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ProgressReportIdeation

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1a. This session was beneficial.1b. Why or why not?

StronglyAgree

I love collaborating as a school-wide faculty

StronglyAgree

I am excited about potential changes to progress reports!

Neutral I know that progress reports will be changed somehow. I'm just not convincedanything from this meeting will impact the changes.

StronglyAgree

Everyone is ready for a change. It was interesting to hear the ideas from verticalteams. It was fun to come up with ideas.

Agree This session was beneficial in highlighting all of the positives and areas that needimprovement. It was also surprising to find all of the different styles of progressreports within the different grade levels.

Strongly

Agree

As a specials teachers who writes "blurbs," I feel like what I contribute to the

progress reports is minimal and redundant, as it is very much like what is written onthe website. The "blurbs" are not specialized for the students, but only seeing mostgrades once a rotation, it is difficult to write more individualized comments. After thefirst trimester I was still struggling to learn all of my students' names. This sessionallowed us to collaborate with other teachers from various grade levels on differentmethods for writing progress reports. While we were still a bit "stumped" on specialsreporting, we all agreed that they need to be more personalized and less "generic."

StronglyAgree

It was great to hear thoughts and ideas from teachers at all levels and in baseclassrooms as well as specials. Both of my groups had a couple of teachers whocould share a parent perspective as well. It was a great discussion! We couldhave used a little more time at the beginning for the quick write and share; I felt alittle rushed at the beginning. The second discussion was a good length.

Agree It was beneficial to meet and discuss with colleagues from a variety of grade levels

and special areas; it was beneficial to hear how progress reports are currentlyformatted in various departments in school (i.e. VELD, ELD, ULD, etc...).

Agree It was helpful to get the big picture of what everyone does for progress reports. Wewould have liked to have more time to think of how we would like for it to look in thefuture, now that we have spent time seeing how it is done now.

StronglyAgree

Progress reports are a huge part of our job as teachers. It takes time to assess andgather information needed, and then the reports are time consuming to write. Ithink there are better ways to communicate information that we'd like to share withparents. I'd like to explore different ways that we could meet the needs of both


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parents and children.

Agree I liked hearing about what other grades do, but next time I want to see a sample

Neutral The fact that we were placed with ULD teachers made it interesting but lessrelevant.

StronglyAgree

It made us all think and explore new ideas and ways to report on student progress.I have been having thoughts and questions swirl around in my brain since our

meeting such as:What is the purpose of the progress report?What kind of progress do we want to report?What do parents want to know?If we don't know the answer to these questions, how do we make any decisions?It's hard to find a balance between too specific and too broad.Could My Learning portfolio be a part of reporting?

P.S. I am glad that you are in charge of this! You are brilliant, and I love havingyou around.

StronglyAgree

We need to talk about progress reports!

Strongly

Agree

It gave you a chance to talk about what was working and not working with the

current progress report model.StronglyAgree

It gave me the opportunity to hear other opinions on the subject from Eld and Uldalike.

StronglyAgree

It was beneficial to talk about who does progress reports and who does not. Wealso discussed the amount of time it takes to compile information and to write them.I am a special who teaches four grade levels and sees the students once arotation. I would like to see some balance in how I am required to report. It is notthe same for all specials. Some get to write "blurbs" and others not, such as myself.

Agree I thought it was helpful to hear how the lower graders wrote their progress reports. Ialso thought it was helpful to be able to talk about concerns and share ideas withothers. The white boards were especially helpful.

StronglyAgree

Agree As a new employee, I enjoyed talking with teachers in a variety of grades abouthow they do progress reporting. Also, it was helpful to talk about the positives andnegatives of each method, as well as ideas for improvement.

StronglyAgree

I really enjoyed hearing Jill's report on meeting with other Private Schools in thearea as well as parent's feedback on Progress Reports! I also really enjoyed sittingwith such a diverse group of teachers and hearing all the different views andresponsibilities our staff has on PRs.

StronglyAgree

Being a first year teacher it was interesting hearing how the progress reports differbetween grade levels.

Agree This discussion continues to a topic of great interest. I heard many different ideasand I know we need more time to share ideas.

StronglyAgree

Agree We learned all grades/ages have the same challenges, and we collaborated onways to make improvements on communicating the true essence of a child to theparents.

StronglyAgree

It got us thinking about our current practices and whether they are purposeful andmeaningful for parents, teachers, and students.

Agree A very important topic which needs addressing

Neutral It wasn't beneficial to me as I don't write progress reports any more. My attendancemay have been beneficial to the others as I provided perspective from past years(but I am not too sure about that!)


