Welcome to Jennifer Rizzo's Individual Wiki Page!

About Me:

I am passionate about teaching. I am devoted to learn all I can about education. I work hard and play harder.  On my spare time I love to be outside hiking, biking, or skiing.  I am addicted to yoga and love people.  Everyone in this world has something great to offer. My entire family is in Detroit and I visit as often as I can. I love to travel the world and bring global perspectives to my classroom.  I am currently studying to be a administrator and look forward to building a healthy school culture with high colloboration, positive thinking, and great use of technology.

Professional Experience: 

I graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Commuication. I have three years of marketing and advertising experience. I lived in Minneapolis, New York City, and San Fransicso working at various Advertising Agencies in order to develop commercials for various clients.  Though my job was enjoyable and creative, I was still craving something else.  I was seeking a job I loved and is worth working hard for. Education is worth the fight.  After discovering my passion for Education, I earned by Teaching License and Masters Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Northern Colorado.  I have been teaching for 5 years and I am dedicated to be the best teacher I can be. 

Jennifer Rizzo's Resume:

Final Resume 2008.doc

Action Plan:

Action Plan from an Administrators Perspective.doc

Action Plan from a Teachers Perspective.doc

Essential Questions:

·       How can the leader support teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement?

·       What is a 21st Century school/district/teacher/administrator?

Technological Beginnings:

#1.  Created a Wiki Account for teacher colloboration.  http://scmsstaff.pbwiki.com

#2.  Developed a Visual Ranking for teachers to rank the order of importance of 21st Century Skills.

#3.  Created a Visual Ranking for students to rank which industries will have the least negative effect on the environment at the same time as providing the most benefits to society.

#4.  Created a survey on Surveymonkey.com in order to help students share commonalities and get to know one another.

What I have Learned About the Colorado Growth Model:

#1.  Colorado Legislature approved the Colorado Growth Model in March 2008.  The Colorado Growth Model is an accountability system that tracks individual acheivement over time.  Analyzing individual student growth, allows for goal setting in order to assure each student is proficient by 10th grade.  This system will help analyze which school's are showing growth and which schools need more state resouces or training to ensure more student's are moving towards their goal of becoming proficient by 10th grade.  The Colorado Growth Model will be determined by CSAP scores and will indicate whether a particular school has made AYP. The state of Colorado will issue a report to each school in August 2009 that contains median growth percentile by grade and performance level for each student and which student made adequate yearly growth.  The idea is to use these reports to find out the growth needed for each individual to become proficient and use this information to set goals with the student and his/her family.