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Group B
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| B1 | Collaborative Evaluation Led by Local Educators | Ann Brackett, Director, Research and Evaluation; and Nancy Hurley, Research and Evaluation Associate, Learning Innovations, WestEd |
| B2 (repeat of A2) | Look! Our Administrator is Using Technology! | Susan Brooks-Young, SJ Brooks-Young Consulting |
| B3 | CyberCorps: Transforming Wanna Be Hackers into Model Citizens | Melanie Durfee and Cory Stokes, Southwest Educational Development Center |
| B4 | Applied Data Driven Decision Making: The Teacher-Assessment Connection | Ed Sloat, Director of the Office of Research, Planning, and Assessment, Peoria Unified School District. |
| B5 | Effective Professional Development and the Integration of Technology | Kathy Wiebke, Deputy Associate Superintendent for Highly Qualified Professionals, Arizona Department of Education |
| B6 | Tools for Establishing and Measuring a Vision for Integration | Gary Graves, Senior Program Advisor, NWREL Technology in Education Center |
Group C
1:00–2:30 p.m.
| C1 | Effective Leadership Practices for K–12 Online Learning | Kirk deFord, Associate, Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC) |
| C2 | How Data Makes a Difference in Closing the Gap and Raising Student Achievement | Nancy Sullivan, Studio Director for the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative |
| C3 | Planning for the Integration of Technology to Maximize Teaching and Learning | Kathy Hayden, Assistant Professor of Educational Technology, Cal State San Marcos, College of Education |
| C4 | Ubiquitous Computing: a Leadership Vision and School Change Vehicle | Saul Rockman, President, Rockman et al |
Group D
2:45–4:00 p.m.
| D1 | School Improvement | Craig Wheaton, Director State and Federal Projects, Visalia USD |
| D2 | Becoming a Connoisseur of Technology Integration | Michael Simkins, Creative Director, TICAL |
| D3 | Technology Leaders' Resource Forum | Tim Landeck, Director Technology Services, Alisal Union School District |
| D4 | Effective Technology Integration: Easier Said than Done! | Susan Brooks-Young, SJ Brooks-Young Consulting |
Group E (Double Sessions)
1:00–4:00 p.m.
| E1 | Gaining Control with the Palm In Your Hand | Eddie Williams, Weber Associates |
| E2 | What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Copyright in the Cyberspace Age | Hall Davidson, Director of Educational Services KOCE-TV PBS, Orange County, California |
Plenary Panel Session
4:15–5:15 p.m.
| Beyond the Budget and with Accountability: Key Factors Leading to Successful Technology Integration in Schools | Panel voices from the field: California: Rich George; Arizona: Cindy Lee; Utah: Dan Johnson; Moderator: Hank Stabler |
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Workshop Descriptions
A1: Using Your Leadership Position to Lead Systemic School Improvement Supported by Technology, Paul Koehler
Superintendents and school leaders are in a unique position to lead systemic school and school district improvement using technology as an effective tool. This session will be a discussion of ways leaders can use their positions to create a climate for more effective school improvement by making thoughtful decisions about the use of technology.
Outcomes:
- Understanding how superintendents can use their leadership role to develop a sustainable technology plan for the district;
- Specific ways systemic school improvement is enhanced when technology becomes a tool for teachers and principals
- Methods of working with school boards and the community to make sure technology is seen as a "basic" ingredient of school reform and not a frill;
- Specific examples of how technology can improve teaching and learning.
A2: (This is repeated in session B2) Look! Our Administrator is Using Technology!, Susan Brooks-Young
Need easy-to-use online tools to gather data and share information that also enable you to model appropriate technology use for your school community? Look no further! This hands-on workshop allows participants to try out two useful tools for school administrators.
Free online survey generators let you build and administer surveys, then aggregate results in a fraction of the time required for their paper and pencil counterparts. Review several generators, then set up your own account and try your hand at creating a simple survey.
The popularity of Weblogs, or blogs, as a classroom tool is growing, but they're not just for kids. See how educators are using blogs as school and classroom Web sites and for staff communication. Then see how easy it is to create your own blog.
A3: Top 10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Technology Program, Elizabeth Byrom
Have you ever noticed that some schools embrace technology and see it as a means for improving teaching and learning while other schools see it as "something else we have to do"? Join in this thought provoking session where we'll discuss the top ten factors that affect technology use in schools and how you can best use these factors to make improvements to your technology program. The session leader will be Dr. Elizabeth Byrom, Principal Investigator for SEIR*TEC. Dr. Byrom has led a team of staff development and technical assistance providers over the past nine years as they have worked with schools, states, jurisdictions, school districts, preservice training institutions and other constituents in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina to improve teaching and learning by building internal capacity to successfully integrate technology.
