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Planning, Implementing & Evaluating 1:1 Laptop Initiatives

Planning, Implementing & Evaluating 1:1 Laptop Initiatives. 2011 NASB/NASA State Education Conference Thursday, November 17, 2011 Hershey Public Schools Jane Davis jdavis@esu16.org http:// tinyurl.com/hershey121. 1:1 Information .

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Planning, Implementing & Evaluating 1:1 Laptop Initiatives

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  1. Planning, Implementing & Evaluating 1:1 Laptop Initiatives 2011 NASB/NASA State Education Conference Thursday, November 17, 2011 Hershey Public Schools Jane Davis jdavis@esu16.org http://tinyurl.com/hershey121

  2. 1:1 Information • Hershey Public Schools is in its 6th year of a 9-12 1:1 laptop initiative. • Project LEAP • Laptops Enhancing Academic Performance • Naming your project places emphasis on student achievement and not the technology

  3. Planning • Began project with a technology committee that consisted of all stakeholders: • Met for four months and developed a three year plan and budget that revolved around our K-12 Technology needs. • Plan looked at needs for staff, students in K-8 and students 9-12, administration and school board.

  4. Implementation • Plan provided: • Full-time IT staff person • Increase in the amount of in service time • Laptops for all 9-12 students • Laptop carts for K-8 students • Laptops for K-12 teachers, administration and school board members. • Implemented software and strategies that met school improvement goals • School board meetings went online through NASB eMeeting portal.

  5. Effective Evaluation • Project should reinforce components of your school improvement goal • Focus should be on: • student learning. • effectiveness of teacher instruction. How do you know if your technology project does these two things?

  6. Questions that we asked as we evaluated our program. • What have we learned from this project? • Why is it critical to student learning? • Why should the laptop initiative be continued? • How is this project a part of our overall technology plan?

  7. Areas Evaluated • Content and Curriculum • Instructional Practices • Hardware and Infrastructure • School Culture

  8. Content and Curriculum • Standards and accountability are in focus at the state and national level. • We track the following data: • NeSA-Reading, Math & Science • Statewide Writing Assessment • Norm referenced test scores (NRT)

  9. State of the Schools Report • Much of this data can be found on the state of the schools report • http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us/Main/Home.aspx

  10. Methods of Evaluation • Chart student data • We have tracked Reading Comprehension and Math Computation NRT Data • NeSA Data • ACT Data • Try to recognize Trend data

  11. Measuring Instructional Practices • Our project addressed four of Marzano’s instructional practices • Identifying Similarities and Differences • Does the teacher utilize the following: compare/contrast, venn Diagrams, classify information, metaphors and analogies? • Nonlinguistic representations. • Does the teacher use charts, graphs to aide in student learning

  12. Measuring Instructional Practices • Summarizing and Note-taking • Students have access to notes on our learning management system and they can edit and add to teacher notes.

  13. Measuring Instructional Practices • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition • Teachers update grades regularly, parents have access to grades, attendance, lesson plans through student information system.

  14. Methods of Evaluation that we use to measure instructional practices. • Survey Data from students, teachers, graduates • Student Achievement Data • PowerSchool usage at the student and parent level. • Teacher evaluation instruments can be used to track Marzano’s strategies.

  15. Evaluating hardware and infrastructure • Track repair tickets • Amount and length of time taken to repair items • Network bandwidth statistics • Internet usage reports • (Internet filter reports) • Server usage records • Teacher and student climate survey data

  16. Evaluate Technical Support, Training, Culture • Ticketing system • Teacher and student climate survey data • Formal evaluation systems

  17. Does additional technology need to be supported? • We gauge this through student/ teacher/principal surveys. • Clickers • Smartboards • Other presentation devices • Additional storage • Additional Servers

  18. Other Skills to address include: • College Readiness • Workforce skills • 21St Century skills • Technology literacy • Can be evaluated with survey data from Post-Graduates

  19. It’s about teaching and learning! • A 1 to 1 program is about creating a 21st century learning environment that engages students and prepares them to be college and career ready. • Students learn better when they are engaged, and research on what engages today’s students points to technology. • 1 to 1 learning programs match how today’s students interact and learn.

  20. Communication, Collaboration, Culture…Celebrate Success Celebrate Success- whenever you can! Create a culture that is not possible without the use of technology to achieve. 2010 NeSA Reading Division Leader for C-2

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