September 21 , 2000

Create a plan to guide staff and students in the uses of technology to enhance learning in all curricular areas.

ATTENDEES: Lynne Herman, Linda Gregory, Don Schlater, Corey Groll, Mary Beth D'Amico, Cathy Petitgout, Russ Gehrt, Kathy O'Hanlon, Richard Davis, Sharon Elzey, Wendy Modzelewski, Lori Roe

MINUTES

• Essential Preconditions
  
  • RICHARD: To inform our discusions going forward, Richard will provide the group with an overview of the labs, classroom computers and personnel are deployed in each school. Richard provided the summary to the group.
    
    
• Standards and Guidelines (develop, adopt or adapt)
  • LORI: Since the NETS are national standards and much support material exists and more is being developed, it seemed reasonable to use these standards for Cape's curriculum guidelines.
    For your grade level, does the NETS material subsume the Cape plan? What is missing?
    
    
  • Conclusion: These documents support each other. District should formally adopt the NETS and use the support materials to change teacher practice.
    
    
  • Possible: Set goals for use of lessons by each teacher.
    
    
• Plan for integration with curriculum to ensure progress in both areas
  
  
  • For next meeting, each person is looking at the curricular guides in their own level to decide what approach is most useful for integrating with the curricular area. Also, what other people are needed on the committee to carry out this work.
    
    • Adding another book or guide is not going to build the skills in teachers
      
      
• SO??? Where to???
  • Provide a means for teachers to understand that technology is a tool to be integrated with and to facilitate good instruction.
    • via some kind of professional development, multiple methods
    • modelling
    • scaffolding
      
      
  • Provide model lessons, resources to begin to plant the seeds for curriculum imagination. Extract lessons that can be tested by key teachers and apply it to their grade level. Use their feedback to refine staff development.
    • spread to grade level.
      
      
  • Build or inventory lessons that will allow teachers to meet their existing curricular goals.
    
    
  • ??? Create building instructional technology leaders
    
    
  • Lori will create a model letter or useable letter. Then, each committee member will use the letter to collect instructional activities or lessons that integrate technology to meet the standards in their curricular areas. Include an example of student work. (Wendy will assist with wording to seek permission to disseminate).
    • 9/22 -- Lori will circulate letter for comment
    • 9/24 -- Committee will respond with comments
    • 9/25 -- Deliver paper versions of the letter and form to each school.
    • on or before 10/6 -- Members of the committee will disseminate to each grade level, team or department to be sent to the teachers.
    • on or before 10/27 -- Teachers will submit lessons or activities to teacher reps to be returned to the committee.
    • NOTE: letter and form are linked (10/5)
      
      
  • Next meeting will be used to review lessons and plan for their use in staff training.