Needs and Goals

Personalized Learning

The learner experience must be engaging, relevant, and personalized. When technology is used, the goal must be to maximize each person’s learning potential. Technology will be leveraged to allow voice and choice in learning and instruction. Recommendations regarding infrastructure, professional development, curriculum, assessment and leadership promote these dynamic and flexible learning formats.

Building principals and the curriculum coordinator support technology training and capital investments. Teachers model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.

Applied and Engaging Learning

Critical skills such as problem-solving, creativity and innovation, communication, and collaboration are central to being career and college ready. Our district must give students learning opportunities and resources to communicate and collaborate effectively, conduct research, think critically and creatively, and solve problems that address the future needs of our global society, anywhere and anytime. Students must be prepared with the knowledge and the ability to apply these critical skills to succeed in their futures. 

Library and Information Media Goals - Rationale

According to “The Chromebook-Infused Classroom,” technology has sharpened student thinking, facilitated communication, redefined community, and has become core to their learning. The impact of the effective use of continuously accessible technology on student learning prompts the Rosendale-Brandon School District to support information technology literacy. As such, the plan is influenced by the analysis of relevant research and best practices.

In addition, the Wisconsin Digital Learning Plan and the Future Ready Framework will impact decisions made by the Rosendale-Brandon School District. The Wisconsin Digital Learning Plan states that the State’s Superintendent's Digital Learning Advisory Council created a vision for digital learning that calls for “equitable, personalized, applied, and engaged digital learning for all students. As Wisconsin school districts begin to implement this vision, they are encouraged to consider the following areas: instruction, learning, and assessment; empowering, innovative leadership; technology & hardware; professional learning and building capacity; and data and privacy.”

2022-2025 Technology and Library Information Goals

Goal 1:  By the end of 2024, identify the integration procedures and the service owner for programs (software) utilized in the District. 

Goal 2: Library media technology specialists will provide continual instruction and training that encourages digital citizenship for all students and staff through the use of collaborative teaching, professional development, direct student instruction, and coaching opportunities. This is a continuous goal.

Goal 3: Continually monitor where and how we use student data, ensuring that the services we entrust with our student data are conforming to the educational rights and privacy afforded to them under the law. By the end of 2024, we will have a comprehensive list of all services used in the district.

Goal 4: Library media technology specialists will create and maintain a learning environment that not only includes print material, but also includes electronic resources, MakerSpace materials, databases, and other resources, databases, or materials as needed to support 21st century learning and future ready framework objectives and standards. By the end of 2025, the foundation of these resources will be established and in use. 

Monitoring and Updating

This is a living document. Each year the Working Technology Committee consisting of technology and library personnel will review the plan and make adjustments as necessary. Each building will monitor progress toward the specified goals and make mid-course corrections in response to new developments and opportunities.