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About Me:

 I am a Coloradan - currently living in Denver - appreciating my great good fortune in where I landed in the world!

Professional Experience: 

I have worked in the field of Early Care and Education for 25 plus years. My work spans the private and public sectors as well as city government. As coordinator of the Denver Joint Council’s Goals 2000 project, I was actively involved in the development, field testing, and piloting of the Denver Early Childhood Standards and the Early Childhood Standards Assessment of Readiness Tool (ESTART). Initially representing Denver Public Schools (DPS) Early Education Department and then the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children (MOEC), I was a member of the task force that wrote the Denver/Triad Licensing Model to reform the state’s child care licensing monitoring system. As Director of the Office of Child Care Initiatives in MOEC, I oversaw Denver’s Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) activities. Striving to increase the quality of care available to all children, I wrote and had funded a State Quality Improvement Grant through which exempt child care providers became licensed. Currently, I am a Project Specialist overseeing the coordination and implementation of an Early Reading First Grant project for DPS.

Action Plan:  

  Jane Walsh Action Plan 2.doc

Essential Questions:

·       How can the leader support teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement

·       What is a 21st Century school/district/teacher/administrator?

Your Next Steps

Identify “next steps” that you want to take in each of the six identified educational leader standards and the three strand areas to create your own personal action plan. Be sure to identify any resources you have identified during the session that you want to use or explore further. Use the template that follows this page.

Strand 1 – Basic Technology Skills and Applications

What skills, experience, and/or willingness can an administrator model in regards to using technology without having to be an “expert”?

NETS- A – III Productivity and Professional Practice

Educational leaders apply technology to enhance their professional practice and to increase their own productivity and that of others.

Strand 2 – Leadership Skills

How will you, as a leader and facilitator, help others focus on a vision that improves student achievement and facilitates continuous professional growth?

NETS A –I Leadership and Vision

Educational leaders inspire a shared vision for comprehensive integration of technology and foster an environment and culture conducive to the realization of that vision.

NETS A –II Learning and Teaching

Educational leaders ensure that curricular design, instructional strategies, and learning environments integrate appropriate technologies to maximize learning and teaching.

NETS A –IV Support, Management, and Operations

Educational leaders ensure the integration of technology to support productive systems for learning and administration.

NETS A –V Assessment and Evaluation

Educational leaders use technology to plan and implement comprehensive systems of effective assessment and evaluation

Strand 3 – Social, Legal and Ethical

What systems and resources do you need in place to ensure that available technologies support and enhance the learning environment?

NETSA -VI Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Educational leaders understand the social, legal, and ethical issues related to technology and model responsible decision-making related to these issues.

Some questions to consider while you develop you own action plan (set of next steps) to help you lead to effectively integrate ICT into your school.

Describe your greatest strength in helping to integrate ICT into practice in your school

 My openness and desire to increase the practice.

 My ability to negotiate the district system - knowing who does what and where to go for information.

Describe your greatest weakness in helping to integrate ICT into practice in your school

 Time - both for my own learning and when I can work with staff as a group.

Describe your greatest “personal” staff development need(s) in the area of ICT

 Time to explore, practice and model.

Describe what you believe to be the greatest staff development need(s) of teachers in your school in the area of ICT

 Varied! Some are eager to explore and some barely respond to e-mail.

Technology Tools you want to explore (software, hardware, Web 2.0, etc.)

digital camera use

visual ranking tools

School resources and support you will need

 IT support at each school.