Technology Implementation Partnership (TIP)

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Technology Implementation Partnership (TIP)
Professional Learning Community
Webinar Implementation and Scaling-up May 6,
2008
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Agenda

• Welcome, Introductions, and Purpose of Webinar
• Discussion of TIP Implementation
• - Stages of Implementation
• - TIP Sharing
• EdTech Locator Highlights
• Discussion of TIP Scaling-up
• - Definition Snapshot of Scaling-up
• - TIP Sharing
• CITEd Website
• Next Steps and Wrap-up

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TIP Professional Learning Community
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Purposes of the TIP Initiative

• To increase the use and understanding of
  differentiating instruction through innovative
  technologies.
• To support a professional learning community
  across the districts and within the five
  districts.
• To identify and share lessons learned on
  effective ways to engage teachers,
  administrators, IT and PD coordinators to use
  differentiating instruction across the curriculum
  to meet the learning needs of all students,
  particularly those with special needs.
• To scale up TIP across grades, curriculum areas,
  and schools throughout the districts. Share
  lessons learned with SEAs and LEAs.

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Stages of Implementation

• Exploration
• Installation
• Initial Implementation
• Full Implementation
• Innovation
• Sustainability

Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, Wallace, 2005
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Ineffective Methods

• Excellent evidence for what does not work
• Implementation by edict by itself does not work
• Implementation by following the money by itself
  does not work
• Implementation without changing supporting roles
  and functions does not work

• Paul Nutt (2002). Why Decisions Fail

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Ineffective Methods

• Excellent experimental evidence for what does not
  work
• Diffusion/dissemination of information by itself
  does not lead to successful implementation
• Training alone, no matter how well done, does not
  lead to successful implementation

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What Works

• Effective intervention practices
• Effective implementation practices
• Good outcomes for consumers

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 OUTCOMES ( of Participants who Demonstrate
Knowledge, Demonstrate new Skills in a Training
Setting, and Use new Skills in the Classroom)
   
Joyce and Showers, 2002
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TIP Sharing3 Things your site has done to
implement or scale-up TIP during Year One
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Bethany, CT

• Focus
• Writing
• Grades 5 and 6
• Initial Goals
• Increased use of hardware and software within
  writing process for students
• Increased access to general education curriculum
  and classroom for students with disabilities

• Liaison Judy Zorfass Alise Brann
• 557 students
• 51 teachers (FTE)
• Free lunch 3.2
• Special ed 11
• Limited English 0

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Bethany, CT

• Demonstration of model lesson using SOLO in
  Language Arts for 5th grade students
• Conference at EDC to learn how to implement SOLO
• Implemented Memoir unit with SOLO in the
  classroom with all students

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Minnesota Virtual Academy, Houston, MN

• Focus
• Grades 3-8
• Mathematics
• Work sample analysis
• Initial Goals
• Teachers have increased comfort with the scope
  and sequence of mastery of math
• Teachers have increased repertoire of strategies
  and resources for teaching math
• Improved progress monitoring and reporting

• TIP Liaison Heidi Silver-Pacuilla
• 479 MNVA students
• 17 MNVA teachers
• Free lunch 6
• Special ed 8
• Limited English 0

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Minnesota Virtual Academy, Houston, MN

• Developed a Math Solutions Team (MST) Process to
  support teachers implementation of
  Differentiated Instruction through technology
• Investigated our online Math Curriculum and
  Critical Paths to accelerate learning and
  alignment with Minnesota Math Standards
• Identified resources and strategies that teachers
  may utilize to provide differentiated math
  instruction opportunities

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Northampton School District, Northampton, MA

• Focus
• Literacy across the curriculum
• Initial Goals
• Students independently make use of software.
• Teachers incorporate software into their lessons

• TIP Liaison Grace Meo
• 2,940 students
• 232 teachers
• Free lunch 26.3
• Special ed 21
• Limited English 2.3

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Northampton School District, Northampton, MA

