National+Goal+3

**National Goal 3** **Cluster Goal** Schools actively engage in PLC’s and e-PLCs to build capacity and enhance effective pedagogical practices

**Possible tasks and examples** Staff Level:
 * Plan for cluster after school gathering once or twice a term to provide an opportunity for teachers across the schools in the cluster to share ideas - perhaps in a specific area.
 * Ensure there are opportunities for sharing of ideas across the Junior, Middle and Senior teams within cluster schools.
 * ICT Lead Teachers visit other schools to gather ideas.
 * Ensure teachers in cluster are aware of and access cluster wiki. Example - have a direct link to wiki on SmartNet and promote it to staff
 * Identify common needs across groups of teacher in the cluster and each ICT Lead Teacher to help with facilitating workshop(s) to address these. See Waimarino cluster for ideas how to facilitate. All workshops hosted at one school.
 * Create 21 ways to use????. Task sent via email and people add to shared ideas on wiki. Example: 21 ways to improve oral language using IT tools.
 * Attend conferences with teachers from cluster and co-ordinate arrangements where possible to enhance opportunities for sharing Create cluster school staff email list for distribution to all teachers – suggest group email list so emails sent to teachers@............... Lead teacher to take responsibility for checking teacher list within their school is kept up to date.

Student Level:
 * Collaborative photo competition for students across our cluster for set theme
 * Clases buddy up for skyping - oral language
 * Clases buddy up and commenting on each others’ blogs,
 * Clases use wallwisher to do initial brainatorms during units - sharing of ideas. This could be within or between cluster schools.
 * Group writing collaboratively - keep adding to a story, one starts, then next person continues. Could use picture cues like on Storybird
 * International student online conference - children can submit/ comment on presentations around a set topic - check out October 2010 conference.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kids Congress - kids can attend mini conference type thing, accompanied by teacher


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put links to appropriate collaborative projects on wiki
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rockys collaborative projects website for ideas
 * Loads of tools and ideas for collaborating at Cool Tools for Teachers

Community Level:
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking turns reporting to community through school newsletter snippets - 21st century learning. One person writes and gives to each school to include in their schol newsletter.