Team+16

Rosanna Madrid

Alberta Gonzalez

Pedro Delgado

Linda Shillingburg

Roxanne Ramos

Isela Nuñez

=**Providing Professional Development for Creating and Maintaining Teacher Websites**=

**Project Focus**

 * Our goal is to promote 21st century learning by training teachers to develop interactive **
 * teacher/parent/student **** communication through classroom websites. **

The members of Vote for Pedro reasoned that the teachers at each of our individual campuses would be more open to embracing technology if provided with guided training. The schools involved in this endeavor are Collins, Cooley, Crosby, Lee and El Paso Day School.

We proposed that all teachers at each campus would be provided with professional development to help create and maintain their own class website. The content will reflect 21st century technologies which will enhance communication among teachers, students and parents.

The purpose of our project was to facilitate better communication between:
 * Teachers and parents
 * Teachers and students
 * Students and students
 * Teachers and teachers

Training was accomplished through various methods at each individual school. Grade levels were divided into two groups for approximately 60 minutes.
 * At Collins, training was conducted at the beginning of the school year during a half day teacher inservice.
 * At Cooley, training was conducted during a 90 minute PLC in November, two grade levels at a time.
 * At Crosby, training was conducted on a voluntary basis during a teacher work day in November.