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September 3, 2010 |
- Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- Eric Raymond
Currently...
- August In-Service Information
- CASC 2010
- Summer EXCEL Camp
- 2010 ASTE Conference
- February 2010 Integrated Planning Working Weekend
- Math Curriculum Committee 2009-2010
- BSSD Linux Netbook Deployment & Support
- 5 Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program
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August In-Services & Kickoff!
Please see the Staff Development Page for information and documentation of BSSD's August In-Service and Kickoff activities.
Have you been Wikified?
What comes next depends on what you, the user, makes happen ;-) There are no training wheels.
The BSSD Standards, as well as some curriculum resources has been added to the site as a starter, and editing now takes place in real time by anyone. Many sites have created their own sections, and a wide range of district documents and guides and have been written or converted to wiki format by staff members around the district.
BSSD's OpenContent site now has over 10,100 pages, and is growing rapidly (see statistics). In fact, an average of between 500 - 1100 pages per day were edited or added during the recent CASC meetings.
Contributions are coming from teachers, administrators, outside visitors and students! Since the DART system links to OpenContent wiki pages about each student's identified highest need standards, we have seen teachers begin to encourage student content creation as an instructional outcome. Students can be active collaborators in creating the resources that others use to teach our curriculum.
Even district administrators have had training in how to use the wiki engine syntax, and are posting processes, resources, templates for documents and other workflow helpers.
Changes that take place here have and will influence revisions made to official BSSD documents in the future. The most current version of the BSSD standards, and associated assessments always reside in the BSSD iCommunity.
This is essentially everyone's opportunity to improve, create and influence a better model of education collaboratively. Contact BSSD's Ed Tech Department if you need help getting started.
BERING STRAIT SCHOOL DISTRICT INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL
The Bering Strait Instructional Model is composed of four main parts. To learn more about any of them, simply click on them, and you will be redirected to the page focusing on those parts of the model:
More about the parts can be found here.
Newsletters from Around the District
White Mountain - Kindernews by Kim Sweeny
Lesson plan for home-Bea Stough Shishmaref
General Resource Sharing
Ma/SC Conference 2007 - resources, ideas, websites, information "Share the Wealth" Page
Abstracts for all BSSD blogs
Abstracts for all BSSD blogs -this is a page to provide links and descriptions for all BSSD blogs
New to BSSD?
New to BSSD
Welcome to the BSSD Dream Team!
The users of our wiki have created a New Teacher Orientation Handbook This PDF covers all the topics you will need to know about, including:
- traveling tips and information
- shopping ideas
- shipping suggestions; school contacts and addresses
- weather links
- recreation opportunities
Other wiki pages full of resources for you...
Another great service you can find here is something that will allow you to travel light! We know that departing staff have things for sale that you may want so you can check out the ads for household items, snowmachines, ATV's and other items that teachers want to sell at the BSSD Trader
BSSD staff have also started a BSSD District Profile you can check out.
Finally, we recommend that all new hires spend some time before arrival, or even before their interview, reading the New Hire BSSD Instructional Model Information pages.
Teachers and administrators will be adding resources here that are intended to help you make a smooth transition to the Bering Strait School District.
Site Specific Information
Here is some information about the 15 sites (+NACTEC) in our district:
- Anthony A. Andrews School (Saint Michael)
- Aniguiin School (Elim)
- Brevig Mission School (Brevig Mission)
- Diomede School (Diomede)
- Gambell School (Gambell)
- Hogarth Kingeekuk Memorial School (Savoonga)
- James C. Isabell School (Teller)
- Koyuk-Malemute School (Koyuk)
- Martin L. Olson School (Golovin)
- Shaktoolik School (Shaktoolik)
- Shishmaref School (Shishmaref)
- Tukurngailnguq School (Stebbins)
- Unalakleet School (Unalakleet)
- Wales School (Wales)
- White Mountain School (White Mountain)
- NACTEC
Counseling Units
Counseling Handbook
Summer Opportunities
To see a wide range of summer opportunities for May - August 2010, click here.
Post-Secondary Resources
For More information on Job Corp, click here. Job Corps
For more information on AVTEC, click here.
Scholarships For a list of currently avaliable scholarships, click here.
Recent Presentations & Media Coverage
Our staff tends to do an increasing number of presentations on education-related topics. This area will always have links to recent presentations, pages for session participants to use, and so on.
EduComm 2006
A BSSD team presented recently at EduComm in Orlando, Florida. Our EduComm 2006 page has slides, and links.
Winter RISC Symposium 2008
A BSSD team presented at the symposium on Continuous Improvement
See what our teachers have been attending
Students also do a large amount of presentations and media coverage for our district
Current Student Broadcast Activities
A huge event each year - the Iditarod
Sandbox for Wiki Editing
Our Wiki Sandbox area is the place for pontential contributors to experiment with the wiki engine we use. Play around, and get a feel for editing and creating links and formats using wiki syntax.
A great help is the wiki editing guide from the Wikimedia Foundation. They also have an excellent one page cheatsheet that you can print out.
This a link to Educational Technology Department for our Lotus Chart session.
Here is a step-by-step guide to uploading a document to Wiki.
