Standard+10

**Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community.** The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.
 * Standard 10**

Evidence 1:

Rationale 1: This project involves the student recognizing and sharing strengths, weaknesses, and future goals. Those elements are synthesized into one video, created in iMovie. Parents and community members become the authentic audience as students present their video projects with them. This year, we have been invited to the school board meeting to present the videos to the board. This project took a good deal of coordination with parents, students, and administrators to make possible. Student learning is enhanced due to the “real” nature of the audience members.

**KSD**

 **10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works.**

On numerous occasions throughout this unit, I talked with students about how the school board impacts the daily doings at the school. We also met the director of curriculum and instruction and the director of pupil services – two people who they have never met before but have a profound impact on their school days.

 **10.S.4 The teacher establishes respectful and productive relationships with parents and guardians from diverse home and community situations and seeks cooperative partnerships in support of student learning and well being.**

On the night of the school board presentation, parents and social workers were invited to attend a pizza party hosted at school to honor the good work of the students involved (and to help encourage them to attend). I had to persuade several parents of the benefits of this presentation activity so they would allow their children to present. Naturally, their was a fear of privacy of sensitive information (via special education enrollment), and parents had to accept that the benefits of this experience outweigh the drawbacks they sensed.

 **10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students.**

The principal and my co-teacher were integrally involved in assessing student work and giving constructive feedback for their work at every stage of the unit: brainstorming, taping, creating the videos, and presenting. Giving students critiques from adults other than their main teacher is instrumental in shaping their thinking bringing out their best.