what we expect from ourselves, our staff, and our students

As the Tech Team at Streetsboro City Schools, we're excited to support the curriculum and instructional efforts with devices, integration support, and coaching - both in person and remotely. We hold ourselves to these standards in order to focus our work:

• Dedicated Leadership - we inspire and participate in the development and implementation of a shared vision for the comprehensive integration of technology to promote excellence and support transformational change throughout the instructional environment.

• Teaching, Learning, & Assessments - we assist teachers in using technology effectively for assessing student learning, differentiating instruction, and providing rigorous, relevant, and engaging learning experiences for all students.

• Digital Age Learning Environments - we create and support effective digital age learning environments to maximize the learning of all students.

• Professional Development & Program Evaluation - we conduct needs assessments, develop technology-related professional learning programs, and evaluate the impact on instructional practice and student learning.

• Digital Citizenship - we model and promote digital citizenship.

• Content Knowledge & Professional Growth - we demonstrate professional knowledge, skills and dispositions in content, pedagogical and technological areas as well as adult learning and leadership and are continuously deepening our knowledge and expertise.

Our staff is committed to personalizing the instruction for each child, and by building partnerships in education with students, parents, and community members. Specifically, when it comes to technology, our staff hold themselves to these standards to focus their work in the classroom, via remote learning, or wherever learning takes place:

• Dedicated Learner - our staff continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

• Energized Leader - our staff seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.

• Digital Citizen - our staff inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world.

• Creative Collaborator - our staff dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.

• Effective Designer - our staff design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.

• Proactive Facilitator - our staff facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement.

• Instructional Analyst - our staff understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals.

Our students span from PK-12, and are empowered to succeed in their learning journey, supported by staff, parents, and community members, and ready to excel! We trust our students to hold themselves to the following standards:

• Empowered Learner - our students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

• Digital Citizen - our students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

• Knowledge Constructor - our students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

• Innovative Designer - our students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

• Computational Thinker - our students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

• Creative Communicator - our students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

• Global Collaborator - our students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.