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SideKicK LeSSon PLanner BrighterLogix With SideKick, teachers can create detailed lesson plans, align them to state standards, submit lesson plans to their administrator for review, and share their lesson plans with other teachers. Administrators can review lesson plans, give feedback, and generate standards-based reports. Teachers and administrators can also decrease the time it takes to create and review lesson plans so they can focus more time on students. www.sidekickplanner.com dogonewS.com Dogo Media, Inc. This website of fun and inspiring current events and news worldwide is written for, and in some cases by, children. With thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, it is the leading online source of current events for students, teachers, and schools. www.dogonews.com Kinect Microsoft Education “For an administrator, the lesson planner offers the tracking of standards taught by each teacher and the lesson checking is done quickly and effectively. Our teachers and administrators are now more effective, efficient, and accessible.” —Tyra Haight, principal, Catoosa (Okla.) Public Schools Microsoft’s Kinect gaming device turns students’ whole body and attention into learning fun. Students can use their arms as the hands on a clock to form the correct time, or play a game where they read “red” on the screen then vigorously pop all the red balloons. Students can even collaborate on projects using avatars. www.microsoft.com “The impact Kinect has for special education, PE, ELL, and ELA has only begun to be revealed. Nominating a product that turns students on to learning is a no brainer. Students are engaged and ‘gaming’ while learning.” —Helen Gooch, instructional tech coordinator, Clarksville-Montgomery County (Tenn.) Schools eBoard eBOARDsolutions This integrated suite of cloud-based tools can centralize, communicate, and align strategic and operational plans, leader evaluations, board policies, administrative regulations, meeting agendas for any meeting, and important communications and documents. eBOARD will reinforce effective governance and continuous improvement in organizations by aligning the work of the board and system with its strategic plans, policies, meeting agendas, assessments, and leadership evaluations. NEW! www.eboardsolutions.com “The tools propelled our district to align the local school improvement plans with the district strategic plan. Publishing our improvement plans allowed for easier stakeholder communication of district and school initiatives and progress on our performance objectives.” —Sandra Watson, director of elementary school improvement and professional learning, Fayette County (Ga.) Public Schools A course and resource for teachers and administrators using insights from neuroscience research emotion, * Connectsand learning thinking, * Contrasts adult and adolescent brains * Includes both clinical case studies and classroom examples www.learner.org For a preview call 800-LEARNER www.DistrictAdministration.com December 2012 81 http://www.DOGONEWS.COM http://www.dogonews.com http://www.sidekickplanner.com http://www.microsoft.com http://www.eboardsolutions.com http://www.learner.org http://www.eboardsolutions.com http://www.learner.org 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