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BuildYourownCurriCulum School Software Group This monitoring system allows teachers to locate curriculum requirements and resources and update lesson plans. Administrators can monitor learning paths by school, grade, or classroom, and view information by standards, teaching objective, or key concept. Students can see the standards they’re expected to master, look at class activities and retrieve the resources they’ll need to complete their work. Parents can also view information from home. Thank You for Making Us a Winner! School Software Group is proud that www.schoolsoftwaregroup.com The SAFe SYSTem Audio Enhancement After listening to teachers’ and administrators’ concerns for an alert system, The SAFE System (Security Alert For Education) is an alert system created to work with Audio Enhancement’s Ultimate IISE. By using the alert button that is built into the transmitter, a teacher wearing the teardrop microphone can discreetly send a signal for help with the press of the function button. The designated first responders will be notified immediately of the emergency by an audible and visual alarm on the monitoring station. www.safesystemclassroom.com BuildYourOwnCurriculum is one of the 2012 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products. “Thank you!” to our many clients across the country who have chosen our services, and to those who voted for us for the second year in a row. It is gratifying to know that “By going through the process to load the information into the system, our teachers have met together and collaborated on teaching techniques for particular classes. Our teachers have participated in vertical articulation where it didn’t happen or rarely happened in the past.” —Janet Anthony, assistant principal and curriculum facilitator, Mehlville School District, St. Louis, Mo. Power wAlkThrough McRel This seminar and webinar software program helps turn brief classroom observations into meaningful opportunities for coaching teachers to higher levels of performance and guiding staff development efforts. Power Walkthrough can be loaded on an iPad/iPhone/iTouch, Android, or Tablet PC and offers three training options for school leaders designed to help gain a practical understanding of the CITW strategies, how they improve student learning, and how to identify their use in the classroom. BuildYourOwnCurriculum, our practical proven approach, is seen as the leading curriculum management solution for integrating Common Core standards and improving education for students and school staff. www.mcrel.org “The walkthroughs have made my job as an administrator more productive. By collecting data through the walkthroughs, I can track trends throughout my building and the district.” —Spike Cook, principal, Millville (N.J.) Public Schools Visit us at: SchoolSoftwareGroup.com/da www.DistrictAdministration.com December 2012 71 http://www.schoolsoftwaregroup.com http://www.safesystemclassroom.com http://www.SchoolSoftwareGroup.com/da http://www.mcrel.org http://www.SchoolSoftwareGroup.com/da http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - December 2012

District Administration - December 2012
Contents
From the Editor
News Update
Special Education
District Profile
Administrator Profile
Fab Lab: Using Technology to Make (Almost) Anything!
Neuroscience in Schools
Three Squares at School
Top 100 DA Readers Choose Innovative Products of the Year
CIO News
Problem Solution
Crisis Response
Online Edge
Going Mobile

District Administration - December 2012