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StronglyAgree

I think it opened the conversation to begin meaning thoughts and ideas.

Agree I hope something positive comes from this - this time. We've been down this roadbefore...

Agree It was interesting to learn about the differences in the way progress reports areprepared for each grade as well as specialist areas. I was also surprised by the

number of concerns over the preparation of the reports as well as the timing ofconferences.

Neutral It helps somewhat to understand what the classroom teacher does when writingprogress reports so that I can determine what kind of contribution I could make thatwould help in that process.

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It exposed me to progress reports which I don't have much experience with.

Agree

Agree Got people thinking

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Love that we are gathering teacher ideas :)

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I like meeting with people from other grade levels to hear ideas about what peoplelike and don't like about the way we are doing progress reports now.

AgreeAgree It's always helpful to work with peers not on our team

StronglyAgree

I loved how it was positive. We did not even think about gripping because we werethinking about how to change. I got excited!

Agree

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We got to meet as a whole school!!! It was great to hear all the different thoughtsfrom 3s teachers to 6th grade teachers.

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GREAT to see meet in different groups and brainstorm. It is always beneficial tomeet with others form different grade levels and subjects.

StronglyAgree

Really helpful to see all the different aspects of progress reports, and how we canimprove them.

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Loved meeting with other grade levels.Great content was discussed.Looking forward to follow up next week.

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Changes need to be made to progress reports as the teachers are overwhelmed

Agree

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Got me thinking about what needed to change.

StronglyAgree

Getting things kick started toward fixing progress reports!

Agree It's nice to share ideas and listens to concerns from other disciplines. Also it feelsgood to have a say in developing the improved report.

Strongly Time for us to discuss the problems and what we want.


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Agree

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I'm frustrated by the inconsistencies of progress report writing and enjoy theopportunity to give input.

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Great hearing the groups ideas and brainstorming.

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It is time to revise.

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I think it got a ideas rolling for the meeting on Wed. The following meeting wasmuch more beneficial due to the prep work we did on Fri. The gallery walk was agreat way to start the Wed. meeting.

Agree Love the idea of collaboratively work on the P.R. "evolution" and brainstorm ideaswith various teachers of different grade levels.

Agree Beginning of much needed discussion

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Agree Too close to home-- still working on Progress Reports while this meeting was goingon. A little frustrating.

StronglyAgree

I liked working in groups that were not my team. It would have been helpful to haveexamples of the different division's reports. Liked hearing others ideas and beingable to bounce ideas off of each other.

Agree To understand that there will be a major overhaul of the PR.

Agree There was excellent conversation, but I think I was too overwhelmed and tired tofind it as productive as it might have been.

Agree I do not do progress reports in the same form as most teachers do, so this wasvery informative.

Agree I enjoyed working in diverse groups and brainstorming on white boards. I alsobelieve listening to others' ideas and thoughts about reports was very interesting.

Agree

Agree I love brainstorming with my colleagues. I always leave enlightened from theirideas!

Agree This session was a little overwhelming because there were so many great ideasbeing tossed around. I had trouble reigning in my ideas/opinions/thoughts.

Agree Great work in groups

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Great start to the discussion, everyone gets a voice.

StronglyAgree

I love the openness of the format-non-constrictive to what we do currently,technology, budget, etc. I got to say what my dream progress report would be.

StronglyAgree

Brainstorming is so helpful--lots of ideas flying around. Love that we werereminded not to be constrained by what we do now.

Agree We were able to collaborate with different grade levels and to better understandwhat progress reports look like and how they make each other feel....

StronglyAgree

This session was very beneficial for me because I was able to learn how progressreports differ in each grade. I learned with change we can have better progressreports at Trinity. I think that it would be great to make our progress reports digital.

Agree It was pertinent and addressing a current issue, progress reports. Very helpful tohear other colleague issues with reports and hear the differences between gradelevels.

StronglyAgree

This session was important to have because there is a community concern with thecurrent progress reports. I found it most beneficial to meet with the different gradelevels to discuss wants and needs that might be more grade specific. I enjoyed


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writing down notes that could be further talked about in a following session. I agreethat this topic of progress reports should continue to be a school-wide discussion,and I look forward to seeing the outcome.

Agree As a newcomer and an assistant teacher, I learned a lot about Trinity's progressreports and Trinity's faculty's opinions/feelings about them and what they felt weretheir strengths/challenges.

StronglyAgree I thought it was great to have the veld, eld and uld together.

2a. The content of this session can be applied to my work.2b. Why or why not?

