1. Using Technology in the Classroom

2. State of Education Low test scores Funding issues Poverty Lack of support Standardized testing

3. Changing Education Paradigms

4. Abundance Information is everywhere, learning is anytime What is the value of school? What literacies and skills will our children need in the future?

5. The World is Changing News Media Business Retail Education

6. Are Our Children Ready? 2076 What skills will they need? Creativity The ability to manage the growing complexity of the world around them

7. Are Our Children Ready? develop proficiency with tools of technology build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

8. Our Sense of Urgency Transforming the teaching and learning environment Preparing our students to be successful Critical thinking Collaboration Communication Problem Solving

9. Leading Change Step 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency Step 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition Step 3: Developing a Change Vision Step 4: Communicating the Vision for Buy-in Step 5: Empowering Broad-based Action Step 6: Generating Short-term Wins Step 7: Never Letting Up Step 8: Incorporating Changes in the Culture

10. Where Did We Start? Always focused on learning objective Technology as a tool Research How are other schools using technology?

11. Our Guiding Coalition Partnership with Apple Internal Leadership Team Administration Teacher Leadership Team Instructional Coaches Provide opportunities to influence change

12. Developing a Change Vision Use iPads as a catalyst to transform the teaching and learning environment to enable us to achieve and exceed our Middle States student achievement goal

13. Strategies to Achieve Goal Identifying opportunities to improve learning experiences Using iPad activities to expand the school day Reconsidering existing practices, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors Using iPad professional development as a vehicle to develop and expand professional collaboration

14. Communicating the Vision Teacher Meeting Parent Information Night iPad FAQ Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and iPad Agreement Principal Coffees

15. Empowering Broad-Based Action Financing and Funding Developing the infrastructure Content and Instructional Practices Professional Development Deployment Maintenance

16. Financing and Funding Long range support for the initiative Technology Fees Increase in enrollment brings more funding Grants

17. Infrastructure Examine existing infrastructure School-wide Wi- Fi (CSI) Increased bandwidth/erate (25 Mbps) and Gigabyte Switches Content Filtering/ server (Smoothwall) Device management (Mac Servers, Apple Configurator and Profile Manager, storage, asset tags) Purchasing Apps (VPP) ($25/student, $15/student) Printers Cases- Gumdrop (Parent reimbursement) Insurance- Worth Avenue Group (Parent contribution)

18. Content and Instructional Practices How will the iPad enhance and change the teaching and learning environment? student centered project based authentic active facilitated collaborative creative engaging

19. Professional Development iPad 101 Appy Hour Instructional Coaches Faculty Meetings restructured to provide collaboration and discussion Grade level collaboration Common Planning (Grades K-4)

20. Deployment iPad Lessons Focus: Using the iPads Safely, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety Guided Discovery F.A.I.T.H. iPad Agreement

21. Apps and Resources Productivity vs. Creation Collaborating and Communicating Managing Data Resources for learning- FIM, Discovery Education, RAZ kids Resources for assessment Appitic Webinars and app resources Apple Distinguished Educators

22. Measuring Successes SAMR Model Education Technology Survey (Apple) Student, Parent and Teacher surveys Focus on the learning goal and not the technology 21st Century Skill integration Performance Based Assessments Promoting reflection