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I teach 8th grade social studies and I am in my 3rd year of teaching. I am a graduate of Miami University. Along with molding young minds, I also run the Nagel Golf Club, coach 8th grade boys basketball, and supervise the social studies section of a credit equivalency program called ACE. I look forward to PLP and all that it has to offer!
 * Brad Suder**

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 * Rose Arnell -Team Leader**

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 * Dan Armstrong**

Hi. I am a 3rd year teacher of American History at Nagel Middle School in Anderson Twp. I come to field of education from the fast paced world of high finance and glamorous Hollywood transactions. I love my content area and love how kids think: I'm doing what I love. 21st Century learning is empowering me to be a more powerfully effective educator.


 * Joy Kidwell**

HELLLLOOOO! I am a third year teacher in at Nagel, but in my 11th year teaching. I LOVE my students on team 8-1!I graduated high school in Meigs Co. Ohio, but went to college in Kentucky. I received my undergraduate degree from Kentucky Christian University and my master's degree in Educational Leadership from Eastern Kentucky University. I currently teach 8th grade U.S. History, however I'm certified in grades 5-9 language arts and social studies. I am active outside the classroom as well. I am a WEB Coordinator, mentor to an first year teacher, 8th grade girls basketball coach, and serve on several committees. I am also a proud single mom of two elementary aged boys who play soccer and take karate lessons. In my free time....oh wait, what's that again? Well, when I have free time I enjoy reading, yoga, zumba, and friends. Let's go PLP!


 * Mimi Clark**

Hey, gang! I am a 17 year teacher with a checkered past. Not really, but I've always liked that mysterious description and it got your attention. I've taught 5 years at the elementary level where "projects" and "hands-on" are in the blood. I presently teach 8th grade American History at Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati. I am certified to teach K-8 and am HQ to teach Language Arts and Social Studies. I have a Masters in Reading. I hope to grow personally and professionally through my PLP experience.


 * Donna Lauver**

Greetings Fellow PLP Members! My name is Donna Lauver and I also am an 8th grade American History Teacher at Nagel Middle in Cincinnati, Ohio. I spent 12 years as an Administrator and Assistant Professor for the Univeristy of Cincinnnati, 3 years at Turpin High School and the past 7 years at Nagel Middle School. I am an educator at heart. I love teaching and learning. The PLP program has offered a variety of learning opportunities and I have had the honor of being our schools IPAD pilot instructor during the past year. I finished my second Masters at Xavier last year and I am looking forward to expanding my journey in learning to China this summer with fellow educators to explore and share internationally the love of teaching.

**Action Research Project**

**Abstract:**
The focus is on restructuring the learning opportunities students have and the choices for demonstrating their knowledge. It is also about teachers rethinking how they assess students by differentiating the options so that they represent all levels of Bloom's taxonomy

**Problem, Issue, or Possibility**
· What does 21st century learning and assessment look like?

**Objectives and Assessment:**
**We will conduct this lesson late April through May**


 * Do technology-based options enhance or detract from student understanding of content?
 * Data from student surveys will be evaluated to determine student engagement in project.
 * Data from student surveys will determine student disposition at three stages of the process.

**RESEARCH:**
Our research is a compilation of information on best practices in technology use from the school, district, state, and national level. We each contacted schools, resources from various location in order to collect data on reliable technology resources and best practices in the classroom.

**Implementation Plan**

 * ===== Jan: Design project model=====
 * Feb: Redesign and refine project model
 * Mar: Teacher research on technology tools, content best practices, and pedagogy.
 * Apr: Implementation of project with students.
 * Pre-survey on student disposition
 * Content delivery
 * Student exploration with tools
 * Student connections between content and materials
 * May: Evaluation
 * Student demonstration of knowledge through tool usage
 * Student post-surveys on disposition
 * Student grade level common assessment
 * Teachers draw conclusions from first implementation of plan.
 * Collect data for subsequent year evaluation

**Artifacts**
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 * [[file:Nagel LibertyProject Plan.docx]] || [[file:LibertyProjectDoc.draft.docx]] || [[file:Educational Technology.pdf]] ||
 * || [[file:Wed present to Staff.docx]] || [[file:FinalPLPCulmEvent.docx]] ||
 * [[file:The Civil War choice project FINAL-1.docx]] || [[file:Best Practices of 7th Grade 1-1 Laptop Program.docx]] ||||

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We will share anonymous student data results on affective domains of project implementation
 * Documentation **
 * We will share summary of final assessment results compared to previous scores or results of scores as collected to share with subsequent year.
 * We will share our product on school website under our team heading (8th gr. S.S.)
 * We will develop a wiki for use with students that will be enhanced by teachers
 * We will develop a professional development session for teachers in 2011-2012 school year that provides a tool kit of methods and applications that technologically enhance all curriculum objectives.
 * We will present our project results with staff in support of the districts training and development of 1-to-1 computing.

Team Liberty is in the process of beginning this unit. We have restructured the tools students will be using to demonstrate their knowledge. Our goal is to determine if the use of these tools will impact the traditional common grade level assessment that is given at the end of the unit and if student comprehension has improved.

Currently, we are trying to personally utilize these tools so that we can be specific in the rubric development for assessment.