Neutral Depends on the changes we see in progress reports...

StronglyAgree

I at least HOPE so!

Disagree

My work will be what is finally decided for us.

Agree

Neutral I'm not really clear on what my input is with regards to progress reports.

StronglyAgree

I would like to find an efficient and valuable way to report student progress in sciencelab. AND, since the base teachers teach some science in the classroom, there needsto be a way for us to collaborate and both add input.

Agree Not immediately, but down the road. I am looking forward to positive change. Thankyou for asking for our input.

Neutral The content of this session is applicable to our workload of writing progress reports,however, it is yet to be determined what action steps will be taken to edit or change

the current progress reports moving forward.Agree Although I do not currently write progress reports, I do hope to do so in the future. It

was interesting to see how each grade level/specials does progress reports. It washelpful to outline the strengths and weaknesses of how progress reports are donenow, so that now we can look at the future and changes that need to be made.

StronglyAgree

Whatever decisions are made about how progress reports will look for varying gradelevels/departments will affect me directly in the way that the information is recordedand presented to parents. The electronic portfolios have offered an opportunity forme to think about different ways in which to organize information for sharing withparents. I see how the content of the work we did today is connected to that whole


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process.

Agree

Neutral As an assistant, I do not do progress reports. Often given them to read after the fact.

StronglyAgree

I think it is obvious that if this process is streamlined and the progress report is morepurposeful, I will be able to have at least 3 more days with my students and possiblyhave less stress and more sleep during 3 months of the school year.

StronglyAgree

Progress report writing/collecting/explaining is a significant part of my work here.

Neutral As I teach, it can make me think about any further benchmarks that I think should beincluded into the new progress report model.

StronglyAgree

If some of the changes we discussed are made then, yes these can be applied to mywork.

StronglyAgree

I am hopeful that there will be positive changes.

Agree Although I have not written progress reports myself, this workshop was helpfulbecause it helped me to better understand how our progress reports are written nowand how people would like them to be changed. It was interesting to hear theprospective of those from other grade levels ( especially from the ELD, because I didnot know their progress reports were so different from ULD)

StronglyAgree

Neutral

StronglyAgree

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It reminded me to keep my eyes open to so much more in the classroom and to thinkabout different ways we can relay what we see in the classroom to the parents.

Agree I constantly wonder if am I getting a truly good picture of what motivates a child andhow I can best share his strengths and weaknesses.

StronglyDisagree

Always great to hear what other grade levels wishes are and see how it works withour thoughts!!

Agree

Agree It depends on follow-up and follow-through to the session.

Agree It is my work and the report card needs revising.

Neutral see above

StronglyAgree

Neutral

Neutral As an assistant teacher in pre-k, our reports seem to be very different from that ofELD and ULD.

Neutral same reason - as a media specialist, I do not write progress reports

Agree It's a great learning and discussion tool.

Neutral

StronglyAgree

StronglyAgree

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This is an area that I need to address in order to figure out how to be the bestteacher I can be. It is hard to teach the curriculum we have chosen to teach if theprogress report is not aligned with the things we are teaching.

Agree

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Agree Changing PR's.

Agree

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Progress reports have been a hot topic since I started at Trinity. We need to work onthis to make it better for everyone (teachers, parents, and students).

StronglyAgree

This will help all of us with what is to come with the new format of progress reports.

Agree This doesn't apply to me as much being a media specialist, but I feel for my co-workers who have to do them, and I would like to see the process improved.

StronglyAgree

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Progress Reports will be changing to beter reflect our students.

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In the long run this will help us to develop the new 21st century report (card,progress report)

StronglyAgree

As I teach I am thinking about skil ls that need to be assessed and be on a progressreport.

StronglyAgree

Will directly effect ease and consistency of progress reports!

Agree

StronglyAgree

Yes need to know what we want to see from our students.

Strongly

Agree

I write PRs!

StronglyAgree

It can be applied to progress reports.

StronglyAgree

The reports are very time consuming.

Agree I loved the gallery walk and hope to utilize the plan in my classroom. :)

StronglyAgree

The content of this session can help me evaluate my students in more specific areasand collect more relevant student information to be shared with parents.

Neutral

StronglyAgree

StronglyAgree

Agree Because progress reports are time-consuming. And it is very hard to keep everythingsuper personalized.

Agree We are working on them right now so it was fresh in my mind.

Agree I have not yet been able to see what an actual progress report looks like. I will makean effort to see one soon!

StronglyAgree

I write progress reports and hate the process we have now.

