How do you create a district-wide vision for Digital Learning?

Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists. In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick discuss how a school district can set a vision for digital learning in the classrooms and how you can start that conversation with your administrative team and instructional coaching department. If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, please contact the podcast.  We would love to have you join the show. Question of the Week Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. This week’s question is: Question Topic: How can we get the entire school district on the same page when it comes to defining what digital learning looks like in the classroom? Weekly Topic Developing a Shared Vision and Goals How do you create a shared vision? Asking … “what’s the purpose?” Where is the target? What is the objective? What do we want our staff to get out of the training … and why? How can we provide the training and experiences to get staff able to meet the goals Who is included in this conversation? Superintendent Cabinet District / Building Leaders Teachers Students Parents / Community Members Ways to ask the important questions Google Form Conversations Quick Survey’s What has or is working well? Have your goals/objectives been meet? Using the Summertime to ask questions of district leaders Map out and Diagram a full year program How do you build a catalogue to support the goals and objectives of the district and building leaders Prioritizing Professional Learning in and out of your district Creating a Professional Development Yearly Overview Send out a document to the staff so they are on the same page Here are the goals that we are looking to progress Create a catalogue of professional learning opportunities Internal Meeting Speakers Consultants External Conferences EdCamps Thrive Sage Health Organizations / Hospitals often run sessions Using a Newsletter to support professional Learning Work with your building administrators to put professional development information in THEIR newsletters Creating a digital learning evaluation method that is flexible yet effective Have a variety of evaluation methods … not just the mid-year and end of year evaluations Keep evaluation more informal and collegial so that it’s not a “gotcha” Using a Staff Survey (Self-Assessment) to allow teachers to share what they know and what they would like to learn during the year Use some type of “artifact creation” when it comes to digital learning so that teachers can showcase what they are learning throughout the professional development process At the end of the day, the teacher is going to have to show that they know how to use the tool or that they understand the concept. Allow for...