Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning - Event 3 in a 4-part series

Involving Digital Parents in Digital
Learning
Presented by: Julie Evans and Jeff La Benz
DIGITAL PARENTS WEBINAR

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Control Panel
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Control panel is on the right
side of your screen.
• Chat with other attendees in
the “Chat” section
• Submit your questions in
the “Q&A” section

Webinar Tips
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• Tweeting today? Use our handles @ChandlerUnified,
@SpeakUpEd, and @Schoolwires and hashtag
#EngageDigitalParents
• A link to the recording of this webinar will be emailed to
you
• There will be a 5 second pause before we start our
speakers’ introduction and presentation…

Guest Presenter: Julie Evans
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• CEO of Project Tomorrow
• Chief Researcher for Speak Up
• Named One of Top Ten Most Influential People
in Ed Tech 1998-2008
• Frequent speaker and writer
Welcome, Julie!

Jeff La Benz, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology
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 Chandler Unified School District (AZ)
 Instructional Resource Center
 Webmaster
 Instructional Technology Specialist
 Assistant Director of Instructional
Technology
 Taught Instructional Technology courses
for NAU and ASU Polytechnic
Welcome, Jeff!

Reaching the New Digital Parent: An Administrators’ Guide
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• New collaboration between Project Tomorrow &
Schoolwires
• Series of webinars, resources and white papers
• Goal: to provide school and district administrators
with insights and tools to communicate, collaborate
and connect with parents
• Based upon new research from Speak Up

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Speak Up National Research Project
Annual national research project
 Online surveys + focus groups
 Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education
 Institutions receive free report with their own data
Collect ideas ↔ Stimulate conversations
 K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators
 Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education
Inform policies & programs
 Analysis and reporting of findings and trends
 Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning
+ 3 million surveys since 2003

Speak Up National Research Project - 2012
 K-12 Students 364,233
 Teachers & Librarians 56,346
 Parents (in English & Spanish) 39,713
 School/District Administrators 5,511
 Technology Leaders 500
 About the participating schools & districts
o 8,020 schools and 2,431 districts
o 30% urban / 43% rural / 27% suburban
o All 50 states + DC
o Honor Roll of States with highest participation:
TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, WI, AZ, FL, PA

Who are the New Digital Parents?
New Digital Parent Profile
 Value proposition for the use of technology in education
 Personal usage of mobile devices
 Personal experience with online learning
 Strong interest in digital school-to-home communications
37% of parents of school-aged children
fit this profile today

Four chapters with accompanying webinars:
• Who are the New Digital Parents?
• Communicating with the New Digital Parents
• Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning
• Creating a Shared Vision with the New Digital Parents

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How Important is the Use of Technology to Student Success?
© Project Tomorrow 2013

Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning
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Two areas within digital learning of particular interest to
parents:
Mobile learning
Online learning

Cell phone
without
Internet
access
Smartphone Tablet
computer
Parents in
2008
90% 32% 5%
Parents in
2012
35% 73% 49%
Parents are mobilists!
Personal Access to Mobile Devices – from 2008 to 2012

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Benefits of mobile learning
All Parents New Digital
Parents
Increases student engagement in learning 57% 74%
Provides access to online textbooks 65% 74%
Students can review class materials anytime 60% 66%
Enables more personalized learning 48% 64%
Extends learning beyond the school day 50% 63%
Improves school to home communications 64% 50%

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Would you be willing to purchase a mobile device for
your child to use at school for academics if allowed?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
New Digital Parents: K-5
New Digital Parents: Gr 6-8
All Parents
Likely
Very likely

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If there were two comparable classes – one allowed
mobile devices and one did not, would you want your
child in the mobile using class?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
New Digital Parents: K-5
All Parents
Likely
Very likely

Parents have first hand experience with online learning
I have taken an online class:
For work or job training 43%
For an academic/college program 29%
To learn new skills 22%
To explore a hobby 13%
For traffic school 7%
* Since 2009 – increase of 65 percent!

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Benefits of online learning
All Parents New Digital
Parents
Students can work at their own pace 62% 73%
Students can review materials as often as
wanted/needed
59% 72%
To take a class not offered at school 51% 67%
To get college or advanced credit 43% 64%
To increase student engagement in learning 30% 37%

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Should teachers’ evaluations include an assessment of
technology use effectiveness?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly
disagree
All Parents
New Digital Parents
Principals

Next chapter: Creating a Shared Vision for Digital Learning
In the meantime:
 What do you know about the experiences or expectations of
your parents for digital learning?
 What do your parents know about the use of digital tools in
your classrooms? Are their perceptions accurate?
 How are you engaging parents in your planning for digital
learning?

