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Shock and Awe: Technology Strategies and Tactics |
Participate and share : Interactive session
Dr. Sheryl Abshire Frankie Jackson Donna Williamson
For the past several years, educators have been engaged in shock-and-awe situations. Now, we need to be shocked with effective strategies and experience the awe in the achievement of desired results. We will articulate the strategies we’ve learned that will describe how we can transform learning.
| Audience: | Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Coaches, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices required |
| Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | None |
| Topic: | Leadership |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| ISTE Standards: | For Education Leaders: Visionary Planner
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1. Participants will discuss innovative frameworks that are flexible, sustainable, performance based, and cost effective – all geared towards delivering ubiquitous instruction. They will learn how to create or modify the framework and align it with school system strategic plans and administrative-instructional-technological approaches to address learning continuity.
2. Participants will review the impact of data to provide insight into learning continuity and successful student experiences.
3. Participants will engage in interactive discussions on using analytics to guide practice and create their own successful strategies.
The pandemic and resulting challenges have been catalysts for change in education . This new educational landscape is a work in progress and will be for several years to come. The session will be divided into 3 equal segments. In segment 1, we will review frameworks that can help districts access themselves as to where they are in developing a learning continuation plan. The second segment will focus on data concerning what worked and what didn't work in 2020 and 2021. The final segment will focus on tools and strategies that can be used for secure easy access, guide teacher/parent/student conversations, and evaluate tools based on engagement and cost. Through all segments, participants will divide up into groups to discuss successful strategies. Each group will collaborate in shared documents and report out key findings and strategies discussed.
Time will be divided equally among the three segments.
Continuity of Learning Guidebook
https://www.classlink.com/resources/learning-continuity-guidebook
Restart Reinvent Schools COVID Full Report
https://www.cosnacademy.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=117&dataid=127&FileName=Restart_Reinvent_Schools_COVID_REPORT.pdf
Restart Reinvent Schools COVID Framework Graphic
https://www.cosnacademy.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=117&dataid=126&FileName=Restart_Reinvent_Schools_COVID_Framework_GRAPHIC.pdf
Back to School Rubric v2.0
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lXAwsLWBfNslkhIGxHqgojVjmV5n8KIrR7SCmZnNqsA/edit#gid=1000901060
Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D., is the recently retired chief technology officer (CTO) for Calcasieu Parish Public Schools in Louisiana. A longtime transformational technology innovation and integration expert, she has led the infusion of technology into curriculum for districts and states in the U.S. and internationally. Abshire has been a teacher, principal, library/media specialist, CTO and associate professor. She’s also an accomplished grant writer, trainer and reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF). A founding member of ISTE NETS/ISTE Standards and Accreditation Committee, she’s deeply involved in infusing technology into standards-based instruction. Abshire is an ISTE Certified Educator, and the first teacher inducted into the U.S. National Teachers’ Hall of Fame. She was appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s Technical Writing Team to create the new National Educational Technology Plan; is a nationally recognized consultant, speaker and educator; and was appointed by the FCC to the USAC board representing the nation's schools/libraries on E-rate matters. As a sought-after speaker on educational and technology issues, she has presented and published nationally and internationally about funding, leadership, education and technology issues. ISTE awarded her the first Public Policy Advocate of the Year Award for her decades of work promoting educational technology. Additionally, she was honored with the prestigious ISTE Making It Happen Award. Abshire is the chair of the Louisiana CTO Council and former president and vice president of advocacy and programs for the Louisiana ISTE affiliate LACUE.
Frankie Jackson is a nationally recognized Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in K-12, leading education technology initiatives for 25+ years at the state and national levels, working in large districts with students between 25K-116K. She currently serves as a Project Director for CoSN, the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Texas Education Technology Leaders. She also consults independently as an education technology leader and success advocate. As a member of CoSN’s policy committee and CoSN’s advisory board for Driving K-12 Innovation, she authors CTO instructional content and serves as a subject matter expert for CoSN’s Certified Education Technology Leader (CETL) program.
Donna is currently facilitating the CoSN Early Career K-12 CTO Academy and has been a CTO and EdTech leader since 1982. She has been quoted in national publications such as District Administration, EdSurge, EdTech, Tech & Learning, edScoop, Education Week, Forbes, and eSchool News. Accomplishments include Executive Committee and CoSN Board, recipient of the National ISTE Making It Happen Award, Sally Moore Award, National Withrow CTO Award Honorable Mention, EdTech Digest’s Trend Setter Award, and Marbury Technology Innovation Award and 2016 ISTE Distinguished District Award. Donna has presented at ALET, AETC, CoSN, AASBO, SSA, ACTE, SXSW, iNACOL, and ISTE.
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