Action+Plan+Statements+from+ABEL+Groups

=Support-= - Support should include: - Sharing of best practices. - Mentoring to build capacity and networks - Job embedded/pedagogically embedded PD

=Curriculum-= - Identify required skills for the 21st century workforce - Incorporating 21st century skills into the curriculum - Align assessment with new curriculum - empowering students and teachers to use technology to deliver curriculum

=Policy-= - Unions - Timetabling - Infrastructure

=System Structure-= - Each school board needs to develop a set of minimum standard and expectations in regards to the use to technology for learning. - Implement opportunities for flexible, seamless structures that recognizes learning happening in different contents. - Operational systematic collaboration between school/board administration and teachers in the classroom.

=Resources (Money)-= - Professional development funds be allocated to support the technological advances/integration for learning. - Strategic plan developed for fund allocation to purchase and service technology, - Collaborate to provide service (training networking required for 21st century) - To reduce the need for money ensure clients are permitted to access all public domains with their own equipment (iphones, iPods, netbooks, laptops) - Reconstruct budgest with view to incorporate technology into instruction and re purposing existing monies. e.q. from textbooks to elearning resources. - Explore models for cost-sharing, allocation of provincial, regional funds to ensure equitable access. - Give "them" (not necessarily to the loudest) resource. - Leverage. I.e. open source.

=Time-= - To encourage 21st century teaching and learning lets have release time or resource days for focus on a school based project that utilizes technology. - This may include CRT`s, staff collaboration, webinars, etc. Abel... - Time to develop comfort level to use the various resources available. - Teachers need scheduled and unscheduled time to enable dialogue, collaboration, celebration of both students and teachers` success, and professional development.

=Relationships-= - Trust- students, parents, community, staff.

=Technology-= - Ensure all teachers and students have devices and connectivity, - A plan for purposeful enhancement of student learning through technology.

=Hardware Barriers-= - Eliminating equity barrier by use of student technology will add to greater collaboration. - Entices learning relationship between teacher and learner. - Professional learning should include critical filter for electronic tools.

=Collaboration-= - Capacity building - Everyone learning. - To make broader connection by bringing all stakeholders to the table. eg. collaboratively working with larger community. - Risk free - Distribute leadership. - Give up control. - Mechanisms to not exist compartments - Culture of "niceness" and respect.

=Leadership-= - Need to have an understanding that IT can impact all learning for all learners.

=Attitude-= - Change attitudes at all levels (parents, community, teachers, administration) to support the use of technology to enhance learning. - Greater emphasis on the appropriate use of technology.

=PD-= - Integrate PD using technology in content-based situations/contexts (i.e. history etc,) - Include students in teacher professional development approaches. - Model - Use of process sheets - Teachers time to collaborate/plan/mentor/partner and learn on a regular basis. - Teachers need access to having to facilitate them learning in a varity of format on an ongoing base. eg- digital literacy coaches. - This will lead to a culture shift. - Self directed, not board dictated - PD with teachers (in similar subjects) - Peer to peer PD - With out any pressure.

=Support-= - Increased in-home ongoing professional development for teachers in the areas of: A) how to use technology effectively B) Why it is pedagogically important C) Using students expertise as a resource to support teachers in learning new technological skills. - Changes to provincial funding formula to allow for flexibility in the allocation of resources (ie. using textbook dollars for IT)

=Learning-= - Establishing provincial policy that commits to integrating technology throughout the system and establish connections and best practices in all curriculum/system areas. - Boards then develop an environment that empowers teachers and students to develop their own relevant learning and skills through PD infrastructure and local policy. - Mandatory princ. involvement in collaborative learning. - Build time for collaborating into teacher timetables. - Providing the hardware allows for virtual access to professional resource people and resources.

=System Modifications-= - Restructuring assessment to endure 21st century learning. - Allow flexible scheduling for learning independent of time, place, and space at all levels. - Accountability for use of technology in order to improve learning.