Let me start by saying I am still waiting on my scores but I
think I covered the bases on E4. Here are some things I did.

1. Wrote about my membership on 2 math committees. Used an
increase in student scores as one piece of student impact and
had a district person fill out a verification form. Also
included a student work sample of a technique I learned from
those committees and I discussed how that technique helped the
student grow.

2. Wrote about all the technology I use - teacher website,
curriculum enhancement, taught tech classes. I submitted a copy
of my homepage and wrote about all the info I included and how
my parents and students used it (which they could see from the
buttons on the page), included emails from parents saying how
much they appreciated the communication from the site, etc.

3. Taught a workshop and asked teachers to send me emails about
how the things I taught improved their classrooms. (Had to go
back to people 2 years after the class but I got stuff from
them. It's not impossible.) Since I use these techniques in my
own classroom, I asked my kids to write a few sentences about
how the strategies helped them learn and included the best ones
as documentation.

4. Wrote about Family Math Night - had parents fill out an
evaluation form afterwards and then submitted comments as
documentation.

5. Finally, definitely include a communication log. I took one
page of mine, had about 10 entries, showing the different ways
I communicate with parents. Then I wrote about how my
conference with one parents developed some new organization
strategies to help her kid, how a phone call helped calm an
upset child, how several emails helped one student with their
progress in writing. You get the idea. Just don't make all your
contacts about behavior - again you want to show how you helped
the child grow.

I think as you get into this entry you will start to see how
you can show impact. It almost helps to go at it backwards.
Take something that is evidence of student impact and then
think about what you did to make that happen. To get the
learner, partner, collaborator - think about these things: Did
you take workshops/classes where you learned something that
became successful in your room? (learner), Do you participate
on committees? If so, what work on those committees has
improved student performance either in your own room or
schoolwide? (Collaborator), How do you communicate with parents
so you really know your kids and can tailor your teaching to
help make them successful? (partner) If you can show
combinations of learner, partner, collaborator in each
accomplishment it will make your entry even stronger.

Good luck! Hope this all helps.

On 7/02/08, js wrote:
> Let's say you attended a professional development on some
> aspect of the content you teach. You could write the blurb
> describing it, state why it was significant, then talk about
> the impact it had on your students' learning. For
> documentation you could include a copy of whatever they gave
> you showing you attended, and something that shows the
> impact on learning (a work sample, improved scores, etc.)
> As for parental involvement, you could do one accomplishment
> centered on how you include parents, eg. emails,
> newsletters, phone calls, etc. Include a contact log for
> documentation as well as any notes from parents you
> received.
> Somewhere in the directions there's a ven diagram detailing
> the 3 catagories. The important thing for Entry 4 is the
> impact on student learning. If you can't show a connection
> from what you did to the impact on learning, don't include
> it.
> I hope this helps.
>
> On 7/02/08, kelley wrote:
>> I worry about my accomplishments in entry four.
>> I can use some pd's i attended, but getting good
>> documentation, like from parents and teachers, is pretty
>> much impossible. I cannot understand how you can get
>> teacher as learner, tchr as leader, and parental
> involvement
>> all into even four accomplishments and also have proof of
>> impact from the past??
>> can anybody help me???
>> I can see maybe doing it this fall, but how can we do it
>> now, in retrospect?
>> any help would be appreciated. kelley

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