Elementary+Innovative+Educator+Program

= Elementary Focus: Innovative Educator Program =

**Feedback on the proposed Innovative Educator Program:**
1. It's starting the conversation 2. Creating a pool of colleagues to "bounce" things off of 3. Beginning to look at the accountability piece 4. This is a district focus or initiative that would assist educators to become 21st Century educators, to meet CDE requirement of "How Many Personnel are Technology Proficiency".
 * What are the strengths?**

1. Engaging other educators (reluctant or uninformed) 2. More collaboration and alignment between elementary and other levels. 3. Danger of compartmentalizing (subjects, levels, focus on tools). 4. Administrator modeling and support. Principals (executive directors,etc.) need to be part of the discussion and accountability piece. 5. Accessibility- need more hardware for student use. We have GREAT bandwidth, we NEED access points and to allow students to bring their own laptops, iPads, iTouches, netbooks etc. 6. Move focus from tech used for data collecting (Successmaker, Maps testing). Move to creativity apps so teachers can do HIGHER ORDER THINKING. 7. Need same software loaded on teacher and student computers. OR move to web apps so we get away from software version issues. 8. TIME to actually become practitioners- follow the Action Research or Lesson Research model from TIMMS that would include time to visit peers classrooms to observe and give each other non-judgemental peer feedback where we are focused on quality instruction and student leaning. Reflective Practitioners. 9. Integrating tech is very open-ended and not prescriptive in any textbook. Teachers will need to take risks and re-evalaute a shift of HOW we instruct. Think Lesson Refresh and not starting from scratch or do every page.
 * What are the challenges?**

Suggestions for creating a strong professional development program.

**Online & Blended Professional Development:**
A mini-class or videos tutorial on how to take a web based or online learning. Create a course template so all classes have the same look and feel.
 * What classes do we need?**

Scott Fuller, interested Mollie Goings, interested
 * If interested in course creation, list your name here:**

Scott Fuller, interested Mollie Goings, interested
 * If interested in becoming a course instructor, list your name here:**

**What resources are needed to make this a success?**
Professional Development: see above notes Time for...peer classroom observations, peer modeling, vertical collaboration. PLC time focused on using the tool to get the bigger goals. Bring Laptops- use Easy to discuss the data collection.
 * Hardware**:Accessibility- need more hardware for student use. We have GREAT bandwidth, **__we NEED access points__** and to allow students to bring their own laptops, iPads, iTouches, netbooks etc. Maybe a student leasing program so they come to school with a laptop.
 * Software**: Need same software loaded on teacher and student computers. OR move to web apps so we get away from software version issues.
 * Resources**: pedagogy,
 * District policy support:** Blocking issues! Give teachers admin right to be able to download software. Teacher rights to unblock sites.

Curriculum Mapping- What are the skills by grade level that students need?