A4: Effective Professional Development Using Technology, Donna Hackner
Attendees will be provided with strategies and tips on how to integrate and use technology and other materials to "jazz-up" their professional development offerings.
A5: Supporting Professional Development at Your School: Technology Tips for Differentiated Instruction, Julie Duffield
As an administrator responsible for the adequate yearly progress (AYP) at your school, meeting the needs of all students is never easy and has become harder in recent years, as students have become increasingly diverse. Contributing to that diversity are not just cultural and ethnic differences, but also differences in English language skills, physical disabilities, and learning disabilities. At the same time, teachers are under increased pressure to ensure that all their wide-ranging students perform well academically.
One common sense strategy for doing so is to differentiate instruction rather than taking a one-size-fits all approach to teaching and learning. For teachers who are attempting to give students multiple ways to acquire content, to process or make sense of ideas, and to demonstrate their understanding, commonly available digital technology resources can be an enormous help. This session will review a WestEd Knowledge Brief that illustrates the uses of four different kinds of common classroom technology. It will also point participants to a WestEd Web site that offers more examples and tips for using these and other technologies to support differentiated instruction. Finally, it will provide a general overview of what's going on at a national level that may support teachers in their efforts.
A6: Chin-deep in Technology—Where to Find Good Shovels, Kathy Webb
Vendors are out to sell your school the latest and greatest technology tools. This session is about free and low-cost tools that can work for your school. Learn about open-source (free) and low-cost software that rivals and sometimes surpasses high-cost tools.
We'll also look at quick ways you can use your existing tools (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.) to get your work done in your office and with your staff.
Outcomes:
- Learn about no-cost/low-cost software solutions such as standards-based student-assessment tools.
- Increase your personal productivity with tips on leveraging the software you and your school already own.
B1: Collaborative Evaluation Led by Local Educators, Ann Brackett and Nancy Hurley
This interactive session will involve participants in exploring the collaborative evaluation process and how it can support and inform school improvement efforts, at the same time using a new print and online resource developed through NEIRTEC, Collaborative Evaluation Led by Local Educators. Collaborative evaluation engages teams of educators in a dynamic inquiry process focused on assessing the effectiveness of local initiatives. It begins with the baseline stage of "Gathering Together and Planning," and continues on through "Preparing to Collect Data," "Collecting Our Data," "Making Sense of Our Findings," and "Making Improvements." During the session, participants and presenters will consider school needs for evaluation of their technology integration work and explore the guide, touching on the various stages of the evaluation process, examining guiding questions for the stages and evaluation task checklists. As participants consider their own project evaluation needs, the group will explore the accompanying Web site (www.NEIRTEC.org/evaluation) where they will find a detailed evaluation planning template and practical, step-by-step how-to's for evaluation tasks ranging from selection of data gathering strategies to development of questionnaires and facilitation of community discussions of findings.
B2 (This is a repeat of session A2): Look! Our Administrator is Using Technology!, Susan Brooks-Young
Need easy-to-use online tools to gather data and share information that also enable you to model appropriate technology use for your school community? Look no further! This hands-on workshop allows participants to try out two useful tools for school administrators.
Free online survey generators let you build and administer surveys, then aggregate results in a fraction of the time required for their paper and pencil counterparts. Review several generators, then set up your own account and try your hand at creating a simple survey.
The popularity of Weblogs, or blogs, as a classroom tool is growing, but they're not just for kids. See how educators are using blogs as school and classroom Web sites, and for staff communication. Then see how easy it is to create your own blog.
B3: CyberCorps: Transforming Wanna Be Hackers into Model Citizens, Melanie Durfee and Cory Stokes
Digital teenagers, the great contradiction: they can complicate your lives or they can simplify your workload. These digital teenagers will eventually evolve into adults who will either clean out your bank account or write the code for the first air-tight operating system. If the brain power of these students can be harnessed for the greater good, just imagine the possibilities. CyberCorps, a Utah-based program funded by an EETT grant, strives to channel the brilliance of young minds for the benefit of all. CyberCorps students give technology support to educators in their schools as well as their feeder school as teachers try to modify their teaching practices to keep up with emerging technologies. CyberCorps has partnered with GenYes, a research-proven solution that gives middle and high school students the skills necessary to give the educators in their schools just-in-time technology training. CyberCorps also helps to fill the large gap created by a shortage of IT professionals in the public schools. Students receive valuable on-the-job technology training as they take pride and ownership, providing valuable services to their teachers, administrators, and fellow students. Plus, the CyberCorps program runs quite economically. Dollar for dollar, schools receive great benefits with few costs. Everyone wins: teachers get help, and students get to show off.
