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[|Wachusett Regional School District] [|Springfield Public Schools]

Essential Question: How can technology/media enhance and encourage collaboration across the grades/Districts in (this case) a Massachusetts ELA Unit?

Premise: Districts who are consistently meeting or exceeding state benchmarks should be sharing publicly what they are doing with their students that make them so successful with Districts who may be having difficulty meeting state benchmarks. This will establish collaborative, reciprocal relationships between educators that will help raise the level of all student achievement across the state of Massachusetts. The New Literacies Initiative opens a whole realm of possibilities to allow inter-District communication and comparison to start such forums.

Student Learning Targets:

Please see Kristine's TeacherWeb page directly or through the staff directory at the Wachusett Regional District Website to view student documents used in this lesson. Go to ELA Documents page to download/view Persuasive Rubric.

[|5D Class Website]

Please see Ida's school web page: [|Springfield Highschool of Science and Technology]

Please see our student sample of a Voice Thread advertisement for a trip to China.

Propaganda VoiceThread