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// **__Organization:__** Huie Elementary School //

// **__Problem:__** There is a need to increase student language development at Huie Elementary School. Therefore my focus will be to increase student language development or vocabulary by implementing various technologies in the classroom. //

//Huie Elementary School is a Title I School. Huie is located in the northern portion of Clayton County.// //Our student population is approximately 611. Huie Elementary School has 31 classrooms ranging from Pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade.Ninety-seven percent of the students fit into the subgroup of economic disadvantage.//

When the Civil War broke out, Joseph Huie was teaching school. He joined the Confederate Army, serving in the 30th Georgia Regiment, Company E. He entered as a private and advanced to the rank of Captain by the time of his discharge. For eleven months, he was held as a prisoner of war near Lake Erie.
 * //__Background Information__//**
 * Joseph H. Huie Elementary School was named for Joseph Hamilton Huie, Superintendent of Clayton County Schools in 1915. Huie was born on February 21, 1836, son of Andrew Lynn Huie (1811-1905), and was named for his grandfather, Joseph Huie, who moved to Clayton County from Jefferson County in 1825. He was married to Mary Daniel, with whom he had eleven children: seven girls and four boys.

Joseph Hamilton Huie died on June 25, 1921. He is buried in the Huie family cemetery, located in Forest Park, Georgia. In 1966, the school opened with an enrollment of 850 students. Huie Elementary School is located in the northern portion of Clayton County.

Mission Statement Huie Elementary's mission is to provide a quality education for every student. Huie Elementary School has three stated goals for the organization, which are, increase the schools AYP by at least 5% over the Absolute Bar, increase the number of students achieving exceeds on the CRCT by 5% and decrease the schools achievement gap between subgroups by 5%. Huie Elementary clientele consist of students, faculty and other staff members. The key personnel in the organization that can provide insight into the performance problem for which I am proposing an intervention is the literacy coach, Sara Amonette and the school principal, Baxter Harper. These two personnel can also provide public relations materials and annual reports for the organization. The organization has a working website which could be located at []


 * __Module 2 -Performance Gap and Cause Analysis __**

Module 3 Assignment

Three Intervention Strategies

Huie Elementary School is well equipped with 21st Century classroom equipment and software for each teacher in the school. However, many of the teachers, administrators and other staff members do not possess the skills and self-confidence on ways to integrate the technology equipment and develop activities utilizing technology into the regular curriculum to enhance vocabulary.

This intervention strategy includes six teachers one from each grade level (K-5) that will be selected to attend a five-day training on ways to integrate technology into the curriculum to enhance vocabulary effectively. The six classroom teachers will have a substitute teacher to cover the class during that week of training, which would cost $3,000. The six selected teachers will then return to the school a redelivery the information and train the other teachers on the grade level during grade level meetings during the following week. During this intervention strategy, the entire staff that includes 37 people will attend a course either face-to-face or online on ways to integrate technology into the curriculum to enhance vocabulary effectively. During this course, staff members will be trained on effective ways to utilize technology equipment and software such as the Interwrite Boards, Easiteach, PDA’s, wikis, and various other types of technology. Each staff member will receive three PLU’s for taking the course and $150 stipend. The high-cost strategy will include the hiring of a consulting group that will train each classroom teacher on effective ways to integrate technology into the classroom to enhance vocabulary during several staff meetings after the regular school day. The consulting group will combine coaching, consulting and professional development to enhance vocabulary by integrating technology. Therefore, following the initial training each month consultants will observe the teachers and then provide feedback on the delivery and instruction utilized throughout the lesson.
 * The low-cost strategy would meet the minimum needs to solve the performance gap but most likely will not be sustainable beyond the initial period of implementation (at a cost of approximately $5,000).
 * The medium-cost strategy would resolve the performance gap over several years’ time (at a cost of approximately $25,000).
 * The high-cost strategy gives you much more flexibility. In other words, you have been given a “magic wand” to eliminate the performance gap. Understand that this high-end, “blue sky” strategy is seldom realistic but is worth consideration (at a cost of approximately $50,000).

After receiving input from my peer and considering the budget in this school system my plan is to implement the low cost strategy intervention. Although this strategy will not allow all of the staff members and administrators to receive training at the same time, they will still receive training from the selected member on their grade level that was trained on effective ways to utilize these new technologies in the classroom to enhance language development. ||

__ Module 4 Assignment __

__ Justification for Intervention Strategy __

The goal of the intervention strategy is provide administrators, teachers and other staff members will skills and self-confidence on ways to integrate the technology equipment and develop activities utilizing technology into the regular curriculum to enhance vocabulary. Although all three strategies encompass strengths, the low-cost strategy would be suitable after considering input from administrators, teachers and other staff members.