Outcomes:
Those attending the workshop will develop an understanding of how high school students can successfully support technology in schools. They will receive information and resources to help implement CyberCorps programs in their areas. Overcoming the barriers of students' supporting technology in schools will be discussed in detail as well.
B4: Applied Data Driven Decision Making: The Teacher-Assessment Connection, Ed Sloat
This session will discuss how the Peoria Unified School District approaches the problem of pushing large amounts of instructionally relevant assessment information to the teacher's desktop for use in the instructional planning process. The emphasis will be on placing the solution within the broader organizational framework/vision which directs the District's curriculum development, instructional design, and aligned assessment activities. We will discuss the use of varying levels of data analytic solutions currently in use by teachers and administrators and how these techniques directly relate to classroom instruction, differentiate learning, goal setting, and multi-level analysis.
B5: Effective Professional Development and the Integration of Technology, Kathy Wiebke
This presentation will give you research-based strategies for creating high quality professional development opportunities that will help your teachers learn how to integrate technology to support student achievement.
B6: Tools for Establishing and Measuring a Vision for Integration, Gary Graves
Much effort has been spent in the last few years to develop frameworks and tools to assist the process of establishing an understanding of the meaning of technology integration among school personnel and constituents. A key component is relating technology to school improvement. Recently, additional effort has been put to the development of ways to measure the implementation of integration. This presentation will focus on three tools to assist school principals in establishing vision, relating it to school improvement, and measuring the level of integration.
C1: Effective Leadership Practices for K–12 Online Learning, Kirk deFord
As an administrator, you may have considered authorizing the development of an online instructional program…or maybe you already have one up and running. Whatever status the online program is in for your school or district, this session will give you some "best practices" to help you organize, support, review, adopt, and implement your vision for online education programs. You will also have an opportunity to share your experiences with others and to plan for sustained online program improvement.
C2: How Data Makes a Difference in Closing the Gap and Raising Student Achievement, Nancy Sullivan
Data can and should help educators determine next steps in their work to raise student achievement and narrow existing achievement gaps. However, often educators struggle to determine how to make meaning of available data and how to strategically plan actions based upon that data. This session will include an overview of findings from the California Best Practices Study on monitoring performance. Specifically, the session will explore practices used by schools serving high-poverty, ethnically diverse populations that are successfully raising student achievement and narrowing achievement gaps. Participants will have the opportunity to examine tools and protocols used by these schools to monitor performance of students, teachers, schools, and principals. They will also compare how these schools work with their teachers and district offices to build consistent structures to support effective use of data to the practices of average performing schools. Finally, participants will reflect on the differences between the practices of high performing schools and average performing schools and how these differences might inform their own improvement efforts.
C3: Planning for the Integration of Technology to Maximize Teaching and Learning, Kathy Hayden
Effective technology integration requires careful planning, resources, and support. This session will guide administrators through strategies for beginning or continuing the process of technology integration that includes working with a team to look at instructional strategies, learning environments, and the integration of technology to support teaching and learning. Administrators will review research, resources and tools to guide the selection of technologies and professional development leading to improved teaching and learning.
Outcomes:
- Learn about research that supports student achievement through the use of technology.
- Understand that technology integration requires essential conditions and careful planning and support.
- Review example video clips of effective classroom practice using technology at various grade levels and subject areas.
- Discuss strategies for supporting standards-based technology-enriched learning environments.
C4: Ubiquitous Computing: a Leadership Vision and School Change Vehicle, Saul Rockman
Ubiquitous computing remains a compelling intervention that dramatically changes teaching and learning. It requires leadership from teachers and principals, from district technology and curriculum leaders, and from superintendents, school boards, and even governors. Research on a wide range of ubiquitous computing projects has findings for districts to consider in exploring and adopting a computer (or handheld device) for every child.
Based on eight years of studying complex laptop programs in rural and urban settings, we have learned a great deal about the implementation strategies and roles that yield valued outcomes in core academic areas as well as on 21st century learning skills and on the digital divide. The findings have implications for any intensive technology environment.
Outcomes:
- Identify the leadership decisions that need to be made at different administrative and stakeholder levels to create a shared vision and plans for systemic school improvement.
- Identify the effect those decisions have on curriculum and technology integration.
