STAR-W: Students
Using Technology To Achieve Reading – Writing
Abstract
May 1, 2003 – June
30, 2004
District Information |
Description of Project |
Technology used |
| District(s): Atlantic City Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Writing and peer editing with handheld computers, increasing access to technology for students through the use of handheld computers for peer editing as students beam or hot sync their writing to peers, providing intense professional development, participating in the Intermediate Technology Certificate Program, a 50-hour series of professional development workshops and in-class mentors for teachers, posting student projects, teacher lesson plans, research and links to help parents, community members and teachers know what is going on throughout the project as well as highlighting the students. | • Alpha
Smart – Dana • Digital cameras • Digital video cameras • Projectors • Visual Presenter • Scanners • HyperStudio • KidPix • Compass Learning |
| District(s): Audubon Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Participating in an on-going and systematic plan to raise student achievement in language arts literacy through the implementation of technology, providing intensive summer technology and literacy professional development, introducing skills that will assist in the design and delivery of instruction to meet identified needs, aligning instruction with the New Jersey Core Content Curriculum Standards to raise student achievement, implementing Accelerated Reader, after-school study groups, grade level meetings, in-class mentoring, modeling and observations, using wireless mobile computer labs on a regular basis for students to conduct research and expand their writing capabilities through writers’ workshops, conducting literature circle activities by videoconferencing between the participating schools, posting student work and activities on a project web site. | • 2
wireless labs • Teleconferencing • Accelerated Reader • Kidspiration |
| District(s): Elizabeth Board of Education School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Addressing the infusion of multiple technology resources to enhance the scientifically-based research materials in Elizabeth’s newly implemented language arts literacy program. Abraham Lincoln School #14 is empowering students and staff in grades 3, 4, and 5 to integrate technology for reading and writing activities that align to the Core Curriculum Content Standards. The web-based system, NetSchools Orion, engages the STAR-W teachers in sharing lesson plans, providing continuous assessment, and managing information for data driven decisions. Professional development and mentoring are ongoing through the Union County Educational Technology Training Center and Innovative Designs for Education staff. Elizabeth’s School 14 STAR-W web site showcases grant activities and students’ pride in being STARS. | • Mobile
wireless laptop cart • Digital cameras • Digital camcorder • DVD/RW • Projector • Videoconference cameras • Scanners • NetSchools Orion • Web tools • Inspiration • Houghton Mifflin and Open Court aligned software and materials |
| District(s): Englewood Public School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Using
technology to support process writing and reading development,
extensive professional development, using a project-based learning
model to foster active student learning, increasing teacher’s
technology implementation through teacher peer support and mentoring.
URL: http://lincoln.echalk.com/www/lincoln/site/hosting/STAR/index.htm |
• Wireless
laptops • Projectors • Scanners • Digital cameras • Lexia Phonics • Power Proofreader • Kid Pix • Leveled Reader |
| District(s): Florence Township School District Beverly City New Hanover Township School(s): Project Director: Superintendent: |
Providing project LA2T2 (Language Arts Achievement Through Technology) targeted professional development, coaching, sharing and collaboration between three districts, Daily integrated curriculum lessons between three districts. | • Desktop
computers |
| District(s): Hackensack Board of Education School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Enhancing Reading and Writing in Technology-rich Environments (Project E-WRITE) Increasing student achievement in language arts literacy through the development of multi- and hypermedia units of study based on scientifically-based research. | • Knowledge
Box software • SmartBoards • Mobile laptops • Projectors • Printers • Digital cameras • Webcam • Inspiration |
| District(s): Hoboken Board of Education School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Acquiring teacher proficiency in the use of educational technology integration including e-mail, web-browsing, web page development tools, search engine tools, safe practices, online specialized language arts software, providing access for students to Internet resources including letter, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts from the past that promote learning and which stimulate and nurture a love of reading and writing. | • SmartBoards • Projectors • Computers • Accelerated Reader • MS Office XP |
| District(s): Lawnside Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Integrating
technology into the curriculum and instruction to lead to increased
student performance, setting the instructional stage in ways that
will support new learning environments.
