Goals

Objectives & actions

Prioritize Professional Learning for Teachers

Providing meaningful professional learning for Londonderry's teachers is important for their ongoing acquisition of EdTech teaching skills to benefit their students. Just as the students learning with digital tools need time and support from schools and districts, teachers, too need investment in professional learning in the form of a Teachers Academy. Prioritizing professional learning, fostering collaboration in the teaching community, and providing access to shared resources lead to an environment of quality instruction and learning for teachers and students alike. (School Leaders Digital Learning Guide, 2018).

curriculum, instruction, and assessment

🖥 Support a Rich Digital Learning Environment 🖥

Objectives

🌿 Provide access to digital tools & resources when teachers need them

🌿 Create the mechanisms (i.e. protocols, processes, procedures, opportunities) that facilitate the introduction & adoption of new teaching and learning practices & resources to drive innovation

🌿 Coach teachers in the development of dynamic learning experiences & model the use of differentiated instructional strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners

🌿 Facilitate teaching & learning enhanced by digital resources when appropriate, utilizing paid subscriptions & knowledge from workshops

🌿 Embed & promote digital citizenship tenets & privacy/security compliance updates throughout the Teachers Academy curriculum

What We Want to Accomplish

🌿 Teachers will develop deeper instructional & assessment skills by leveraging technology as a resource & tool

🌿 Teachers will apply technology effectively to support UBD & the construction of their curriculum, expand their content knowledge & pedagogical skills

Actions

Quarterly/Trimester survey to analyze technology integration practices based on processes and tools used for those processes

🌿 Collect participation information on the number of teachers who attend their building-level, monthly, embedded PLC EdTech coaching sessions

personalized professional learning

🖥 Develop Opportunities for Professional Growth 🖥

Objectives

Year 1 🌿 Identify and develop course modules that allow for the flexible and efficient use of professional learning resources

Year 1 🌿 Design, develop & implement lessons (including video tutorials) on topics related to the overarching processes & tools of each module

Year 2 🌿 Conduct needs assessments to design personalized professional learning pathways

Year 1 🌿 Provide opportunities for teachers to connect & collaborate

Year 1 🌿 Host the Teachers Academy curriculum on the district's EdTech. website

What We Want to Accomplish

Ongoing 🌿 Build a culture of innovation grounded in trust & empowerment

Year 1 🌿 Design & deliver training to meet the various needs of staff

Year 3 🌿 Develop leadership & technological capacity to leverage the human capital inside the IT department & in partnership with other departments throughout the district

Year 3 🌿 Educators will understand how to enhance their practice through the intentional integration of technology

Year 2 🌿 Educators are able to increase student engagement & learning through technology in the classroom

Actions

Year 1 🌿 Types & numbers of professional learning opportunities are documented & recorded

Year 2 🌿 Pre & Post self-reporting to collect information on the frequency & level of specific technology tools and online assessment-taking strategies, including historical online assessment scores to reflect the impact of technology integration strategies

collaborative and innovative Leadership

🖥 Goal: Envision the Future 🖥

Objectives

Year 1 🌿 Create a shared vision of teaching & learning that leverages technology as an accelerant, including concepts & pedagogy learned by attending workshops

Ongoing 🌿 Support district & school leadership to establish an innovative culture of trust & safety

Ongoing 🌿 Empower district & school leaders to thoughtfully promote & adopt the needed digital resources

Year 1 🌿 Create a cohesive team of key people to make foundational decisions about digital learning/technology integration

Year 1 🌿 Within each school building, strengthen & grow Technology Committees that serve as teacher leaders to address concerns, collect ongoing informal feedback, research, strategize, monitor, evaluate, vet, & represent their peers in making impactful decisions, & communicate with district tech. team

Ongoing 🌿 Monitor Technology Committee members to ensure representation from grade levels, librarians & hybrids, special educators, school counselors & unified arts teachers

Years 2-3 🌿 Provide time & learning structures for coach(es) to work one-on-one & in teams

Ongoing 🌿 Advocate for underrepresented teacher groups & culturally responsive technology integration practices

What We Want to Accomplish

Year 1 🌿 Update IT Department Org. Chart with job descriptions/responsibilities, including exact point-person in each building.

Year 1 🌿 Create & publish a district-wide Flowchart to communicate if/then scenarios, trouble-ticket instructions

Year 2 🌿 Provide opportunities for teachers to give input on ed-tech topics

Year 1-3 🌿 Trust that advance, open communication of updates, interruptions, changes, implementation timelines, etc. will clearly show required actions in order of necessary completion- including when teachers can expect changes to classroom technology, changes to physical classroom arrangements, changes to access of resources & tools

Actions

Ongoing 🌿 Leadership measurably possesses the capability to efficiently & effectively respond to feedback related to ed-tech issues

Ongoing 🌿 Leadership measurably promotes & models the use of a variety of innovative instructional strategies & practices during meetings & community events

Ongoing 🌿 Leadership measurably supports, secures & advocates for more technology coaches/resources to scale & sustain the Teachers Academy

Year 1-3 🌿 Pre & Post information analysis relating to culture & climate of ed-tech integration

Year 1-3 🌿 Technology use survey- based on processes & tools

Year 1-3 🌿 Analyze Technology Committee meeting attendance, participation, goal completion for each building

FUTURE READY PRINCIPLES: INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES

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