Ridgecrest+Elementary



Early Adopters   Year 2, Leadership Goals:
 * Consistent follow-up and communication with staff and students on our digital environments (Twitter, blogs, Edmodo, Wiki's, etc.)
 * To extend student learning - we will establish a collaborative group of students who will design learning expereinces for their peers

The questions below are meant to be a starting point, as you consider and shape your effortsto challenge learners in authentic, meaningful and relevant ways.

Please add additional questions and thoughts, as they arise... // Student Products // // Student's Learning Environment // || Recognizing their strengths and building on them || There are teachers who have classrooms that model best practices. There will be a focus to access other global classrooms by methods that allow student choice. ||
 * || //**Consider**...// || //notes, evidence, examples, resource links, etc.// ||
 * =**Vision**= || * **Where is your building headed?**
 * **To ensure acquired literacy skills so students are on or above grade level**
 * **To empower students to take ownership of their learning** || // RGE Livebinder //
 * =**A Closer Look**= || * **Under which F&D Focus Area will you center your efforts this coming year?**
 * Global Communication
 * Information Literacy
 * Student Ownership of Learning || [[image:sbisdlearnsymphony/Downtown_Houston.jpg width="232" height="165"]] ||
 * =Grain Size= || * **What requisite skills will students need to develop to attend to this focus area?**
 * **Which thread have your early adopters chosen to weave through their practice this coming year?** || Student Ownership of Learning
 * < =**Leadership**= ||< * **Who is leading the way?** ||< Students, teachers, ILT, Sara ||
 * ==**Staff Capacity**== || * **What is the capability of the instructional staff?**
 * **How might you develop or build this capacity?**
 * Continued staff development, opportunities to observe**
 * one another and master teachers, and share their**
 * experiences.**
 * **Who are the capacity builders on your campus?**
 * Team leaders, I-Coach, administrators, Intervention**
 * specialists, and Activ/technology trainer.** || **Staff has intermediate technology skills. They have****strong pedagogy skills and they build strong**
 * relationships with students and their colleagues.** ||
 * =**Instructional Practices**= || * **Where do models of best practice exist?**
 * In our classrooms, on the web, throughout the district and the global classrooms.**
 * **What elements of strength do each offer?**
 * In our classrooms we have quick access, for the district - other perspectives and the global is a broader cultural perspective.** || November Learning
 * =**Learning Commons**= || * **What is the role of the library media program in the development of your early adopters?** || **It is the technology hub of the school therefore it is a major resource center for the early adopter teachers. The enrichment team will focus in the first hour planning time to teach students skills that are needed to be more fluent in technology literacy.** ||
 * =**Staff Development**= || * **In what ways will your early adopters be encouraged to develop a nuanced understanding of the requisite skills our learners need to be life ready?**
 * Facilitation of technology resources on campus (ex. flip cameras).**
 * Understanding of global interactions.**
 * Building on the strengths of the students as role models for other students.**
 * **In what ways will your early adopters be encouraged to...**
 * **push the edges of expected practice**
 * **take risks**
 * **embrace failure**
 * **document their process**
 * **mine their mistakes**
 * **iterate** || We will work with year 1 teachers to develop the staff development that is needed for us to meet our goals.
 * **mine their mistakes**
 * **iterate** || We will work with year 1 teachers to develop the staff development that is needed for us to meet our goals.

This will be an ongoing process where we collaborate, design, and implement our staff development.

Technology - mini iPad's for the early adopter classrooms

Create - collaboration time so that the early adopter teachers can meet and share ideas

Provide tools for them to use. Provide opportunities for teachers to observe model classrooms in the building and time to debrief on those practices. Provide teachers the support needed to take risks in using technology in the classroom. Whether it is for technology comfort or behavior management of the classroom. || Allowing teachers to go to other early adopter schools to observe this practice in context. ||
 * =**Pedagogical Development**= || * **How will teachers be encouraged to consider their daily practice,** **as it relates to technology, content & the creation of knowledge?**
 * **What opportunities will be available for your early adopters to continue their own learning in the context of their practice?** || Allow opportunities for the early adopter teachers to collaborate with each other on successes and challenges. Create an environment for risk taking so that teachers do not feel there is a evaluation of their practice as they explore these practices.
 * **What opportunities will be available for your early adopters to continue their own learning in the context of their practice?** || Allow opportunities for the early adopter teachers to collaborate with each other on successes and challenges. Create an environment for risk taking so that teachers do not feel there is a evaluation of their practice as they explore these practices.
 * =**Accountability**= || * **What evidence might you collect with your early adopters to show your campus plan is producing learning gains?** || The evidence that will indicate if our campus in producing gains will include but not be limited to: student engagement, ownership and independence in their learning, visual representations of learning and support in the classrooms, teachers will have more confidence when sharing ideas with their colleagues. ||
 * =**Planning**= || * **How is the current vision of your building being acted upon and continuing to evolve?**
 * **How do the focus area(s) you've selected for next year support that vision?**
 * **At what point will students be invited into the conversations?**
 * **How will you include students as contributing members in early adopter planning sessions?**
 * **What ideas do you have for the full day each month of campus PD**? **How might we best support your efforts during that time?**
 * **In what way(s) will early adopters be supported between monthly sessions?**
 * **How might you address some of the more pressing "Yeah, but...."s on your campus?**
 * **What resources can the District provide to support your efforts on this front?** || //<//**Communicate that they are supported and that it will not count for their appraisal.**
 * **How might you address some of the more pressing "Yeah, but...."s on your campus?**
 * **What resources can the District provide to support your efforts on this front?** || //<//**Communicate that they are supported and that it will not count for their appraisal.**


 * With the creation of these model classrooms students will have opportunities to ownership, collaboration with the teacher and have a voice in their learning.**


 * We will continue to use the large block planning for PD that will include this initiative.**


 * The "yeah, but.."s will be addressed by allowing time for ideas to be shared on how to overcome these challenges. Having the EA core group become strengthened in their practices will allow support of each other.**

Elementary needs early dismissal days to be able to have PD and be able to go to the secondary schools to observe and see the vertical alignment needed to get students ready for middle school.

More resources for devices in the classroom. ||
 * =**Communication**= || * **How will you communicate what your building is doing?**
 * **How will you invite other stakeholders to engage in the conversation?**
 * **How will you invite and engage global colleagues and peers to learn along side your early adopters?**
 * **Of what benefit will it be to network with the 4 other "early adopter" campuses?** || The use of this Wiki will be one avenue for communication.
 * **Of what benefit will it be to network with the 4 other "early adopter" campuses?** || The use of this Wiki will be one avenue for communication.

The use of web tools to provide discussions and sharing of ideas like Edmodo.

By building relationships with these global educators and colleagues will allow for shared learning to take place.

By networking at EA meetings there will be gains of knowledge on how other practices and implementation of this initiative are being met. ||
 * =**Connections**= || * **How do your vision & efforts align with the mission of the district?**
 * **To which focus area(s) in the Findings & Directions document does your work most closely align?** || By teaching students to participate and own their learning, the strengths of the student will be built upon as they continue to learning to meet the goal of T-2-4.
 * **To which focus area(s) in the Findings & Directions document does your work most closely align?** || By teaching students to participate and own their learning, the strengths of the student will be built upon as they continue to learning to meet the goal of T-2-4.

The vision of our school is aligned by first having students take ownership of their learning by also accessing global communication. ||