Darin asked the Leadership Team to come to the most recent admin team with our building goals and their relevance to our Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP). In true overachiever fashion, I sat down and crafted a five-year plan that fits in with our current technology plan and extends past it.
I dreamt big with this plan because there are 1400 students in our district who deserve big dreams. They deserve the best education we can provide them, and I know that incorporating technology into our teaching and learning will help adapt our system to they way they learn best. I don't know if we'll accomplish all these goals in the timeframe here, and I'm going to do everything I can to make this plan a reality. At the same time, it's tough knowing that I can't go whole hog and do 1:1 with everyone in all schools all at once. We just don't have it in the budget, so I have to do what I know we can sustain in the long run. That means starting with the kids who will need it the most, and those are our high school kids. Part of our CSIP is to improve career and college readiness for our students, so starting the 1:1 at the high school makes sense because these kids are the closest to careers and college.
It also means some high-school focused professional development in terms on individual coaching during the pilot program and getting our high school staff technology ready. I don't want to leave my other buildings behind because we have great technology ready people there who still want my support, so I'll be having monthly tech workshops as well as doing my best to individually raise their general tech proficiency in terms of google apps, websites, and social media. If it's in the budget to get them new devices, I'll do that too.
These are just my goals for our digital transformation, and I want these to be our goals. Please let me know what comments, ideas, or questions you have that can help make our plan a reality. Email me, call me, tweet me, or simply leave comments here, on Facebook, or through the Education with Technology website. I look forward to hearing what you have to say!
I dreamt big with this plan because there are 1400 students in our district who deserve big dreams. They deserve the best education we can provide them, and I know that incorporating technology into our teaching and learning will help adapt our system to they way they learn best. I don't know if we'll accomplish all these goals in the timeframe here, and I'm going to do everything I can to make this plan a reality. At the same time, it's tough knowing that I can't go whole hog and do 1:1 with everyone in all schools all at once. We just don't have it in the budget, so I have to do what I know we can sustain in the long run. That means starting with the kids who will need it the most, and those are our high school kids. Part of our CSIP is to improve career and college readiness for our students, so starting the 1:1 at the high school makes sense because these kids are the closest to careers and college.
It also means some high-school focused professional development in terms on individual coaching during the pilot program and getting our high school staff technology ready. I don't want to leave my other buildings behind because we have great technology ready people there who still want my support, so I'll be having monthly tech workshops as well as doing my best to individually raise their general tech proficiency in terms of google apps, websites, and social media. If it's in the budget to get them new devices, I'll do that too.
These are just my goals for our digital transformation, and I want these to be our goals. Please let me know what comments, ideas, or questions you have that can help make our plan a reality. Email me, call me, tweet me, or simply leave comments here, on Facebook, or through the Education with Technology website. I look forward to hearing what you have to say!
P.S. To read this, at the top in purple are the things I want us to have achieved in 5 years. Then, I said, "If that's what we should see by the end of year 5, then what needs to happen each year to make that happen?" So year 1 is red, year 2 is orange, year 3 is blue, and year 4 is brown. The green numbers are the corresponding CSIP goals. I also realized in digitizing these goals that I neglected to include an administration-related goal, so I added in a 5-year plan goal of achieving a Digital Leadership mindset for our administrators. To make that happen, I added the Leadership Academy, which starts August 4th for our Leadership Team (!), and all admin with google, website, and at least 1 social media to year 1. In subsequent years, I'll continue setting personalized technology goals with each member of the leadership team to ensure that we're keeping our digital mindsets.