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Prairie Ridge Cadre Wiki
Welcome to the Prairie Ridge Cadre Wiki...a space to communicate, collaborate, post important information, and carry out our team's mission:

//**The Prairie Ridge Cadre exists to positively effect learning, growth, and sense of community, based on common goals, which results in improved student learning, achievement, and well-being.**//

Click this link to review the 09-10 Prairie Ridge Action Plan:

http://prairieridgecadrewiki.wikispaces.com/file/list

Click the Discussions tab above or the link below to join our achievement gap discussion:

http://prairieridgecadrewiki.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/16327379

Click the link below to find a copy of the article if you have misplaced yours:

http://prairieridgecadrewiki.wikispaces.com/file/list

__**What is a wiki?**__ Wikis are just web pages that are freely available and accessible on the internet or on your district's intranet. Wikis allow a group of people to contribute and share information, add to or update information on the wiki with ease and then share it publicly or keep it restricted to only those invited to contribute to the wiki.

__**What is the benefit of using wikis?**__ Using wikis reduces the amount of e-mails going back and forth among your team members and eliminates confusion because you only have one document being worked on rather than multiple versions to try to coordinate. There is no time delay and no excuse for not knowing team's decisions.

__**What do school leaders use a wiki for?**__ • Record deliberations and decisions made by a team over time • Document history of committee work • Revise and finalize group product or document by team members • Build a school schedule (Just put a basic one on the web and have the teachers revise it until the self healing process stops or you can choose one from the history as your final product) • Collaboratively write a grant, policy or handbooks • Collaboratively solve problems • Collaboratively construct meaning • Collaboratively build meeting agenda • Collaboratively draft a school improvement plan (Imagine the power of having as much input as possible by using wiki to develop the initial or later version of your school improvement plan!)

Leading 21st Century Schools by Lynne Schrum and Barbara Levin