Communication and collaboration with students takes place over daily announcements, visits to the classroom, one on one discussions, and surveys. Communication and collaboration with parents comes in the form of newsletters, phone calls, one on one discussions, small group discussions, and surveys. The monitoring of school programs is reviewed by a group of building experts, parents, …show more content…
During this time, teachers will be given guidance and resources to integrate technology into daily learning. As for the students, once a week students will attend a technology class, instructed by a certified teacher specializing in technology. This call will focus on keyboarding skills, applying Google Docs in the classroom, as well as access to online educational games and applications. During the best practices sharing meeting taking place monthly, teachers will be asked to share ideas regarding integration of technology in the classrooms. During quarterly meetings with each teacher, when we are discussing goals, the technology goal will be discussed at length to assess the teachers comfort level with technology. Building coaches will make sure this is a focus with teachers that have not reached that level of comfort with utilizing technology in the classroom. All assessment results will be kept in a digital format for ease of sharing and saving. Teachers will be instructed in the use of these assessment saving programs. Students and parents will also have access to their individual assessment results. Our state is preparing to shift to digital assessments, we should be preparing our students to take these forms of assessments. We should be preparing our teachers how to utilize the