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** 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. Evidence: Classroom Wiki: [|www.sheridan-5.wikispaces.com] Rationale: In order to stay connected with my 5th grade students, parents, and colleagues I created a classroom wiki using wikispaces.com. This wiki contains pages that include homework assignments, project outlines, student work, websites, schedules and calendars. Students and parents have learned to use this wiki to help with questions they may have about projects or concepts, visit recommended websites or check in on daily activities. My fellow colleagues have visited this wiki, as I have theirs’, to collaborate by sharing activities and ideas with each other. Through the creating and updating of this wiki, I have learned that it is an easy process and is a helpful communication and organizational tool. I will be using this tool for many years to come with my classroom. KSD 10.K.2 The teacher understands how factors in the students’ environment outside of school (e.g. family circumstances, community environments, health, and economic conditions) may influence students’ lives and learning. Knowing that every student’s home life will vary, I make modifications for those students that do not have the same access to our wiki from home. These modifications include: computer usage during resource, use of student planner, and hard copies of project outlines. 10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a     productive learning environment. Teachers in our school share many resources so that our students have equal access to a strong educational experience. My wiki, along with several other colleagues’ wikis, are linked to a school wiki, in order to make sharing of resources more convenient. 10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students. Collaboration with colleagues has lead to many quality activities and resources that I link to my wiki. This idea of working together helps improve the learning experience for all students equally.