California School Library Association Conference, November 13, 2011 Carol López Doerksen, District Library Coordinator, Kings Canyon USD

 How KCUSD developed Digital Citizenship lessons for K-12 students  How the lessons are delivered  How KCUSD established an accountability system to monitor the lessons taught

1. Curriculum – Technology and Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) Delivery 2. Tech Literacy – KCUSD Technology Standards and the Big6™ 3. Copyright and Fair Use 4. Cybersafety/Internet Safety

 Chavez Bill, AB307 – Signed into law in 2006  Amended Section of the Ed. Code, relating to educational technology  Ed Code , sections a-e: Technology Plans  Section c – Tech Plan must include how teachers and students will be educated about:  Appropriate and ethical use of information technology  Internet safety  How to avoid committing plagiarism  Copyright - to distinguish lawful from unlawful online downloading; implications of peer-to-peer network file sharing.

 Years 1, 2, and 3 - Students will receive grade-level appropriate lessons in the following areas:  Copyright and fair use  Plagiarism  Downloading and peer-to-peer file sharing (grades 4-12)

 Years 1, 2, and 3 – Students will receive grade-level appropriate lessons on Internet safety, including online privacy and avoidance of online predators.

 Spring 2010  Established a committee of grade level teachers (Digital Citizenship Committee)  Teacher Librarians and District Academic Coaches were also members of the committee  A meeting was held for all committee members to explain the rationale and process for developing digital citizenship lessons

 Met by grade level during the school day (substitutes provided) Grades K-1 Grades 2-5 Grades 6-12  Teachers developed 2-4 lessons  Summer 2010  Some teachers met to complete the lessons  Rolled out to Principals at the Administrative Leadership Charge Session in August

 Used a wiki, Digital Citizenship Curriculum, ( to show pre-selected sites reviewed by library coordinators and teacher librarians in the Central Valley and sites from CSLA 2008 Digital Citizenship Wiki, ( spearheaded by Margaret Baker, Selma USD District Library Coordinator, now retired.Digital Citizenship CurriculumCSLA 2008 Digital Citizenship Wiki  Developed 2-4 lessons (some in EDI format)  Technology Acceptable Use Policy (3-12)  Copyright (K-12)  Plagiarism (K-12)  Internet Safety (K-12)  Supplemental lessons/materials/websites were also recommended  All lessons are housed on the district’s website, under Educator’s Corner under the specific grade level or under “Digital Citizenship.”

All teachers are to teach the lessons to students.  Windows for Teaching the Lessons:  Grades K, 1, 2 – 2x/yr. – January and May  Grades 3-12 – 4x/yr. – Aug./Sept., Oct., Jan., May  Elementary sites – Selected a specific day to teach the lesson or teachers had the choice to select any day during the window  Middle schools and high schools – selected a period and day to teach the lessons

 Lessons are taught by classroom teachers during the established windows.  On a PowerSchool roll sheet, with the technology lesson title printed on top, each teacher checks off the student’s name if the student received the lesson.  Sites provide one opportunity for make-up (before school, lunch, after school)

 At the end of the window, ALL teachers turn in their roll sheets, with the students’ names checked off, and their signature to the Principal. *Teacher signature on the roll sheet verifies “the teaching of the required lesson.”  The Principal sends the roll sheets in a folder to Carol Doerksen.  All Technology Lesson “windows” are on the Staff Development Calendar and on the Week at a Glance.

 All lessons were taught.  Feedback received from teachers after each lesson, via Survey Monkey, about the effectiveness of the lesson.  April 2011 – H.S. Digital Citizenship Committee members met to create three new lessons for and revised the lessons based on feedback from Survey Monkey

 June and August – Digital Citizenship Committee members met by grade level to review the Survey Monkey feedback and revise lessons as needed (Grades 3-12).  All roll sheets were received from Principals by September 2011.

 September and October lessons have been taught.  Roll sheets are still coming in from Principals.  Grades K-2 will be meeting the first week in December to review and/or revise their lessons for January and May.

Questions? Lesson examples at