Neutral My reports are individual and in narrative form, but collaboration with teachers takesplace before and after they are written.


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Neutral Yes if we begin to change these reports.

Agree

StronglyAgree

I will be be writing report cards next year and many years to come, I hope! So, I amexcited about. He changes in the future!

Agree Still needed think time!

Agree

StronglyAgree

Progress Reports take a lot of valuable energy and time, and are an important tool.

StronglyAgree

Especially with the work that I've been doing as of late within my department, how wewill report student progress is a key component.

Agree I don't write progress reports, but it's good to think about how to demonstrateprogress and identify each students' strengths and challenges. "Glow and grow"

StronglyAgree

Agree This can be applied to my work in helping Kathy with Progress Reports. This is alsohelpful because I now understand how progress reports differ between the grades.These meetings have helped me to further learn the need for change in progressreports.

StronglyAgree

Because it is something I do as a classroom teacher ever year. How can we makethe process better is important to me. I want the work we do as teachers to be helpfulto parents and give a clear picture of their students work. Parents often say too muchreading and they can be consumed by the B,D,S aspect of the report.

StronglyAgree

Yes, progress reports directly relate to every teacher at this school. It is important tocontinue this discussion because there is an apparent need for change.

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Gave me a better understanding of my purpose in laying the foundation of threes.

3a. Check all that apply3b. Please tell us anything else you want us to know.

I would like there to be a follow-up session.




I would like this session to be offered again.



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n/a

I would likethere to be afollow-upsession.

I enjoyed hearing thoughts and ideas that teachers from other grade levelscontributed to our group. As a result of the time spent, I gained a broaderperspective on the needs of others teaching children of different age groups.


looking forward to the gallery walk! that will be a nice follow-up

I would like there to be a follow-up session. , Will one more session be enough.

I would likethis session tobe offeredagain.

Great examples of the car elements to get us thinking of creativealternatives...Thank you for prefacing that we are not making decisions-- we arebrainstorming and thinking of good and bad ideas...

I would likethere to be afollow-up

session.

I loved that "the sky was the limit." We had "free choice" to create and designa wish list of what it should look like. It makes me feel that we are trying tomake life easier for the teachers and moving towards the 21C...LOVE IT!!!


More input byteams

I am so glad that you are addressing this Jill! I look forward to changes beingmade for next year.




I am only familiar with the progress reporting method for the 3s classes. Iwould love to learn more about how the older grades assess their studentsand report their progress.

Also. I would love to see how Evernote/ My Learning can be incorporated intoprogress reporting.

I would like this session to be offered again.I would like there to be a follow-up session.







I was out sick Monday so I'm the slacker just completing this TomSat Friday Feb. 1st. Sorry Jill!!!

I would like there to be a follow-up session.I would like there to be a follow-up session.

whatever the teachers need


I would like I would like to know more about what the specialists think would be important


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there to be afollow-upsession.

to include.

Jill, I was HERE...but in a meeting in the lab with Jeff and some technologyvisitors. I LOVED doing the gallery walk to discover what everyone discussed!





Thank you for wanting our input so much!!


I would like there to be a follow-up session.I would like this session to be offered again.






Great work Jill!

I would like

this session tobe offeredagain.

Would like for some decisions be made about what will happen next.





optionalcontinuedwork? Week

long summer?

great use of faculty meeting time!



Keep us informed on the upcoming changes to Progress Reports

Thank you.


I would like I look forward to reviewing the reports from other schools.


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Thanks for considering making changes because what others are currentlydoing is so taxing and takes away so much instruction time.

I would like


Thank you for this opportunity to change our reporting system.



Thank you!


Thanks, Jill!


I would like there to be a follow-up session.I would like there to be a follow-up session.



I would like this session to be offered again., I would like there to be a follow-up session.



I would likethere to be afollow-up

session.

Loved the mix up of collaborating with different grade levels


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ProgressReportIdeation

Feb.1,2013

1a. This session was beneficial.

1b. Why or why not?StronglyAgree

I love collaborating as a school-wide faculty

StronglyAgree

I am excited about potential changes to progress reports!

Neutral I know that progress reports will be changed somehow. I'm just not convincedanything from this meeting will impact the changes.

StronglyAgree

Everyone is ready for a change. It was interesting to hear the ideas from verticalteams. It was fun to come up with ideas.

Agree This session was beneficial in highlighting all of the positives and areas that needimprovement. It was also surprising to find all of the different styles of progressreports within the different grade levels.

