Leadership TEAM

Guiding questions:

1. Explain how the artifacts align with accomplishing the action steps described in the Professional Learning Plan.

Artifacts are included below for each of our goals.

2. What could you have done differently to meet those goals?

We are moving in the right direction for all of our goals. Goal #3 needs the most focus to get met by the end of the year.

3. How are school/district leaders part of the learning process?

Our HLCS leadership team do frequent walk throughs to provide teachers with feedback. They meet with me as requested when I am looking for support or feedback. We meet every other week with Frank Farias as we problem solve tech related issues to better support learning.

In the first trimester there were many exciting learning experiences for our students:

ELA - VR trips to Sudan (water crisis), Gateway Arch (connect to specific scene in Percy Jackson), and Vietnam (culture & geography)

Math - VR trip to local grocery store (budget & shopping) and Programming Sphero Minis (geometric transformations & linear relationships)

Science - VR for a tornado simulation

Social Studies - VR trips to Ancient China landmarks and Modern Japan (students create digital poster)

Art - Collaboration w/ELA: VR Lantern Festival in Vietnam (students created their own paper lanterns)

Wellness - VR Launch Your Career Simulation

Our TLC just finished creating this resource for our colleagues featuring the how to of using the rubric feature in Google Classroom. This will be shared with everyone soon and will be the first high leverage technology practice to be used.

We need to revisit this goal moving forward and plan how we will provide professional development for teachers

We are strategically using Lexia and Mathia to support students to grow in their foundational skills. Students work on these diagnostic and instructional platforms during tech time, STEAM class, and as a station within classes. I will be meeting with the staff member covering STEAM to show her how to use the data in Lexia for differentiated small group instruction.

Our TLC is building this year. We started the year with 5 members (26%). We are also ending the year with 5 members as one went out on long term medical and we added another member to our team.

We are streamlining our work to align with the school's vision for a Culture of Excellence and Achievement. With the amount of Covid and attendance concerns, we decided as a group that it would be better for us to create simple but informative infographics of high leverage tech tools for our colleagues rather than having classroom demos.

The artifact provided above is our rolling presentation/agenda that includes our running notes.

"TLC is the best and I love itl I wish we could meet more after school or during PD times."

Guiding questions:

1. How does the campus leadership team model and collaborate with each other to support campus goals?

Our school leadership models technology integration while using Jamboards, Mentimeter, and the commenting feature in GSuite during meetings for collaboration and input. We love hyperlinks! School leadership proficiently uses Google Calendar for scheduling meetings as well as having a Calendly for teachers to request a meeting time in our email signature lines. They model mail chimp as a way to send out weekly newsletters. Our school leadership meets as needed when we need to discuss our progress towards goals.

2. How does the district leadership team innovate and collaborate to ensure long-term sustainable practices?

We meet every other week with Frank Farias (FRPS IT POC). The coaches, principals, and district poc meet once a month to discuss sustainable practices. The coaches meet every other week with our ADPL. We also met in person for a coach work day at HLCS in which we discussed many platforms, problem solved, and observed sphero minis in a math class.

3. Have you created documentation of policies for teacher and student device usage?

I have not created documentation of policies yet. I think this is something perhaps the TLC could get involved with in preparation for the next school year to specifically lay out our school wide expectations.

4. Have you implemented best practices gained from leadership calls, national calls, and IT calls? Can you point to ways in which you've modified your PL and IT practices as a result of reflection and learning from others?

I appreciate the VILS community and the wealth of knowledge in the national calls. Problem solving in breakout rooms with my colleagues across the country has been time well spent. One best practice I've tried is conducting a micro-TIM-C. This worked well with our wellness teacher who wanted to try combining VR with career exploration for her 6th grade students.

I am honored to share with the VILS community as a Mentor Coach, on a panel at the January National Call, and at the upcoming VILS conference in March.

Guiding questions:

1. Were TLC members given the opportunity to lead trainings at your campus?

Our TLC has developed on demand professional development resources around best practices for using rubrics in Google Classroom and using technology to provide feedback. The TLC introduced their resource to content and/or grade level colleagues. They also shared their Google Classroom Rubric infographic and process as a poster session at the VILS National Conference this year.

2. How has the group impacted school improvement or student learning?

TLC members are vocal in sharing their tech wisdom in their daily practice. They share seamlessly as part of their discussions with colleagues and during PLTs. They are brainstorm and solve problems.