Guiding questions:

1. How has technology access impacted student learning at your campus?

Students are now able to complete assignments from anywhere, research a topic that interests them at anytime, and have the tools to create digital content at their fingertips. Technology access enables teachers to further modify their lessons to meet the needs of all students, empower them to create engaging lessons, and increase their confidence in leveraging technology. Teachers are motivated to learn and try new things knowing that they have the tools and supports in place to ensure success. Below are a few examples of the positive impacts technology access has had on our campus.

Recently, former TLC member Louis Karpinski designed a Google Earth project for an introduction lesson on Athens and Rome for his Ancient World History class. Students were excited to explore a new digital platform and highly engaged while "visiting" the historical sites.

During the fall semester of 2021, Tubman's School Based IT lead, Angelo Cross, led an elective class called Tubman Student News. Students learned how to plan, record, and edit news segments that were then broadcasted to the entire school.

During the second semester, Mr. Cross taught a movie making class. Students worked together to write a script and submitted the script to the Louisiana Film Prize Junior competition - it was accepted! Mr. Cross then arranged to have camera equipment lent to the students by Panavision with support of Camera Service Technician, Barry Cunningham. After holding auditions, the film club students and those who were casted worked during the personalized enrichment block and came in several weekends to film the scenes. They submitted their final production in early May.

The Moving Making Club took home two awards for their entry in this year's festival. The team took home “Best Film in Drama" and a very special award, The Shane Brown Memorial Founder’s Circle Award, one of the Film Competition’s highest honors. The award was named after a young black filmmaker named Shane Brown who attended Sci High in New Orleans. Shane created a documentary that showed a day in the life of brown and black boys caught in the school to prison pipeline, his documentary won the 2019 high school film grand prize. Shane was later killed by gun violence and the Film prize committee dedicated this award in his name.

Melissa Marshall, 5-8th Tier IV Sped teacher and TLC member, leverages technology to increase student engagement and to differentiate lessons for her multi-grade level self-contained class. Melissa is always open to trying new things, evaluating the impact, and adjusting her teaching based on the data. She also uses programs such as iReady and Google Sheets to track each student's progress towards their individual IEP goals. As a result, her students all met or exceeded their end of year assessment goals during the 2020-2021 school year.

2. How are students given voice and choice to demonstrate how they leverage technology to learn?

Students are given voice and choice in leveraging technology to demonstrate their learning in all aspects of their education. From which clubs they want to participate in that involve technology - with choices ranging from Student Tech Team, Tubman News, Video Production, Music Production, and more! In choosing how they use technology to design an end of unit project in Social Studies. In math, when students decide when to practice and show what they've learned by selecting when to work on ST Math and Zearn. In Science, when students use technology to access virtual simulations that model real world concepts, to investigate further, and to apply their learning. In ELA where students are empowered to select an activist of their choice to research, write about, and design a presentation showcasing what they've learned.