• PD training in TTS and other instructional
  software for paraprofessionals
• Expanded use of TTS instructional software in
  special education settings
• Increased use of all technology, augmentative
  communication and assistive technology for
  students with disabilities in all of our schools

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Thomasville City Schools, Thomasville, GA

• Focus
• Mathematics
• Middle school
• Initial Goals
• Teachers identify student learning needs and use
  evidence (i.e., student work) they have collected
  in their portfolios to appropriately select and
  revise differentiating instruction strategies

• TIP Liaison Boo Murray Jenna Wasson
• 2,889 students
• 204 teachers
• Free lunch 72
• Special ed 13
• Limited English lt1

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Thomasville City Schools, Thomasville, GA

• Identified barriers related to technology and
  personnel
• Prioritized the grant and found the link to
  implementation grant.
• Identified point person

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Wolsey-Wessington School District, Wolsey, SD

• Focus
• Science
• Cohort of teachers K-12
• Initial Goals
• Increase differentiated instruction with
  technology.
• Increase student engagement and use of technology
  with learning.

• TIP Liaison Susan Skipper
• 217 students
• 25 teachers
• Free lunch 37
• Special ed 17
• Limited English 0

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Wolsey-Wessington School District, Wolsey, SD

• Purchased technology (lcd projectors, tablets,
  SMART boards)
• Provided professional development (Techie
  Tuesday, Techie Thursday, Saturday Trainings)
• Held a Show Case Conference

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CITEd Home Pagehttp//www.cited.org
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Ed Tech Locator Highlights

• Designed for Teachers
• Designed for Administrators
• Designed for Technology Coordinators
• Designed for Professional Development Coordinators

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How Can I Use It?

• Self Assessment
• Scoring Rubric and Locator Profile
• Locator
• Destination Map
• Resources
• http//www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id110

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Ed Tech Locator Highlights

• Evaluate where you stand in the
  technology-integration continuum
• Identify key points along the way towards
  reaching a target level of technology integration
  
• Map a course for further integration

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Definition of Scaling-up

• Successful in classroom ? school wide change
• Initiative spreads to multiple sites or multiple
  practitioners are all teachers using same
  model?
• Initiative needs staying power is initiative
  still used 2 to 3 yrs later? Is there fidelity?
• Ownership transfers to teachers and
  administrators do teachers feel they own the
  program? Are they comfortable making changes if
  needed?
• Initiative needs to change classroom culture do
  teachers make it a part of their daily practice?

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Snapshot of Scaling-up

• http//www.microsoft.com/education/demos/scale/ind
  ex.html

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• TIP Sharing
• 2 Plans your site has to implement or scale-up
  TIP during Year Two
• 1 Suggestion to Improve TIP

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Wolsey-Wessington School District, Wolsey, SD

• Continue to provide professional development
• Hold a Community Show Case Conference

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Thomasville City Schools, Thomasville, GA

• Coordinate with the recent Smart Grant
• Schedule summer training and periodic training
  during the year to coordinate the work during the
  year (linking TIP with Smart Board grant)
• Coach and monitor progress

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Northampton School District, Northampton, MA

• Continue implementation and improvement
• Coordinate PD for all staff through a training
  of trainers model such that SPED staff are
  well-trained and able to support classroom and
  other teaching staff in use of instructional
  technology

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Minnesota Virtual Academy, Houston, MN

• Provide Moodle training in May to teachers
• Implement MST meeting protocol Teachers will
  collect work samples and report back to the MST
  every other month during the year

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Bethany, CT

• Implement the current unit with additional
  classrooms
• Expand the use of SOLO to additional 5th grade
  classrooms
• Continue the use of SOLO with the students moving
  to the 6th grade

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CITEd Website

• Online Course- Differentiating Instruction
• with Technology
• www.airlearning.org   
• My Center
• http//www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id3
• Research Center
• http//www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id13

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• Next Steps and Wrap-up
• Questions
• Reminders

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• Questions? Feedback?
• Email Susan Skipper, sskipper_at_air.org or your TIP
  coordinator