2009 Winners
At the end of March 2009, the Empowerment Support Organization announced the winners of the Goldie Anna Awards for Excellence in Education.
This year, we selected four winning clusters of schools, each with their own, unique instructional models of excellence. Our winners span each grade level and encompass a wide range of promising practices.
Part of the award this year was the provision of a 3 day technology academy hosted by Google and The Pearson Foundation. Details of the academy can be found here. Participants spent 3 days involved in learning Google Apps for Education, and the process of creating digital stories. At the end of the academy each group presented their insightful, informative digital stories, which can be seen below.
As the year progresses each school will be involved in creating further examples of digital documentation to highlight the process of implementing each model, the collaborative efforts they have undertaken, and the effects on student learning.
The winners of the 2009 Goldie Anna Awards (and their digital stories) are:
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Narrative Assessments |
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Anchor School: Muscota School |
Elementary School |
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Innovator 1: AmPark |
Elementary School |
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Innovator 2: Central Park East 1 |
Intermediate School |
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Muscota New School's winning model is Narrative Assessments. As the Anchor School, they will share their award winning practices with AmPark School and Central Park East 1 School.
Their digital story is a powerful conversation between two teachers as they explain the benefits of "making the whole child visible"
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Enhancing Differentiated Instruction using Technology |
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Anchor School: C.I.S 339 |
Middle School |
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Innovator 1: Bronx School of Science Inquiry |
Middle School |
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Innovator 2: East Flatbush Community Research |
Middle School |
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C.I.S 339 are the Anchor School who will be sharing their winning model of Differentiating Instruction through Technology.
Their digital story is an overview of their model and how their Innovator Schools (Bronx School of Science Inquiry and East Flatbush Community Research School) will adapt the successful work of C.I.S 339
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The Writing and Thinking Program |
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Anchor School: Bard High School Early College |
High School |
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Innovator 1: Bard High School Early College II |
High School |
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Innovator 2: The Center School |
Intermediate School |
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Bard High School Early College’s Writing and Thinking Program establishes a practice of thoughtful discussions and small group writing workshops from the very start of the school year.
In their digital story they share an overview of the process and how this powerful instructional model benefits student learning across all content areas.
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Web 2.0 Tools for Authentic Book Club Collaboration |
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Anchor School: University Neighborhood |
Middle School |
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Innovator 1: Mott Hall II |
Intermediate School |
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Innovator 2: Urban Science Academy |
Intermediate School |
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Innovator 3: Dr. Sun Yat Sen |
Intermediate School |
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University Neighborhood Middle School enter their second year of participation in the Goldie Anna Awards. As a previous Innovator school, they are now a 2009 Anchor School.
Their winning model of school-wide Book Clubs will be taken in a new, technological direction, using Web 2.0 tools to augment the Book Club process.
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