Collaborative Leadership to Promote 21st Century Skills - CESA 11 Consortium This project seeks to create a technology leadership model that can sustain and disseminate professional development broadly in order to have a wider impact and ensure overall student achievement. The 22 districts and 2 private schools participating will use technology tools to address literacy across the K-12 spectrum of content areas.
We have designed a new model that includes a two-team concept. Each district will identify two sets of participants: a teaching team and a leadership team. The leadership team will include the library media specialist, a principal, and the technology coordinator. This team will collaborate on various aspects of technology leadership, resource mapping and infrastructure to support and design a school action plan with the teaching team.
The teaching team (consisting of at least two teachers) will focus on training in
literacy within content area teaching
information technologies
communication technologies
instructional technologies
The two teams will work both separately and together throughout the grant cycle, weaving in various aspects of technology integration as it pertains to their roles. This collaboration will drive the school action plan for sustainability and dissemination.
Goals:
GOAL 1
All teachers in the participating target group will be qualified to use AND increase their use of technology as a tool for teaching and learning to support student academic achievement
OBJECTIVE 1.1
100% of participating teachers and media specialists will integrate technology applications within literacy based units that require students to
a) access information from digital sources,
b) communicate knowledge using Web 2.0 tools, and
c) create technology based products that analyze & evaluate text, meeting both English
literacy & ITL standards.
GOAL 2
All students (100%) in the target group will increase their use of technology as a learning tool to improve their academic achievement within a learning environment where Wisconsin Model Academic Standards in Information and Technology Literacy are aligned/embedded in a content area LITERACY curriculum.
OBJECTIVE 2
100% of participating students will meet proficiency in selected ITL and English literacy standards by demonstrating they can
a) access information
b) communicate knowledge and
c) create technology projects that analyze and evaluate text.
