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A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story




  “Success Is The
Name Of The Game”
             How Hatch Technology Is Helping
Special Education Students – And Teachers – Achieve Success
            In One West Virginia School District




                    The Early Learning Experts
A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story

                             How Hatch Technology Is Helping Special
   “Success Is The           Education Students – And Teachers – Achieve Success
Name Of The Game”            In One West Virginia School District



                             “We’ve had Hatch for as long as I can remember.”
                             Mercer County, West Virginia is, their tourism bureau says,
                             “nestled deep in the heart of Appalachia” in an area “filled with a
                             rich history of coal mining.” Located at the southernmost tip of the
                             state, this largely rural county serves over 9,500 students in Pre-K
                             through Grade 12 at 25 different schools. Joyce Tedder is
                             the Special Education Instructional Supervisor for Mercer County,
                             and it’s up to her to see that the needs of the Special Education
                             students at those 25 schools are being met. For years, she has
                             helped accomplish that with Hatch technology. “We’ve had Hatch
                             in the county for as long as I can remember,” she says. In the
                             2009-10 school year alone, ARRA funds were used to buy six
                             new Hatch computers for Pre-K special needs classrooms and
                             autistic, moderately mentally impaired, and behavior disordered
                             elementary classrooms. They augment the many Hatch technology
         “The parents are    products already in every special needs classroom in the county,

       amazed                Pre-K through high school.

      at how these three-,   Why this commitment to Hatch? Because over the years Joyce
  four- and five-year-olds   Tedder and the teachers she supports have found Hatch
   are able to navigate on   technology to be the best choice for their classrooms. Hatch
     the Hatch computer.”    Touch ‘n Play desktop computers were purchased several years
                             ago and are still being utilized (Touch ‘n Play has since been
                             replaced by iStartSmart), and the school system has most recently
                             added Hatch’s TeachSmart system to many classes. TeachSmart is
                             a SMART Board™-based system that offers over 1,100 research-
                             based, Hatch-developed activities.

                             But the quality of the equipment and the teaching activities is not
                             the only advantage Hatch offers. “The technical support offered
                                                                                                         The Early Learning Experts


                             by Hatch is definitely top notch,” Joyce Tedder says. “I have not
                             experienced any better from any other company. They have been
                             here to do training numerous times, and if there is a problem with
                             a Hatch system, no matter how old it is, they are still willing to offer
                             support. They have proved their service to be outstanding through
                             the years.”




                                                                                                 Hatch
A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story


  “There are just so many     Such technical support is important because the Hatch equipment
  different programs that     itself has proven to be an important tool in the special needs
     the teacher can really   classrooms. “Our main goal,” Joyce Tedder continues, “is to help
         make the lessons     the special needs students have more access to the general ed
   individualized to meet     curriculum, and more interaction and high engagement in the
      the student’s needs.”   classroom, and we have certainly found that the Hatch systems
                              for our preschool and for our autistic and moderate students have
                              helped bring that to pass, especially the high engagement.”

                              “TeachSmart has opened up the world
                              of technology.”
                              Individual teachers agree, citing the accessibility provided by the
                              TeachSmart system as a key advantage. Because it has a touch
                              screen that can be used with virtually any object, the TeachSmart
                              board allows children lacking fine motor skills to use whatever they
                              are able to manipulate, such as a tennis ball, to write on the screen.
                              It is also accessible to children limited to using only switches.
                              “For me, the TeachSmart system especially has opened up the
                              world of technology for children who otherwise wouldn’t have that
                              opportunity because of the severity of their special needs,” says
                              Donna Pennington, a special needs teacher at the Mercer County
                              Early Learning Center. “Before, we had to do more hand-over-
                              hand manipulation where the teacher literally had to guide these
                              children. Now even a child in a wheelchair can go up to the big
                              screen on my wall and if they have any motor movement at all, if
                              they just touch the screen something happens.”

                              Pennington finds this accessibility is especially important to
                              students with visual difficulties. “I had a visually impaired child in
                              my classroom and I used the writing part of the TeachSmart system
                              a lot with him,” she says. “He could draw pictures on it and write
                              his name because it enlarges everything. And with the touch screen
                              he was able to see what he was doing as far as moving objects, being
                              able to touch the object and move it to where it needed to be. On a
                                                                                                         The Early Learning Experts


                              smaller screen it would have been more difficult for him.”

