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Home Standard1 / Standard2 / Standard3 / Standard4 / Standard5 / Standard6 / Standard7 / Standard8 / Standard9 / Standard10 **Standard 10** 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.
 * Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community.**

Evidence 1:

Rationale 1: The attached file is a grant I wrote while teamed with Kyle Thompson; a math teacher in my district and in my Marian cohort group. The writing of this grant required us to connect to several of our school colleagues to gather the necessary information. We also needed to discuss using the iPad 2 with groups of students to learn how we could improve their learning environment. We may not recieve the grant and be able to implement our plan, but I believe the activities of analyzing our students needs, gathering our school’s information, and developing a plan to acquire funding and implement hardware that would greatly improve student learning demonstrates our connectedness to the students, other teachers, and our community.

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

//Our school has been faced with some very serious financial issues that would prevent the purchase of large quantities of hardware. At the same time our community is very progressive and supports technology integration at all age levels. By writing a grant to obtain classroom sets of iPad2’s we demonstrate an understanding of the attitude of the community and the financial operations and limitations of our school.//

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

//The purpose of this grant is to acquire 2 classroom sets of iPad 2’s that would allow us to implement their use in our classrooms on a one-to-one basis as a pilot program for taking the one-to-one initiative district wide.//

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

//After piloting and documenting our results with the iPad 2 we would deliver inservice workshops and support sessions for the rest of the district’s staff. These activities would integrate this technology throughout the entire district thereby improving the overall learning environment for students.//