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Grant Joint Union High School District | February 2008Grant Joint Union High School District | February 2008
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Tech Savvy Superintendent of the Year Shares his Secrets to Success
Dr. Larry Buchanan
Grant Joint Union High School District | February 2008
Grant Joint Union High School DistrictUrban School District in Sacramento, California
13,000 students 650 Certificated Staff
35 Languages Spoken
10 Comprehensive Schools2 Adult Education Centers2 Career & Technology SchoolsSpecial Education Center7 Charter SchoolMaritime Technology ProgramIndependent Study ProgramElementary District Partnership
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What is the fundamental purpose of Education?
(Can you answer this with one sentence?)
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What is the fundamental purpose of Education?
To free people from their personal limitations
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What Are Those Limitations?
For Students:
►Educational – Ignorance - Knowledge is key in the information age– Academic skills
►Social– Soft Skills
►Vocational– Employable skills
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Technology to Address LimitationsTechnology:
►Focus our current resources around technology integration and delivery
►Develop new resources with technology
►ERP software
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What are my “Tech Savvy”
Superintendent’s Secrets for Success?
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Secret #1Create a Lasting Vision
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Vision for Technology
►can be the great equalizer of educational opportunity and success
►can give our teachers precision tools and support
►can deliver personalized instruction 24/7/365
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►Technology cannot replace human relationships.
–For motivation–For inspiration–For socialization–For culture
Vision for Technology
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SequencingFunding sequence
► Activating funding sources► Build sustainable model
Facility sequence► Facility capacity issues
– Electrical– Network– Air conditioning
Instructional sequence► Begin curriculum development► Begin staff development
Technology sequence► Begin with data
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Don’t Forget Long Term Support Capacity!
Implementation support
Tech coaches
Tech staffing► Salaries► Retention and recruitment
Reorganization of the district budget priorities for technology
Budget reserve for emergencies and critical expansion issues
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Facilities issues
Power requirements
Heat generation, heat stroke, air conditioning
MDF in classroom, noise, get picture
How many drops per room, conduits,
Wireless versus wire
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Instructional issues
Curriculum enhancement and/or curriculum reform must be an integral part
Formative and summative assessments
Top down - bottom-up
Who develops curriculum
Emigrants versus native staff
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Technology issues
Build sound infrastructure capability first
Get control of copyright issues, who has which programs, who approves programs
Get control of technology procurement, hardware and software
For some implementations district licenses or support makes the most sense
Think community licenses (Brain Pop – United Streaming)
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more technology issues…
Hardware capability and software sophistication have reached a critical point► Where we can conceive true effectiveness► Must have multiple tools► Must integrate all the data
Plan for delivery to the homes
Think thin client, and wireless thin client► Home access, no lost books, parents could use, educational network
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Policies & Decision Making
I take input but I don’t take votes…
Superintendent’s office should coordinate all technology policies
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Between
Administrators & teachers
Students & parents
Parents & teachers
Teachers & students
School teams & the entire community
Education is about Relationships:
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Championing InitiativesEvery Initiative has to have a “Champion”
►Acts with authority fromSuperintendent’s Office
►Boots on the ground
►Puts the personal energyinto making it happen!
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Creativity that occurs in a school system when:
►The organizational vision has been communicated, understood and widely accepted
►People within the school system are part of that vision
►Motivated people are given the tools to stay motivated
►The Board supports change
►People feel that they can actually accomplish something that is good for kids
Spontaneous Intelligence
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Spontaneous Intelligence
If it hasn’t worked before and it isn’t serving students,
then you mustdo something different.
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Spontaneous Intelligence“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin,
They were both right!
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Secret #2Network Infrastructure
In for a penny…in for a pound
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Technology Infrastructure
Centralized but mobile support
IT = Instructional Technology
IT focused on classrooms
Video prioritization switching
Redundant Central servers
Triple redundant links
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Technology Infrastructure
“Super value” your equipment
►Standardize hardware platforms–Network / Servers / Classrooms
• “Best” devices to meet needs
“Super value” your management software
►Manage and monitor network ►Automate changes to Active Directory►Control student HW/SW access
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Data Management
Bad data is a show stopper
Unless data is used everyday it will be bad
Single point of entry
All data sources must be used together
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Data ManagementData sources to be integrated
►Personnel►Financial►Student demographic►Student academic►Support systems
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Secret #3Know Your Audience
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They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.
