1.
Media and Technology
Director’s Meeting
Region 2
September 14, 2012

2.
"The B.E.S.T. conversations I have had
with the people who know THE MOST
about TECH has never been about TECH."
~Jen Wagner
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3.
Updates
• Region 2 Wiki
• Online Assessments
• Intel Teach
• SLMC and TF Professional Standards "Try out" Teams Needed
• NC Innovator in Digital Learning Recognition
• Statewide System of Support: Regional Roundtables
• IIS and Cloud

4.
Region 2 Wiki
http://reg2-techdir.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/

5.
Summer Institute
Online Assessments:
Updates for 2012-13

6.
Assessment Time Line
For School Accountability
Test 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-15 on
Math 3-8 EXTEND2 Online All Online
ELA 3-8 EXTEND2 Online All Online
Developed
New State
English II All Online SBE Decision
Alg I/Int I All Online SBE Decision
Biology All Online
Science 5 & 8 All Online
ACT ACT SBE Decision
Math 3-8*
SMARTER
Balanced
ELA 3-8*
In Development
11th Grade Math*
11th Grade ELA*
*2014-15 implementation of SMARTER
assessments contingent upon board approval of
assessments to replace the State-developed ELA
and Math assessments.

7.
Questions
Kayla Siler
Policy and Planning Analyst
kayla.siler@dpi.nc.gov

8.
Intel Teach
http://Intel.com/teachers

9.
Intel Teach
• Intel Teach F2F Courses
• Essentials and Thinking with
Technology
• Online “free” tools and resources
• support NC’s initiatives such as RttT
and Future Ready Educators

10.
Elements Courses
•Project-Based Approaches
•Inquiry in the Science Classroom
•Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms
•Collaboration in the Digital Classroom
•Thinking Critically with Data
•Educational Leadership in the 21 st
Century

11.
• Accessing courses
• Apply for license to host on LMS
• Facilitated by online trainer
• Intel website
• Aligned to Common Core and North
Carolina Essential Standards
• Intel/Thinkfinity Partnership

12.
SLMC and TF Professional
Standards
“Try Out” Teams
• Held in Winston Salem
• ITF-Sept. 26th, SLMC-Sept. 27th
• Team consists of:
• supervising principal or assistant principal
• (school-based) SLMC or ITF
• Media Technology Director or another central
based representative

13.
NC Innovator in Digital
Learning Recognition
http://it.ncwiseowl.org/resources/digital_learning

14.
The Statewide System
of Support
&
Regional Roundtables

15.
State Board of Education
Regional Map
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16.
Regional Lead and Regional Roundtable
Analyze Impact of all current initiatives underway in each LEA
in the region
Analyze Trends and common needs across each region
Facilitate and Coordinate technical assistance provided for
the districts and schools (extra focus on RttT and Title I)
Monitor Progress to achieve priority objectives
Interface with Agency Roundtable to ensure effective lines of
communication between the field and the agency.
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17.
Regional Roundtable Membership and
Support
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18.
Agency Roundtable
 Collaborate in cross-divisional discussions and take
action(s) necessary to achieve objectives.
 Target available resources to identified needs.
 Analyze current initiatives being provided to the
regions by the agency, including support for Race to
the Top.
 Identify gaps and redundancies.
 Monitor progress for achieving priority objectives.

19.
Strategic
Statewide Roundtable
System of (State Superintendent & Senior
Leadership)
Support
initiatives based
on SBE Goals or
Title I Services
RttT priority
LEA Needs
Strategic
Agency
out
c roll Roundtable
Strategi
Region 1: (NC DPI Division Directors) Region 8:
eds
Roundtable LE A Ne Roundtable
Region 2: Region 7:
Roundtable Roundtable
Region 3: Region 4: Region 5: Region 6:
Roundtable Roundtable Roundtable Roundtable

20.
What Can LEAs Expect From
Regional Lead and Regional
Roundtable Members?
 Targeted Support for LEAs with special
attention to Title 1 schools and districts
 Enhanced Communication with DPI
Regional Staff, plus a “feedback loop” for
sharing information back to the Agency
 Timely Customer Service
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21.
What Can LEAs Expect From
Regional Lead and Regional
Roundtable Members?
Alignment of Services to Needs
Dissemination of Information re: Resources
(including DPI Services and External Provider
Services)
Race to the Top Training, Guidance &
Support
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22.
NC Race to the Top Priorities
• Great Teachers and Leaders
– Implementing the statewide teacher and
principal evaluation systems
– Providing programs to strengthen staffing in
low-performing schools and schools with
limited offerings
– Expanding recruitment in specific areas of
need
– Identifying, developing, and supporting
effective leaders
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23.
NC Race to the Top priorities
• Standards and Assessments
– Transitioning to new standards
– Monitoring curriculum
– Utilizing benchmark and diagnostic
assessment systems
• Systems to Support Instruction
– Increasing the use of data for decision making
and continuous improvement
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24.
NC Race to the Top Priorities
• Turning around low-performing
schools
–Building local capacity
–Customizing approaches to local
settings and needs

