Sticky+Notes

=Culture (40 dots)=

- Educating leadership about the skills students need - Realize that writing isn`t just in papers or books - To embed technology into the culture, requires paradigm shift that we can all be a part of (if we make time, etc) - Change the conversation from "technology applications" to good teaching and learning (which will include tech integration) - Be courageous - Individuals need to be open minded and willing to try new initiatives - Spread the word and believe that it`s okay for the kids to know more and teach us - Learn to ask forgiveness and not permission for trying out new things - It`s okay to fail - Change NCLB to ECLP (every child learns passionately) - Discussions about passion based learning at state and national level - Positive experiences (blended pilot) - Incentivize change..make it worth their while - Staff supporting each other- encouraging each other to be courageous in triyng even if the lesson/project/etc fails - Support staff effort

=Collaboration (24 dots)=

- What can individuals do? Ask people why? Why are you doing that? - Collaboration team teaching to allow for "on the job" professional development - Team teach until your comfortable using a 21st century skill (modeling) - Collaboration between staff to develop/plan/implement rather than work in isolation - Offer to help or show a peer new ideas - Develop collaboration model for achieving goal (like we did in PLP) - Team project based learning - Help teachers in different buildings collaborate - Let others know what you are doing and what benefits are - Mandate that everyone will do one thing- and make it do-able - Use PLN`s to generate 21st century skill products that get featured for other staff and parents - Continue to strive to be better - Branch out beyond the brick and mortar - Creating an atmosphere where its safe to talk about your teaching (success and failures) - Peers- collaborating with peers on a challenge. How to use a piece of software or teach x. But in a new and engaging way? reward for collaboration - Engage parents/community

=Leadership (29 dots)= - Get teachers permission to try something and to fail and to know they`ll still be valued - Freedom to fire people who are not on board with passion-based, 21st century pedagogy - LMS - Build trust- communicate. Administrators trust teachers; teachers trust kids - Administration encouraging/supporting "muckiness"..giving permission to try and to flounder while trying new tech/new curriculum.. - Admins need to work together in large districts to create a focus for teacher learning - Teach by example (with passion!) - Admin to be removed from classroom- all admin teach a class/semester - Require administrators to meet tech competencies - If you dont know where you are going, any road will get you there- facilitate conversations to gain understanding - Vision- define and made visible through a leader on a daily basis - Scaffold learning with "end in view" vision shared with teachers (never really an "end" through) - Include a teach integration goal as part of annual review process - Show how 21st century works into current plan - There is building support for creativity in teaching - People are very willing to learn and willing to share in our building - Support for individuals who want to break the mold and do things in new and innovative ways - Supportive admin - Help administrators get rid of things instead of constantly adding to our plates - Take something off the teachers plate - Grassroots effort- start with the ones most willing to change and spread from there - Be first, second, and third follower - Change some teachers attitudes - Take baby steps so teachers aren`t overwhelmed - Grassroots with gentle, consist. pressure from leadership/ for change to occur

=Time (23 dots)=

- Year round school - Blended learning. Face to face and online. Free up teacher time - Downsize number of new initiatives being introduced and implemented - Time for teachers to collaborate and to create - Time issue.. try to learn/do one new thing each year - Time to learn and try different teaching techniques/projects in your class - Monday- Prep and learn teacher days. School: T W Th F - Year round school with 1/wk per month dedicated to professional development - Teachers would be given 20% of their work week to expand their PLN

=Parents/Community (22 dots)=

- Start a grassroots movement to talk about future education needs - What can individuals do? *Support forward thinking - Get parents and community up to speed - Opportunities to share "success stories" with community, other teachers, school boards, admin - Instead of teacher and student buy in we need parent/community buy in - Parent and community education - Education forums for teaching parents, students, and community stake-holders the value and meaning of the 21st century teaching/learning - Educate parents and community using parents and community members to share 21st century skills, tools- ways of "being" - Educate the community of the overall plan a time frame, and likely positive long term results - Communicating with parents and community where we are going

=Hardware (10 dots)=

- 1:1 laptop program nationwide - Unlimited space for teachers doing things online (dont limit server space) - More robust internet - Purchase iPads (or laptops) for each students so they can be integrated into teach course - Laptops in hands of all kids - Stop using the excuse "I cant get into the computer lab" use mobile devices in the classroom - Create a system (policies and procedures) to hold individuals accountable for tech integration

=Environment (8 dots)=

- Less structured academic time during the school day. Time to experiment/share/discuss openly - Make it possible to rearrange classroom space - Regularly include a "playtime" segment at faculty meetings that uses a new tool, skill, or concept to promote laughter, excitement or awe/wonder

=University/College (4 dots)=

- Set up a tech course for university students - Partner with all stakeholders

=Deconstruction (4 dots)=

- Start our own school - Make classes, instructors, schedules, curriculum, standards more flexible - Be willing to learn from failure - Let worst-case scenarios happen; let the ship sink - What innovative ideas can you suggest? Blow up the current system. Get rid of tenure, invest in good teachers/facilitators

=Mentoring (11 dots)=

- #1 model what you are doing in your classroom and as far as PD - Keep talking, pushing, cajoling, encouraging - Community outreach and education are crucial- we (adults) need to work together to help kids move forward with inevitable tech changes - Supporting and modeling innovation - Connect students with the community form mutual support - Teachers mentoring other teachers - Individuals can continue talking to their colleagues, teaching, and learning together and encouraging each other - Move slowly but steadily toward big ideas - To over-come staff`s fear of change buddy/pair teachers up to mentor each other: work through problems - LMS as support person - Balance individual teacher coaching sessions with small group PLNs - Share results, positive examples - Model skills to staff and students

