Meeting the needs of our learners in KC

Of course, we are concerned in Kent City that we meet the needs of our students and fulfill the requirements of the Michigan Merit Curriculum.  I believe that this has been a focus for our district for some time, but as with most teachers, I'm not always aware of the district plan.  I called our school find out what the plan included.  I spoke with our IT person, and she explained that in the next year we will be partnering much more collaboratively with the ISD to fulfill these requirements.  She indicated that we will be getting a lot more training in the area of technology with the hopes that every teacher in the district will be using DW, SIS (Infinite Campus) and LMS consistently to help meet the needs of our students.  She also reminded me that we are a Google Docs schools (which I believe would fall under the LMS umbrella) and we will continue to have more training in that area as well.  I love Google Docs and was very excited to hear that we would continue in that area.  I love to have students collaborate together to create a document or presentation by sharing documents over Google Docs.  I even taught my 3rd grader how to use Google Docs and she collaborated with another classmate from home on a project for her Spanish class. I can't wait to find more uses for the new school year.