                              “Hatch helps to meet the IEPs.”
                              A second advantage of using Hatch technology is the planning
                              that goes into the lessons and activities included in the equipment.
                              Hatch makes certain that the work the children do matches up
                              with actual goals set forth by the state. Joyce Tedder says this is an
                              invaluable resource. “This helps to meet the IEPs,” she says. “At the


                                                                                                 Hatch
A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story


                              middle school a lot of the students have speech problems and
                              communication problems, and the children use the electronic
                              speech devices and work with them. Hatch just does a fantastic
                              job of making all their equipment co-relate together to meet the
                              needs of the students.”

                              Wanda Vaught, a special education teacher at Bluefield Middle
                              School, echoes that sentiment. “IEPs are set with the state Content
                              Standards and Objectives in mind,” she says. “You have to look at
                              those CSOs when you’re doing your planning to make sure you’re
                              giving the students what they are supposed to have according to
                              the state defined standards. And the Hatch programs are designed
                              so that we’re meeting those needs. Whether we’re working on
                              vocabulary skills, overall reading skills or comprehension skills,
        “The TeachSmart       the programs are designed so that you can target a specific skill.
      system has opened       And that helps a lot. We’ve improved their scores a good bit.”
          up the world of
           technology for     “The teacher can make the lessons individualized.”
             children who     It also helps that the Hatch TeachSmart and desktop technologies
      otherwise wouldn’t      offer a wide variety of activities. As Joyce Tedder points out, “There
    have that opportunity     are just so many different programs that the teacher can really make
           because of the     the lessons individualized to meet the student’s needs.”
          severity of their
           special needs.”    Wanda Vaught finds that having an easy-to-use computer allows her
                              to step back and let the students work with each other. “Sometimes
                              on the computer we’ll do peers tutoring,” she explains. “Students
                              have to work together, taking turns, and sharing their thoughts
                              on the subjects they’re working on. Then they come up with one
                              answer for the two people. So there’s no teacher involved – it’s all
                              peer oriented. And that’s a good thing because it’s not teacher
                              centered, it’s student centered, they’re the ones having to help
                              each other. I always try to pair a student who is a little higher
                              functioning with one who is a little lower functioning; that way
                              they both get something from the experience.”
                                                                                                          The Early Learning Experts



                              “The kids love it.”
                              As for the kids themselves, the teachers say they really enjoy
                              working with the Hatch technology. “The kids love it,” Donna
                              Pennington says of the TeachSmart system in her classroom.
                              “As a matter of fact, I’ve had to teach them to listen for a timer be-
                              cause they all want to use the system. And you know when



                                                                                                  Hatch
A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story


                             you’ve got 19 kids in a classroom, they can’t all be there using it at
                             the same time. So they learn to take turns and share. They learn
                             to work together, like one child will start a picture and another
                             child will ask if they can join in and draw something as well on
                 “A lot of   the screen.”
       positive              Wanda Vaught has had the same experience with her
    things have come out
       of using the Hatch    TeachSmart system. “The kids get real excited when they know
                             we’re going to use it,” she says. “And then they enjoy taking turns,
             systems with
                             like when we put things up on the board and each person gets
          these students.”
                             their turn to answer a question or choose something that we’re
                             going to do. This allows students to make choices for themselves,
                             which makes them very excited.”

                             “The parents are amazed.”
                             The advantages of Hatch technology also extend to the teachers.
                             TeachSmart allows teachers to digitally save work done on the
                             SMART Board into a file for each student. “When my children
                             draw pictures or write their names and things, I can save their
                             work and put it in their file and then I have that to show the
                             parents,” Donna Pennington says. She says the parents are often
                             surprised at what their children can accomplish using the Hatch
                             systems. “The days we have special activities going on in the
                             school, the parents come down to my classroom and the kids
                             use the Hatch computer with their parents in the room, and the
                             parents are amazed at how these three-, four- and five-year-olds
                             are able to navigate on that computer.”

