Sticky+Notes-+Lower+Hudson

=Community (16 dots)=

- Commit to greater cross-district collaboration - Network with more people outside region - The enthusiasm of a pocket of teachers seems to be contagious - Build regional teams designed as ongoing sustainable learning teams - Seek out other schools outside of U.S for ideas - Teacher led- student groups. Cost nothing, but offer credit incentives - Teachers can tap into their personal network to find companies who might be able to help $ - What is working now?- Collaboration among teachers - Work with school community to identify measures of school success that demote 21st century learning - The individual at a faculty meeting suggest that everyone go see the cool project - Reserve time at every faculty meeting to share exemplary student work - Barrier: Threatened coworkers. Solution: be open and enthusiastic. Convince others that you believe in the value of what youre doing, and are willing to talk and share - Individuals can share to motivate others - I can share - Teachers who "get it" are sharing - Creative, thoughtful sharing of ideas with colleagues across grade levels and curriculum areas - Classrooms open for colleagues to visit - Individuals can mentor others who are skeptical about 21st century skills - As an individual, pass on one tech idea to your community (colleague, team, school, etc) - Individual sharing of success - Take it upon myself to utilize tech tools and discuss with teachers at all opportunities (faculty lounge, faculty meetings, etc)

=Leadership (17 dots)=

- Hire new teachers with tech background - Create models of what "it" might look like. Classrooms, schools, districts - State standardized test need to include technology into the curriculum - Create non standardized courses that are attractive to college-bound community - Atmosphere of trust, collaboration, and sharing - Give incentives for devising creative ideas. Using of new stuff - Be involved in decision making groups where i can impact change - Support each other - Reward teachers for developing and sharing innovative instructional strategies - Set up leadership focus groups and forums to find ways to breakdown barriers - Support from admin - Administrators need to get in touch with what is being taught and how. They should lead the way in 21st century skills - Remove fear from the picture

=Shifts/Culture (24 dots)=

- More teachers are using mobile lab with whole classrooms - Restructuring the class schedule - Curriculum can be viewed and used as "living documents" - Bring student work with technology to Albany - Redefine the boundaries of where "class" occurs - Eliminate geographic structures location based - Focus on the positive - Dont give up keep pushing ahead - Individual can take risks - People are trying new "tools" each day - "Dont hate", kids say it, adults do it, - Get students opinions - The "transformed" must lead by example and evanglicize - Schools need to make time for teachers to meet as a planning team in order to collaborate and share best practices - Teachers who feel free to share and model what they do yet opening themselves up to criticism

=Professional Development (18 dots)=

- Restructure staff development by valuing other opportunities than in-services - Develop a tech team from 1 member of each dept - Differentiate PD - Individual just go out htere and learn one new web 2.0 tool/platform - Set up peer review process where teachers have time to learn together- foster motivation - Immersive clago visitors- PD0 full day- teacher choice - Collaborate: create a PLN - Provide for opportunities for teachers to talk to one another- share great ideas - Barrier: staff is not tech savvy. Solution: give them opportunities/force them to visit innovative classrooms and provide professional development - Faculty meetings should be more focused on doing practical hands on curricuklum development. Email to disseminate info - District is dedicated to tech PD day in November

=Testing (8 dots)=

- Experiment with technologies in my own class - Strong support from community and BOE - Barrier: standardized test scores. Solution: dont offer the tests, but do offer a philosophy for what youre doing - Make colleagues put emphasis on portfolios instead of test scores

=Staffing (6 dots)=

- Each discipline should have a staff developer to help with project based learning - Fire staff who do not use technology - To overcome barriers, increase support - Mew staff hires- passion and love of technology

=1:1 (1 dot)=

- Innovative ideas. Encourage an open campus for 1 to 1 computer initiative - Give each student a laptop of netbook with internet access

=Students (11 dots)=

- Teachers should tap into students knowledge to allow student to student teaching - Teachers are taking the time to learn new teaching methods to engage students - Model and demonstrate effective tech teaching tools by allowing students to comment on what they learned via video - Process needs to be as valued as product - Replace, dont add on technology, trust that it will be effective - Set up "student voices" venue where people (teachers and admin and community) hear what they need - Let students present to faculty what technology helps them learn and understand - Wiki like game questions. Involve students to harness and share ideas. (about literature, history). James Paul Gee`s What Video Games Can Teach Us About Literature and Learning - Barrier: Not enough time to learn all technologies. Solution: Assign a project to the class where they use this technology and have them work on it as a group. But have a back-up plan - Put students on curriculum development committees - Proactive creative solution. Barrier: demanding curriculum. Solution: Choose parts of curriculum that are most difficult but critical to master and which can be learned without a lot of support

=Scheduling (1 dot)=

- Experiment with creative scheduling - Co-teaching opportunities gives everyone (all teachers) more confidence - School schedule has to have time incorporated (for teachers and students) to incorporate technology into and subject

=Resources (13 dots)=

- Open little blocking - Create a website that has FREE TOOLS available - PTA and district foundation support tech - District has purchased SLIPS to encourage tech usage - Google apps. - Infrastructure in place but safety concerns limit - Burn books, buy iPads - Remove internet filters - Adopting new/current technologies within the building - 1:1 computers - Working: my classroom is loaded with hardware and internet so access is not a big issue - School boards who financially support the plan for when tech eventually becomes obsolete - Overall Barriers: Increase the budget for resources needed - Wealth of resources

=Vision (10 dots)=

- The district redid mission statement for focus on 21st century skills - Create a parent/student school board/admin/faculty tech group - Give teachers the tools- i Phonts, Netbooks, Flips, etc. let them use at home for personal reason->transfer to classroom - Meet with evaluating administrator in beginning of evaluation year to discuss and create a new rubric for evaluating technology - Barrier: Lack of motivation. Solution: Show pepole how it can make their lives easier (increases efficiency) - Innovative: Make a motivation- a video that includes students being engaged in learning with a web 2.0 tool and bribe/beg to have it posted on the district site Front and Center! - Individuals can encourage new ideas. Extra credit for trying Prezi instead of power point. Teachers can share their mistakes "all in the learning state"