Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick discuss how a school district can set a vision for digital learning in the classrooms and how you can start that conversation with your administrative team and instructional coaching department.If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, please contact the podcast. We would love to have you join the show.Question of the WeekOur favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section.This week’s question is:Question Topic: How can we get the entire school district on the same page when it comes to defining what digital learning looks like in the classroom?Weekly Topic Developing a Shared Vision and Goals + How do you create a shared vision? - Asking … “what’s the purpose?” - Where is the target? - What is the objective? - What do we want our staff to get out of the training … and why? - How can we provide the training and experiences to get staff able to meet the goals + Who is included in this conversation? - Superintendent - Cabinet - District / Building Leaders - Teachers - Students - Parents / Community Members + Ways to ask the important questions - Google Form - Conversations - Quick Survey’s * What has or is working well? * Have your goals/objectives been meet? + Using the Summertime to ask questions of district leaders - Map out and Diagram a full year program - How do you build a catalogue to support the goals and objectives of the district and building leaders * Prioritizing Professional Learning in and out of your district + Creating a Professional Development Yearly Overview - Send out a document to the staff so they are on the same page * Here are the goals that we are looking to progress - Create a catalogue of professional learning opportunities * Internal + Meeting Speakers + Consultants * External + Conferences + EdCamps + Thrive + Sage + Health Organizations / Hospitals often run sessions - Using a Newsletter to support professional Learning * Work with your building administrators to put professional development information in THEIR newsletters * Creating a digital learning evaluation method that is flexible yet effective + Have a variety of evaluation methods … not just the mid-year and end of year evaluations - Keep evaluation more informal and collegial so that it’s not a “gotcha” + Using a Staff Survey (Self-Assessment) to allow teachers to share what they know and what they would like to learn during the year + Use some type of “artifact creation” when it comes to digital learning so that teachers can showcase what they are learning throughout the professional development process - At the end of the day, the teacher is going to have to show that they know how to use the tool or that they understand the concept. - Allow for feedback and professional conversations around the topic and concept that is backed up by Instructional Coaches - Create an online discussion board so that staff members can collaborate and learn from each other * Providing constant support for students, teachers, and community members + Creating a Student led “genius bar” or Tech Team + Invite the students to run their own professional learning sessions for teachers (Students teaching teachers) - How to use specific apps - How to create projects that students already love doing and share it with more teachers - Students teaching Board of Education members how to use Google Apps (sharing, formatting, etc) * Protecting student privacy and promoting digital safety + Digital Citizenship: Create a unified and tiered curriculum that supports the knowledge of but, also includes resources to support parents so that they are understanding what students are learning in school. + Create a Dashboard in a Google Site that has a spreadsheet of all of the district used tools so that parents know what programs are holding content about their students. - Include the privacy policy - Include the paid/free status - Include how to remove student information if parents are not interested in having student information available. * Working together with parents so students learn both in and out of the classroom + Parent Nights - Short form - Single subject events + Parent University - Build a curriculum of learning that follows a theme * Embracing and Celebrating the Impact Digital Learning has on students, teachers, and community.* + Share the “wins” of staff and students + Success breeds success - If people see that it’s working for others, they might believe they can do it too + Post in newsletters, and (maybe) social media examples of what is happening in the classroom and share it with others + Get your staff to present their win’s to other staff members + Ask “how does this information get back to the students and their successes?” * Next Episode + Standards
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