                             Donna Pennington isn’t the only teacher who has had parents be
                             surprised by what their children can do using Hatch technology.
                             Linda Harmon, a teacher at Princeton High School, had one stu-
                             dent who far exceeded his parents’ expectations thanks to Hatch
                             technology. “Sometimes our parents don’t realize and they limit
                             their own children,” she says. “One of my students, he graduated
                                                                                                         The Early Learning Experts


                             year before last, he didn’t have a lot of fine motor skills, but the
                             Hatch computer really helped him, first using the touch screen
                             and then using the mouse. It just so happened that his sister, who
                             was in a general ed program, was here and we were stuck in the
                             classroom together during a snowstorm. Her mom had called
                             to see how they were and how they were progressing. I had her
                             brother on the Hatch computer doing the activities and she told
                             her mother. It allowed his mother to see that he could interact


                                                                                                 Hatch
A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story


                             with a computer. This was just great timing that the sister happened
                             to be over here, because I don’t think the parents had really exposed
                             him to their own home computer because they didn’t realize that he
                             had the potential to do certain things. So that in itself was a success
                             story that was pretty amazing.”

                             “You have to give the students opportunities.”
                             Wanda Vaught has a similar story. “One student that I had couldn’t
                             speak, but he could get on the Hatch computer and navigate through
                             almost any program. It was just amazing to watch him. Had he not
                             had that opportunity and someone to give him that opportunity,
                             and allow him to use the computer, he may never have learned how.
                             Sometimes you may have a student who is either physically handi-
                             capped or mentally challenged to the degree that everybody thinks
                             they just sit there. But you know, you have to give them opportuni-
                             ties, and Hatch has allowed those students to have just that.”
            “At the end of
      the school year my     Giving their students the opportunity to succeed is important to
         students can see    these teachers. Wanda Vaught points out that having accessible
       their progress and    computers and well-thought-out programs that allow the students to
  they’re saying ‘We had     develop new skills like reading “gives them self esteem, so that when
     a successful year.’”    they go out and are with other [general ed] students, they don’t
                             feel quite as bad about themselves and their inability to do things.”

                             “Success is the name of the game.”
                             For Linda Harmon, being able to use the technology to show
                             students print outs and digital copies of their work is key to showing
                             them the progress they have made and giving them that sense
                             of accomplishment. “Success is the name of the game,” she says,
                             “and I’m always telling my students at the beginning of the year,
                             ‘Success means to do well.’ At the end of the school year my students
                             can see their progress and they’re saying ‘We had a successful year.’”

                             As for Joyce Tedder, she sums up her feelings about Hatch
                                                                                                        The Early Learning Experts


                             technology this way: “A lot of positive things have come out of
                             using the Hatch systems with these students.”

                             For more information about Hatch technology products, visit
                             www.HatchEarlyChildhood.com.




                                                                                                Hatch

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Mercer Breakthrough Moment Story

