West New York/Eisenhower
Professional Development School Project

What is the WNY/IKE/PDS Project?

In an effort to provide an opportunity for sustained high quality professional development, the West New York Board of Education, under the umbrella of No Child Left Behind (Title II formerly Eisenhower funding) provides teachers with the resources and tools for training, development and implementation of project lesson plans, as well as the opportunity for on-going professional collaboration.

What are the IKE Technology and Instructional workshops?

Teachers receive training in the following areas:

MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Webquests and Internet Exploration, Annotated Webliographies- citation/evaluation, Lesson Plan Objectives, Rubric Construction, Evaluation & Assessment, Kidspiration, Using the Digital Camera, Clayanimation and Digital Editing Techniques.

Teachers receive coaching and mentoring on-going throughout the year to reach timelines and benchmarks for individual and collaborative projects.

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Goals

Goals of this project include:

To provide a relevant, classroom-based professional development experience for teachers that simultaneously enhances their knowledge, skills, and creativity: successfully integrates technology, and supports implementation of effective instructional practices that are aligned with the NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards.
To provide opportunities through technology and varied media for teacher networking, collaboration, and ongoing professional dialogue with colleagues.
To provide the opportunity for replication and adaptation of the project for the educational community.

2007-2008 Participants & Projects:

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Elementary School (PS# 4) Projects

Participants	Projects
Christine Buckman & Mary Ann Lentini	Butterfly Royalty Powerpoint Presentation
Elizabeth Herrera	Looking in from the Outside Powerpoint Presentation
Mary Ann Baczyk	Glorious Bats Powerpoint Presentation
Vienna Barquin & Leonor Garcia	A Voyage to our Home Land Powerpoint Presentation Video Presentation
Gail Petermann	What's the matter with the Atom's Family? Powerpoint Presentations: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Video Presentation
Catherine DeLeon Visconti & Caroline Occhipinti	Express Yourself Video Presentation
Nancy Scarzafava & Anita Kober	Old McDonald & His Farm

Middle School Projects

Participants	Projects
Anthony DeMarco & Darryl Semple	Human Rights Crisis in China
George Edler & Dawn Cardona	Talk Show Interviews Based Short Stories D. Cardona G. Edler
Gigi Hepperle	Using Technology and the Internet to determine the relationship between Body Mass Index and Physical Activity in Adolescent
Anthony Bertone	Bridge Building, "From the Past to the Future"
Anna Karras	Poetry in Motion - Creating a 2008 Poetry Calendar
Katherine Niemiec & Elizabeth Mackin	What and Where are Terrestial Biomes? K. Niemiec E. Mackin
Judith Betancourt, Michelle Dorian & Patricia Flynn	The Hudson River: Flowing Across the Curriculum

WebQuests

Exploring the Original 13 Colonies	Recycled Materials
Our Place in the World	The Five Senses
Under the Sea - Under the Sea (*PPT)	Coming to America
Volcanoes: Grade 1 - Grade 2	Teaching the Human Skeletal System Through Owl Pellets
Playground Activities & Equipment Inventory	The Bill of Rights and You
Horology and the making of time keeping devices

2006-2007 Participants & Projects:

Elementary School Projects

Participants	Projects (PDF Files)
Beth Wolanski & Tina Del Duca	Our Place in the World
Celina Alvarez	Volcanoes
Doris Ortiz	Volcanoes
Gonzalo Sanchez & Steve Turner	Making Sense of the Senses
Jennifer Dowling & Margaret Vergel	Under the Sea
Kathryn O'Grady, Julie Ayres & Yulisa Proenza	Coming to America
Marie Romano	Teaching the Human Skeletal System Through Owl Pellets

Middle School Projects

Participants	Projects (PDF Files)
Beth Mackin	The Great 50 States: Creating postcard packets and travel brochures
Cathy Heller	Horology: Designing and Building a Time Keeping Machine
Darryl Semple	The Civil War
Dawn Cardona	Creating Newspapers Based on Elements of Short Stories
George Edler	Creating Newspapers Based on Elements of Short Stories
Kate Niemiec	Creating an Environmentally Friendly Playground
Michelle Dorian & Judith Betancourt	The Bill of Rights: A Visual View of How it Applies to Us
Randi Cabana	Exploring the Original 13 Colonies
Tony Bertone	Building an Environmentally Friendly Playground

2005-2006 Participants & Projects:

Elementary School Projects

Project Name	Dynamic Dinosaurs	On the Move-Birds in Flight	Teaching Tolerance through the Holocaust	Wonders of the Rainforest
Participants	Beth Wolanski Cathy DeLeon Tina delDuca	Jennifer Dowling Margaret Vergel	Kathy O'Grady Yulissa DiMeola	Denise Laverty-DeNoia Edyie Gologorsky Kathleen Morrell-Brown
Lesson plans	Lesson Plan1 Lesson Plan2 Lesson Plan3	Lesson Plan	Lesson Plan	Lesson Plan1 Lesson Plan2 Lesson Plan3
Project Pictures / Attachments	click here to view pictures (*PPT)	click here to view pictures (*PPT)	Journal (PDF) Journal Entry (PDF) Journal Rubric (PDF) Webquest Ditto (PDF) Chapter summary (rubric) Journal Entry (rubric) Timeline (rubric) Webquest (rubric)	Rainforest Recipe Booklet (PDF)
Webpages	Dynamic Dinosaurs	On the Move-Birds in Flight	Holocaust website	Rainforest Animals Webquest Rainforests from the Ground Up Webquest Rainforest Food Webquest