Principals'+Retreat+2012

=Day 1: What’s Your Game Plan for Instruction? =

//10:00// - Opening, Introductions

Using Observation Data to Improve Instruction Mitch Kubicek //Superintendent, Dorchester Public Schools//
 * http://tinyurl.com/pr2012wt
 * Defining Instructional Norms
 * Providing Feedback
 * Planning for Improvement

Processing Protocol

//12:30// - Lunch

Applying the Concepts
 * What will I use for a common language of instruction?
 * How will I provide feedback?
 * How will our data guide our continuous improvement (building and individual levels)?

Announcements, Evaluation, & Closing
 * Next Steps & ESU Support
 * Behavior Instistitute
 * Evaluation

//4:00// - Adjournment

=Day 2: Supporting Your Game Plan with Technology =

//8:30// 1:1 Panel //11:45// Closing Announcements & Adjournment
 * Panelists
 * Lucas Bingham - formerly Louisville, now Waverly
 * Matt Flynn - Ashland
 * Mary Moser - Pawnee City
 * Tom Kiburz, Thayer Central
 * Questions:
 * Where did the funding come from?
 * What brand of laptops did you get and why?
 * How long did it take for implementation - funding, buying, deploying, training, etc?
 * How do you deal with students without Internet access at home?
 * What type of infrastructure do you have or had to do to prepare for a 1:1 (wireless access, servers, switches, electrical outlets, etc)?
 * Did you do anything to prepare your teachers to integrate tech with current curriculum? Any ongoing training or professional development?
 * What type of policies and procedures did you put in place? Will you share them with other schools?
 * What is your project life cycle for your laptops?
 * What do you do for student fees? Insurance?
 * Other considerations?
 * Tech Tools Sharing
 * Think-Ink-Link: //What tech tools have been especially useful to you and/or your staff?//
 * For a record of our go-to tools, go to the bottom of this page and/or download the Today's Meet [[file:gameplan transcript.pdf]]
 * Evaluation
 * Raffle

=Resources: =
 * Total Tech Education 1:1 Survey
 * Downey, C. et.al. (2004). //The three-minute classroom walkthrough: Changing school supervisory practice one teacher at a time.// Corwin Press.

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 * __Tech__** __**Tool** **Sharing**__
 * Drop Box
 * Reflection App - reflectionapp.com
 * Explain Everything app
 * Educreations App
 * Google Drive
 * Glow Draw App
 * Penultimate App
 * Google Calendar to schedule subs
 * PLCs use Google Docs for updating principals
 * Google Docs to track RTI interventions used with students
 * Google Spread Sheet for Senior Check
 * Google Docs for Collaboration and Meeting Notes
 * Google Docs for bus requests
 * Google Forms for student sign in/ sign out forms - Brandon Mowinkel, Milford High School
 * Skitch ApP
 * i-nigma
 * Kaywa to create QR codes - qrcode.kaywa.com

__**Evernote - Laura Kroll, Exeter-Milligan**__
 * www.evernote.com
 * Create an account on the web version
 * Can download a desktop version
 * Walk Throughs
 * House Files
 * Take notes
 * Notifying parents and staff
 * multimedia uses
 * syncs to the cloud
 * access on any device
 * FREE
 * add photos, audio note, urls, etc . ..
 * easy search feature
 * Grocery lists
 * Add web clips
 * Snipping tool
 * Teacher Survey
 * School Bus Incident Form
 * SAT Form
 * Record DIBELS Fluency Checks for each individual student
 * Drag files into it
 * Link Twitter to Evernote
 * Link Google Calendar to Evernote
 * @evernote
 * @evernews

Twitter Hashtag
 * 1) nebedu