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 * Organizational Change Policies: 19 dots**
 * Too many conflicting ideas. Establish streg. Plan with principal
 * Allow for buy in on personal level
 * Shared vision and common language
 * Develop a strong marketing plan to communicate shared vision and successes
 * Look for any and all opportunities to align with district priorities
 * Process for improvement but no tie to district strategic plan and vision
 * Bring all stakeholders together to create collective collab plans for reform include students too
 * Get out of the way if you are not working for students!
 * Research to demonstrate that schools should not teach to the test but to teach well. The test scores will take care of themselves
 * Global educational models
 * Redesign the school day/year to fit the global economy
 * Eliminate current age based model
 * Scrap NCLB and PSSA and concentrate on “21st century teaching”

**Assessment: 0 dots**
 * Develop series of inquiry based activities linked to standards
 * Promoting 21st century assessments and measures of success
 * Design alternate assessments tied to state requirements
 * Link assessment anchors to projects in an area accessible to all teachers in the state

**PD: 39 dots**
 * Re-examination of how prod devel time is being used
 * Access to instructional coaches to guide teacher
 * WWN districts currently investing in human capacity while investing in infrastructure
 * Thoughtful planning for PD
 * Include participants in planning PD
 * Multi-modal multi-media delivery of PD
 * Recorded PD for admin and teachers to view at anytime
 * Dedicate more time for professional development
 * Allow opportunities for teachers to collaborate with teachers from other districts
 * Find creative ways to find blocks of times in the day
 * Be creative in how we prioritize the school day- look at how PD can be embedded into the work day
 * Coach conducting professional development
 * Offer an incentive for doing PD online after school
 * SAS- train all teachers! Require
 * Compensate teachers for obtaining professional development
 * Develop a shared vision with colleagues- get their input for how to achieve goals

**Funding: 7 dots**
 * Promoting or supporting coaching as embedded PD and funding that way
 * Identify and access alternate funding sources to fund coaching ie grants etc
 * Provide dedicated funding for 21st century teaching and learning
 * Increase resources to overcome barriers
 * Continue funding for TIMS program
 * Have PDE agree that all tech initiations would last at least 10 years- with funding reduced each year and if a school district participate it must agree to sustain it
 * Grants

**Collaboration: 20 dots**
 * Shared PD T&L with EdTed
 * Faculties must form CLC`s and begin to discuss their craft
 * Communicate better
 * Have all coaches work together
 * Use technology to implement collaboration
 * Create a PLN
 * Encourage PAIUCC/TIMS to work closely together
 * Create more opportunities for TIMS and PIIC mentors to work together and collaborate
 * Provide coach/TIM community on SAS to share what works
 * Provide opportunities for collaboration with other coaching initiatives
 * Opportunities for cross curriculum meeting
 * Ask TIMS to share what works with colleagues
 * Good ideas are shared
 * Shared ownership of implementation design
 * Regular meetings with ad stakeholders reflect, revise, revisit
 * Gathering resources to share
 * Continue TIMS program
 * Use Elluminate more for short PD creativities
 * Coordinate schedule to accommodate teachers getting into other teachers` classrooms to observe instructional best practices
 * Regular IU meeting school visitation with whole imp team
 * Collaboration days/month
 * TIMS time for CFK
 * Collaborating with other IUs to create expert in certain areas to use as a shared resource
 * Multidistrict courses that are planned* co taught using various technologies
 * Not innovative but some bases such as scheduling to allow content or grade level teaching time to get together to discuss learning. How then students are progressing, what can be done to improve, etc
 * Use all media available to communicate intention, answer questions

