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A strong transformation plan unifies the vision for technology integration and device maintenance with the school improvement plan or goals for the year.
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.
Sustainability Plan Summary
Sustainability Plan Summary
Your Sustainability Plan is your Transformation Plan. Adjust the template to incorporate your school goals and action steps from your Sustainability Plan.
Guiding questions:
How did you use data to inform your student-centered goals and action steps?
We used data from last year's TIM-Os, student and teacher end of year surveys, TSV reports, and TNTP, district, and school based leadership walkthroughs to inform our student-centered goals and action steps.
How did the teachers, students, and families contribute to your plan?
The plan was shared with our Instructional Leadership Team first then the teachers involved with VILS. I shared our goals with our student leadership teams for input.
School Goals and Progress
School Goals and Progress
Use the space on this page to write out the goals from your Sustainability Plan.
Guiding questions:
Explain how the artifacts align with accomplishing the action steps described in the Action Planner.
What is your progress on the action steps?
What systems have you put in place to create flexibility to adapt and change the plan?
The Dean of Teaching and Learning and VILS Coach meet weekly to discuss our progress, reflect, and plan next steps. During these discussions we look at 2-3 elements on a rotating basis. We have a shared document with notes and next steps.
Goal 1: Professional Learning Annual STEAM Goal: Teachers and students will use technology as a tool to engage the community beyond the 4 walls of the classroom at least once per trimester including, but not limited to: connecting with students in other classes/grades/schools, connecting with community partners, connecting with experts in the field, connecting learning with the real world through technology, and virtual reality experiences.
Goal 1: Professional Learning Annual STEAM Goal: Teachers and students will use technology as a tool to engage the community beyond the 4 walls of the classroom at least once per trimester including, but not limited to: connecting with students in other classes/grades/schools, connecting with community partners, connecting with experts in the field, connecting learning with the real world through technology, and virtual reality experiences.
The VILS Coach will facilitate PD during the first trimester to introduce the goal, model an example lesson, and offer planning support. (See artifacts under Ongoing Professional Learning - VILS Learning Experience 1)
Teachers will plan, facilitate, and share artifacts of tech enhanced lessons that meet this goal. The VILS Coach will support with planning, co-teaching, and feedback as requested by teachers.
VILS Coach will conduct TIM-Os during implementation of these learning experiences, reflect on our progress, and determine action steps to improve the process for following trimesters. The coach will showcase exciting tech integration occuring in HLCS through potty pds, emails, and twitter.
Goal 1 Reflections
Goal 1 Reflections
"Becky was really great about reaching out to me and offering support. I am hoping this upcoming year we can work together on finding more opportunities to change things up in math"
It was a challenge to meet this goal with all teachers this year. Some reasons teachers stated include:
difficult to find opportunities while piloting a curriculum (Amplify)
being out on maternity leave
focusing on meeting curriculum requirements
difficult to find relevant tasks in math
not having a co-teacher
Teachers shared that the coach could help them next year to meet this goal by:
sharing ideas of how to connect with others outside of the classroom
support getting this done in unit 1
Goal 2: In order to cultivate a culture of achievement and support students in achieving at high levels, teachers will leverage technology practices to scaffold the core instruction and provide targeted intervention as needed during WIN blocks.
Goal 2: In order to cultivate a culture of achievement and support students in achieving at high levels, teachers will leverage technology practices to scaffold the core instruction and provide targeted intervention as needed during WIN blocks.
The VILS coach and TLC members will read "UDL & Blended Learning" by Catlin R. Tucker and Katie Novak. TLC members will plan and implement strategies from the book.
TLC Members and the VILS Coach will share out best practices for meeting our diverse learners using technology through PDs, PLTs, potty pds, and emails with our colleagues.
The VILS Coach will offer to support planning, model/co-teach these practices.
Choice Boards
Choice Boards
This potty PD focused on designing choice boards to support diverse student needs. See more information on this on the Ongoing Professional Learning page.
Paper for support
Paper for support
A student tech team member created this poster to inform his peers about using Paper for tutoring support. Students began using this tool during their WIN blocks and homework time.
Learner Variability
Learner Variability
Teachers were introduced to learner variability and the navigator tool. They focused on particular students and created learning plans. See more information on this pd session in the Ongoing Professional Learning page.
Goal 2 Reflections
Goal 2 Reflections
Goal 3: Students in subgroups (Special Ed and MLL) will close the achievement gap by scoring within 10 points of the average of their mainstream peers in district benchmarks in all content areas.
Goal 3: Students in subgroups (Special Ed and MLL) will close the achievement gap by scoring within 10 points of the average of their mainstream peers in district benchmarks in all content areas.
We will set, share, monitor, and incentivize expectations around student completion of minutes/units for Lexia and Mathia.
Progress monitor the ELA/Math growth and development of our SPED/ELL students and respond to their changing needs.
VILS Coach will create a monthly newsletter to support building wide instructional focus with specific instructional technology tools that will support personalized learning. VILS Coach will also upkeep a tips and strategies website for teachers to refer to.
December Lexia Incentive
Goal 4: Throughout SY23, HLCS will partner with families to establish habits of safe tech usage and understand the impact of their digital footprint through monthly communication (newsletters, parent square, tweets, website postings, and workshops).
Goal 4: Throughout SY23, HLCS will partner with families to establish habits of safe tech usage and understand the impact of their digital footprint through monthly communication (newsletters, parent square, tweets, website postings, and workshops).
Student Tech Team members will showcase a digital citizenship topic of the month on the middle school website to share with students and families.
A survey will be sent out to families regarding preferences for parent workshops. HLCS staff will facilitate 2 parent workshops on internet safety and digital citizenship based on survey responses.
Have a parent tech support and information table at Open House and Parent Teacher Conferences.
See more evidence on the Family Engagement page.
Parent Teacher Conference Poster: Parent Tech Support Table & VILS Lab open with VR Experience
Element Reflection
Element Reflection
Self Reflection on the Element: (Choose one: Emerging, Aligning, or Optimizing)
Strengths: How did your campus exemplify illustrating this element?
Next Steps: What could you have done differently to better align with this element?
Overall I think we are optimizing the element of the Transformation Plan. We have evidence that demonstrates that our technology integration is aligned with our school vision. The plan is shared with staff, students, and families. We adapt our plan as needed.
Our strength is using data to inform our plan and to adjust as necessary while aligning with our school vision.
We could improve in this area by increasing our communication around our goals and expectations with teachers. Our tech integration goals need to have more admin support to encourage reluctant teachers to engage as well.
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