1) The document discusses aligning technology tools and resources with continuous school improvement planning processes to support student academic success and the development of 21st century skills.
2) It recommends that technology leaders become knowledgeable about and engage with their school or district's improvement goals and strategies, and embed technology initiatives within continuous improvement plans.
3) Technology leaders are encouraged to consider serving as advocates for technology-infused professional learning aligned with identified improvement strategies.
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Presentation given jointly - with David Lines - to the Heads of Educational Development Group in 2006 on the shift from Quality Assurance to Quality Enhancement within Scottish Higher Education
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To foster the global competency, NAAC includes in its
the scope of assessment, skill development of students and also promoted the use of technologies and e-resources in teaching and learning processes for significant impact on stakeholders.
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Unlocking Excellence With Keys To Quality Align Appropriate Technologies Within Your Schools Strategic Improvement Plan
1. Unlocking Excellence with Keys to Quality: Align Appropriate Technologies within the
Continuous Improvement Planning Process
The leadership of today’s schools supports both students’ academic success and their
preparation for employment in a global work environment. As stimulus funds become available
to U.S. school districts, it remains critical that technology tools and resources are aligned with
system_, school_, and classroom-identified student academic outcomes.
In support of embedding technology solutions within the continuous improvement planning
process, educational technology leaders acknowledge the need to become actively engaged in the
dialog about proven research-based strategies supporting student success and the development of
21st century skills. Those strategies, valued school leaders across the United States, include:
• Balanced assessments for learning with an emphasis on formative assessments
• The development of professional learning communities that foster teachers’ ability to
regularly collaborate together
• Personalization of learning
• Standards-based classrooms
• The effective use of data analysis to formatively inform teaching and learning
These strategies resonate with educational leadership organizations such as the Association
for Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD), National School Board Association
(NSBA), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and the Consortium of
School Networking (COSN).
2. To align appropriate technology solutions, it is increasingly important that technology leaders
have a common language with which to communicate about the continuous school improvement
planning process and proven, research-based strategies. The research-based resources within the
Georgia Department of Education’s (GaDOE) Keys to Quality: Unlocking Excellence through
Georgia School Standards provide a platform upon which technology leaders can build such a
common language.
The Keys to Quality describe what Georgia’s schools need to know and be able to do, in the
same way that Georgia Performance Standards describe what Georgia’s students need to know
and be able to do. The Keys to Quality set resources, which Georgia has provided to every
school in the state, define targets using rubrics and resources to assist educators in ways to
periodically “take their school improvement temperature” to monitor the effectiveness of their
school improvement plans.
In the same vein, the Keys to Quality provide technology leaders with a common language
about research-based strategies that school leaders’ value in the pursuit of student and school
success. The Keys to Quality rubrics define the optimum target as fully operational. The areas
of instruction, assessment, curriculum, and professional learning serve as examples of where
technology leaders can infuse and align appropriate technologies and 21st century skills.
Aligning appropriate technology tools and resources within the continuous improvement
planning process positions technology leaders for engaging in dialog with system and school
leaders who are also working towards the common goal of student and school success.
Technology leaders can improve the process by considering the following action steps:
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3. • Become knowledgeable and actively engaged in the goals and strategies in your system
or school continuous improvement process
• Embed technology initiatives within your system/school continuous improvement plan
• Consider serving as an advocate for the development of technology infused professional
learning within the strategies that your system or schools’ have identified within their
continuous improvement plan(s)
• Participate in conferences that foster research-based strategies, such as ASCD, NSBA,
ISTE, and that provide opportunities to learn along with peers
• Read and share journals such as ASCD’s Educational Leadership and ISTE’s Learning
and Leading with Technology;
• Consider becoming an active participant in your state’s technology leadership
organization(s)
• Consider mentoring or requesting mentorship, from state technology leaders who
understand the significance of aligning their work to the continuous improvement
planning process.
Technology leaders are poised to become actively engaged with educational leaders’
ongoing commitment to student and school success. Take time from your busy days to meet
with peers to share both proven practices and struggles in aligning your work with the
continuous school improvement planning process.
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4. In the accountability-oriented environment of our nation’s business and educational
environments, the continued alignment of appropriate technologies within the continuous
improvement planning processes provide opportunities to provide results supporting student
academic success and the development of 21st century skills.
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