MTV has always existed
They have always used Digital Cameras, microwaves and DVD players
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They have always had water out of a plastic bottle… not a garden hose!
Kansas, Chicago, Boston, Alabama, and America are places…not bands
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They never had the fun of being thrown into the back of a station wagon with six other
kids (and no seatbelts)…
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How can we effectively integrate technology
into our curriculum while still motivating
Generation M students?
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Secret #4Technology is integrated
into the district’s curriculum system…not in isolation
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Adopt District-wide standards
►Curriculum
►Network
►Classroom
►School Design
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Data driven
With technology and data we can develop laser focused delivery of personalized instruction
Data to determine effective instruction
Determine real time mastery learning
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Curriculum Calibration
The process of ensuring that instruction and student work
are at the appropriate grade level.
Deconstruct the Standard
Unpack the Standard
Design the Lesson
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Deconstructing the Standard
The process of breaking apart the standard into
skill, content, and context.
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Deconstructing the Standard
ELA 7: Reading 1.1 (Word Analysis)
Identify idioms, analogies, metaphors, andsimiles in prose and poetry.
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Integrating Instructional Resources
Primary text Ancillary publisher materialsMultimedia softwareTechnologyEducational VideosTeacher-created materialsBooks, stories, novels, poems etc.
Instructional Resources include:
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Integrating Instructional Resources
Act as tools to meet learning objectivesIncrease the number of learning modalities addressedBe used to differentiate instructionIncrease interest and engagementActivate prior knowledgeProvide variety
Instructional Resources should:
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Secret #5Professional development for
teachers is the key…24 x 7 x 365
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Provide Outstanding Professional Development
Professional Development
►Delivered and managed with software
►Just in time training videos
►Video Conferencing
►Online Forums
►Computer based instruction
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When early adopters are affective:
►New performance norms emerge
►Teachers collaborate
►Other faculty will adjust or extricate
►The whole district moves forward– Teachers and administrators– Students and parents– School teams– The surrounding community
The Rubber Band Affect
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Curriculum Development & Assessment
Just in time technology accessible curriculum
►Brain Pop►United Streaming►World Book►Class Works Gold►Accelerated Reader & Math►New Century►Nettrekker►Sequiter (content management system)
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Students loveStudents loveStreaming Streaming
VideosVideos
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Secret #6Personalized Instruction is the
“Holy Grail” of education
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Personalized Computing- Full Scale Implementation
32 Thin clients in every classroom
One-to-One for every student
Projector & Document Camera& microphone system inevery classroom
Focus is the Curriculum….not the Technology
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Students log on to Thin Client to
access their files
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Traditional classroom or computer lab in
just seconds!
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i -SIMS: A New Phase in District Systems
Sequitur - Integrating Data/ Enabling 1:1
Curriculum, assessment & lesson alignment system
Delivers formative & summative assessments
Provides systems feedback
Student-centric lesson management
Just in time curriculum
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i -SIMS: A New Phase in District Systems
Understanding the student as a complex and unique individual
►Student Profiles
– E xperiences
– L earning Modalities
– E xpectations
– V ocational
– A ttitudes
– A ptitudes
– I nterests
– T est Taking
Assigning supplementary and remedial exercises accordingly
E. L. E. V. A. A. I. T.
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Secret #7Non-traditional leadership
…you have to be a little Crazy
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Guidelines for Non-traditional leadership
You’ve got to be crazy in just the right way
Crazy can be supported by success
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What are the crazy ideas?
The system needs to be built on the needs of the student...not the needs of the system
In public education, we are the mechanism to impart:►The values of the culture ►Academic skills►Character ► Employability
Schools should be 24/7/365
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Critical Concepts
Technology can be the great equalizer of educational success
Technology can be the catalyst for systemic improvements
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software capabilities can be applied to education to achieve like efficiencies
Future schools should be 24/7/365
School should be more simulation, role modeling, and experiential
Personalized Instruction
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For this presentation & future presentations, visit www.slideshare.net
Search for Larry Buchanan
Grant Joint Union High School District | February 2008
Tech Savvy Superintendent of the Year Shares his Secrets to Success
Dr. Larry Buchanan