2015 Lead 3.0 Symposium

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This workshop explains the essentials for building a district Educational Technology Department. Coachella Valley Unified School District recently completed a 1:1 iPad Mobile Learning Initiative that served over 1,000 staff members and over 21,000 students. Under Dr. Darryl Adams, Michelle Murphy, and the rest of the Educational Technology Department, the Mobile Learning Initiative has been a success as the team continues to focus on helping district staff prepare students for the Common Core State Standards as well as developing 21st Century Skills.
From California to Maine, educators have acknowledged that mobile devices provided to all students and teachers afford users a dynamic, relevant individualized learning opportunity. And yet, few have discussed the real world nuts and bolts process necessary to implement a district wide 1:1 mobile learning initiative from the ground up. This fast paced workshop will provide an overview of the Coachella Valley Unified School District 1:1 Mobile Learning Initiative and the process taken to create an Educational Technology Department that serves the needs of teachers and students within the district. Participants will leave with lessons learned, timelines, staff engagement and training practices, important infrastructure and budgetary considerations when contemplating the development of an Educational Technology Department, as well as critical steps to take when developing and executing a successful voter approved funding mechanism that includes technology.

Participants will receive help answering the following questions?
What are the steps involved? Who are the professionals I need to engage? What credentials should I look for?
How do I to effectively educate my internal and external stakeholders regarding the benefits of 1:1 mobile learning?
How do I establish a culture of engagement and empowerment while asking my staff to revamp their entire curriculum and integrate dynamic mobile learning techniques?
How do I assist district teachers and administrators with using the technology to engage students and effectively meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards?

Session Outline:
Introductions and CVUSD Backstory (~5 min)
CVUSD Vision (~5 min)
Creating an Educational Technology Department (~20 min)
Department Vision
Department Organization
Positions
Job Descriptions
“Getting the right people on the bus”
Startup like Business Model
Department Services (~20 min)
Delivering PD
Tech Tuesdays, Doctor’s is in…, SAMRai
Track-it-Web for instant PD requests
Project and Deployment Management
Shared Collaboration (Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive)
Support for Site Administrators
Support for Teachers
Support for Parents, Students, and other Stakeholders
Questions & Answers Session (~10 min)

Students use technology in a ubiquitous way in their personal lives. The workplace is also changing. As schools prepare students for Careers after high school, CTE courses are charged with integrating technology in student learning to prepare students similarly to what they will experience in the workplace. Come hear more and hear best practices aligned to the CA State CTE Standards.

Research has documented a 30 million word gap between the children of low-income, poorly educated parents and children from more affluent homes. By the time they reach kindergarten, these children typically score two years behind their more privileged peers on standardized language tests.

The Napa County Office of Education has been providing digital early literacy to our districts since a pilot program in 2011, which we expanded to all families with preschool children in 2014. Statistically significant results on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test in receptive and expressive language indicate that we can successfully intervene. We will share our program and strategies, which can be replicated in any district.

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From California to Maine, educators have acknowledged that mobile devices provided to all students and teachers afford users a dynamic, relevant, and individualized learning opportunity. Despite this fact, few have discussed the real world nuts and bolts process necessary to implement a district wide 1:1 mobile learning initiative from the ground up. This fast paced workshop will provide an overview of the Coachella Valley Unified School District’s 1:1 Mobile Learning Initiative and Measure X Bond, a voter approved bond used solely to purchase 18,000 iPads and and fund the infrastructure improvements necessary to implement a district-wide 1 to 1 mobile learning initiative.
The workshop will provide participants with lessons learned, timelines, staff engagement and training practices, important infrastructure, and budgetary considerations when contemplating a mobile learning initiative. Also highlighted are critical steps to take when developing and executing a successful voter-approved funding mechanism that involves technology.

Upon leaving, this workshop will help you answer the following questions:
What are the steps involved?
Who are the professionals I need to engage?
How do I to effectively educate my internal and external stakeholders regarding the benefits of 1:1 mobile learning?
How do I establish a culture of engagement and empowerment while asking my staff to revamp their entire curriculum and integrate dynamic mobile learning techniques?

Session Outline:
Overview of Coachella Valley Unified School District (~5 minutes)
Financial Considerations and Device Selection (~15 minutes)
Technical Considerations and Infrastructure (~20 minutes)
Professional Development and the Educational Technology Structure (~15 minutes)
Other MLI Considerations and Vendor Support (~5 minutes)

Engagement is a temporary state of being. Research shows that students are only engaged in the classroom 17% of the time. We must move beyond engagement to creating environments that fascinate students. Students still move from one subject to the next and if they are lucky, eventually find something that interests them. If we are to continue to develop as a nation, our students today need more than that. We must electrify our students. Create a curiosity for learning and help our students develop their own passions. In this way, we open the door for students to the world and only in this way can the teacher truly become a facilitator. For possibly the first time in history we have the technology to make this happen on a large scale. In this session we will explore the concept of Fascinating our students and see real examples of how this is being done at all ages, from kindergarten through high school.
In this session participants will learn how to use technology to move beyond engagement into fascination, creating a passion and curiosity in students for learning. Real life examples of how technology is being integrated into classroom lessons will be presented to demonstrate this concept. In this session you will take home ideas that will immediately help both your tech and teaching staffs. This is a new way of thinking about the use of technology in the learning environment and will cause you to want to rethink your vision for technology.

Blended and personalized learning is good for both students and teachers. This innovative approach to professional development allows teachers and administrators to work at their own pace as they build competencies and earn compensation.


We can all agree that a one size fits all model for learning isn't effective for children. This is also true for adult learners. In this presentation district leaders will take away templates and structures for personalizing teacher professional development using online digital badges and competency based demonstrations of learning. The Cajon Valley Union School District developed an online digital academy that provides teachers with the content and skills necessary to complete a Demonstration of Learning (DOL), which leads to the earning of a digital badge and corresponding stipend. Most professional development models pay teachers for their time to sit through a "training" or "workshop". This innovative approach to professional development makes time the variable and learning constant. Advanced teachers can skip through modules and go straight to the Demonstrations of Learning. Novice teachers on a given competency may go slow, work with a team, or have in person support if necessary as they complete their badges.

Outline

I. Digital Academy and Digital Badges
II. Working With the Teacher's Association to negotiate compensation for Badges
III. Building Capacity and Ongoing Development