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Abandoning the Old Normal: We’re Reinventing Family Support! |
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Steve Kesel Devalin Jackson
From creating a family help desk to ensuring universal at-home access, providing multilingual trainings and more, the San Francisco Unified School District's technology department pivoted toward family support during the pandemic, and we continue to build on those changes. Join us as we share lessons learned, programs built and resources created. Their will be time for you to share your resources, too.
| Audience: | Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Principals/head teachers, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Participants will have the opportunity to share resources on a Padlet, which can be accesses without an account on any common web browser, whether on a PC, tablet, or phone. Participants will also be able to access the slide presentation on Google Slides, which is best accessed on Google Chrome (laptop/Chromebook) or Google Slides app (mobile device), but may also be accessed from any commonly used web browser. |
| Topic: | Equity and inclusion |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Education Leaders: Equity and Citizenship Advocate
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While this session begins by sharing the family technology support journey that one district has been making, it is designed to encourage participants to reflect on the family technology supports they are providing in their own contexts, consider what next steps might be appropriate for them, and share their best family technology resources and ideas with each other.
Over the course of the session, participants will…
become familiar with the family technology programs, services, resources, and activities that SFUSD created during distance learning and after the return to in-person school;
appreciate the many challenges a large, multi-department urban district needed to overcome, to create a family technology initiative from scratch during distance learning;
explore the best family technology resources created by the district during this initiative;
reflect on their own family technology supports, and consider what additional family programs, activities, or resources might be appropriate for their own contexts;
share their own best family technology digital resources, activities, and ideas with fellow participants;
take away resources, activities, and ideas they can adapt to for their own work;
learn about SFUSD’s indicators of success, and consider what indicators would be appropriate for them.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide (https://tech.ed.gov/publications/digital-learning-guide/parent-family/) outlines many of the most important topics that successful family digital learning must address, whether on the individual level, or the district level. The challenge for a large urban district is to offer them at scale and to ensure equity and access for traditionally underserved populations. Many of the lessons we learned and the systems we scaled were adapted from the Verizon Digital Promise Initiative (https://verizon.digitalpromise.org/), which we have participated in since 2016 and which enabled us to make 6 of our middle schools 1:1 take-home schools.
Steve Kesel is a Digital Learning Program Administrator in SFUSD, with a focus on family support and early learning. He is passionate about helping school communities use technology to transform learning. Steve has been a classroom teacher, math coach and content specialist, and an innovation coach. He served on the board of CUE San Francisco for 6 years and has presented at ISTE and several CUE conferences.
Devalin Jackson has been a passionate educator for over 10 years. She’s been a K/1 educator at Dr. George Washington Carver and a site lead for the Personalized Learning Environments Program in SFUSD. While completing her M.A. in organization and leadership at USF, Devalin launched Speak On It;A Black Mama virtual talk space and is currently on the African American Early Educator Policy Council, an initiative with the Children’s Council of San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Child Development with a minor in Public Health from Spelman College. She’s currently the Family Technology Support Instructional Designer in SFUSD.
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