my43 a journey to transform learning and work in Coquitlam School District

Microsoft CLC 2007Brian Kuhn, Manager of Information ServicesJames McConville, Coordinator of Educational TechnologyChris Kennedy, Principal of Riverside Secondary School (1400 students)

“convergence & coherence”

• 30,000 students• 50 elementary, 13 middle, 8 secondary schools• 4000 employees• 5 communities

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Vision

EquitableAccess

StaffDevelopment

Learning

Exemplars

Learning, teaching and leading is enhanced through effective

and meaningful use oftechnology

Achieving 1:1 access through investing in core infrastructure and extending access to all learners

Three stages for staff readiness:-preparing-exploring-transforming

Shifting from the tools themselves to capabilities of the tools to do new things

Innovations allow the district to learn what has the most impact on learning

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

District Context

E-mail

gone

crazy!Paper jungle!

Disparate Information Systems

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

In the beginning…

Sharepoin

t in Fall

2003Committee

sTechnology

Early Adopter

Educators

RESISTANCE!It’s a business tool…

The WAVE(Employee)

In the beginning…

CADS

News

Calendars

Forms

Documents

E-mail

Portals

Leaves

Discussions

Subscriptions

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Sharepoint goes viral…# of Sites

0

500

1000

1500

2004 2005 2006 2007

Migration

Challenge!

Dependency

Fragment

ed

LearningPortal

Anytime, anywhere

learning…

Audio

Video

Pictures

Tracking

WritingWorkflowE-Portfolio

LessonsResource

s

E-m

ail

Instant M

sg

BLO

G

Wiki

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

What is this project really about?

Creating a ConnectedCreating a Connected

Professional LearningProfessional Learning

CommunityCommunity

Creating an Efficient Creating an Efficient

and Seamlessly Integratedand Seamlessly Integrated

Work CentreWork Centre

Parent Parent CommunicationCommunication

Digital 21stDigital 21stCenturyCentury

LearningLearning

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Fragmentation or coherence?

Discreet solutions

and integrate?

A

technology

decision

or ?

Curriculum

TechnologySchool leadersIntrane

tPortfoli

oLearning Portal

Evolution or Wholesale change?

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

A Learning OrganizationA learning organization: “an

organization that is continually

expanding its capacity to create

it’s future…for learning

organizations, ‘adaptive

learning’ is joined by

‘generative learning,’ learning

that enhances our capacity to

create.

Peter Senge 1990, The Fifth

Discipline: The Art and Practice

of the Learning Organization

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Professional Learning Communities

“… a group of teachers who meet

regularly as a team to identify essential

and valued student learning, develop

common formative assessments, analyze

current levels of achievement, set

achievement goals, share strategies, and

then create lessons to improve upon those

levels.” (The School Administrator 2004

vol. 61, issue 10, pp. 48-49, Schmoker

2004)

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Professional Learning Communities

• “Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all.” (DuFour 2005)

• “Despite compelling evidence indicating that working collaboratively represents best practice, teachers in many schools continue to work in isolation.” (DuFour 2005)

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Learners

Understanding the world of the 21st century learner

From using the tools… to the capabilities of

the tools to empower learning

Listen to the 21st century learner

STAKEHOLDERSSTAKEHOLDERS

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

School Context – Fall 2004

Print

newsletters

Innovation?

Little coherence

with technology

in the building

A feeling like we

were fallin

g behin

d

Teachers creating a variety of websites using a range of tools

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

School Context – Spring 2007Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends

and others who work, study and live around them

Tablets

Teacher Sites

Newstandard

Every classroom!

People

want to

stay out

front

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

School Context – Where Next?

Desperate move to

Sharepoint 2007

Want to connect to others

Move discussion from technology to teaching and learning

Move to a

1-1 environment

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

A comment from the field…

“this plan will allow us to not only do what we do now better but

reshape what we do – I think this is an important distinction – this

investment is not about sustaining, it is about rethinking and reshaping our jobs and will allow us to better

deploy resources into the classroom”

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

What is a portal, really?

A software application designed to integrate information, applications, and processes across organizational boundaries and to provide personalized capabilities to visitors

Portals are

designed to work

on different

computers and

aggregate content

and services from

multiple sources

Imagine the possibilities…

…key integrating technology

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is…

Intranet

my site

Schools

What’s in a name?

“my” “43”

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

2007-8

eMail

ePortfolio LearningRepositoryNews

Calendar

mySite

Alerts

School and Classroom

sites

Department sites

CADS

Learning Sandbox

Portal

DiscussionDocuments

PostingsSearch

Spring ’07Pioneering

Firewall

ExchangeCluster

SQLCluster

Firewall

Finance / HR

Firewall

ISA LoadBalancedCluster

Board OfficeSecure Zone

MOSS Web Farm

MOSSSearch / Index OWA

Finance / HRWeb Apps

DMZ

SD43Schools

Internet

WAN

External

Microsoft Sharepoint+

Solutions IT Scholaris+

Microsoft Exchange+

Microsoft Live Communications=

Our Portal Environment

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 Intra

net

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Secondary English

Teacher

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Elementary School

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Elementary Teacher

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 my site

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my site Blog

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Learning requires active participation of the student

People

learn in a

variety of

ways and at

different

rates

Learning is both an

individual and a group process

Principles of Learning…

my43 Schools

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Where to next?

June 07

Early adopters of Scholaris (my43 Schools)

September 07

Secondary school implementation begins and all students on Outlook / Exchange

Fall 07

Migration from WSS 03 to Virtual Classrooms / School portals and my site implementation begins; begin use of Office Communicator

Spring 08

Middle school implementation begins

Fall 08Elementary school implementation beginsmy43 In

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my43 is a virtual community that transforms the learning and work in our School District to prepare students for the future

Coherence!

Intranet

my site

Schools