**Communication: 15 dots**
 * Have fierce/tough conversations
 * Get on the principal network agendas, coach role
 * Role of coach with curriculum council
 * Individual teachers can be passionate, life long learners and be risk takers well to do PBL, IBL, etc
 * Resources strategies are aligned to content and immediately useful
 * Keep everyone involved in hearing the information- some message- everyone knows
 * Provide greater support to PTA organizations to help pull in communities
 * Pull school boards together (PASBO?) to lay out plans
 * Establish dept of community liaison to build knowledge and share info
 * Education summit this summer to pull things together
 * Develop a tech integration plan
 * Meetings with key stakeholders across the IU
 * Network/access establish understanding between tech directors and admin
 * Key players all on the same page
 * Provide PD to administrators
 * All key stakeholders hear the same message
 * Help PDU leaders to understand vision
 * Open the lines of communication

**Remuneration/salary: 0 dots**
 * Small rewards go a long way
 * Raise salaries, ask for more time
 * Pay Ken money

**Community: 0 dots**
 * Structured, guided PLCs
 * Create PD groups that cross-pollinate ideas, mix elementary, high school, and middle school if possible
 * Personal learning networks, get involved
 * WWN regional/county. PLC groups that collaborate on the issue
 * WCID. Individuals can be leaders within their spheres of influence
 * WCID. Individuals can serve as models of practice for colleagues
 * Collaborate coach group/network/community

**Coach/ TIM`s KOLP: 34 dots**
 * TIM mentor a new TIM. Talk every week- skype? Ichat?
 * Communicate monthly with IU tech/ curr. Staff on CFF happenings
 * Lead a TIMs webinar on hot topics
 * Every CFF coach visited at the school with their leadership team
 * Coaches (DRR,EETT, PIIC, Math) meet with teachers as a team
 * All coaches share a work space
 * What is working now? Our goals and initiatives as TIMs and PDE
 * Help all IT staff connect the dots- from PDE to IU to SD`s
 * TIMs ask coaches how they can support them in a mentoring role
 * Connect the IU job to a TIM role
 * TIMs engage through a community/network?
 * Giving admin and coaches opportunities to plan and discuss PD, instructional opals, data, etc
 * Organize all coaches at IU literacy, math, tech, etc
 * Institutionalize coaching as a school role
 * TIMs and PIIC talking, walking, thinking together
 * Smile, and join a great online community for support
 * PDE mentor works with TIM on how to use the coach log for mentoring coach and leadership team
 * Take the “biggest challenge” to breakfast each month
 * TIMs review with coach to help determine where the coach fits in
 * Creating “teams” at the IU`s for support districts and their needs
 * Coaches present to principal after each 21st century teaching and learning meeting without principal speaking, then respond.

**Curriculum: 0 dots**
 * Curriculum mapping. Build strategies into curriculum for inclusion of inquiry based learning activities, etc
 * Design lessons/units around standards that integrate inquiry-based strategies
 * Curriculum dept takes stronger role to support schools that cannot dedicate to this
 * Reduce number of standards to be addressed
 * Podcast lecture content for homework- then hands on classroom time
 * Include admin in more PD to learn strategies for PBL
 * Focus on real world life skills building

**Leadership: 51 Dots**
 * New motto. Lose the egos, it's for the kids
 * Invite Admins to ISTE conference
 * Tech director buy in
 * Send all superintendents to a state or ISTE conference
 * Gather all superintendents to attend a state wide conference on subject. It's #1 over pSSA and NCLB
 * Change leadership's Attitudes first
 * Establish principal collaboratives
 * Curriculum director=curriculum mapping
 * P.D. For admin to 1. Properly define technology implementation into the curriculum 2. What it looks like 3. Examples to evaluate
 * Communicate coaching/use data to show the importance of children
 * PDE=Someone is listening
 * Leadership needs to be trained to understand 21st Century learning
 * Make instructional technology a required element of administrator certification
 * Part of Principal Certification should be to experience (for the purpose of modeling) the skills and procedures that we want from our teachers
 * A vision from the administration
 * Discuss issues/concerns at admin level
 * Leadership Roles need to be shared

**Accountability: 1 Dot**
 * Never accept incompetence from a teacher in subjects where appropriate. We should view the lack of tech skills as being malpractice
 * Expect high levels of accountability for 21st Century reform
 * Where's the data?
 * Work with unions to help them understand this IS job security

