Principal+Leadership+Institute

Office of Educational Technology =Principal Leadership Institute= Foundations for a 21st Century School

The Principal Leadership Institute is a 3-4 day Workshop designed to provide school leaders with the skills, knowledge and expertise to prepare their educational community for the 21st century. The institute prepares school-based instructional leaders to meet the needs, challenges and demands of the modern day educational environment by incorporating the latest information technology practices into their daily routines. This program recognizes the rewards of leading a 21st century school into the future by guiding them in promoting the effective integration of technology into their classrooms and provide them with the technology skills to view, manipulate and analyze data to better inform their decision making process.

Connected Principals Blog Terrific space for administrators to share Best Practices and connect with other Principals What is a 21st Century School ? Building a 21st Century School

3-4 Days:
 * 1) Developing 21st Century Collaborative Management Communities
 * 2) Web Literacy For Instructional Leaders
 * 3) Making Your Data Come Alive
 * 4) Mobile Education - Ipod Touch in your school

Final Project:

Agenda: Day 1: 21st Century Collaborative Management Community

Overview: Principals and assistant principals can derive substantial benefit from meeting with their peers in learning communities structured to enhance their knowledge about effective instruction. Through classroom observations and facilitated discussions, such online spaces can help site leaders develop a culture of adult learning.

Thriving collaborative communities for school administrators depend on central-office leaders who are committed to the enterprise and able to create the conditions for their success. Establishing such communities may not be easy. Yet, without firsthand experience collaborating with their peers, how can we expect school leaders to create a collaborative culture for their teachers?

We now have tools to build and strengthen our learning communities. We have the opportunity to provide your teachers and students with authentic assessment relationships over the web that can help dramatically improve student motivation. We can take advantage of the communication tools the Internet provides, such as Twitter, Skype, blogs, Instant Messenger, video conference or email. Explore ways to motivate your teachers students and connect them to the global community.

Brainstorm what an Effective Collaborative Community looks like Wordle Cloud Video on Learning Communities and Networks Using a Google Group to collaborate on Workshop event. Will be used to pose questions and engage participants in conversation. Alan November and BLC

Joining our Google Community (Principals Institute)
 * Responding to Discussions
 * Posting Resources
 * adding Content

Creating your own Google Learning Community:
 * Google Accounts
 * Creating a Community
 * naming your community
 * Purpose for your community
 * setting up Security
 * Inviting members
 * Posting Resource Link to your ARIS Connect

Reasons for Building a Collaborative Community/Learning CommunIty
 * 1) Staff Development
 * 2) Curriculum Development
 * 3) Resource Center
 * 4) Transparency
 * 5) Scheduling
 * 6) Inquiry
 * 7) Observations

Process for effective implementation:
 * Developing a Management team
 * Clear Goals/Objectives

Tools for Community Building: PB Works WikiSpaces Nings Grouply ARIS Google Groups

Resources: @http://expandingtheboundaries.blogspot.com/ http://oetiacono.blogspot.com/ @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_learning_community [] []

Agenda:

Day 2

**Part 1**
WebLiteracy for Administrators Blog Digital Literacy Agenda (tie-in)

Too many students are not sure how to separate fact from fiction on the Internet. The Internet can provide any version of the truth to support almost any belief. We can teach students how to read the "grammar" of the Internet and apply strategies to validate information on a website. This popular workshop provides step-by-step teaching tips that help students, teachers, and administrators think critically about Internet information.
 * Exploring the Grammar of the Internet. Informational Literacy
 * How is information organized on the web?
 * Understanding //URL//
 * How Do Search Engines Work?
 * Validating Information on the Web
 * How do we teach our students about the web?

**Part 2**
Web Presence for Your School Building

Every school has ability to create, edit and publish webpages either on the DOE official website or through another privately resourced vendor. Having a creative, interesting and powerful web presences is key to both attracting students to your building and also projecting the achievements your staff and yourself. This part of the workshop is designed to help you organize an action plan to building a better web presence in your building.
 * Explore your current website
 * Looking at some exemplar school websites
 * Creating a web plan using Webspiration
 * Designating a web design team
 * Creating a time-line for your web plan.Timetoast [|Smartdraw.]

Validating Educational Resources

Resources: www.internettutorials.net/boolean.asp @http://easywhois.com

http://socialnetworking4teachers.wikispaces.com/

@http://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-literacy-resources/

Agenda: Day 3: Making Your Data Come Alive

Understanding the need to access all data to help develop a Targeted Curriculum Map ||
 * **Overview** ||
 * Title of Service / Program: || Making Your Data Come Alive: Using Excel to Analyze, Process, and Present Your School's Performance Data
 * Service Description: || The age of information is at the doorsteps of your school giving you unprecendented access to data that can guide your decision making and steer your school towards success. This workshop will give principals the tools to analyze, process, and create visuals for planning, decision making, and presentations. ||
 * Goals: || Participants will learn how to use Microsoft Excel and ARIS to analyze, process, and create visual representations of data for use in presentations, planning meetings, decision making and Curriculum Mapping. ||
 * Objectives: || To provide participants with the ability to create spreadsheets and charts from the ATS school performance data for use in visual presentations and printed documents. Participants will learn how to customize their spreadsheets to display the pertinent information needed for decision making and planning. ||

Learning and Leading with Excel

Overview:

What is excel? Excel is a spreadsheet program that can be used to record data, to manipulate data (by calculating totals and averages, for example), and to display data (in the form of graphs,charts, tables, timelines…). Administrators can easily manage data to make informative decisions about their school, staff, and students. Educators can easily use spreadsheets to average grades, to track projects with multiple parts or deadlines, and to gather data from classroom.

How do I find it? Excel comes standard on a DOE computers. It is part of the MS Office package, and can be found under the program files ( start menu- programs.)

ARIS Data - Overview of Getting Reports Types of Reports Using Reports to Target student needs Using Reports to develop a Targeted differentiated Curriculum Map How do we get our schools data from ARIS? We will take some time to access our school data from ARIS.

Getting Started -- Lessons (20 Mins each lesson) 6 lessons at 30 mins each= 180 mins=3hrs.

Lesson 1: [|**Meet the workbook**] Lesson 2: [|**Enter data**] Lesson 3: [|**Edit data and revise worksheets**] Lesson 4: [|**The ins and outs of AutoFilter**] Lesson 5: [|**Make your data work for you**] Lesson 6: [|**Create a basic chart**]

Using Google Spreadsheets to Share Data (30 minutes) []

Using [|ARIS] Connect to Find and Create Resources (30 minutes) Overview of Getting Reports