Leading The Way

1. Leading The Way https://backchannelchat.com/backchannel/36995498 How School Administrators Can Support Technology Integration

2. Who Are We? • Susan Horowitz • Principal, Ford Middle School • Susan_horowitz@allenisd.org • @swhorowitz • @fmsmustangs • http://mrshhotline.blogspot.com Angie Slicker Math Dept. Head 7th grade teacher Angie_slicker@allenisd.org Crystal Earley 7th grade teacher Crystal_earley@allenisd.org

3. W E Pete Ford Middle School • Allen, Texas • 973 students • 7th and 8th grades • 35% economically disadvantaged http://allenisd.org/fordms

4. Today’s Goals • We will share our experience of moving a very traditional campus to a campus with a digital campus culture. • You will leave this session recognizing that your school is “ok” where it is as long as it does not stay there because you have received at least one idea to add to your plan of action for moving your own campus to one with a digital culture.

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6. Leadership- Setting the Focus • Creating Cognitive Dissonance • Establishing the Call of Duty • Be a Futurist • Lead by example

7. My Private List Serve • ZITE • 3 Tech Ninjas • Twitter • ISTE • ASCD • Anything and everything

8. Personnel • Know the lynch pins • Be a Proton- Stay Positive • Ignore the naysayers- • Like students we tend to focus on the most difficult 5-10%. • “It’s ok to be where you are as long as you don’t stay there.” • Reward those who move.

9. Tradition does not create legal entitlement!

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11. Access and Availability • Devices are instructional materials • Ask the learners- both adult and student • Technology and Devices • One to one or BYOD • Build in Contingencies $$ Avoid the “Grandmother’s China Syndrome”

12. What students have to say about education?

14. “Embracement*” vs. Buy In • Ubiquitous, invisible, essential • Teach them to use it for good and not for evil! • Direct teach • Don’t ban it *Eric Sheninger, Digital Leadership: Changing paradigms for changing times.

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16. Good Instruction Trumps All • Be careful of inertia- Don’t fuel the wrong fire • 95% rule • Intervention rather than Remediation • Learning focused- Not a teacher centered event • Depth of Knowledge • High quality assessment- Avoid Googleness

17. Instructional strategies • Flipped learning • Flipped mastery- The Real Work • Learning management system http://eagletube.allenisd.org/ford/features/EbC8t3dT3boBAZEfhwww

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19. Opportunities for true learning • PLCs • Technology Club • Faculty meetings • Focus on ingenuity • QR Code faculty meetings • Flipped Faculty meetings

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21. Middle School: 2013 and beyond • A new urgency • Parental embracement • Student empowerment • Teacher success

22. 21 Day Twitter Challenge http://www.allenisd.org/fordms

23. Learning Spaces • Our final frontier

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25. Thank You!