Arnold Learning Initiative

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Arnold Learning Initiative

• A computer for every student, in every grade and
  every classroom

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Data Driven Decision Making

• Teacher Surveys
• TAGLIT
• Rubric of Essential Technologies
• Teacher Surveys (some one on one)

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Steps to Get Ready

• Strive for teacher approval
• Concentrate on professional development
• Implement tech walk evaluations
• Implement mobile labs

• One on one teacher interviewing
• Pilot project to test drive the settings.
• Surveys
• Visiting other schools

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Rationale for Implementing the Project

• Individualized learning and excellence
• Meet technology standards for students
• To better spend the same amount of money
• Give the courage for students to think for
  themselves and then back it up with facts or a
  product.
• Organization and time management

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TimelineItems in red indicate a data driven
decision

• August 2002 Upgrade network
• Begin wireless network installation
• January 2003 wireless network start in elem
  laptop program
• January 2004 begin technology inservices
• January 2004 write K-12 Technology curriculum

• Jan 2005 Contact Westside and other schools
• March 2005 Teachers Discussion, survey, and
  Turn down
• May 2005 School board tabled discussion to fall
  due to survey results (the board would have
  approved)
• May 2005 design Tech walk evaluations

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Timeline (cont.)Items in red indicate a data
driven decision

• January 2006 One on one teacher interviews
• February 2006 Unanimous board decision
• February 2006 Westside TLI
• Set up images for teachers and seniors
• March 2006 Teacher and Senior Pilot Project and
  survey

• August 2005 MII
• August 2005 Implement Tech/Standards
  Evaluations each semester
• September 2005 implement mobile lab for check
  out
• October 2005 TL2 November 2005 20/20 Vision
  Conf.

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Timeline (cont.)Items in red indicate a data
driven decision

• Finish wireless network installation
• August 17, 2006 Parents Night and Media Press
  Releases
• April 2007 Student exit survey for laptops
  (same survey as pre-initiative to show growth)
• Print solution

• April 2006 NETA
• May 2006 Senior exit survey
• May 2006 Grades 8-11 pre-initiative survey
• May-June 2006 create new laptop image for
  student laptops based on survey results
• August 2006 prepare for Parents Night for
  laptop deployment

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Deployment Steps

• The Jeff Ochsner Workout
• Set up server and workgroup manager
• Creating an image
• Pilot Project
• Re-creating the image
• Moving workstations
• Setting up Parents Night

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Parents Night

• Set Up Breakout Sessions
• Documentation
• Vendors
• Name Labeling
• Internet Safety
• Badgley Bootcamp

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Professional Development

• ... individual students learn through different
  learning styles at different paces through
  various physical, emotional, and environmental
  challenges and limitations with different
  interests and passions and to varying degrees of
  success in different social or physical
  environments. - Jeff Rice, ?-A New Model for
  21st Century Education,? Threshold, Winter 2007

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Professional Development Best Practice Based
Inservices

• Differentiated Instruction
• Multiple Intelligences (iLife)
• Problem Based or Project Based Learning
• 21st Century Skills (workplace)

• Marzanos Instructional Strategies (Learning Web
  Grant Participation)
• Apple Integration/Infusion Workshop

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Teacher Success Stories

• Usual Tech Saavy teachers
• Growing Into It teachers
• Reluctant users
• Teachers against the program to begin with

• You will see almost every staff member in the
  next two days. If you want to talk to someone
  specifically, please ask and I will connect you
  with that person.

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Changes in the Classroom

• New classroom rules
• Ive been teaching for 28 years and I feel like
  a first year teacher again.
• I spend a lot of time planning that I didnt
  last year because I am trying to find online
  material and support for lessons I have been
  teaching for a long time.
• Ive had to redesign my homework, projects, and
  assessments so that they are less single answer
  lessons - less likely to be able to cheat -
  Hunters higher level learning.

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Changes in the Classroom (cont.)

• Madeline Hunter is still your friend. In fact,
  she might be more important to keep in mind your
  first year.
• By identifying your goals, objectives, standards,
  steps, and homework, and how you will assess, you
  will better choose the web sites, and tech uses
  to actually achieve the content of the lesson
  plan.
• A new kind of material list (links instead of
  worksheets, software instead of markers, cameras
  instead of poster paper, etc.)

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Professional Development (cont.)

• Teacher Experts
• Using survey results for planning
• ESU 10 Tech Workshops
• Admitting students can help
• Projects across the grades

• Apple ATSE
• LAN manager meetings
• Worktime
• Online Content
• Teacher Web Pages

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Financing

• 3-year Lease Purchase
• Insurance Pool?
• If broken twice, we wont fix

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Discipline

• ?... the overprotection and rigid, absolute
  rules will lead to creative problem solving. If
  students want to, they will find a way, and the
  credibility of adults will be diminished.

