Intel Leadership Forum(v3.6)

This page and those attached support the Intel Leadership Forum delivered by Dan Morris:  Intel Senior Trainer - dan@cmconsulting.net

Essential Question:

How can educational leaders support teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement?

Getting Started  (see pages vi-xi)

• Activity 1: Introductions
• Google Survey 
• Activity 2: Essential Question and Goals (see pagei x)
• Activity 4: Previewing the Action Plan(page xi)
• Action Plan Template (also on-line and on CD) sea Appendix C.01-C.04 Action_Plan_Template.doc
• Support Websites:
• Evaluating Professional Development: An Approach to Verifying Program Impact on Teachers and Students:
• http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/research/shaha.pdf
• Research Points: Essential Information for Education Policy
• http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/Research_Points/RPSummer05.pdf

Module 1: Examining Leadership Behaviors and Standards

• Activity 1: ISTE Standards  NETSA_Standards.pdf
• Activity 2: Learning Through Ranking (see pages 1.01-1.07)
• Visual Ranking Tool - Demo
• Visual Ranking Log-in for Students/Participants

• Teacher ID -        danmorris

• Team ID-             iste01, iste02, iste03, iste04, iste05, iste05,......., iste15

• Password -          (same as your Team ID) iste01, iste02, iste03,... 

• Activity 3: Understanding Standards for Administrators (see pages 1.08-1.11)
• Step 1: Review ISTE NETS-A
• Step 2: Essentials Conditions Checklist: NETS-A_Essential_Conditions_Activity_Template.doc
• Activity 4: Effectively Leveraging Technology (see page 1.12)
• Step 1: Reviewing the Questions
• How can you shift priorities and time to support integration of technology into instruction?
• What evidence will you accept that integration is occurring, keeping in mind that use and integration are separate?
• What helps a leader move to higher levels of comfort and knowledge relative to technology integration?
• Step 2: Discussing the Questions (Group Discussions and Sharing)
• Google worksheet   _Select this link to access the worksheet
• Activity 5: (Optional): Revisiting Your Ranking - Revise you rankings based on your discussions in activities 3 and 4 above

Module 2: Exploring Best Practices

Activity 1: Understanding the Intel Teach Program - http://www.intel.com/education/-  (see pages 2.02-2.03)

• Overview of Programs
• Program Research

Activity 2: Reviewing Available Resources - review resources on CD (see page 2.02)

Current Issues/Research

• National Educational Technology Plan

• Horizons Report - 2010 

• Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Speak Up Project Tomorrow 

Activity 3: Exploring Web Resources for Technology Integration (35 minutes)

• Step 1: Intel Education Web Site (see pages 2.03-2.07)
• Intel Education Site - http://www.intel.com/teachers
• Intel Education Program - http://www.intel.com/intel/education
• Intel Teach Programs - http://www.intel.com/education/teach
• Intel Free Teaching Tools - http://www.intel.com/education/tools

• Intel® Education Competitions -http://www.intel.com/education/competitions

• Education Beyond Classrooms - http://www.intel.com/education/communityed

Exploring Highlighted Resources

• Step 2: Innovation Odyssey - http://educate.intel.com/odyssey (see pages 2.07-2.09)
• Step 3: Designing Effective Projects - http://educate.intel.com/en/Projectdesign (see pages 2.09-2.12)
• 21st Century Skills Framework (see page 2:11) - http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
• 21st_Century_Skills.pdf - a good overview of 21st Century Skills
• Step 4: Assessing Projects - http://educate.intel.com/en/AssessingProjects/ (see pages 2.12-2.13)

Module 3: Introducing Web 2.0 and New Technologies

• Activity 1: Understanding Web 2.0 (see pages 3.01-3.04) (15 minutes)
• What is Web 2.0?
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0
• Some Web 2.0 sites and applications
• LFCollaboration_Tools.doc - This is available on the CD
• Forum Web2-0 Sites - This page is also available on the CD
• Blogs (see page 3.02)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs
• More Information
• Blogging: It's Elementary, My Dear Watson
• Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web
• Wikis (see page 3.03)
• Using Wikis in Education
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis
• Collaborative Web Sites ( see page 3.03)
• More Information
• A Paradigm Shift for School Software
• Type and Travel: Web-based Word Processors
• Social Bookmarking
• http://www.diigo.com/
• http://delicious.com/
• Media Storage and Sharing Sites
• http://www.flickr.com/
• http://picasa.google.com/
• Podcasts
• http://www.epnweb.org/

• Activity 2: Learning from Current Practitioners (15 minutes)

• Meriwether Lewis Elementary - http://lewiselementary.org/
• The Flushing International High School - http://flushinginternational.org/
• Teachers Teaching Teachers - http://teachersteachingteachers.org/
• How do the web sites compare to what is currently in place in your school or district?
• How might Web 2.0 technologies impact your school or district?
• What Challenges might you face as a leader promoting Web 2.0 technologies?
• Activity 3: Exploring Web 2.0 Tools (see page 3.06) (20 minutes)

• Web 2.0 in Your School Worksheet

• Thinking about the various Web 2.0 "tools" and new technologies we explored in this module discuss how they might support you and your schools.
• The following are additional resources that you may want to explore.
• Recommended Applications to explore - these are "targeted" applications for exploration
• Web2-0 - This page contains a number of links to explore including the "top ten" free Web 2.0 tools teachers are using.
• Professional Development Sites - a few sites with some professional ideas and resources (some district samples included)
• A History of Web 2.0 and Digital Natives - an interactive timeline that includes training videos on a number of Web 2.0 "tool

Module 4: Developing Your Plan of Action

• Activity 1: Creating Your Action Plan
• Activity 2: Sharing Your Action Plan
• Activity 3: Concluding the Forum
• Activity 4: Evaluating Your Forum Experience
• PL Evaluation