Westwood+Elementary



Early Adopters  Year 2, Leadership Goals:

Is to provide continual support for our teachers as they learn more about how to integrate technology as a learning process to foster critical thinking, problem solving and team work.  

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

Please add additional questions and thoughts, as they arise... // Planning that supports more relevant experiences through quadrant B and D instruction. // // (Trying to incorporate the R and R CIR rubric during our planning) // || Developing our skill set to navigate in the digital world to support thinking and learning. Students showing their understanding in nontraditional ways such as I movies, Glogster, storybird, global read alouds and penpals through skyping. || Principal and AP Technology Instructional Speciaist ILT || We have been providing technology trainings during our faculty meetings. Also modeling the use of technology during our meetings. We utilize our extended planning to discuss planning with technolgy in mind. There are also teachers that are a part of EA who are now supporting and sharing their expertise (pebbles). || By grade level areas of growth/strength:
 * || //**Consider**...// || //notes, evidence, examples, resource links, etc.// ||
 * =**Vision**= || **Where is your building headed?**
 * 1) **Opportunities for project based learning**
 * 2) **Students actively involved in the learning process**
 * 3) **Infusing the Arts into the classroom**
 * 4) **Instruction that supports Quadrant D Learning**
 * 5) **Interdisciplinary experiences, including real life applications and opportunities**
 * 6) **New ways to assess authentic learning** || // More opportunities for project based learning. //
 * =**A Closer Look**= || * **Under which F&D Focus Area will you center your efforts this coming year?**
 * Student Owned Learning || Interdisciplinary experiences including real-life applications and opportunites will be provided for all students. ||
 * =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?** || * Continuing our Questioning to support collaboration
 * Digital Citizenship
 * Skill set to navigate in the digital world
 * Determine the snapshots to represent their learning
 * < =**Leadership**= ||< * **Who is leading the way?**
 * Instructional Leadership Team ||< I Coach
 * ==**Staff Capacity**== || * **What is the capability of the instructional staff?**
 * See Attachment
 * **How might you develop or build this capacity?**
 * Technology Tidbits, Extended Team Planning, District Staff Developments, Campus Monthly Technology Meetings
 * **Who are the capacity builders on your campus?**
 * HaLam Le, Melanie Marshall, Noemi Leon, Angelique Moulton, Gena Olson || We have a range of teachers from novice to expert level. All of them have had trainings on the 11 tools and have learned how to utilize technology to teach more effectively. They are still in the process of learning how to enhance student instruction by having their students do the heavy lifting related to incorportation technology.
 * =**Instructional Practices**= || * **Where do models of best practice exist?**
 * K- 5
 * **What elements of strength do each offer?** || Places on our campus where we have seen models of best practices has been in specific classrooms in each grade level, but as a team our second grade team and how they plan and implement it. Our after school program has also provided amazing project based projects from digital storytelling to students taking leadership in how they utilize technolgy.
 * K: Literacy Development and differentiation
 * 1st: Technology Integration, Quadrant D Learning, CAFE and providing Student Ownership of Learning
 * 2nd: Technology Intergration and Quardrant D Learning
 * 3rd: Goal Setting and Utilizing ESL Strategies, Flip classroom instruction
 * 4th: Interdisciplinary Connections, Technology Integration, and Goal Setting
 * 5th: Dual Language Instruction, Questioning Skills, and Differentiation ||
 * =**Learning Commons**= || * **What is the role of the library media program in the development of your early adopters?** || * A resource for research
 * Access to technology use
 * A place to broadcast presentations ||
 * =**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?**
 * **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** || * Giving the freedom and the permission to think out of the box and try new things
 * Utilizing a framework that supports alignment between the TEK, the level of questioning and activity (Quadrant A to D)
 * **iterate** || * Giving the freedom and the permission to think out of the box and try new things
 * Utilizing a framework that supports alignment between the TEK, the level of questioning and activity (Quadrant A to D)


 * Setting up a positive environment that fosters collaboration of learning and reflection
 * Utilizing protocals that support growth (Critical Friends) ||  ||
 * =**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?** ||  ||
 * =**Accountability**= || * **What evidence might you collect with your early adopters to show your campus plan is producing learning gains?** ||  ||
 * =**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 being 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?** || //// ||
 * =**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?** ||  ||
 * =**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?** ||  ||
 * **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?** ||  ||
 * =**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?** ||  ||
 * **To which focus area(s) in the Findings & Directions document does your work most closely align?** ||  ||