Part 6: Community

Along with the appropriate staffing, tapping into the potential of the entire community through parent workshops, student leadership, supporting administrators’ technological growth and understanding, and cross-divisional teacher leaders can play a critical role in moving your school forward. Successful ideas from several international schools will be shared so that you can begin to develop your own plan to move your community forward.

11:00 – 11:30	Connecting Your Community (Presentation)
11:30 – 12:00	Review Resources Mix and Match: Creating a Blended Learning Environment with WordPress and GoogleApps It’s Not Just a Tool: Technology as Environment Parents Moving a Community Forward Engaging the Parent Community Parent Technology Coffee Mornings: Year 2 Recap The Parent Connection Parent Coffee Morning a Success! YIS Community Learning Blog Bridging the Gap Teachers COETAIL Comes to Japan! Planning a Year of Technology PD Sustaining Change: The Next Level of PD Tech Tidbits: Increasing Teachers Digital Efficiency Take Your Faculty SpeedGeeking! Pro-D Flip
12:00 – 12:30	In groups from the same (or very similar) schools, use one of the processes listed here (or re-create something like this survey) to develop a needs assessment for moving your school community forward.

Project Idea 6: Participants will design a year-long community learning plan for teachers, administrators and parents based on ideas and experiences from the workshop.