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**Standard 10** ** Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community. **  The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.


 * Evidence 1:** iPad Grant

A colleague and I worked together to write a grant for a classroom set of iPads for our school. We realized that having a classroom set of iPads would give many of our middle school students the opportunity to work with great technology with a vast amount of educational potential that they might not otherwise have the opportunity to work with. We worked with our technology department to develop pieces of the grant as well. We used the Verizon Foundation as our grantor and we had to manipulate our information and requests to align with their grant application requests.
 * Rationale 1:**


 * KSD**
 * 10.K.2 The teacher understands how factors in the students’ environment outside of school (e.g. family circumstances, community environments, health, and economic conditions) may influence students’ lives and learning.**

My colleague and I understood that due to the high poverty level in our district many of the students in our school do not have access to newer technology developments such as iPads. We knew that iPads have a lot of potential for wonderful learning opportunities, especially interactive learning and that many students would benefit from using this technology for learning. We decided to then write a grant requesting a classroom set of iPads for our school so that students would have the opportunity to learn with this wonderful new technology.


 * 10.S.6 The teacher acts as an advocate for students.**

This grant requested a classroom set of iPads for student use. My colleague and I wrote this grant in hopes that our school would gain these iPads to enhance student learning opportunities in the classroom through creative and interactive technology. We realized that we had to advocate for our students to be able to experience learning with this technology as many of the students in our district may not have the opportunity due to much of our district being poverty stricken.


 * 10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students.**

In the grant for iPads, I worked with colleagues to write the grant. The co-writer and I were also willing to work with the Verizon Foundation to write a grant that fit their descriptions. We were willing to work with our grant writing instructor to write the best grant possible as well.