Award Winner - William Floyd School District

Congratulations to the William Floyd School District, selected to receive the eBoards of Excellence award for June, 2005! Visit the examples below along with other eBoards from the district home page at http://www.wfsd.k12.ny.us/. The William Floyd School District has also been awarded the Newsday.com Cool Site Award - check out what Newsday has to say about eBoard!

Ms. Leah Dazzo, Third Grade Teacher, Woodhull Elementary School
www.msldazzo.wfsd.site.eboard.com
Ms. Dazzo uses her eBoard as a resource for both students and their parents. Ms. Dazzo explains the curriculum that students are participating in and provides web sites for her students that help them to reinforce concepts at home and master necessary skills. She provides web sites for students as well as for parents to fully embrace the home to school communication concept. Some things that you will find on her eBoard are web sites, homework help, study skills, student work, and even content area videos. Ms. Dazzo also utilizes the calendar feature of eBoard to allow parents to have easy access to the class schedule.

Mr. Steve Stengel, Business Teacher, William Floyd High School
www.mrsstengel.wfsd.site.eboard.com
Mr. Stengel uses his eBoard as an instructional portal for his business classes. All of Mr. Stengel's curriculum materials are loaded to his eBoard and he hopes that his class can become paperless. Mr. Stengel utilizes the archive tab on his eBoard to store notes that he will need year to year. Mr. Stengel's eBoard has had 3934 hits since September of this year.

Paca Middle School Team G, 8th Grade Team eBoard
www.pacateamg.wfsd.site.eboard.com
The Paca Middle School has created eBoard as a team of teachers so that the students and the parents go to one central eBoard to find out information on all classes that they are involved in. Four or five teachers work together to gather information for parents, resources for students, and to use the eBoard as a central location to post projects and assignments. These teachers from Team G also utilize the calendar feature to post all important assignment due dates and testing dates. Team G has had 6758 hits since September of this year.

Educational Technology, Educational Technology Department
www.educationaltechnology.wfsd.site.eboard.com
This eBoard is used for the Educational Technology Staff Developers as a central depository for all instructional technology lessons, resources, updates, and newsletters. Teachers, students and parents can find educational resources, links to district used programs, links to professional development courses, newsletters, and highlights from the classrooms.

AASL: National Library Award eBoard
www.aasl.wfsd.site.eboard.com
This eBoard has been created and designed specially for the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) committee to review the William Floyd School District's Library Media Program. Items that committee members are able to access through this eBoard include welcome messages with the library department's mission statement along with the district mission statement, individual librarians' professional development activities, library media specialist job description, links to each district library eBoard, links to New York State learning standards and New York State curriculum resources, Scope and Sequence for grades K-5, Scope and Sequence grades 6-12 and a variety of library-based lessons K-12. There are also samples of student work broken down by school and calendar of events for each librarian.