Strongly

Agree

As a specials teachers who writes "blurbs," I feel like what I contribute to the

progress reports is minimal and redundant, as it is very much like what is written onthe website. The "blurbs" are not specialized for the students, but only seeing mostgrades once a rotation, it is difficult to write more individualized comments. After thefirst trimester I was still struggling to learn all of my students' names. This sessionallowed us to collaborate with other teachers from various grade levels on differentmethods for writing progress reports. While we were still a bit "stumped" on specialsreporting, we all agreed that they need to be more personalized and less "generic."

StronglyAgree

It was great to hear thoughts and ideas from teachers at all levels and in baseclassrooms as well as specials. Both of my groups had a couple of teachers whocould share a parent perspective as well. It was a great discussion! We couldhave used a little more time at the beginning for the quick write and share; I felt alittle rushed at the beginning. The second discussion was a good length.

Agree It was beneficial to meet and discuss with colleagues from a variety of grade levels

and special areas; it was beneficial to hear how progress reports are currentlyformatted in various departments in school (i.e. VELD, ELD, ULD, etc...).

Agree It was helpful to get the big picture of what everyone does for progress reports. Wewould have liked to have more time to think of how we would like for it to look in thefuture, now that we have spent time seeing how it is done now.

StronglyAgree

Progress reports are a huge part of our job as teachers. It takes time to assess andgather information needed, and then the reports are time consuming to write. Ithink there are better ways to communicate information that we'd like to share withparents. I'd like to explore different ways that we could meet the needs of both


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parents and children.

Agree I liked hearing about what other grades do, but next time I want to see a sample

Neutral The fact that we were placed with ULD teachers made it interesting but lessrelevant.

StronglyAgree

It made us all think and explore new ideas and ways to report on student progress.I have been having thoughts and questions swirl around in my brain since our

meeting such as:What is the purpose of the progress report?What kind of progress do we want to report?What do parents want to know?If we don't know the answer to these questions, how do we make any decisions?It's hard to find a balance between too specific and too broad.Could My Learning portfolio be a part of reporting?

P.S. I am glad that you are in charge of this! You are brilliant, and I love havingyou around.

StronglyAgree

We need to talk about progress reports!

Strongly

Agree

It gave you a chance to talk about what was working and not working with the

current progress report model.

2a. The content of this session can be applied to my work.2b. Why or why not?

Neutral Depends on the changes we see in progress reports...

StronglyAgree

I at least HOPE so!

Disagree My work will be what is finally decided for us.

Agree

Neutral I'm not really clear on what my input is with regards to progress reports.

StronglyAgree

I would like to find an efficient and valuable way to report student progress in sciencelab. AND, since the base teachers teach some science in the classroom, there needsto be a way for us to collaborate, and both add input.

Agree Not immediately, but down the road. I am looking forward to positive change. Thankyou for asking for our input.

Neutral The content of this session is applicable to our workload of writing progress reports,however, it is yet to be determined what action steps will be taken to edit or changethe current progress reports moving forward.

Agree Although I do not currently write progress reports, I do hope to do so in the future. It


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was interesting to see how each grade level/specials does progress reports. It washelpful to outline the strengths and weaknesses of how progress reports are donenow, so that now we can look at the future and changes that need to be made.

StronglyAgree

Whatever decisions are made about how progress reports will look for varying gradelevels/departments will affect me directly in the way that the information is recordedand presented to parents. The electronic portfolios have offered an opportunity for

me to think about different ways in which to organize information for sharing withparents. I see how the content of the work we did today is connected to that wholeprocess.

Agree

Neutral As an assistant, I do not do progress reports. Often given them to read after the fact.

StronglyAgree

I think it is obvious that if this process is streamlined and the progress report is morepurposeful, I will be able to have at least 3 more days with my students and possiblyhave less stress and more sleep during 3 months of the school year.

StronglyAgree

Progress report writing/collecting/explaining is a significant part of my work here.

Neutral As I teach, it can make me think about any further benchmarks that I think should beincluded into the new progress report model.

3b. Please tell us anything else you want us to know.

I enjoyed hearing thoughts and ideas that teachers from other grade levels contributed to ourgroup. As a result of the time spent, I gained a broader perspective on the needs of othersteaching children of different age groups.

looking forward to the gallery walk! that will be a nice follow-up

Great examples of the car elements to get us thinking of creative alternatives...Thank you for prefacing that we are not making decisions-- we are brainstorming and thinkingof good and bad ideas...

I loved that "the sky was the limit." We had "free choice" to create and design a wish list of whatit should look like. It makes me feel that we are trying to make life easier for the teachers andmoving towards the 21C...LOVE IT!!!

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