Post+It+Notes+(ideas+for+overcoming+barriers)

​ = = =Resources - (Dots-18)=

......... -Webcasts given by teacher innovator
 * Innovator Sessions
 * Media/tech- critical literacy as a required area of study, no longer an add-on
 * Online collaborative spaces for teachers and students
 * Leverage Free and open source software and services
 * Have the infrastructure in every classroom computers/wireless/data projectors/doc cameras, computer pod/laptop cards
 * Equitable Resources *All teachers have what they need*
 * More money spent on educating teachers on how to integrate technology
 * 1-1 laptops
 * $ Partner with a business who "adopts" your class or course (maybe even your school)
 * Tech and business partnership->more resources

=PD Skills - (Dots-26)=

Paid summer P.D. for teachers ......... -O ffer Youtube Videos on how to use technology- accessible whenever ......... -Learn with kids ......... -With each other ......... -Learn online with PLN ........ - Give teachers one easy ed tech skill or product that is immediately useful
 * Paid summer P.D. for teachers
 * Lots of content specific P.D. from experience project-based teachers/practitioners
 * Professional development
 * PLP for all teachers with 45 minutes a day of release time
 * Teacher integration to only PD focus for the year- in house
 * Use online meeting sites (Elluminate,etc) for intro trainings to build interest in larger/longer trainings
 * Make teacher learning an every day experience
 * Mandatory technology (hardware and software) training. Teachers, parents, students.
 * Infuse professional development into all areas
 * Give students opportunities to teach professional development for teachers
 * Take faculty and administration to forward thinking conferences
 * Monthly mettings that inform teachers about what others are doing
 * Construct schedules so that teachers can observe/learn from other teachers
 * Individual teacher centered P.D
 * Mandatory training on tech tools, but not done so by content experts and focus on content area. EX: Studies presentations using Glogster
 * Meaningful professional development
 * 3M/Google model. Encourage teacher to "steal" 20% of time/resources on their passions (not necessarily standards)
 * Celebrate. Get teachers to show what they are doing that is engaging for students.
 * Administrators trust/seek out input from these "fast horses" who are already innovating
 * Project-based/passion driven professional development on-going throughout the year
 * Make every PD function count.
 * Offer short trainings after demonstrating the innovative use of new technologies- Repeat often!
 * PLP is working now
 * Read Dewey
 * All monthly inservices are set for intensive training, sharing, and development
 * 15 minute "How to" session before school everyday for all teachers
 * Intensive teacher training- significant stipend for summer program development

=More time - (Dots-24)=

Changing Schedule-
 * Remove some courses
 * Rework daily schedule to blocked learning
 * Give teachers and kids time/space to reflect
 * Take away the old fashioned and restrictive structure of the school day

Expand Learning Time-
 * Barrier: time. Use online resources or technology to offer 24/7 training and support
 * Longer day with expectation that "new" time be used to move the vision forward

Collaboration Training Time-
 * More planning time for teachers to collaborate
 * More common planning time with 1 weekly expectation for 21st Century focus
 * Schedule faculty sharing time

PD Time-
 * Teacher learning embeded into school day. -Time for learning
 * Provide teachers time for P.D. and collaboration
 * Lunch time PD sessions- Create time for PD
 * Carve out time in the day for teachers to collaborate
 * Built PD into teacher schedule
 * Give teachers time to talk thru what it means to be educated today and what that means to them as teachers
 * Flixible personal 24/7 professional development time
 * Teacher to be responsible by a certian deadline
 * Overcome barriers. Build in day of thinking/learning for PD instead of sit and get (sustained)

=Leadership - (Dots-27)=

Admin- Both Teacher
 * Administrators need to get out of their offices for a whole day at a time and see where tech is working and what it is doing for the kids
 * More effective VEH candidates for hire to bring in "like-minded" individuals- or at least open to these ideas
 * Get the buy in from Director, Super`, admins to support teachers
 * Upstream and downstream evidence of professionalism
 * Present small challenges
 * Listen to: kids, parents, teachers, admin. Then: plan together
 * Go back to your mission statement- How can you live it every day?
 * Read Seth Godin`s book, Tribes. To think about developing your own leadership

=Reculturing - (Dots-29)=

................ -Intensive multi-day, focus ................ -Work within vision of district -Create cultural expertise
 * Digital citizenship instruction for students
 * Reallocate PD priorities.
 * Develop a common unified vision of learning an
 * Support parental involvement of children through social systems
 * No more arbitrary divisions b/w schools,ages,learners, etc. Learning as a community
 * Develop a common unified vision of learning for the students futures
 * Abandoned the current scheudule (have teachers create their schedule?)
 * School leadership is tech savy and/or is taking info daily from tech leadership
 * The vision should come first
 * Getting folks to believe internet is a right not a privledge
 * Expectations from school leaders that work is published and celebrated and shared to relevant audiences
 * Adopt the Google Pet Project Rules 20%
 * Be submersive. Do whats right for students
 * Celebrate Failure
 * Allow students to experiment and to fail so they get used to risk taking with support
 * Minimize risk of failure. 1 project instead of an entire semesters worth
 * Spending extra time and money with early adopter teachers.
 * Encouraging play

=Policy - (Dots-4)=

= = =Reflection - (Dots-0)=
 * Encourage play
 * Unblock everything and get research that shows the value of doing
 * Eliminate NC LB/high-stakes testing
 * Get research showing that letting kids use personal learning devices increases student achievement
 * Laws that make parents accountable
 * Eliminate standardized tests


