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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: Twitter account (johnstonsarah)  Rationale 1: A Twitter account encourages collaboration with other educators. It allows educators across the world to foster relationships through common threads of education. Teachers are no longer limited to staff in a building to collaborate with or share ideas with. This tool opens the door to many opportunities of sharing, gathering ideas, and celebrating successes and failures. Ideas gathered and learned from twitter are shared with colleagues that could benefit from the knowledge of those tools.  KSD:  10.K.1 The teacher understands schools as organizations within the larger community context and understands the operations of the relevant aspects of the system(s) within which s/he works.  The school in a 21st century can no longer just be contained inside walls. It must be expanded larger, into the community and into the world. Resources no longer can only come from texts and internet sites, but from live sources around the world through the use of tools such as Twitter, Skype, and more. We no longer teach students by ourselves in our classroom. It has become a worldwide community available at our fingertips for educating today’s students.  10.S.1 The teacher participates in collegial activities designed to make the entire school a productive learning environment.  Through Twitter, new ideas are learned, lessons are shared, and collaboration happens. Participating in this allows for collegiality not only with others on Twitter, but also allows for collegiality in the building. For those staff not using Twitter or building their professional learning network, it is up to those that are using those 21st century tools to share and create a productive learning environment for all involved. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">10.D.5 The teacher is willing to work with other professionals to improve the overall learning environment for students. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Twitter has expanded the professional world from a small staff in one location to millions around the world. Although not each person on Twitter talks with every other person, the large networks and communities that are created go above and beyond what could be created in one building or one district alone. The willingness to share with others and learn from others to improve the overall learning environment for students is something that must be done by all professionals. We can no longer wait for ideas to be shared, we must be willing to work with others and find new ideas from those we interact with.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Teachers are connected with other teachers and the community. **