Professional development

A foundational session covering where your school stands today and what to prioritize next.

• Review of current technology usage, network strength, and existing hardware/software.
• Hands-on training for classroom and computer lab implementation.
• Overview of LMS, SIS, and content-filter options that fit your setup.
• A 3-year technology plan built with your team, plus 1 month of follow-up support.

Connects Common Core standards to the digital tools and testing formats your students will actually use.

• How Common Core changes curriculum delivery, plus a review of Smarter Balanced and PARCC formats.
• Digital tools mapped directly to the standards.
• An overview of the NCSC and Dynamic Learning Maps consortiums for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
• A year-long plan for Common Core technology lessons and test prep.

Helps your team move literacy instruction onto digital tools without losing what already works.

• Review of current literacy standards and instruction practices.
• An inventory of digital tools that can strengthen literacy instruction.
• Guidance on e-book usage and building leveled digital libraries.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration across literacy programs.

Uses digital tools to meet students where they are and let them self-pace math practice.

• Review of current math standards and instruction practices.
• An inventory of digital tools that can strengthen math instruction.
• Building student habits around self-paced digital skills practice.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration in math.

Aligns science instruction with NGSS and the Common Core ELA-Science and Technical Subjects standards.

• Review of current science standards and instruction practices.
• An inventory of digital tools, including newer curricula from emerging ed-tech vendors.
• Building student habits around self-paced digital science practice.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration in science.

Covers the research and media-literacy skills now built into the ELA History/Social Studies standards.

• Review of current History/Social Studies standards and instruction practices.
• An inventory of digital tools for research and reporting.
• Guidance on evaluating the accuracy of online sources.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration in History/Social Studies.

Helps educators design service-learning programs with technology woven in, now a common graduation requirement.

• A look at how service and applied learning have evolved in education.
• An inventory of digital tools that support service-learning projects.
• Building student habits around self-directed project participation.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration in service-learning programs.

Prepares your team for digital testing formats and the tools that support them.

• Review of Smarter Balanced, PARCC, and other digital testing formats.
• An overview of the NCSC and Dynamic Learning Maps consortiums for alternate assessments.
• Guidance on using SBAC Interim Assessment Blocks and Interim Comprehensive Assessments.
• A school-wide plan for digital integration in test preparation.