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All individual and team activities are designed to assist PTLI participants to apply information
presented in workshops in actual practice.
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Competencies/Standards addressed in these activities |
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CPS
Principal Competency - Develop and Articulate Belief System through Voice and Actions: Engage staff, students, parents, local school council and community
to work
toward developing and implementing a common vision. Have ability to engage broad
representation of school in strategic planning. Lead by example, exhibiting high ethics and moral leadership and a strong
belief that all children can learn
CPS Principal Competency - Assess the Quality of Classroom
Instruction: Know
and have the ability to direct the implementation of successful literacy and mathematic strategies school-wide. Possess expert
knowledge of a range of effective learning theories and practices, with the ability to model practice, and coach and assist
teachers to support instructional improvement. Be able to use data to improve instruction and student achievement.
NETS*A Standard 1 - 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 Standard 3 - Productivity and
Professional Practice: Educational leaders apply technology to enhance their professional practice and to increase their own productivity
and that of others.
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Activity Objectives |
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Objective 1.5: Each principal will
develop a personal vision statement about how instructional technology will be used to lead to the enhancement of literacy
and mathematics priorities at his/her site.
Objective
3.1: Each professional learning community will list data elements, other than gains in standardized achievement data,
that constitute evidence of growth in using and integrating technology and evidence of impact on student learning.
Objective 3.2: Each principal will identify the specific data elements s/he is including
in his/her revised SIPAAA.
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Individual Activity–Personal Vision Statement (10-24 to 11-7)
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Required Reading |
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Making
Technology Standards Work for You: A Guide for School Administrators (Chapter 1)
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Suggested Resources |
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Self-Assessment
Activities for School Administrators
(Chapter 1, activity 2)
The Electronic Briefcase for Administrators (Chapter 1, possible activity: Articulating
a Vision)
101 Best Web Sites for Principals (Possible resource sections: General, Professional Reading)
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Activity
- Complete the required reading.
- Review the suggested resources and select one of the
templates for writing a personal vision statement.
- Using the information presented in the October workshop
and the readings, compose you own personal vision statement about
how instructional technology will be used to lead to the enhancement of literacy and mathematics priorities at your site,
support implementation of the site’s SIPAAA, and incorporate the Power of 2+2 initiative.
- Save your statement as a Word file and bring it to the December workshop.
Team Activity–List of 8-10 data elements
for monitoring progress (11-8 to 11-21)
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Required Reading |
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Making
Technology Standards Work for You: A Guide for School Administrators (Chapter 1)
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Suggested Resources |
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Self-Assessment
Activities for School Administrators
(Chapter 1, activity 7)
The Electronic Briefcase for Administrators (Chapter 1, possible activities: Evaluation
Plan Overview, and/or Data Library)
101 Best Web Sites for Principals (Possible resource sections: General, Professional
Reading)
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Activity
- Complete the required reading.
- Review the suggested resources.
- Meet face-to-face or virtually with team to complete
the list of 8-10 data elements (other than gains in standardized achievement data) that
will be used to monitor evidence of growth in using and integrating technology and evidence of
impact on student learning.
- Save your list as a Word file and bring it to the December workshop.
Individual Activity–Personal List of Data Elements (11-22
to 12-7)
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Required Reading |
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Read pages 125-29 in Making Technology
Standards Work for You: A Guide for School Administrators.
Review Chapter 5, Activity 2 in Self-Assessment Activities for School Administrators.
Review your current SIPAAA.
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Activity
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Complete the required reading.
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Review the team list of data elements will be used to monitor evidence
of growth in using and integrating technology and evidence of impact on student learning. Identify the elements
that are most appropriate for measuring progress at your site and that you can incorporate into your revised SIPAAA.
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Create a list in a Word document and bring the document (in electronic format) to the December
workshop.
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