  • 1. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story “Success Is The Name Of The Game” How Hatch Technology Is Helping Special Education Students – And Teachers – Achieve Success In One West Virginia School District The Early Learning Experts
  • 2. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story How Hatch Technology Is Helping Special “Success Is The Education Students – And Teachers – Achieve Success Name Of The Game” In One West Virginia School District “We’ve had Hatch for as long as I can remember.” Mercer County, West Virginia is, their tourism bureau says, “nestled deep in the heart of Appalachia” in an area “filled with a rich history of coal mining.” Located at the southernmost tip of the state, this largely rural county serves over 9,500 students in Pre-K through Grade 12 at 25 different schools. Joyce Tedder is the Special Education Instructional Supervisor for Mercer County, and it’s up to her to see that the needs of the Special Education students at those 25 schools are being met. For years, she has helped accomplish that with Hatch technology. “We’ve had Hatch in the county for as long as I can remember,” she says. In the 2009-10 school year alone, ARRA funds were used to buy six new Hatch computers for Pre-K special needs classrooms and autistic, moderately mentally impaired, and behavior disordered elementary classrooms. They augment the many Hatch technology “The parents are products already in every special needs classroom in the county, amazed Pre-K through high school. at how these three-, Why this commitment to Hatch? Because over the years Joyce four- and five-year-olds Tedder and the teachers she supports have found Hatch are able to navigate on technology to be the best choice for their classrooms. Hatch the Hatch computer.” Touch ‘n Play desktop computers were purchased several years ago and are still being utilized (Touch ‘n Play has since been replaced by iStartSmart), and the school system has most recently added Hatch’s TeachSmart system to many classes. TeachSmart is a SMART Board™-based system that offers over 1,100 research- based, Hatch-developed activities. But the quality of the equipment and the teaching activities is not the only advantage Hatch offers. “The technical support offered The Early Learning Experts by Hatch is definitely top notch,” Joyce Tedder says. “I have not experienced any better from any other company. They have been here to do training numerous times, and if there is a problem with a Hatch system, no matter how old it is, they are still willing to offer support. They have proved their service to be outstanding through the years.” Hatch
  • 3. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story “There are just so many Such technical support is important because the Hatch equipment different programs that itself has proven to be an important tool in the special needs the teacher can really classrooms. “Our main goal,” Joyce Tedder continues, “is to help make the lessons the special needs students have more access to the general ed individualized to meet curriculum, and more interaction and high engagement in the the student’s needs.” classroom, and we have certainly found that the Hatch systems for our preschool and for our autistic and moderate students have helped bring that to pass, especially the high engagement.” “TeachSmart has opened up the world of technology.” Individual teachers agree, citing the accessibility provided by the TeachSmart system as a key advantage. Because it has a touch screen that can be used with virtually any object, the TeachSmart board allows children lacking fine motor skills to use whatever they are able to manipulate, such as a tennis ball, to write on the screen. It is also accessible to children limited to using only switches. “For me, the TeachSmart system especially has opened up the world of technology for children who otherwise wouldn’t have that opportunity because of the severity of their special needs,” says Donna Pennington, a special needs teacher at the Mercer County Early Learning Center. “Before, we had to do more hand-over- hand manipulation where the teacher literally had to guide these children. Now even a child in a wheelchair can go up to the big screen on my wall and if they have any motor movement at all, if they just touch the screen something happens.” Pennington finds this accessibility is especially important to students with visual difficulties. “I had a visually impaired child in my classroom and I used the writing part of the TeachSmart system a lot with him,” she says. “He could draw pictures on it and write his name because it enlarges everything. And with the touch screen he was able to see what he was doing as far as moving objects, being able to touch the object and move it to where it needed to be. On a The Early Learning Experts smaller screen it would have been more difficult for him.” “Hatch helps to meet the IEPs.” A second advantage of using Hatch technology is the planning that goes into the lessons and activities included in the equipment. Hatch makes certain that the work the children do matches up with actual goals set forth by the state. Joyce Tedder says this is an invaluable resource. “This helps to meet the IEPs,” she says. “At the Hatch
  • 4. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story middle school a lot of the students have speech problems and communication problems, and the children use the electronic speech devices and work with them. Hatch just does a fantastic job of making all their equipment co-relate together to meet the needs of the students.” Wanda Vaught, a special education teacher at Bluefield Middle School, echoes that sentiment. “IEPs are set with the state Content Standards and Objectives in mind,” she says. “You have to look at those CSOs when you’re doing your planning to make sure you’re giving the students what they are supposed to have according to the state defined standards. And the Hatch programs are designed so that we’re meeting those needs. Whether we’re working on vocabulary skills, overall reading skills or comprehension skills, “The TeachSmart the programs are designed so that you can target a specific skill. system has opened And that helps a lot. We’ve improved their scores a good bit.” up