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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Nick discuss how a school district can set a vision for digital learning in the classrooms and how you can start that conversation with your administrative team and instructional coaching department.

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Question of the Week
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This week’s question is:

Question Topic: How can we get the entire school district on the same page when it comes to defining what digital learning looks like in the classroom?
Weekly Topic

 	Developing a Shared Vision and Goals

 	How do you create a shared vision?

 	Asking … “what’s the purpose?”
 	Where is the target?
 	What is the objective?
 	What do we want our staff to get out of the training … and why?
 	How can we provide the training and experiences to get staff able to meet the goals


 	Who is included in this conversation?

 	Superintendent
 	Cabinet
 	District / Building Leaders
 	Teachers
 	Students
 	Parents / Community Members


 	Ways to ask the important questions

 	Google Form
 	Conversations
 	Quick Survey’s

 	What has or is working well?
 	Have your goals/objectives been meet?




 	Using the Summertime to ask questions of district leaders

 	Map out and Diagram a full year program
 	How do you build a catalogue to support the goals and objectives of the district and building leaders




 	Prioritizing Professional Learning in and out of your district

 	Creating a Professional Development Yearly Overview

 	Send out a document to the staff so they are on the same page

 	Here are the goals that we are looking to progress


 	Create a catalogue of professional learning opportunities

 	Internal

 	Meeting Speakers
 	Consultants


 	External

 	Conferences
 	EdCamps
 	Thrive
 	Sage
 	Health Organizations / Hospitals often run sessions




 	Using a Newsletter to support professional Learning

 	Work with your building administrators to put professional development information in THEIR newsletters






 	Creating a digital learning evaluation method that is flexible yet effective

 	Have a variety of evaluation methods … not just the mid-year and end of year evaluations

 	Keep evaluation more informal and collegial so that it’s not a “gotcha”


 	Using a Staff Survey (Self-Assessment) to allow teachers to share what they know and what they would like to learn during the year
 	Use some type of “artifact creation” when it comes to digital learning so that teachers can showcase what they are learning throughout the professional development process

 	At the end of the day, the teacher is goi

How do you create a district-wide vision for Digital Learning?

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