**Instruction: 11 Dots**
 * Active co teaching across curriculum
 * Adopt new teacher evaluation system
 * Remove the technology, focus on the instruction
 * Share best practices via video, examples, etc.
 * Emphasize best practices
 * Encourage teachers to experiment with instruction
 * Deliver content via thematic units

**Culture: 32 Dots**
 * Pick one topic, stick with it for the year: work it
 * Commitment or buy in
 * Lack of advocacy. Advocate Advocate Advocate. Demand better schooling
 * Change the metaphor
 * Work to change the culture of the schools so all can be proud of their school
 * Belief that everyone has a part in the bigger picture
 * Involve parents more in the educational process
 * Involve the administrative team along with the teachers from the start
 * Continue to build awareness increase understanding and grow skills in all stakeholders
 * Produce/develop a global learning community and citizens
 * Involve students in professional development, help them understand why school needs to change

**Tech Integration: 7 Dots**
 * Align technology standards within all content areas
 * Identify technologies as a solution to district challenges (no technology for technology's sake)
 * Take over network/filtering decisions. Have education/learning be the driving factor when design policies procedures
 * Rules/guidelines for technology should be formal by curriculum dept. not technology dept.
 * Encouraging training for tech tools in context. Not training just on tool but training as to how tool promotes learning
 * Require/allow students to bring own technology
 * Take focus off tools
 * Focus on st. achievement NOT tools! How can we get kids to learn A, B & C when how we learned doesn't work for them?
 * More access to technology
 * District wide CLC's. “Mandated”
 * CFF/ Integrators meetings
 * Support, continue with integration coaches!

**Modeling: 18 Dots**
 * PSSA Show/Model linkages
 * Teaming strong teacher w/ conservative teacher
 * Create videos of teachers/classrooms successfully using pbl inquiry, inquiry, etc. Post to a common location and view at PD sessions
 * Use video conference equipment o “visit” classroom of innovative teachers
 * P.D. To model or modeled by master teachers. Project based, inquiry based learning
 * Modeling PBL lessons to teach content on standardizing tests
 * Create more VC opportunities
 * Lack of modeling, more modeling at Act 80 days
 * Model HOTS and 21st Century skills, share content and capitol
 * Model effective ways to increase collective intelligence
 * Coaches are working with teachers to raise the level of learning using technology as an enhancement

**Systemic View: 10 Dots**
 * Connect school in together instead of isolated events
 * Action do an analysis of initiative and efforts to determine what needs to stay/go away
 * Structure schools like hospitals. Teacher=Doctor, Preprofessionals=Nurses, Aides=Orderlies, Interns, Residents
 * Don't be afraid to surface problems
 * Key players on leadership teams
 * Getting results: include technology component in plans

**Professional Association/Union: 0 Dots**
 * Turn teacher unions into professional organizations rather than labor unions

**Time:5 Dots**
 * Time to run in depth activities Collaborate w/ another teacher and cofacilitate an activity with multiple classes
 * Provide 30 minutes at end of each day for P.D.
 * Offer teachers flextime for P.D. Activities done on their own time
 * Embedded PD
 * Create schedule to coordinate meetings with school principals
 * Allocate time for collaboration in districts
 * Lengthen the school year and school day
 * Require that teachers have common planning time during the school day
 * Change the school calendar to 2wk breaks but meet all year
 * Shared planning time for teachers
 * Reexamine school schedules. School year. School day.
 * Flexible scheduling


 * Action statements**

Participate in the creation of a strong marketing plan of school reform. Collaborating with IU curriculum, TAC, TIMS, and coach mentors. Educate and inform district administrators on policies on 21st century teaching, age based models, school calendars, and global educational models.
 * Organizational change policies:**

Advocate to change the “what” and “how” of school. We demonstrate sustained commitment to change. We create a culture that includes all stakeholders in design of education and implementation.
 * Culture:**