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Standard 6 / Standard 7 / Standard 8 / Standard 9 / Standard10 **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 1: [|Daily Five Blog]Daily Five Blog Rationale 1: The Daily Five Blog was created as a communication tool among my colleagues for our reading program. I was part of a thread group researching the Daily Five program and trying to find a way to incorporate the program with our reading curriculum. The blog was used for the duration of the thread group, one year, as a way to share ideas, frustrations and questions. The degree of use was not as high as I anticipated and I am hopeful that with time people will become more comfortable with this new form of communication. I was very enthusiastic to share and use the blog with my colleagues in order to support our reading instruction and student learning experiences. I found that our group was more in contact through the use of e-mail and face-to-face meetings. I have kept the blog active and will try to use it as a reading support tool again in the future. I will stay committed to this because I feel it is important for teachers to communicate ideas, frustrations, and concerns about our teaching and strategies.

KSD I am committed to my district and school as a whole through my involvement with committee work and curriculum work. I am fortunate to be working for a district that values the work of teachers and their expertise; therefore am very involved in work for our district behavior program, report card and curriculum work. It is important to be involved and have a voice in order to create an atmosphere that is comfortable for my colleagues, students, parents and myself. The school in which I teacher is committed to team planning and therefore once a week I am part of team planning time to work on student assessments, teacher planning and strategy sharing. Through effective communication, teachers are able to achieve more and reach high standards of student achievement. Through being involved in the reading thread group, in which I created the blog for, I have gained a great deal of knowledge and reading strategies and lessons to benefit the overall learning of my students. With continue collaboration with professional teachers and support personnel, I will continue to grow as an educator.
 * 10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works. **
 * 10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment. **
 * 10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students. **