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Welcome to The Resource Circle!

Our Community surrounds Burbank Middle School

we are located just north of downtown Houston Texas
My name is Mr. Rollins and I co-teach with a great group of teachers. Members of this site include teachers and administrators. They teach Science, Math, English, Reading, and Social Studies. The purpose of this wiki site is to create an on-line community of learning. Increase teaching and learning with technology in the class room. To also increase create support and leadership for integrating technology. According to the 2006-2009 STaR Charts, Burbank struggled in the area of: Leadership Administration, and Instructional Support of technology. The infrastructure for technology is clearly there, yet seldom reinforced with support or utilized fully. How do we increase the leadership and support when using technology in our classes ? Please add to this discussion with your comments. Thanks,

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One way we can use technology more is to plan how we can keep the students attention with an effective learning program. Mr.Ford

=I have made some additions to our site. Please take a look at the new pages i created for the parents and students. I have posted links of our 7th grade lesson plans this 6 weeks. They will be posted whenever you send them to me so the parents can see what's their children are learning in class. This is a great resource for parents and should be taken advantage of regularly.= =The other page is called "What's Up This Week". The students and parents can see the times we will be using technology to teach with. My class use the E-Lab and Science Lab for access important on-line learning applications such as [|www.mathhelp.net], [|www.voyagerlearning.com] , Science Lab Tech and understanding math plus. I will be adding one more page next week that helps our students with all subjects areas. They will be able to access survival guide documents in each core subject they can refer to at anytime thay need to. Thanks,= =Mr. Rollins=

Students and Parents!

I have added a new page (Survival Guides) that features strategies and important reminders for writing papers, letters, and assignments for English class. There will be new additions and links to this page in the coming week. If you have any ideas or additions of your own, please feel free to post your thoughts here at the Resource Circle. Thanks again,

Mr.Rollins