The high cost strategy proposed would provide administrators, teachers and other staff members with adequate training and coaching throughout an entire school year, which would enable the teachers to not only receive sufficient training but also support throughout the school year with coaching and feedback throughout the process. However, the funding is not available at the time for this program. Although the school has Title I funds available the school system has control over the spending of funds and due to limited funds in the school system the county is not approving the spending of funds due to the financial conditions of the county. If no limitation on funding present this strategy would best support increasing the skills and self-confidence of teachers, administrators and other staff members on ways to integrate the technology equipment and the development of activities to utilize technology throughout the curriculum to enhance vocabulary.

The medium cost intervention strategy would be beneficial to administrators, teachers and other staff members because all would receive individual training on effective ways to integrate technology into the curriculum to enhance vocabulary effectively. Another benefit would be the financial incentive of providing a stipend for taking the course. However, there are limitations such as lack of funding and scheduling of time to take the course and balancing other school duties and responsibilities.

The low cost strategy was chosen based on the information collected from an administrator and after carefully considering the financial state of the organization. Although some funds exist, they are limited and must be utilized wisely and the use of incorporating substitutes while six selected teachers attend a five-day training would be manageable. The strengths of implementing this strategy is that although administrators and teachers would not receive individual training they will receive training in small groups during their grade level meeting, which means that training could focus on a particular grade level and not grades K-5. An additional benefit is no planning or time issues because the training would occur during the weekly grade level meetings. Some limitations include no individual training with instructors presenting the training so all questions may not be answered by selected member that was trained by an instructor and some teachers may still feel insure when integrating technology into the curriculum to enhance vocabulary because they did not receive training from an instructor, but from a colleague. However, after considering all three strategies the low cost strategy was chosen because of the lack of funding. However, the ability of the administrators, teachers and other staff members to acquire the skills and self-confidence on ways to integrate the technology equipment and develop activities utilizing technology into the regular curriculum to enhance vocabulary is still present with this strategy, so the organization can still accomplish its goal.

__ Project Manager Responsibilities __

Project Management Techniques: My role, as project manager would include discussions with administrator and teachers to select the six individuals that will attend the five-day training. I will also select a group of teachers, including myself to gather information from members of the organization to determine the effectiveness of the training. I will also provide support, coaching and feedback to members of the organization throughout the process of integrating this intervention strategy. My role as a project manager would also include acting as a motivator to encourage others to implement this strategy intervention.

Project Resource Management Techniques: The resources that will be utilized for this intervention includes administrators, teachers, other staff members, Title I funds, all 21st Century classroom equipment and school committees. These resources will be tracked emails, weekly grade level meeting notes, staff meeting notes, purchasing orders of new equipment and survey information.

Delivery System Management Techniques: The medium for the delivery of the intervention strategy includes staff development training and colleague training. Technology will be implemented throughout the training to demonstrate their effectiveness and ways to utilize various technologies into the classroom to enhance vocabulary development.

Information Management Techniques: Information related to this intervention strategy will be stored in a data notebook, which information will also be located on the organizations website that all administrators, teachers, staff members and other stakeholders will have access to the information, which will be processed by the project manager and other selected teachers and administrators.

Module 5 Financial and Budget Information

Materials will be purchased from Staples, [] Information regarding training specialists is located at []
 * ** Item ** || ** Quantity ** || ** Cost ** || ** Total Cost ** ||
 * Substitute Teacher for Training Coverage || 6 substitute teachers || $60.00 per day/ 5 day training || $1800.00 ||
 * Stipend || 6 teacher stipends || $150.00 || $900.00 ||
 * 3”Binder (Data Notebook) || 37 teachers || $4.99 || $184.63 ||
 * Professional Development Training (Training Specialists) || 1 training specialist with the county, which is free but must register for training specialist || $0.00 || $0.00 ||
 * Multipurpose Paper || 6 500/Ream || $6.29 || $37.74 ||

Technical Information To implement this intervention each classroom teacher must utilize the 21st Century equipment in their classroom, such as the projectors, computers, Interwrite Boards, Pads and Pens. They must also use technology equipment that may be checked out from the library, which includes document cameras, digital cameras, and flip cameras. The training specialist will also cover technology topics such as internet, webquest, excel, PowerPoint, blogs, wikis and google docs and examine ways to utilize these technologies in the classroom to enhance vocabulary development.

Project Assessment/Evaluation The intervention strategy’s effectiveness will be assessed through surveys, teacher feedback and observations. The formative evaluation plan I intend to implement is a teacher technology use survey and feedback from teachers. Regarding the summative evaluation plan, the teachers will complete a training survey after the training. Administrators throughout the school year following the training will observe teachers.