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How has student learning changed?

• More time on task in class
• Less time travelling to lockers at the end of the
  period to get something to work on
• Increased complexity of assignments
• Longer writing assignments
• More detailed projects
• Increased time management skills

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Studying Style

• The laptops have given us the chance to discover
  our studying style. Some classes, like Advanced
  Algebra and Chemistry, I take notes by hand
  because they are my hardest classes. Other
  classes, like History and English, I take notes
  with my laptop because it is faster. At least I
  know that about myself before I go off to college
  next year, instead of finding out in a college
  class. Denisa Larreau, Senior Class of 2007

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The Middle School Slide

• The MS have laptops
• Had to change to mobile accounts due to teacher
  lesson planning
• Teachers wanted them to be able to take them home
  by 2nd quarter, whereas before the project they
  didnt think they could handle the responsibility.

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Student Ownership

• They are afraid to lose their stuff
• I collected all of them for one and a half class
  periods for a security update (teacher mistake on
  password release)
• Considered collecting them for Christmas Break
  (snow days and protests from teachers/parents)
• Rarely do I see that kids have let others use
  their laptops, but they do share power plugs (of
  which I dont approve)
• Showing off their work in the Mighty Mart

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Student Skill Development

• Perseverance to figure something out or to find
  the information (more willing to spend the seat
  time)
• Multitasking
• Organization (color coded files, folders, drop
  boxes, Inspiration, ical, stickies, etc.)
• Less lost homework
• Problem-solving skills
• Increased Creativity

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Truly Personalized

• Just as a company gives a laptop to an employee,
  knowing that they will do personal email, and
  maybe online purchasing... the school should
  expect the same thing... just not during
• Class appropriate vs. inappropriate

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Now that the new has worn off
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Assessment Data Collection

• Baseline Survey Data (profiler pro)
• STARs assessment baseline data
• Standardized Tests
• Curriculum based assessments
• Portfolio Assessment
• Teacher Observational Data
• Attendance
• Enrollment Trends

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Principals Teacher Observations

• When I am observing teachers, I look for a few
  of the following
• 1. I look to see if they can use the software we
  have done training on in the past. Can the
  teacher troubleshoot student problems as they
  are using the laptops. I also like to see that
  students are helping each other, or helping the
  teacher.
• 2. I like to make sure that each teacher can use
  the technology independently and not use another
  adult as a crutch.
• 3. I like to see that they are integrating
  technology into the standards based lessons, and
  that they don't necessarily need to create all
  new projects to use technology in their lessons.
  (infuse technology rather than start over) We
  have several forms we use to evaluate standards
  based lessons that integrate technology that we
  would be willing to share.
• 4. I like to see the teacher is teaching content
  (not the tool of the computer. We don't teach
  them how to use an eraser, so we can rely on
  them to figure out how to use this tool.)
• 5. I like to see that the kids are on task
  working, and not distracted by each other or by
  other computers in action. We want to see happy
  kids.
• 6. I like to see teachers trying something new,
  and using new learning methods with the
  students.
• 7. I like to see the teacher moving, monitoring
  and guiding the students as they use the
  technology in the classroom. Not sitting behind
  their desk doing something else.
• 8. Most of all I want an educational end product
  following an educational lesson which is
  standards based, just like we have always
  expected before technology was used.
• New expectations, same educational end result.

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How has it changed my job?

• Bipolar
• Temporary reduction in my teaching
  responsibilities.
• I spend less time walking to problems (often
  cabling issues - but not with laptops)
• My time is better spent
• With all computers alike, my troubleshooting is
  easier
• I spend more time monitoring students than
  troubleshooting room to room
• Warrantee allows me to work on integration

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Things I Would Do Differently Next Year

• Tags for backpacks
• Change laptop agreement form
• Elem and MS laptops need mobile accounts also
• TCP/IP addresses maxed out (use NAT)
• Turn off Bluetooth
• Forgot the drafting program
• Emphasize more the weight of the backpack

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Changes for Next Year

• Centerpoint to Powerschool
• More teacher web pages for disseminating
  information
• Drop boxes on the server
• Email decisions?
• Going more paperless

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Goals for Next Year

• To incorporate parent learning more.
• To use end of first year survey data as a
  directive
• To address standards without sacrificing time to
  the tool
• To integrate technology more naturally (without
  as much forethought)
• To improve the quality and quantity of writing
• To focus more on Internet Safety

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Need to Talk to Me?

• nbadgley_at_esu10.org
• http//sites.arnold.k12.ne.us/arnoldhome
• http//162.127.120.1/nicole/Site/Welcome.html