Case Studies for Success: How Open Tech Standards Get “IT” Done

1. Case Studies for Success: How Open Tech Standards Get “IT” Done IMS Global Learning Webinar March 9, 2016

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3. BeatrizArnillasDirector Education Technology ChrisChung K12 Community Facilitator JosephCatania Instructional TechnologySpecialist KeithOsburn Technology and Special Programs Director BerjAkian CEO & Founder cchung@imsglobal.org @learningimpact larnilla@houstonisd.org @barnillas jcatania@necsd.net @tech_4schools keith.osburn@jeff-davis.k12.ga.us @jdcsnews berj@classlink.com @classlink

4. Agenda Standards update Case studies What we learned Get involved bit.ly/1QyB3FI LIVE NOTES

5. Standards Update IMS Global Learning Standards address real-world challenges Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Common Cartridge (CC) and Thin Common Cartridge (TCC) OneRoster

9. Real World Grounding the concepts of open technology standardsin real-word practice

10. Addressing the need to provide high quality instructional digital resources from multiple sources Personalizing instruction is the key goal Eliminating multiple login/passwords Preventing exposure of student data while promoting internet safety Houston ISD Beatriz ArnillasDirector, Education Technology

11. Houston ISD Today 7th largest district in the country 64% Latino, 25% African-American 80% Free and Reduced Lunch Spanish is primary language in 1/3 of homes among Latino student body

12. What We Did Digital Teaching and Learning Hub 1:1 Implementation 1 million digital learning objects 30+ publisher sources Open Source Digital Content Interoperability

13. What We Learned Cross-departmental collaboration is a must Develop partnerships with your key vendors Start innovative initiatives as projects, managed by IT (Project Management Office) but governed by Academics, School Leadership and IT. Once logistics and change management are in place, move the projects to programs, managed by Academics

14. Our Journey Map Our Vision and Digital Resource Strategy we had an SIS & Data Warehouse… we wanted a Teaching and Learning System that integrated with the SIS & DW Spring - 2013 Partner with Academic Team, Research, issue RFP we found IMS Global, we refined Our Vision (to curate content from multiple publishers into our own platform) Create Workflows for Accepting Content we chose Thin Common Cartridge and LTI, we partnered with ~30 publishers, ingested ~200 cartridges and 1MM+ Learning Objects… all in one year! Fall - 2014 Professional Development we began working with teachers, helping them learn to search and use our Library and Recommendation Engine (aligned to state learning standards) Summer - 2015 Differentiating and Personalizing Instruction we are seeing steady classroom by classroom and school by school progress… 283 schools, 215,000 students, 13,000 teachers Fall -2015

15. Time required for students and staff to access software applications Contending with numerous usernames and unique passwords Hours required for technologists to populate applications with names and rosters extracted from the District’s SIS, Manual transfer of assessment results negatively affect educational processes Jeff Davis County Schools Keith OsburnTechnology and Special Programs Director

16. Jeff Davis Today Small rural school district of 3,200 students 65% white, 20% Hispanic, 15% African American CEP district due to the high percentage of economically disadvantaged students we serve

17. What We Did Introduced OneClick single sign-on Implemented OneRoster from IMS Global

18. What We Learned There is no digital “Field of Dreams” Listening to needs of teachers and students is paramount for building relevant technology programs Above all else….ensure quick, concise, reliable, access-anywhere availability Socialize software adoption policy

19. What’s Next Build upon newly fortified foundation to achieve personalized learning Triage the variety of resources we have in-hand and evaluate vis-à-vis our IMS Global Roadmap

20. Increasingly complex and ever-growing variety of digital resources Creating access for all: Meeting the needs of students educators, administrators and parents Newburgh Enlarged City SD Joseph CataniaInstructional Technology Specialist

21. Newburgh Today Small city district with 11,600 students 13 schools Diverse range of students 1,713 students with disabilities; 1,491 ELL students Latino: 48% Black or African American: 25% White: 22%, Asian/ Pacific Islander: 3% Multiracial: 3% 72% of students are economically disadvantaged

22. What We Did Evaluated free versus SaaS models and had to factor in cost versus inclusivity Conceived of Technology “Hub” Embraced the blended/hybrid/whatever-it-takes model

23. What We Learned PD days early in the school year helps drive adoption Leveraging group policies within our Active Directory ensured our Hub was the default home page in all browsers Made Chrome the default browser and used GPO to force the install of necessary browser extensions

24. What’s Next Adoption of IMS Global's OneRoster auto rostering solution. Newburgh will integrate, with the help of our partner, this powerful tool into our NECSD Launchpad. OneRoster will safely and securely auto populate various resources such as digital assessments, with teacher and student data. This has been a manual, time consuming process for our district in the past.

25. KeyTakeaways bit.ly/1QyB3FI LIVE NOTES

26. BeatrizArnillasDirector Education Technology Thank You ChrisChung K12 Community Facilitator JosephCatania Instructional TechnologySpecialist KeithOsburn Technology and Special Programs Director BerjAkian CEO & Founder cchung@imsglobal.org @learningimpact larnilla@houstonisd.org @barnillas jcatania@necsd.net @tech_4schools keith.osburn@jeff-davis.k12.ga.us @jdcsnews berj@classlink.com @classlink