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Golden Leaf Planning: Cindy Price, Mary Rowland, Amber Goad, Sherrie Hines
The current Golden Leaf team met to discuss ways of improving learning at Sparta Elementary School. Teachers and students have limited amount of access to technology. The team decided that it would be best to launch a "Bring Your Own Device" initiative at Sparta School. -
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BYOD Planning Timeline
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Action Plan Meeting
Cindy Price, Mary Rowland, Amber Goad, and Sherrie Hines met to discuss BYOD action plan at Sparta Elementary. -
Jacob's Fork Middle School-Catawba County visit
Cindy Price, Brendan O'Neil, Amber Goad and Sherrie Hines met with Dr. Judith Ray, the Chief Technology officer for Catawba counties schools to discuss their BYOD plan. They then met with teacher, David Shook, at Jacob's Fork Middle School to discuss how he utilizes this program in his classroom. Also, two students were interviewed and dicussed how technology changed the way they learn and interact in the classroom. -
Update to Action Plan
Mary Rowland, Amber Goad and Sherrie Hines met to update the action plan based on what was learned during Catawba visit. -
Golden Leaf meeting
Golden Leaf meeting in Greensboro. The team discussed the book "Giving Wings to Children's Dreams" and continued to update the action plan. A livebinder and timeline will be created documenting the process. -
Action Plan Update due to Golden Leaf Grant
Action Plan update sent to Golden Leaf. -
Buncombe County Schools Visist
Amber Goad and Sherrie Hines to visit Buncombe County schools to see BYOD in action. -
List of necessary materials
Brendan O'Neil will submit a list of necessary materials to launch the initiative. Team will work to develop a budget. -
Collaborative meeting
Price, Rowland, Goad and Hines meeting to begin creating presentation for stakeholders -
Meeting with central office staff and superintendent
Cindy Price, Mary Rowland, Amber Goad and Sherrie Hines met with technology support specialists and the superintendent to discuss how to roll out our plan. Originally, the action plan consisted of a bring your own device policy for Sparta school but the initiative has since spread to a district wide initiative. The acceptable use policy and user agreements for students/parents have been updated and will hopefully be approved by the superintendent and the board of education by early February. -
Begin scheduling professional development activities
On March 28th, teachers and staff will have a required professional development day. We will begin planning this day based around google, gaggle, and ways to integrate technology in the classroom. Presenters will include all teachers who are in the ITF cohort through ASU. -
Golden Leaf meeting
Golden Leaf meeting in Greensboro. Continue to update action plan and discuss leadership in Alleghany County. -
Acceptable Use Policy
Meeting to update Alleghany School's acceptable use policy. -
Collaborative Meeting
Meeting with teachers and students to develop rules/regulations with BYOD. -
Final Golden Leaf Meeting
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Instructional Technology Cohort meeting
Cohort will meet to design technology professional development for teachers. -
PD Day
Instructinal Technology Alleghany County Drive In Conference. -
BYOD infrastucture in place
