# How do you create a district-wide vision for Digital Learning? - Link: https://teachercast.net/captivate-podcast/attc-ep240-district-wide-vision-for-digital-learning/ - Published: 2023-03-20T04:00:00-04:00 - Author: Jeff Bradbury Welcome to “Ask the Tech Coach,” a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists. In this episode of “[Ask the Tech Coach](https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/),” Jeff and Nick discuss how a school district can set a vision for digital learning in the classrooms and how you can start that conversation with your administrative team and instructional coaching department. If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, [please contact the podcast](https://www.teachercast.net/podcastguestform). 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This week’s question is: _**Question Topic: How can we get the entire school district on the same page when it comes to defining what digital learning looks like in the classroom?**_ ## Weekly Topic * **Developing a Shared Vision and Goals** - How do you create a shared vision? * Asking … “what’s the purpose?” * Where is the target? * What is the objective? * What do we want our staff to get out of the training … and why? * How can we provide the training and experiences to get staff able to meet the goals - Who is included in this conversation? * Superintendent * Cabinet * District / Building Leaders * Teachers * Students * Parents / Community Members - Ways to ask the important questions * Google Form * Conversations * Quick Survey’s - What has or is working well? - Have your goals/objectives been meet? - Using the Summertime to ask questions of district leaders * Map out and Diagram a full year program * How do you build a catalogue to support the goals and objectives of the district and building leaders * **Prioritizing Professional Learning in and out of your district** - Creating a Professional Development Yearly Overview * Send out a document to the staff so they are on the same page - Here are the goals that we are looking to progress * Create a catalogue of professional learning opportunities - Internal * Meeting Speakers * Consultants - External * Conferences * EdCamps * Thrive * Sage * Health Organizations / Hospitals often run sessions * Using a Newsletter to support professional Learning - Work with your building administrators to put professional development information in THEIR newsletters * **Creating a digital learning evaluation method that is flexible yet effective** - Have a variety of evaluation methods … not just the mid-year and end of year evaluations * Keep evaluation more informal and collegial so that it’s not a “gotcha” - Using a Staff Survey (Self-Assessment) to allow teachers to share what they know and what they would like to learn during the year - Use some type of “artifact creation” when it comes to digital learning so that teachers can showcase what they are learning throughout the professional development process * At the end of the day, the teacher is going to have to show that they know how to use the tool or that they understand the concept. * Allow for feedback and professional conversations around the topic and concept that is backed up by Instructional Coaches * Create an online discussion board so that staff members can collaborate and learn from each other * **Providing constant support for students, teachers, and community members** - Creating a Student led “genius bar” or Tech Team - Invite the students to run their own professional learning sessions for teachers( Students teaching teachers) * How to use specific apps * How to create projects that students already love doing and share it with more teachers * Students teaching Board of Education members how to use Google Apps (sharing, formatting, etc) * **Protecting student privacy and promoting digital safety** - Digital Citizenship: Create a unified and tiered curriculum that supports the knowledge of but, also includes resources to support parents so that they are understanding what students are learning in school. - Create a Dashboard in a Google Site that has a spreadsheet of all of the district used tools so that parents know what programs are holding content about their students. * Include the privacy policy * Include the paid/free status * Include how to remove student information if parents are not interested in having student information available. * **Working together with parents so students learn both in and out of the classroom** - Parent Nights * Short form * Single subject events - Parent University * Build a curriculum of learning that follows a theme * **Embracing and Celebrating the Impact Digital Learning has on students, teachers, and community.** - Share the “wins” of staff and students - Success breeds success * If people see that it’s working for others, they might believe they can do it too - Post in newsletters, and (maybe) social media examples of what is happening in the classroom and share it with others - Get your staff to present their win’s to other staff members - Ask “how does this information get back to the students and their successes?” * Next Episode - Standards ## Contact the Podcast! 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