=Accountability (5 dots)=

- Accountability for training that was given - Documenting and sharing video of the changes occurring in the classroom - Accountability - What actions can be put in place to overcome the barriers? ACCOUNTABILITY at all levels. Higher ed down to 5k - Grow an ecology that allow failure

=Funding (13 dots)=

- Textbook not curriculum but only one resource - Spend as much on education as we do on military (federal support). Especially for at risk students and schools - Use "textbook" money to buy technology - Turn senior year into a year of internships and real world learning for students. Use the money saved to pay for preschool programs - More funding for technology support personnel - Use funding to get everyone connected- Tools and wifi access. Some homes/schools/classrooms are still not connected - Push that technology be adequately funded. Does each building have a budget for tech? if not, push for that! - Teachers need more time- pay them to explore their passion and share it with students - Money - Access grant monies that are specifically geared toward technology - Provide sufficient resources - More funding for technology - Save money by becoming more "paper free" and use the savings for technology - We need to leverage our assets (let kids bring their own technology!)

=Assessment (3 dots)=

- Get rid of grades - Let AYP fail and fall on itself - Demonstrate to staff and student population that change is good - Find a way to link student achievement to the engagement and learning that technology use creates - Changes in or rethink assessment - Continue to adapt what is currently done in the classroom

=Students (7 dots)=

- Solve real problems; hunger, bullying, AIDS, etc - Individual learning plans for every student - Need to give students the trust and flex. to handle using 2.0 tools at school. It`s give and take - Ask the students how they want to learn the material and how the teacher will know they learned it - Make students proud of their projects. Share with community

=How to=

- Individual teachers can design and implement one 21st century skill or unit - Provide students and teachers with examples - Offer incentives to change - See examples of what is being done to accomplish the goal - Identify pocket of excellence and duplicate those throughout the community - Pay and/or perks for the first two followers - Start small and grow. Get one or two followers

=Passion (17 dots)=

- Never be satisfied with today- our students lives will be dramatically different than ours at their age - We have small pockets of innovation and enthusiasm in technology integration - I can push myself to new boundaries. Share with peers - Professional responsibility - Individuals should follow their passion if we are learning and teaching with passion we will succeed - I can continue to advance effective teaching in my classroom - Develop our PLN to facilitate making changes in our own classrooms/teaching - Keep trying new things - Many students seem interested/engaged/ see the value of networked learning - Technology committee (being a member of the committee, getting support for trying out things, hugs when it foes not work the first time

=Systems (22 dots)=

- Get rid of AYB and NCLB - Web-based cross platform apps - Let the process happen naturally/ The trickle down effect - New method/system for determining progress - Abolish k-12 education in favor of a readiness model that allows constructivist teaching and learning - Create a new "system" like a charter school to avoid getting squashed by "the system" - Eliminate age- grading - Give teachers a set of standards to teach. Where X% of students have teacher- then they are done. what would be the most effective way to teach 150 kids? - Teach outside the 4 walls of classroom. Visit museums and have a week class of investigative true critical thinking - Teach digital responsibility so that technological barriers can be removed (filters) - Flexible schedules for online learning

=Professional Development (38 dots)=

- Get staff development opportunities - Increase technology access and PD programs to learn/ experiment with technology to increase learning - Provide training - Focus on first follower - Build on pockets of success/functionality; feed the rabbits - Mandatory media and technology training - District days allocated for technology - Put school board through PLP (and union governing board) - Support teachers who are trying new things - Highlight examples of innovation - Teacher observations of model teaching strategies/methods - On going coaching model - Invest in teachers give them time and tools to be successful - Build time into PD for teachers to work - Eliminate face to face staff development- go towards a hybrid model so teachers more say when they will participate in PD - Train new teachers. They dont come with the ability to integrate tech meaningfully into their classes - Give time and resources to teachers to learn and observe other teachers - Whats working? Personalized learning with tech through PD - Maintain PLP network affiliations - PLC time to collaborate - Professional learning networks for all staff - Teachers individuals can join PLN`s and take responsibility for their own learning - Colleague conversations - Collaborative connections teachers to share ideas/how to/success - Give more positive recognition to those doing good stuff - Downsize number of NEW initiatives being introduced and implemented - Make professional development around technology a must for all staff - Make sure teachers have some level of comfort with technology - We have a number of staff members who are very tech savvy and forward-looking. Utilize their talents - More required hours for staff development - Professionalize the teaching profession- more like a doctor than a factory worker - More PD on project based/student centered and learning - Whats working now is diverse staff development to meet all needs - Personalize professional development - Design work to teach teachers about digital citizenship. Parent ed classes as well to change mindset and consequences - Create teams of 3, from a different department. Team goal create 2 new courses (1/dept) that models 21st century learning. Each member of the team teachers 1 of the courses and engages in public reflection - Infuse technology and passion-based learning from pre-school all the way to to college - Train staff in 21stcentury learning and how it can transform student achievement - Embed 21st century tools in content based professional development - Continue to support staff in their journey - Build more PLNs - As an individual build a PLN - Use differentiated in structure to teach the teachers - Dont schedule predetermined staff development for teachers- make them submit a plan at the end of the year indicating how they have grown - Staff development required for administrators - Professional development support with time - District focusing fewer initiatives and really going into deep systematic change. TRANSFORMATIONAL change..