2022 Cohort
ATLIS Leadership Institute
2021-2022 R&D Projects
The School Technology Team: A Well-Oiled Machine
Sarah McKeown, Larisa Luca, BJ Daniels, Darlene Duran, Gordon Carswell, Mark Adair, Matthew Bavone, Paul Bailey
It is not infrequent that we hear from ATLIS constituents that they need help translating what the tech team does for the non-techies in their school environment. This tool can be used across many different types of schools and is designed around the idea of functions of the tech team rather than specific jobs or roles. Use this presentation with your admin team, new heads, or board of trustees. You may even wish to adapt this for sharing with teachers to help them understand the tech team as well.
Format
Interactive infographic (Thinglink: https://www.thinglink.com/card/1570753663717081090 )
Essential Questions
What does a successful tech program look like?
What happens when something is missing?
Purpose
Show the impact on a school when one of the function components is missing
Shed light on functions of IT in an educational setting
Show positive and negative consequences of those functions
Audience
Non-techie admins whose buy-in and support are necessary for a tech team to succeed
Cooking Up Your School Technology Plan
Tina Abbott, Chris Cripe, Linda Lawrence, Artur Morka, Chet Rodriguez, Reaz Shaheed, Ed Surjan, Emily Heflin
Essential Questions
How can we create a living working tech strategic plan?
How might we create a template for getting started (where most people get stuck)?
How can we incorporate DEI into a technology plan?
Overview
This tool is designed to help technology teams boil down the steps of creating a school-wide technology plan into a manageable process. It includes an intentional look at cybersecurity and DEI to better integrate these concerns as part of an overall technology plan. Each section of the plan, on its own, can provide a framework for useful conversations and planning sessions.
A New Hope for Cyber Safety Training
Brian Blaszczyk, Courtney Friedman, John Grube, Nissa Hales, Christopher Wozniak, Santosh Zachariah, Jonathan Jacobs
Essential Question
How can we break down the important elements of cybersecurity training to make it easier for faculty and staff to better digest and adopt critical understandings for school safety?
Overview
This team has built cybersecurity training around new paradigm using a fun teaser video and a follow-up challenge. The model can be adapted to the audience desired and can use tools already familiar at the school. It can especially be effective for school staff, a group that should be part of the buy-in strategy for a cyber safe school culture.
A NEW HOPE FOR CYBER PD (CLIP).mp4Audience
School technology teams, cyber safety teams; adaptable for any technology users in a school.
Investigating Assistive Technologies
Jeff Diedrich, Jeffery Flagg, Ladislav Laza, Audra McCleary, Sam Robbins, Mimi Liu-Leyco
Essential Questions
What is assistive technology?
What resources are available?
How does a school investigate, integrate and innovate these technologies.
Overview
This project was designed as a starting point for exploring the components of assistive technology. It invites users to discover the processes involved in determining student needs and offers resources to gain more in-depth understanding of ways to pair student learning objectives with appropriate technologies.
The website content is divided into 3 tiers to address student and faculty focused objectives:
Tier 1: Investigate
Tier 2: Integrate
Tier 3: Innovate
Audience.
Independent schools, regional and national organizations, DEI committees, teacher training programs.
A Guidebook for the Post-COVID Classroom
Clyde Bertrand, Dan Crowley, Kevin Farrant, Kevin Rokuskie, Michele Bossick, Roscoe Bolton, Lindsay Harlow
Essential Questions
What should the post-pandemic classroom look like?
What can we learn from how schools equipped themselves for learning online, hybrid, and in person?
How are schools evaluating their edtech and AV after the last two years?
What technologies will schools focus on moving forward?
Which edtech programs allow for collaboration, exploration, and interaction?
How can you track software, systems, and services as a living document?
How is hardware intentionally chosen in order to support teaching and learning?
How is hardware, interactive, collaborative, and exploratory?
How can hardware be standardized for efficient maintenance and to minimize failure points?
Is the school's network robust enough to support all school needs including the speed and bandwidth required for all cloud-based and resource-intensive applications?
Are there enough access points for wifi school-wide, including outdoors?
Overview
This project takes an in-depth look how the post-pandemic classroom has evolved and where it needs to go, along with an evaluation of the hardware and systems needed to make it happen. Their resulting digital guide (using Book Creator) provides purposeful evaluation of programs and hardware, as well as options for adopting new edtech programs and upgrading classroom/conference room A/V technology. The result is a compendium of advice, templates, and recurring "question to ponder" in the form of a handbook resource for independent schools and their technology teams.
Audience
Technology departments looking for ways to evaluate and upgrade their classroom and meeting space AV and edtech.
