CONTACT:

LORI TOURVILLE

ltourville@fehb.org

GRANT INFO

Click here for more information on New York State Education Department's Learning Technology Grant program.

FEH BOCES LEARNING TECHNOLOGY GRANT FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND COMMUNICATION

CREATING PROJECT IDENTITY

Led by FEH BOCES, the grant consortium is comprised of six of the nine school districts in the FEH BOCES area: Brushton-Moira, Chateaugay, Malone, Salmon River, St. Regis Falls and Tupper Lake. In this rural region, an average of nearly 2/3 of students are classified as economically disadvantaged and 17.5% are classified as students with disabilities.

GRANT FOR INNOVATION

Project Identity will give students a chance to tell their personal stories using innovative learning technologies. As students explore their own identities, cultures, interests and passions, they can also connect to the identities of their peers and gain a variety of perspectives. 

Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, in cooperation with six of its component districts, has won a Learning Technologies Grant through the New York State Education Department to develop and implement this innovative project. 

Project Identity aims to teach students the civic mindsets necessary for college, career, citizenship and life. 

PHASE 1: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

From those six districts, 60 teachers and leaders representing a cross-section of grade levels and content areas will participate in collaborative professional development exercises. Through this training, they will explore personalized learning, and how to adapt the classroom to and celebrate students' cultures and language identities.

PHASE 1 ARTIFACTS

YEAR 1 DOCUMENTS

• Teacher Commitment Form

• 10 Reasons to Participate in FEH BOCES Project Identity

• Recruitment Letter to Teachers

• Recruitment Communication with School Leaders

• Online PLC Kickoff Timeline for Project Identity

• Project Identity Participant Tech Kit Document

• June Launch Agenda: June 10th & 13th, 2022

• Slide Deck: Project Identity Kickoff/Introduction

• Project Kickoff Evaluation Form (from LPB Consulting)

LINKS TO PRESENTERS AND OTHER

• Skills21

• Skills21 Presentation

• Sara Ahmed

• Julian Mocine McQueen - Million Person Project

• 6 word stories by Stephanie Affinito

• Larry Smith 6 Word Project

• 7 Elements of PBL

PHASE 2: IMPLEMENTING WITH STUDENTS

Then those teachers will work with their students to create their own Project Identity using a variety of learning technologies to communicate their story. Students will discover a range of technological avenues for digital storytelling while developing social, emotional and cultural competency skills.

YEAR 2 DOCUMENTS

• August PD Schedule

• Lifemapping Experience with Amy from The Million Person Project

• Identity Map

• Skills 21 Slide Deck

• Where I’m From Lesson Plan

• Where I’m From Poem Template inspired by Sara K. Ahmed

• Folder with lesson templates and videos:
  https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1URj0kabP-6oetVFR4JA827fWdlAv9K5R

• Slide Deck: Identity Meets Digital Media

• September Newsletter https://www.smore.com/c7ayz-project-identity-update

• Skills21 Screencastify Tutorial for Project Identity

• Skills21 iMovie Tutorial for Project Identity

• Skills21 WeVideo Tutorial for Project Identity

• Skills21 Garage Band Tutorial for Project Identity

• Schedule of monthly virtual support calls in Project Identity PLC in The Community at FEH BOCES    (September 2022 - June 2023) (Jen Hesseltine)

• Project Identity Summer Livestream Series 2022 in The Community at FEH BOCES, hosted by Jen Hesseltine

• Agenda for January 10th PD Day for Project Identity Participants

• Presenter slides or resources from January 10th PD Day:

  • Dr. Gholdy Muhammad - see resources below

  • One Photo, One Story Activity from Katsitsionni Fox - One Photo, One Story Student Project

  • Project Identity Facilitation Slides for January 10th PD

  • Google Form: Teacher snapshot descriptions of learning activities they are hosting for their students, and ideas they have for the remainder of Year 2

• Julian Mocine-McQueen, Million Person Project, sign up form for February 14th and 16th, 2023 virtual classroom workshops

• Julian Mocine-McQueen Student and Teacher Evaluations for virtual classroom workshops Feburary 14th and 16th, 2023: 

  • Student Evaluation (February 2023)

  • Teacher Evaluation (February 2023)

• May 2023 Project Identity Newsletter

• Slide Deck  and Agenda for Project Identity June 12, 2023 ½ Day Professional Development

• Provided to Project Identity participants on June 12th - Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad

• Project Identity End-of-Year 2 Animation - June 12, 2023 - Teachers respond to “One Thing I Learned…”

• Project Identity Year 2 Evaluation

• FEH BOCES SCDN ELA Representative and Project Identity participating teacher, Danielle Keating, shared a Padlet created by a subgroup of the NYSED ELA SCDN focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Inspired by the work of Project Identity (NYSED LTG), Danielle and the SCDN subgroup curated a resource Padlet entitled, “Curating Identity in Our Spaces-A Lifelong Pursuit: Actionable Examples for a Variety of Situations and Spaces.”

Additional Resources:

• Values List

• Cultivating Genius by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad

• Hairs/Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros Learning How to Mine Our Hair Stories

• The Peace Chronicles by Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

• The Green Book Vox Video shared by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad - January 10, 2023

• The Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School by Liza A. Talusan

• Adobe Express (formerly Adobe Spark) for Filmmaking

• Mountain Lake PBS Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival

  Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators

• Edutopia: Resources for Responding to Trauma and Tragedy

• Story Seeds Podcast

• The StoryCenter

PHASE 3: SHARING A TOOLKIT

Through creating and carrying out the project, educators hope to build a bank of ready-to-use Project Identity resources that teachers throughout the state can use to replicate Project Identity in their own learning environments. 

 
To the extent possible under law, Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Project Identity. This work is published from: United States.