Chandler Unified School District Background
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• Premier school district of choice in central Arizona:
• Suburban, serves over 40,000 students
• opened 22 schools since 1998
• consists of 29 elementary, seven
junior highs, four high schools,
two alternative schools,
and an early college campus
• Challenges and Opportunities:
• Arizona – Parent choice capital
• 46th in education funding
• Since 2008, deeper cuts to public
education than any other state

Journey 2020
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• Journey 2020:
• 10 year strategic plan
• Input from all stakeholders to ensure that CUSD is a district of
choice, defined by:
• academic excellence for students
• outstanding staff
• a culture of success, and
• effective management of resources
• Empower all stakeholders to leverage technology in support of the
learning and teaching environment

Bragging Rights
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• Currently have
3,500 students
enrolled who live
outside CUSD
• 9,000 students
who live within
CUSD attend a
different CUSD
school
• Specialty
programs

The Choice is Yours
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• School and district
grades
• Honors and Awards

How We Listen to Parents
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• Parent satisfaction
survey
• Elementary school
parent surveys
• Website Secret
Shopper
• Listen and Learn
Tour

Leveraging Website and Web Resources
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• Schoolwires
• Teacher sections
• Training, school webmasters
• E-Alerts
• Posting:
• Content regarding assignments
• Due dates
• Links to assist success
• Infinite Campus
• SIS and gradebook online, linked
from our Schoolwires website

Teacher Websites
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Technology Tutorials Repository
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• Requested assistance
• Relates especially to classroom
hardware and software
• Feedback and request links
throughout the site (online forms in
Schoolwires)

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Just 4 Kids
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• Juried resources
• Suggested sites
• Homework help

Just 4 Kids
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Just 4 Kids
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Just 4 Teachers
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• Outgrowth of
Common Core
training for
teachers
• Development
of aligned
lesson plans
• To be linked
directly from
curriculum
maps

Just 4 Parents
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Cyberbullying Resources
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• Repository of
teacher lessons
• Included resources
for parents
• Multiple topics
addressed

Software
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• GOAL: Student Achievement and Growth
• Software approval process, curricular:
• Online forms completed by
content-area experts
• Responses scored
• Alignment with current
standards, higher levels of DOK
• Software approval, curricular and
non-curricular:
• Compatibility testing
• High quality interface

Software
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Software
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Software
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• GOAL: Student Achievement
• Alignment with current standards
• Higher levels of DOK
• Software approval process

Hardware
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• GOAL: Student Achievement and Growth
• Standard minimum equipment
• Site based decision-making for
above and beyond
• Research and pilots
• Examples:
• TI Nspire
• Responders
• COWs
• Limitations:
• Funding, cost of WiFi expansion

Hardware
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Hardware
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Hardware
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BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)
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• Process:
• Input from
parents,
teachers,
principals
• Committee to
research and
develop
• Samples from
other districts
• Legal review
• Board approval

Grants, Partnerships, Programs and Pilots
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Examples:
• High School Biotechnology program
• Engineering is Elementary
• PBL (Problem Based Learning)
• Wireless Generation™ (Amplify™) DIBELS Next BURST™
• Assessment used three times per year for benchmarks
progress monitoring of early literacy skills
• BURST™ is utilized on many elementary school campuses for
RtI Tier 2 intervention
• Chandler Online Academy

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• Acceleration project:
• Target growth (not just achievement) – even in already high
achievers
• Identifying untapped talents, tapping into, extending it
• Computer labs
• Used extensively for formative, summative assessments
• Redefine how we use computer labs
• Has been a test of PARCC readiness

Acceleration Project
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• TI Nspire:
• Re-engage students
through tech
• Taking challenging math,
where might have not
taken otherwise
• Greatest growth in
country

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• STRUT (Students Recycling
Used Technology)
• Teaches high school
students how to refurbish
used computers

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• CIMA (Chandler Intel Math
Academy)
• Results: 1 of 2 MSPs
(Math and Science
Partnership) in nation to
show increase in student
achievement tied directly
to increase in teacher
content knowledge

Our Experience – Summary
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• Using technology to meet parents’ expectations and personalize
instruction to meet students needs involves:
• Using technology to actively listen to your community
• Involving stakeholders to visualize the ideal, and plan for how to
get there
• Providing a variety of programs for families to select
• Thoughtful evaluation and leveraging of:
• Website and web resources
• Software
• Hardware (including BYOT)
• Grant, partnership, program and pilot opportunities

Our final event in the series…
June 11, 1:00 pm EST
Exploring Digital Parents’ vision for 21st century learning
Register at: www.schoolwires.com/getbetterconnected

What Questions Do You Have?
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