EDU 6000 Blog Entry #1

I started off my first week speaking with Mrs. Gina Taylor at Montgomery Central Middle School.  We discussed various activities that we could work on throughout the semester.  She decided that my first task would be to work as the Powerschool coordinator for the 6th grade hallway.  Powerschool is an online grade book application used by the Clarksville-Montgomery County school system.  Mrs. Taylor told me about a problem that was discussed in recent SIPs (school improvement plan) meeting.  The school has had difficulty reaching the desired achievement for students of low sociology-economical and racial backgrounds.  She informed me that Powerschool can be used to help keep track of these students, however, few teachers in the building understand how to do this.  My assignment is to work with my grade level teachers and show them how to create groups in Powerschool.  Groups are exactly what it says; teachers can select students to track, print progress reports, etc and place them in a specific group.  I plan on starting this task next Monday (January 23rd) and I will update my blog by the end of the week.