Transformation Plan

All guiding questions are aligned to the element criteria located in the Portfolio Guide. Use the questions to guide your reflection on the artifacts to narrate your journey on the goals.

Transformation plan is your sustainability plan. Adjust the template to incorporate your school goals and action steps from your sustainability plan. Use the space on this page to write out the goals from the sustainability plan.

Using data from the past 2 years in the VILS program, Akili created the following sustainability plan that will continue the tech centered education for both students and teachers with support from the Leadership Team and the VILS Coach. Teachers and faculty were able to contribute to the sustainability plan through surveys both from VILS and Akili on its own. Teachers are asked to fill out surveys through out the year that gives the VILS a full scope of where teachers are and where they want to go with tech in their classrooms. 

Guiding questions:

1. Explain how the artifacts align with accomplishing the action steps described in the Action Planner.

2. What is your progress on the action steps?

3. What systems have you put in place to create flexibility to adapt and change the plan?

GOAL 1: A clear shared vision with goals for the school, its culture, and teaching and learning. Opportunities for ongoing support for the leadership team, including professional conferences, webinars, online communities of practice, etc. Modeling of strong leadership by adopting and utilizing powerful and innovative technology strategies.

• Action Step 1: Continue TIM observations and coaching cycles by VILS coach.

• Action Step 2: Principal and DCIs co-plan with coach to support staff, reinforce staff expectations of collaboration with coach and integration of technology into teaching practice. Help with staff accountability on deliverables and implementation.

• Action Step 3: Ensure planned time and budget for VILS coach and DCIs to attend ed tech conferences and training. 

GOAL 2:  Align technology integration, school, and district goals and initiatives to increase powerful learning for students and having the flexibility to adapt and change the Transformation Plan as needed.

• Action Step 1: Sharing of plans occur through the inclusion in communication to families, students, and staff via Student Handbook and PDs. 

  • Artifacts:

    • Student Handbook for 2022-2023 

    • VILS Beginning of Year PD 

    • Teacher RollOut Document 

• Action Step 2: Purchase curriculum and licenses that allow for use of VILS technology in an effort to increase the learning experience and push towards the school goal of increasing the level of technology use in TIM matrix.

  • Artifacts:

    • Purchased and currently using Amplify as our science curriculum and Eureka as our math curriculum. Both are tech based curriculums integrating the use of VILS devices in classrooms for lessons.

• Action Step 3: PDs designed to support new needs that arise during the academic year that serve to better enhance academic programing and VILs implementation.

  • Artifacts: 

    • Teachers encountered an issue with students staying focused during lessons when on devices. VILS coach will now give a PD about Securly to give teachers a tool to solve this issue. 

    • Current school wide focus on data specifically around Exit Tickets. VILs coach created a PD about using Google Forms as Exit Tickets

Goal 3: Providing access to instructional coaches that support teachers in technology integration and providing on-going PD opportunities at the district, school, and peer-led levels.

• Action Step 1: Akili Academy of New Orleans will continue to provide a full-time technology instructional coach position with MFP funds. 

• Action Step 2: Summer PD weeks include sessions to reinforce the use of existing apps and tools, and introduce new ones. These trainings will also include 3rd and 4th grade instructional staff.

  • Artifacts:

    • Staff PD on the review tool Blooket on 8/5/22

    • Promethean PD for all staff on 7/21/22

    • Amplify and Eureka PD for science and math teachers on 7/26/22

• Action Step 3: Continued staff support through monthly/bi-monthly professional development sessions on calendared PD days lead by coach and/or Teacher Leader Corps members. 

  • Artifacts:

    • Virtual and In-Person PDs for teachers that align with school goals 

    • Wakelet: A one spot location for all things Tech including PDs, teacher resources, Verizon Webinars, and so much more

• Action Step 2: Set bi-monthly checks to review devices, troubleshoot, retrain and make sure Chromebooks are in the best shape. Provide checklist to homerooms to facilitate quarterly maintenance checks. 

• Action Step 3: Akili Academy of New Orleans will follow the original repair process with the new vendor AGI for device repairs.

  • Artifacts:

    • Had to be modified due to the change of vendor for repairs to AGI

    • All chromebook devices now have the protective cover provided by Verizon to follow the AGI repair expectations

Goal 5: Provide multiple opportunities for families to stay informed and involved in their child's use of technology. Promoting equity in parent and family engagement by delivering the information in multiple formats and languages. Providing opportunities for engagement in areas such as digital citizenship, help desk information for broken devices, community building etc. 

• Action Step 1: Continue to build a references library for families to learn and troubleshoot at home.

• Action Step 2: Create a schedule of tech offering for the larger school community, potentially with outside partners to include tech tutorials, Q&A, digital citizenship resources, at-home resources, coffee with tech coach and principal.

• Action Step 3: Continue to build out a network wide website with additional digital citizenship resources, student tech support, and other resources curated by the Student Tech Team.

Goal 6: Connecting with the school community to understand and collect information on the needs in technology use, knowledge, or concerns, and using that data to help identify indicators of diversity in your student population. Opportunities for additional resources and program support for students from marginalized communities. 

• Action Step 1: Parent survey and student Survey at the BOY, MOY, and EOY asking about technology use, knowledge, or concerns to identify the needs of our students and the larger community.

• Action Step 2: EOY Survey to inform what mindset shifts we need to make as a school for the following school year around technology usage and using that data to plan for BOY professional development sessions. 

• Action Step 3: Intentionally planning for, providing, and teaching students from marginalized communities how to access and leverage tools and programs that address their specific learning needs. In addition, providing families access to these tools to support continued learning at home.

• Self Reflection on the Element: (Choose one: Emerging, Aligning, or Optimizing)

  • I believe we are aligning in this Element.

• Strengths: How did your campus exemplify illustrating this element?

  • The biggest part of the Sustainability Plan is that it is a living document that will change as needed for the needs and betterment of the school. One of the biggest and most useful changes was moving VILS Coach PDs to be virtual through videos. This allows teachers the opportunity to watch the videos on their own time and at their own pace. It also allows for new teachers to have a virtual library of PDs they were not here for and can now catch up to the other teachers. 

• Next Steps: What could you have done differently to better align with this element? 

  • The biggest change that we will make for next year is to incorporate more PDs through out the year that are in person presented by both the VILS coach and other teachers that show exemplary use of programs in their classrooms. This will allow us as a school community to better our PD schedules and allow teachers to assist other teachers in their classrooms.