This document summarizes a "Teacher Takeover" initiative at William Fremd High School to promote positive digital citizenship. The initiative involved a school-wide social media competition where teachers shared positive posts about their classes and activities using the school's hashtag. The teacher with the most likes and retweets won prizes. It was designed to model safe social media use for students and increase awareness of digital footprints. A follow-up had students run their own competition. The document provides the school and district context, outlines the initiative and competition guidelines, and shares examples of teacher posts and outcomes. It concludes by encouraging others to create their own "Teacher Takeover" events to promote digital citizenship.

1. #Teacher Takeover
Viking Network
@ThisIsFHS
Theresa L Christensen, NBCT
William Fremd High School
Kurt Tenopir, Principal
Township H.S. District 211
Palatine, IL
Dr. Daniel Cates,
Superintendent

2. Thank you to Alysha English & Emma Scripps of Teachers Guild and to ISTE for this
amazing opportunity to share our experiences and collaborate with our global
colleagues!!

3. Township High School
District 211’s Digital
Democracy Expectations
1. Think before posting.
2. Abide by classroom technology expectations.
3. Use personal social apps and games outside of
class time.
4. Ask before sharing pictures, taking videos or
recording another person.
5. Be original, be honest, avoid cheating.
6. Remember, your iPad is school issued. Keep it
clean.

4. “
Viking Network (founded 2017-
2018 school year) - Fremd High
School’s Digital
Democracy Team
Student-Driven to
amplify student voice!
Purpose: create a digital world
that is positive and safe

5. At beginning of year, low
% of students surveyed
deemed their “digital
footprints” as “Very
Important!”
We collected data . . .

6. What should digital
citizenship look like
in our school?
How can it played
out in a classroom?
How aware do we
want our students to
be of the importance
of their digital
conduct?
So We brainstormed . . .

7. Teacher Takeover
A school-wide competition during which
teachers “share their greatness,”
modeling positive use of social media in
our school, creating a positive school
culture.

8. Most likes =
prizes
LIKES
Most retweets =
prizes
RE-TWEETS
New to Twitter =
prizes
NEWBIES
Classes, Clubs & Sports Invited to Tweet
All Week!

9. Sample #TeacherTakeover Feed @ThisISFHS
Teachers sharing their
greatness!
Cross-curricular!
School-wide!
Positive sharing &
encouraging!!

10. Advanced Reading
Automotives
Preschool Class
STUDENTS EXCITED TO SHARE THEIR
LEARNING!!

11. AP Biology Style Studio
Basketball
Spanish Class
The GIST: say something positive
about what’s going on while
tagging @ThisIsFHS

12. Tally Tweets at end of each day for motivation & momentum!!
@ThisIsFHS

13. And the winner is . . . !!! Share successes!!
@ThisISFHS

14. Positive school culture!
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Students excited to share
their learning!
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Cross-curricular teacher
collaboration!
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School-wide modeling of safe
social media use!
William Fremd High School
#TeacherTakeover TakeAways
@ThisIsFHS

15. Create Your Own #TeacherTakeover to promote #DigCit!
Create a #Hashtag
for your event01
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Tally RTs and Likes
💚
Sample Tweet
02 Invite Teachers
Sample Invite
03
Set simple
guidelines
Sample Guidelines
05
Offer prizes to
winners (cookies,
badges, etc)
Sample Tweet
06
Next - a student-led
competition!!
Sample Follow-up
For more info, follow @ThisISFHS!!

16. Potential Follow-up. . . Student-Led Competition:
● Opportunity for students to portray our school positively, while encouraging their peers to do the same!

17. *
THERESA CHRISTENSEN -
English Teacher
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HAMID MEHREIOSKOUEI -
Assistant Principal
BROUGHT TO YOU BY: FREMD HIGH SCHOOL’S VIKING NETWORK
For more #DigCit Events & Ideas, follow us @ThisIsFHS !!!
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KATIE JOHNSON -
Dean of Students
DAVID STRYKOWSKI-
Business Teacher
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KEITH SORENSEN -
Technology Coordinator
JASON HOGREFE -
P.E. Teacher
Kurt Tenopir - Principal
Dr. Dan Cates - Superintendent

18. Let’s #TeacherTakeover
ISTE!
Use both the #TeacherTakeover & #ISTE18 to share positive
moments throughout the conference. It’ll be an easy way for us
to share and keep in touch!

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William Fremd High School
Palatine IL
Township HS District 211
English Teacher, NBCT
WEBSITE:
TheresaLChristensen.com
Theresa Christensen
@GradingGirl
@ThisIsFHS
Twitter:
tchristensen@d211.org
Email:
Thank you again to Teachers Guild and ISTE for this opportunity!