25.
Regional Lead Team
RL Coordinator: Michael Hickman
Region 1: Tamara Berman-Ishee
Region 2: Sherry Broome
Regions 3 & 4: James Coon
Region 5: Fran Harris-Burke
Region 6: Terry Cline
Regions 7 & 8: Jan King
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26.
NC’s Race to the Top
“It won’t matter where they live; it won’t matter
what their school looks like; it won’t matter
what their parents do for a living. What will
matter is that North Carolina leaders have
joined together to support the best and most
innovative approaches to public education this
state has seen in a decade.”
-Governor Bev Perdue
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27.
Please Note:
• “The digital tools used during the course of the NCDPI Summer Institute
2012 have been helpful to some educators across the state. However,
due to the rapidly changing digital environment, NCDPI does not represent
nor endorse that these tools are the exclusive digital tools for the purposes
outlined during the Summer Institute.”
• “The digital tools used during the course of the NCDPI RESA trainings
have been helpful to some educators across the state. However, due to
the rapidly changing digital environment, NCDPI does not represent nor
endorse that these tools are the exclusive digital tools for the purposes
outlined during the RESA trainings.”

28.
Agenda For Institute
Instructional
Improvement
System

29.
Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲ ▲
Why an Instructional Improvement System?
Improve and personalize student learning
How?
Facilitate the teaching and learning process through
•Increased access to high quality resources for all
•Provision of timely and relevant information and data

30.
Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
What tools and resources will be available?
Learner Profiles and
Clear picture of students and their needs
Work Samples
Instructional Design, Instructional planning with resources such as
Practices and unit plans, online learning objects and media-
Resources enriched tasks
Assessment Tools, Interim and diagnostic assessment items for
Items and Strategies use in classrooms; formative best practices
PD Resources and Resources to improve and reflect on practice
and tools to manage professional development
Management
Dashboards and Tools to display, understand and use data to
drive instruction and professional development
Analytics choices

31.
Instructional Improvement System
Learner Profile Standards & Instructional Assessment & Data Analysis Professional
and Work Curriculum Design, Practice & Analytics and Reporting Development &
Samples Resources Educator Evaluation

32.
Technology Platform
One Technology
Platform
• Single Sign-on Instructional
PowerSchool Improvement
• Collaborative
System
• Populated with
resources for NC
Student Tools for
educators
Information Teaching and
Learning
System (IIS)
(SIS) Coming Soon

33.
Guiding Principles
One Technology Platform
• Consolidated
All operations/data collections will be incorporated into PowerSchool
• Flexible
Maximize flexibility for LEAs and charter schools
• Improving Data Quality
Improve Data Accuracy and Completeness
• Simplifying Reporting
Make reporting easier
• Secure
Maintain security and privacy of information

34.
Technology
3 Key Categories
Instruction Interconnections Things
Application • Support Services • Infrastructure Digital Devices • Tools
Ensuring Making Something
pressing sure that on which
Enter helps pressing to press
students Enter Enter
learn always
works

35.
Technical Requirements
• The IIS is expected to deliver all of its
functionality through a web browser. It is
expected to run well on major HTML5-
compatible browsers on the current
release and past two releases and
require no additional browser helpers or
plugins for full accessibility and
functionality.

36.
Technical Requirements (continued)
• These browsers shall include but not be
limited to the following list: Internet
Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. In
addition, the IIS is expected to run well on
a wide variety of mainstream hardware
platforms that use the aforementioned
browser technologies.

37.
Technical Requirements (continued)
• These hardware platforms shall include
but not be limited to Microsoft Windows
and Mac OS desktops, laptops and
netbooks, Apple iOS devices, Android
devices, as well as other tablets, smart
phones, and eReaders.

38.
Technical Requirements (continued)
• Vendor solutions shall comply with the
World Wide Web Consortium web
development specifications (“W3C
Recommendations”) and shall comply
with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation
Act.

39.
DPI Outreach to LEAs and
Schools
NCDPI staff have made available online the “IIS
Functional Specifications Analysis”.
•LEAs/schools can decide to use this document to make a preliminary
determination regarding how well the IIS will meet their needs.
•Completing this document is NOT required and does not need to be
submitted back to the NCDPI. This is being provided for informational
purposes and for local use.
•It can be found at: www.ncpublicschools.org
/acre/improvement/resources

40.
Objective
Receive prospective user feedback on tools, content and interface
The Team:
N. Hampton County
Nash-Rocky Mount Schools
Pender Co. Schools
Polk County Schools
Rowan-Salisbury Schools
Sampson County Schools
Wake County Schools
Washington County Schools
Wayne County Public Schools
Wilson County Schools
Winston-Salem Forsyth

41.
Objective
Receive prospective user feedback on tools, content and interface
The Members Represent the Following Counties:
• Greene County
• Char-Meck
• The NCAE
• Strategic Educational Alliances
The Group Consists of:

42.
IIS Resource Consortium
(IIS RC)
• The Resource Consortium is a group of LEAs
that will share resources they have created or
purchased locally so educators, students and
parents can access them statewide through the
IIS.

43.
Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
RFP Issued Reviewed
Proposals Determine
Feb 27 Design and
Vendor
April – June Build
July – September
Becoming Available Fall 2012 
Data
Integration
Pilot IIS Pilot
Phased-In
Fall Roll out
Early 2013 
2012 Starting
2013-14
School Year

44.
Contact Information
Dan Gwaltney, Learning Systems Consultant
dan.gwaltney@dpi.nc.gov
919-807-3249

45.
Questions or Comments