- Assess the effects ubiquitous technology has had on teaching, learning, and school improvement in order to make informed decisions about such programs.
D1: School Improvement, Craig Wheaton
NCLB has made leadership a maze of complexity. If you find that NCLB mandates and effective practices all swirl together making the journey needlessly difficult, this session is for you. Two principals present simple but effective steps to school improvement.
D2: Becoming a Connoisseur of Technology Integration, Michael Simkins
Learn to be an educator who can observe technology-supported lessons with a connoisseur's discrimination and appreciation of subtleties. There's a lot more to integrating technology than adding PowerPoint slides to your lectures and posting homework on the Web.
D3: Technology Leaders' Resource Forum, Tim Landeck
This is a presentation and discussion about the various aspects of site, district, and county level technology leadership. This presentation is designed to be a positive and productive look at the difficulties and solutions to the many hurdles that technology leaders are faced with. A time to learn from others in your field about what works and what resources are available to help you manage the many tasks presentated to you on a daily basis.
D4: Effective Technology Integration: Easier Said than Done!, Susan Brooks-Young
Have you wondered why the teaching staff seems to be 'stuck' when it comes to expanding their use of technology beyond simple automation of what they would have done anyway? This session looks at a research-based progression of levels of technology use for teachers, factors that inhibit their growth beyond rudimentary use, and ways you can help them move forward to achieve more effective technology integration
E1: Gaining Control with the Palm In Your Hand, Eddie Williams
This workshop will provide administrators with skills from the basics of turning on the device and launching applications, to some of the subtle functions that most experienced Palm™ owners never discover. Participants learn the unique TimeLink™ process for time management with the Palm™ device.
Outcomes:
- Maintain the Palm™ calendar as your master calendar.
- Enter data using the Graffiti™ language.
- Build and follow a "to do" list that is prioritized and learn how to TimeLink™.
- Transfer information to other Palm™ devices by beaming.
- Enter and keep up with key contact information.
- Use reminders and alarms so that nothing falls through the cracks.
- Use shortcuts effectively and create your own.
- Link the paper in your office with your Palm™ handheld device.
- Effectively use the Palm Desktop software.
- Backup Palm data using Hotsync.
- Enter customized electronic business card.
- Create electronic memos.
E2: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Copyright in the Cyberspace Age
When mixed together, copyright and education seem to produce misunderstandings, mistaken practices, and fear and trembling at every level. This is not surprising since misinformation, misunderstanding, and downright falsehoods come from lawyers, institutions, and the popular press. Copyright and intellectual property have firm roots in the Constitution. Educators, and knowledge-based segments of society have clear and deep exemptions under the law. But in a time when the "free" press means large media conglomerates and has become part of the problem, where can you get the straight stuff? This double workshop! Get the No FAT (Fear and Trembling) low down on copyright.
Session I
Get the deep background necessary to make judgment calls in an area
where technology
outpaces law. You may need to trust your own judgment. This session
will give
you the knowledge to do it. Handouts include handy classroom charts,
guidelines,
and materials to train your staff. Learn the different
responsibilities and
powers of teachers, librarians, and administrators and tips on how
each can
do their job with greater legal compliance. Come, feel at home, and
take home
the famous Copyright Quiz!
Session II
With lawsuits proliferating and law enforcement agencies knocking on
some district
doors, learn how technology can make copyright a spur for more
effective teaching
and learning! Learn a wide variety of Web site and other sources that
offer
excellent quality, copyright-friendly resources including music,
video, images,
and more. Explore software that creation of music, images, and video
that your
school will then have it's own copyright on! A journey through
technology where
resource creation is fun, inventive, and oh-so-legal to use on the
Web, on CDs,
in yearbook and even in the cafeteria (where you're prohibited from
showing
those rented tapes!).
Plenary Panel Session: Beyond the Budget and with Accountability: Key Factors Leading to Successful Technology Integration in Schools
In recent years K–12 education has witnessed dwindling state and local budgets focused primarily on education technology; and all the while, accountability concerns tied NCLB top of the agenda for school and district leaders. As fiscal manager, team organizer, disciplinarian, and instructional leader, when does today's principal have time to champion technology integration and deliver on improved student achievement and increased staff productivity?
Our panel of principals will address how they've faced the accountability challenge and available budgets to provide leadership in their school and advance a powerful technology component in their education community. After providing a brief description of their school, the professional development opportunities they offer staff, and the collaborative structures they employ to engage stakeholders, our panelists will focus on and describe the key leadership strategies that result in success for them in their settings.
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