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While a web site can be structured as a school improvement tool, a professional learning community cannot be developed by technology. Learning communities are built by mission-driven professionals who interact, learn together, build relationships, and in the process develop a sense of belonging and mutual commitment. Professional learning communities see the web site as a collaborative knowledge building and sharing space.
Beware your web site may become a digital junkyard if it does not center on worthwhile people-centered processes.
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Take a moment and go to your district or building's web site. As you scan it, ask yourself the following questions: What does our site emphasize? What content appears to be of greatest importance to us? To what extent is (or could) our web site be used as a school improvement tool? What would happen if we redesigned our web site to include a data warehouse, a professional development center, a best practices research library, a communications/publishing center, a learning module design lab, etc.? How could we use our web site to accomplish the following? |
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- Centralize critical work processes.
- Build a data warehouse to gather, analyze, and use information.
- Make more informed decisions in our dail.
- Share knowledge and best practices more intentionally and effectively.
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Tough to imagine? Consider for a few minutes that a secure password protected area on your web site was intentionally designed to function as a shared space devoted to one single idea, supporting the development a Best Practice Learning Community.
View the Web Site Rubric. What could it contain? How could it help us? |
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- Student demographic data
- District and school enrollment data
- Student attendance and discipline data
- Teacher demographic data
- Individual teacher web pages
- School calendars
- E-mail
- Shared learning and dialogue space
- Electronic forms (i.e. requisitions, travel claims, etc.)
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Design |
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- Course syllabi
- Curriculum maps
- Standards-based units and lessons
- Home-school newsletters
- Professional development modules
- Mentoring/induction modules
- Best practice instructional strategy library
- Online tests and quizzes
- Online surveys
- Meeting agendas
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Analyze |
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- Past and present student achievement data by school, grade, and classroom roster (i.e. norm/criterion-referenced tests, grade book data, learner profile information, etc.)
- Past and present professional learning data by school, employee, and district priority
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Archive |
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- Data trend reports (attendance, discipline, academic achievement, etc.)
- Home-school communications
- Staff newsletters
- Professional learning modules and records
- Workshop learning summaries
- Personnel evaluations
- Annual reports
- Board agendas and policies
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