Saugus Iron Works PBU

What do country music and classroom technology have in common? Scott Richmond, suggested that mixing country music and Ed Tech might result in a chorus of “Stand By Your LAN.” The Ferryway HP Leadership team found the real answer in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Sight of the Leading with National Education Technology Standards (NETS) ISTE Institute held on September 23-24, 2006. Tom DeVito, Scott Richmond, Robert Simpson, and Paul Teixeira attended the institute as part of this year's HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant. They were joined by fourteen other schools from across the United States and Canada who shared a common vision for transforming their schools into 21st Century Learning communities. HP committed to making this vision a reality by supporting the institute and providing each school with a mobile tablet computing cart. We look forward to an exciting year ahead.
Our team would like to acknowledge the ISTE staff for their hard work in making the institute a great experience! Thank you, Gene Bias, Debren Ferris, Rita Vasek, Diane Zapata, and Idelma Quintana, Program Director.


LAN = Local Area Network

Malden Public School faculty and staff attended the annual opening day ceremony at the High School auditorium on Monday, August 28, 2006. The focus was on teacher leadership and leadership teams. Something the Ferryway teachers who collaborated on last year's HP Technology for Teaching Grant mastered by working together to bring new and innovative engineering curricula to life. Superintendent Joan Connolly remarked, "This group has truly exemplified for all of us the meaning of tenacity and reworking an idea with the goal of continuous improvement. And, most importantly they truly exemplify Teachers as Leaders." Robert Simpson, Teacher Learning Center Director, took a more global perspective in introducing the teachers' work by citing Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat. "The teachers succeeded at the Globalization of the Local by opening their classrooms and their curriculum to the WORLD." The morning ended by showing the, The Saugus Iron Works 1646-2006 movie chronicling how the engineering design process was taught with 21st century teaching tools such as tablet laptops and multimedia websites.

Congratulations to our HP Ferryway teachers!

• Doreen Girard - 5th grade teacher
  
• Toni Perna – 5th grade teacher
  
• Paul Teixeira – E.L.L teacher
  
• Joy Tomadakis – 5-8 computer teacher
  
• Margie Briatico – HP team leader and 5th grade teacher