin Education and Technology Summer 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Awareness InformationalPersonalManagementConsequenceCollaborationRefocusing

Multiple Intelligences Time Personal Meaning Conflict Technological Ability

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

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

 Free  Title 1Funds

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

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.

 2009 Maryland report card: worcester county- pocomoke elementary school third grade Adequate Yearly Progress." 2009 Maryland Report Card””.Version Oct Web. (Retrieved July 8, 2010)  Accelerating the achievement of african american students, December 12,2000 Worcester County Board of Education  Accreditation for growth (AFG) ( ) Pocomoke Elementary School Strategic Improvement Plan Team Members of Pocomoke Elementary School  Assumptions about Change (Fullan, 1991; Glickman et al., 2001) Administrator as a Changed Leader Iowa School Administrators Retrieved July 11, iowa.org/change/assumptions.html iowa.org/change/assumptions.html  Goggle Docs (web) Retrieved July 6, 2010  cs.google.com/?hl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo&followup= pl=homepage&hl=en cs.google.com/?hl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo&followup= pl=homepage&hl=en  Maryland department of education. (2008). Maryland Teacher Professional Development Planning Guide. Retrieved July 8, 2010, from  Maryland Educational Technology Plan for the New Millennium Maryland State Department of Education  Mtts maryland teacher technology standards online. (n.d.). Retrieved from  Stages of concern. (2004). Retrieved from  Teachweb 2.0 [Web log message]. Retrieved from  Worcester county public schools technology plan for (May 2009) Members of the Worcester County Public Schools Board of Education