Lead+Teacher+Meeting+25+September+2011

Those who attended: Michael, Janice, Kathy, Kevin (Lytton & Russell Street), Melissa, Shona, Ronald, Alana, Raina & Mel. Apologies from: Martin & Ben. Part of our role as Lead Teachers is to be exposed to fresh ideas and new ways of doing things. We decided at our last meeting to visit a couple of schools with the aim of seeing any combination of the following 3 points:
 * Lead Teacher Meeting - Monday 26 September 2011 - Visiting Lytton Street & Russell Street Schools.**
 * Digital Collaboration between students and/or teachers with other schools
 * Effective examples of how you use ICTs in your classrooms to enhance students learning
 * How have you sustained digital learning, technologies, and what provisions have you made for future technological developments?

I have spoken to 2 schools and they have agreed to us visiting them in the morning. They will talk to us about some of the things they are doing in their schools regarding the 3 points we are looking at, have some students available for us to talk to, and show us around some classrooms who are using ICT. I have not asked for us to see around the whole school as I acknowledged how busy their schools are at this time of the term.

The two schools we will be visiting are **Lytton Street School** in Feilding and **Russell Street School** in Palmerston North. I felt that there were sufficient differences between these two schools to make it worthwhile visiting both. Both of them are MAC schools but I felt that this would not matter because the theory behind the e-learning still stands and there are always cross-platform alternatives..

I would like to openly invite any **Principals** or **Senior Management** from the Cluster Schools to join the Lead Teachers in visiting either or both of these schools with us (if you are able to spare the time). It can be really beneficial to see e-learning in action and it can give fresh ideas to build on what is already happening in your schools. Here is the timetable for the day: 9:00 - Meet Ange Armstrong-Lush (ICT Facilitator) - Lytton Street School Office (off Kimbolton Road) in Feilding 10:30 - Travel to Palmerston North (plenty of time) 11:00 - Arrive at Russell Street School during morning tea for a tea or coffee 11:25 - Meet with David Reardon (DP)/Hear from a classroom teacher/Students/Visit classrooms/Questions 12:55 - Leave Russell Street School 13:10 - Meet for lunch at Aqaba 15:30 - End of the day
 * Visit the ICT suite/Talk/Tech Angels/Visit classrooms/Questions
 * Mel to share about her new lunchtime ICT club and online comic making
 * Michael to share [|Scratch] animation (multi-platform instructional animation app)
 * General sharing of Lead Teachers (let me know if you have a specific app or online tool you would like to share)