URL: |
• Desktop
computers • Wireless laptop labs • Kurzweil 3000 • Start to Finish Books • Inspiration • Kidspiration • Co-Writer 4000 • Invitations to Literacy • MMS import/export |
| District(s): Middle Township School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Expanding and integrating the utilization of technology in the balanced literacy instructional blocks to enhance student learning, extending and supporting student learning through the restructuring of instruction so that technology use is a given. | • Wireless
labs • SmartBoards • Projectors • TV, DVD, VCR • Digital video cameras • Electronic spellers • Accelerated Reader |
| District(s): Monroe Township Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Focusing
on increased access to technology within the classroom, ongoing
communication with parents, videoconferencing, an aggressive teacher
professional development program focusing on national technology
standards and project-based learning environments, a support system
made up of administration, a reading specialist and an in-class
technology mentor to ensure integration of technology into the
elementary curriculum.
URL: http://www.monroetwp.k12.nj.us/es/radix/starw/starw.htm |
• Desktop
computers • Wireless laptops • Printers • Scanner • LCD projector • Digital camera • Imagination Express • Making Awesome iMovies • MS Office |
| District(s): Ocean City Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Increasing
student achievement in language arts literacy in grades three through
five, integrating technology into the language arts curriculum
and instruction, providing classroom teachers with intense, ongoing
professional development opportunities and in-class support focused
on integrating technology into curriculum and instruction.
URL: |
• Thin
client workstations • Digital video cameras • Digtal cameras • ClassLink software • Astro Word • Book Builder • Multimedia Studio • Teacher’s Technology Companion |
| District(s): Ocean Gate School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Providing teachers with relevant and sustained professional development, mentoring, coaching and in-class support that focuses on integrating technology into the language arts literacy curriculum, developing curriculum for student directed, differentiated instruction that includes lessons with a focus on Ocean Gate history, a virtually published online museum, and a parent information page on the school website. | • SmartBoards • Digital cameras • Webcams • Inspiration • Kidspiration |
| District(s): Orange Board of Education School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Offering in-class mentoring and summer workshops to promote effective infusion of technology into instruction in the CCCS in language arts literacy, reading and writing, encouraging parents to use the technology in the education of their child. | • Dana • Leapfrog Classroom library • Lexia Phonics Assessment • Lexia Phonics Intermediate Intervention software |
| District(s): Oxford Township School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Creating systemic change that will assist every student – regardless of race, ethnicity, income, geographical location, or disability – in becoming technologically literate by the end of eighth grade, providing intense professional development including ongoing, sustained raining, mentoring in-class, in-class support, online mentoring, mentoring in-district or within the school, online workshops and courses and regularly scheduled workshops, training parents on how to communicate with staff with e-mail and how to use the school’s web site as a resource. | • Mobile
computer lab • Handheld computers and keyboards • Rigby Reading • Reading & Writing software |
| District(s): Paterson Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Fostering
the relationships within the learning community so that the power
of collaborative inquiry drives the professional development of
teachers as well as the work of students, providing equitable access
to a mobile computer lab with Internet connectivity and handheld
computers, student-parent literature circles, increasing technological
support for English-as-a-Second Language students, increasing differentiation
of literacy curriculum, using e-books, Internet resources and aides
by the "Generation Y" Program, communicating through
e-mail, sharing through a constantly updated website, and using
the project-based learning model, WebQuest.