the world of technology for “The teacher can make the lessons individualized.” children who It also helps that the Hatch TeachSmart and desktop technologies otherwise wouldn’t offer a wide variety of activities. As Joyce Tedder points out, “There have that opportunity are just so many different programs that the teacher can really make because of the the lessons individualized to meet the student’s needs.” severity of their special needs.” Wanda Vaught finds that having an easy-to-use computer allows her to step back and let the students work with each other. “Sometimes on the computer we’ll do peers tutoring,” she explains. “Students have to work together, taking turns, and sharing their thoughts on the subjects they’re working on. Then they come up with one answer for the two people. So there’s no teacher involved – it’s all peer oriented. And that’s a good thing because it’s not teacher centered, it’s student centered, they’re the ones having to help each other. I always try to pair a student who is a little higher functioning with one who is a little lower functioning; that way they both get something from the experience.” The Early Learning Experts “The kids love it.” As for the kids themselves, the teachers say they really enjoy working with the Hatch technology. “The kids love it,” Donna Pennington says of the TeachSmart system in her classroom. “As a matter of fact, I’ve had to teach them to listen for a timer be- cause they all want to use the system. And you know when Hatch
  • 5. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story you’ve got 19 kids in a classroom, they can’t all be there using it at the same time. So they learn to take turns and share. They learn to work together, like one child will start a picture and another child will ask if they can join in and draw something as well on “A lot of the screen.” positive Wanda Vaught has had the same experience with her things have come out of using the Hatch TeachSmart system. “The kids get real excited when they know we’re going to use it,” she says. “And then they enjoy taking turns, systems with like when we put things up on the board and each person gets these students.” their turn to answer a question or choose something that we’re going to do. This allows students to make choices for themselves, which makes them very excited.” “The parents are amazed.” The advantages of Hatch technology also extend to the teachers. TeachSmart allows teachers to digitally save work done on the SMART Board into a file for each student. “When my children draw pictures or write their names and things, I can save their work and put it in their file and then I have that to show the parents,” Donna Pennington says. She says the parents are often surprised at what their children can accomplish using the Hatch systems. “The days we have special activities going on in the school, the parents come down to my classroom and the kids use the Hatch computer with their parents in the room, and the parents are amazed at how these three-, four- and five-year-olds are able to navigate on that computer.” Donna Pennington isn’t the only teacher who has had parents be surprised by what their children can do using Hatch technology. Linda Harmon, a teacher at Princeton High School, had one stu- dent who far exceeded his parents’ expectations thanks to Hatch technology. “Sometimes our parents don’t realize and they limit their own children,” she says. “One of my students, he graduated The Early Learning Experts year before last, he didn’t have a lot of fine motor skills, but the Hatch computer really helped him, first using the touch screen and then using the mouse. It just so happened that his sister, who was in a general ed program, was here and we were stuck in the classroom together during a snowstorm. Her mom had called to see how they were and how they were progressing. I had her brother on the Hatch computer doing the activities and she told her mother. It allowed his mother to see that he could interact Hatch
  • 6. A Hatch Breakthrough Moment Success Story with a computer. This was just great timing that the sister happened to be over here, because I don’t think the parents had really exposed him to their own home computer because they didn’t realize that he had the potential to do certain things. So that in itself was a success story that was pretty amazing.” “You have to give the students opportunities.” Wanda Vaught has a similar story. “One student that I had couldn’t speak, but he could get on the Hatch computer and navigate through almost any program. It was just amazing to watch him. Had he not had that opportunity and someone to give him that opportunity, and allow him to use the computer, he may never have learned how. Sometimes you may have a student who is either physically handi- capped or mentally challenged to the degree that everybody thinks they just sit there. But you know, you have to give them opportuni- ties, and Hatch has allowed those students to have just that.” “At the end of the school year my Giving their students the opportunity to succeed is important to students can see these teachers. Wanda Vaught points out that having accessible their progress and computers and well-thought-out programs that allow the students to they’re saying ‘We had develop new skills like reading “gives them self esteem, so that when a successful year.’” they go out and are with other [general ed] students, they don’t feel quite as bad about themselves and their inability to do things.” “Success is the name of the game.” For Linda Harmon, being able to use the technology to show students print outs and digital copies of their work is key to showing them the progress they have made and giving them that sense of accomplishment. “Success is the name of the game,” she says, “and I’m always telling my students at the beginning of the year, ‘Success means to do well.’ At the end of the school year my students can see their progress and they’re saying ‘We had a successful year.’” As for Joyce Tedder, she sums up her feelings about Hatch The Early Learning Experts technology this way: “A lot of positive things have come out of using the Hatch systems with these students.” For more information about Hatch technology products, visit www.HatchEarlyChildhood.com. Hatch