 * Take a deep breath. Learning and education have always had the same end goals throughout time, it is not the apparatus that has changed.
 * We can have conversations about the "What if" videos- try to see from a child`s perspective
 * Use a tool like Elluminate to hold a district-wide meeting. Goal: Watch a video and chat/reflect. (We don`t do enough of that)

=Curriculum - (Dots-1)=


 * Intentionally teach how to think
 * Change the breath of the curriculum
 * Re-define learning so it focuses more on process rather than product
 * Provide cross disciplinary projects that facilitate teacher/teacher/student interaction
 * The projects should drive the tools that are used
 * All parts of curriculum are fair game to cut
 * Stop compartmentalizing schools-get rid of "subjects"

=Tech Leadership - (Dots-3)=


 * Empower all learners
 * Bottom driven,tech upgrades, teacher empowering with filtering
 * Let teachers have more say in technology. Dont let it dictate how things will be done.

=Community (PLC) - (Dots-20)=


 * When students say they like a teachers or class, are we asking why?
 * Involve students in more decision making
 * Get buy in from a PLC/ning that is NOT admin driven
 * Bring the good role models together to unite and spread knowledge
 * Syndicate "EDUCON" type learning experiences around the county (Modeling)
 * Engage all staff/teachers/admin in social media learning based on their own passions
 * Professional development on how to build a learning community
 * Get parents involved in "moving the mountian". Parent Education
 * More time for sharing with colleagues.. starting at small group->larger ones
 * Buddy system or small learning communities (group of 2 or 3). Experiment w/ a web 2.0 tool for 1 month. Share experiences at staff metting
 * Innovative idea. Get teachers interested in a school wide project (collaborative) challenge based
 * Encourage the development of learning communities. Schedule meeting and organization time. Create both synchronous and asynchrous opportunities
 * Professional learning communities ->collaborate
 * Promote innovative practice to a world-wide audience. Exchange ideas. Make people seen in the larger picture.

=Collab/Team Teaching - (Dots-6)=


 * Collaborative culture
 * Collaboration. Have teachers collaborate on related standards in order to give them more time for whatever
 * Shared classrooms for example. 3 sections of a grade with "common space" thats used for lockers and cubbies. Tear down walls. 3 teachers in one room with all students.
 * Partner teach a project (veteran "tech" w/ someone willing to learn)
 * Form local PLC`s. Band together to support each other. Strength (not lonliness) in numbers
 * Create teacher/student advisories

=Assessment - (Dots-1)=


 * Find other ways to access students` learning other than traditional testing

=Infrastructure Access - (Dots-3)=

= = =Modeling - (Dots-3)=
 * Infrastructure- "latest and greatest"- managers. By a 24/7 company- the best quality of service
 * Provide all necessary infrastructure
 * Reliable network
 * Provide a plane and feature examples of tech integration by our teachers
 * Turn schools into community centers. Change schedule,use,access, etc
 * Make technology accessible and mystery free to all


 * Teacher mentors ->best practices
 * Individuals can keep sharing their "What works" ideas
 * Leadership (admin) model learning and guiding for and with staff
 * We need to be able to trust students to do the right things with modeling and guidence

=Students - (Dots-1)=


 * Student imput->What do they need?
 * How students model their projects for each other- teachers- schoolboard- flood the system with vival creative juice
 * Empower students to be a part of the solution- curricular or tech

=Incentive/Creating - (Dots-18)=


 * Celebrate Success. We dont do that enough
 * Empower residents to reach out- give an incentive ( ipod maybe?) to have them a ssist a collegue
 * Be creative, open your mind, look around you.
 * Teachers always like stuff. Give them stuff only with training and committment to impolementation
 * Make time is at least 1 part of a unit students have "scholarships" to work in individual projects or passion
 * Create learning spaces that encourage collaboration
 * Try PBL in an elective class
 * Incentives for teachers being creative
 * Survey kids about how engaged they feel when they get to use the "cool tools"
 * Work with the students to introduce technology. They can move the teachers.
 * Create an imagine wall. Ask teachers what they would love to have for their subjects- find technology that fits-build a way to achieve it.
 * Mobilize parent pressure to move reluctant teachers on
 * Kill tenure. Pay teachers 50% more
 * Incentivise. Create buy in with fun prizes.

=Preservice Teacher - (Dots-2)=


 * Advance the 5 axioms (from Educon) into the core of teacher prep programs

=Personalized Learning - (Dots-13)=


 * Ask everyone to share and develop something that is new to them and share
 * Expand advisor/advisory program to every student in the country
 * Give teacher time (lots of it) to focus on their learning
 * Offer graduate level credits for teachers teught by district staff. Offer tuition reimbursement
 * Leverage ICT to create an IEP for every student.
 * Personally directed teacher PD. All teachers responsible for developing their own 21st century PLN -> online or face to face

=One to One - (Dots-5)=


 * Actions- a tech specialist to work one to one (like Apples` model) with teachers. A genuis bar
 * Addressing fear. mini sessions of tech (maybe even 1 on 1)
 * 1:1 laptop

=Communication - (Dots-4)=


 * Connect every learner with 3 other like minded from anywhere
 * Educate parents
 * Have teachers show how they learn regularly
 * Identify barriers in your school as a school (need school-wide conversation)
 * Conversation-get ideas
 * Affirm- Get students to reflect on their positive experiences and share with staff
 * Create blogs for trainers/facilitators to share small trainings. Could alternatively use podcasts.
 * Individuals join conversations in blogs/twitter
 * All technology decisions are education made by tech educators not non-academic tech staff.