URL: |
• Wireless
laptop computers • LCD projectors • Dana handheld units • Digital video cameras • Printer • Scanners • Print Shop Suite • Moviemaker • Generation Y license • Generation Y hardware |
| District(s): Pemberton Township Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Collaborating to produce desktop published products (literary magazines, classroom newsletters, school yearbook) using state of the art technology tools (digital cameras, literacy software, wireless laptop computers, color printers and CD-burners), choreographing engaging opportunities for young STAR-Writers to share their literacy products with diverse audiences. | • Mobile
wireless laptop lab • White boards • Digital cameras • CD-burners • Color printers • LCD projectors |
| District(s): Stafford Township School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Offering extensive professional development opportunities consisting of a technology proficiency series at the beginner and intermediate levels, integrating technology into the reading and writing process, supporting participating teachers with an in-class mentoring program as they develop lesson plans and curricula that integrate technology, posting information, lesson plans, curricular ideas and parent information on the web site. | • Laptops • Scanners • Handheld computers • Digital cameras • Plasma Screens • Printers • Inspiration • Reading for Meaning • Eye-Q • Hollywood software • Scholastic Reading Inventory |
| District(s): Swedesboro-Woolwich Board of Education Pitman Public Schools School(s): Project Director: Superintendent: |
Initiating
a comprehensive innovative partnership that advances inter-district
collaboration in the pursuit of the goal to increasing student
achievement of the NJCCCS in language arts by at least 5%, utilizing
research-based instructional strategies that integrates technology
with reading and writing instruction intending to motivate and
engage all learners, merging research-based learning and teleconferencing
resources as the public school and nonpublic school teachers collaborate
to create "A Community of Learners."
URL: |
• Videoconferencing |
| District(s): Trenton Public Schools School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Providing on-site mentoring and traditional training for teachers, training teachers, students and parents on sophisticated hardware and software methods which support the development of students’ higher order thinking and problem-solving skills for language arts literacy, using writing strategies such as Orton-Gillingham and Write Traits training. | • Wireless
laptops • Server • Projector • SmartBoard • Digital cameras • Video camera • Color printer • Scanner • Easybook deluxe |
| District(s): Union Beach Board of Education Keyport Public Schools School(s): Project Director: Superintendent: |
Working as partners, the Keyport third and fourth grade teachers will act as peer coaches/ trainers, sharing information, curriculum and technology expertise in project-based learning, assessing the implementation of technology into instruction and its effect on student achievement. | • Dana
units • Desktop computers • Laptop computers • HyperStudio |
| District(s): West New York Board of Education School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Empowering all third, fourth and fifth grade teachers in the school to integrate technology in the classroom curriculum through intense and on-going professional development providing a comprehensive cumulative series of workshops, curriculum integration training, coaching and mentoring using strong assessment and evaluation components to guide program planning and ensuring student achievement, availing lesson plans and projects for replication through the web site and promoting parental and community awareness. | • Wireless
laptops in classrooms and library • Projection units • Digital cameras • Scanners • PowerPoint • Inspiration • Print Shop • Specialized Language Arts Software • Web Site Development |
| District(s): White Township Consolidated School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Combining the effective integration of technology resources and systems with professional development to promote research-based instructional methods that can be widely replicated throughout the rural area, and then throughout the state. | • Wireless
mobile lab • LCD projectors • Inspiration • Mosaics of the Mind • Co-Writer • MS Office • Adobe PageMaker • Digital cameras |
| District(s): Winslow Township School District School(s): Project
Director: Superintendent: |
Empowering students and staff members with greater access to information and learning opportunities through extensive ongoing professional development, in-class support and mentoring to participating teachers, providing a foundation for life long learning, strengthening partnerships through teleconferencing activities, inviting nonpublic schools, parents and other community members in to broaden the teaching and learning processes. | • SmartBoards • LCD projectors • Criterion software • Perfect copy • Phonics, handwriting & vocabulary software • Inspiration • Accelerated Reader |
| District(s): Woodlynne Public Schools Deptford Township Schools School(s): Project Director: Superintendent: |
Providing teachers and students from both districts with invaluable knowledge and experience that will excite and challenge all involved participants, providing on-going, sustained professional development for teachers through a two week summer "boot camp", distance learning, mentoring and in-house professional development, initiating student peer review via E-pals in an effort to improve student writing, experiencing new ways of learning by utilizing mobile wireless laptop labs, digital cameras and scanners. | • Wireless
laptop labs • Desktop computers • Printers • Scanners • Digital cameras • Projectors • MS Office XP • Kidspiration • Print Shop • Kid Pix • Compass Learning Odyssey |
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