Schooling is Not a Closed Book

We are in the early stages at the moment of planning ahead for next year, and revising what we currently have as a school web-page. This will require some inspired thinking from Jason Levy (Principal) and Christina Jenkins (Tech Coach), but I thought maybe someone else might have some suggestions. Please feel free to leave a comment suggesting what we might not have thought of yet.

New school website needs to

• either replace the wiki, or the wiki should be revised and embedded within the new school website
• have both general access and multi-level restricted access
• be comprehensive in terms of advertising and archiving everything that goes on within the school
• be versatile to fit with the other applications that we use most frequently
• be sustainable to warrant the time that would need to be invested in creating and maintaining it
• be practical/user-friendly to encourage high usage
• be tracked using site analysis application such as Google Analytics
  

Include school details:

• leadership team
• location
• mission statement
• history
• description
• newsletter (in the form of blog) through headline animator or RSS feed
  

Provide convenient external links to

• NYCDOE site and docs (ARIS, ACUITY, Learning Surveys, Progress Reports, SQR, test materials)
• iteach-ilearn
• united streaming
• atomic learning
• brainpop
  

Have a Students' Corner and Parents' Corner:

• Calendar with coming events
• Forum
• Focus for each month
• Celebration Pages
• shout outs
  

House our online teacher library:

• systems and protocols
• exemplar student work
• standards and performance indicators, curriculum maps, unit plans, lesson plans, online resources
• team meeting notes
• PD calendar
• PD resources
• school-wide data (Progress Report/s, SQR summaries, past NY ELA and Math results)
• grade-wide data (spreadsheets tracking common assessments)
• team-wide data

Include RSS feeds to:

• Hardlines - student newspaper
• Celebrations Pages
• Parenting blog/podcasts/voicethreads
• 339web
  
  
  If we end up using Google Sites, teachers will need to start using their CIS339online.org accounts to enable fast access into anything for which they have permission to view/collaborate.
  
  
  Ideally, parents should have access to curriculum maps, assessment schedules and rubrics.