Athens Elementary Our Final Year

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Athens Elementary Our Final Year

• Fayette County Public Schools
• Lexington, Kentucky

All pictures in this ppt were taken by members of
this organizaion. Permission is granted by FCPS
and KDE to use their logo.
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Goal 1

• The Athens STLP worked in coordination with the
  Literacy Newspaper Editorial Board, a project
  developed by a committee of parents and teachers
  (CIPL) to create a newspaper that included k-5
  student examples of various genres. After the
  editorial read submissions and decided what would
  be in the newsletter, it was the job of the STLs
  to word process the documents and place them in
  newsletter form. The newspapers were sold for
  .25 each to the students.

Goal 1 . The STLP will develop activities which
enhance the academic, social and emotional growth
of the student.
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Goal 2
At the last meeting we had 17 present and 2
absent. 16 white 2 Black 1 Asian 1 Indian 11
girls 6 boys This number varies from month to
month
All academic levels are represented.

• Athens Elementary is a K-5 school. STLP will
  have been offered to all students from third to
  fifth grade by the end of the year. Using the
  leadership theory, the first month one fifth
  class was invited to join. The second month the
  second fifth grade class was invited. Each class
  was trained keeping in mind they are to train
  newcomers throughout the year.
• All students have (and future members)
  participated in the production of the school news
  program. With the trained training the new
  members as they join.

Goal 2 The STLP will provide leadership
opportunities for all students.
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Goal 3

• Fourth grade helped kindergarteners take Reading
  Counts Quizzes. All students were paired with a
  kindergarten student and came to the lab at one
  to take the test after they read the book
  together.

Attended STLP Regional Showcase and found
wonderful ideas from other schools.
Students show tricks theyve learned during
open lab time.
Goal 3 The STLP will experience multi-age
collaboration by forming innovative learning
partnerships.
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Goal 4
News teams work together with those that have
been trained by training the new members.
Goal 4 The STLP will form learning partnerships
between students with different technology skills.
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Goal 5
Since this is the last year for Athens Elementary
to be open, we are creating a calendar entitled
Memory Moments which provide pictures that
provokes memories for those that have attended
Athens Elementary in the pass. The calendars
were sold at the Fall Carnival and throughout the
year at PTA meetings and other functions.
Athens STLP formed a partnership with the CIPL
committee, (Commonwealth Institute of Parent
Leadership) which is part of the Prichard
Committee. Together we created a Literacy
newsletter for the school.
Goal 5 The STLP will develop activities which
benefit communities.
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Goal 6
STLs have also installed printers and computers
where needed as well as doing simple
troubleshooting.
STLs have helped the STC and teachers
tremendously by placing icons on computers,
installing programs and setting up computers for
kindergarten lab times.
The calendar that was mention in previous slides
also strongly integrates a variety of content and
parallels an Intel project that will culminate at
the end of the year involving the history of
Athens Elementary.
Goal 6 The STLP will develop instructional
activities which integrate technology and
benefits the school and support KETS (Kentucky
Education Technology System).
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Recruitment

• EVERYONE is invited to join Athens STLP that so
  desires.
• One fifth grade class was invited to the first
  meeting. One additional classroom per 1 or 2
  months is invited to attend the meetings
  thereafter.
• By the end of the year all Third through Fifth
  grade students will have been invited to join.
• Invitations are posted throughout the building
  and classrooms and announced on the school news.

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Population Diversity
All academic levels are represented.
At the last meeting we had 17 present and 2
absent. 16 white 2 Black 1 Asian 1 Indian
Presently 11 girls 6 boys
This number varies from month to month More are
added each month!!!!!
3 Gifted/Talented students 1 Special Ed
1 ESL Student
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Community Awareness
The Athens school web site along with the
schools technology teachers website is a very
active and up to date website. STLP activities
and accomplishments have been publicized on these
websites. http//www.athens.fcps.net/STLP/showcase
_team_wins_honor.htm
Students are in the process of learning to post
to the web.
Students have reported accomplishments to the
local STLP blog
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Activities/Projects

• The Memory Moments calendar project has
  involved parents of the team that has been
  working together to compile the calendar using
  the camera and Microsoft Word. This project has
  brought parents to the Regional Showcase as well
  as volunteering to help in other capacities.
  This project was started early in the year and
  completed early. However the team still feels
  they can improve the calendar as they hear input
  from the community of the type of information and
  pictures they would like to see in their
  calendar.
• The Morning News team has involved ALL students
  that wanted to be involved. As the organization
  grows in size we are changing to a longer
  production that now involves anchors and roaming
  reporters as well as technicians, film editors
  and camera operators. Directors are making sure
  that students do their assignments for the news
  before it is recorded during lunchtime/recess on
  Thursday and presented Friday morning to the
  school via closed circuit. This project started
  with the coordinator training 10 students.
  Thereafter students trained each other as they
  learned. Students know they have to help each
  other because the coordinator cannot do it alone.
  Students know they have to be leaders and not a
  problem. We are models for the rest of the
  school and nothing short of that is accepted by
  the group.
• Each day an assigned team, according to a
  schedule posted outside the computer lab, report
  to the coordinator to see if any jobs need to be
  done. These jobs may vary from setting up
  computers for the kindergarten class of the day,
  installing software and desktop shortcuts,
  installing computers or printers, creating flyers
  for teachers and/or other school/community
  organizations or take pictures and report on
  various events happening in the building. These
  pictures an reports are used on the news and also
  by the coordinator who is the webmaster for the
  school and reports these events on the school
  website.
• STLs are a great help in the lab and classroom
  when other students or teachers need help with
  hardware or software. This is a big time saver
  for the STC. For example, STLs are trained on
  using the Windows Movie Maker before its
  introduced to their classes. When their class
  works on a project using Windows Movie Maker, the
  STLs are resources for their classmates providing
  more immediate help than one teacher can provide.
  

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Public Forum Participation
Five Athens STLP students created Memory
Moments calendars and sold them at Athens Fall
Carnvial.
The calendars were presented at the Regional
Showcase in Lexington. This team also plans to
present their show case at the 2006 KTLC in
Louisville and the first State Showcase in
Lexington as well as the Local FCPS Technology
Fair. This team has a goal of presenting their
showcase at the National Level.
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The Future for Athens

• This is the last year that Athens Elementary will
  be open for business. Next year students/staff
  will move on to a new school that is being called
  Athens-Chilesburg Elementary. This new school is
  already known as ACE. The new ACE STLP plans to
  live up to that name to be the number one STLP.
  With all new technology in a state of the art
  building we will produce top notch school news.
  With many more parents checking out the new
  school via the Internet, the STLP website will be
  maintained on a more regular basis.
• The students that will be attending the upcoming
  KTLC and State Showcase will be looking out for
  innovative ideas that will help them brainstorm
  for future productive projects.
• Since the school population is expected to
  increase by about 300, students will be invited
  in the same manner they were this year. All
  fifth graders will be invited first then fourth
  and third according to the size of the group and
  how many leaders are in the group. Therefore, all
  students will have an opportunity to experience
  STLP before they leave ACE.
• It has been the plan this year to train 4th and
  3rd graders this year so they can hit the road
  running next year allowing the team to get off to
  a quicker start.
• Considering that girls do not remain in
  technology when they go onto middle school, the
  coordinator has encouraged the 5th grade girls
  all year long to plan on remaining an STL member
  at the middle school. A follow-up will be done
  to see if they are involved. Since the middle
  school will be in close proximity to ACE,
  hopefully the middle school and ACE could work as
  one STLP.