Professionalism: Collaboration

Professionalism:  Collaboration with Colleagues & Community

The pictures below show the KPBSD music teachers meeting together for professional development and collaboration.  At these bi-annual meetings, each teacher shares one or two teaching tips, games or ideas with the other music teachers.  We all go back to our individual schools with new tools in our tool-belts.

  At McNeil Canyon, teachers use OneNote for on-line collaboration.  We use it for mini-workshops, field days, sharing information about writing topics, Reader's Theaters  and any other information we want to share with one another.  This is a quick and easy way for all staff to share in one document that can be edited by everyone.  This saves great amounts of time at staff meetings.

Click on the link below to see a sample OneNote:

Collaboration Sample




Strong community bonds were forged when McNeil joined the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and together performed "The Orchestra Sings".  McNeil Artists in the School committee helped bring the program to Alaska. The final concert included a collaborative effort between Redoubt School in Soldotna, McNeil, professional guest soloists (of which I was one of), The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra, and professional stage actors.  Two sold-out concerts delighted the young students in one of their first ever stage performances.







Click on the link below to see the program:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw7qFyayV3KgTFlMSnhueGdPSU0/edit?usp=sharing