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We received a message from a teacher friend stating, "when my ITS arrived last fall to train us on Microsoft Teams I paid attention but thought I'll never use that technology. Wow, was I ever wrong! How did your team know what we would need so far in advance. Thank you CCSD Technology Department."

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We received a message from a teacher friend stating, "when my ITS arrived last fall to train us on Microsoft Teams I paid attention but thought I'll never use that technology. Wow, was I ever wrong! How did your team know what we would need so far in advance. Thank you CCSD Technology Department."

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We are creating drop off stations across our district. We would love for the technology to be kept all summer but this is the only time available to our IT staff to update and upgrade the devices before the next school year begins. 

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We are creating drop off stations across our district. We would love for the technology to be kept all summer but this is the only time available to our IT staff to update and upgrade the devices before the next school year begins. 

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We are a Microsoft District and several years ago our Superintendent requested for all teachers in our district to become Microsoft Innovative Educators. He kicked it off by taking the classes himself, he and his entire cabinet are all certified as well. Most of the teachers across my district have completed their MIE certification.   

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We are a Microsoft District and several years ago our Superintendent requested for all teachers in our district to become Microsoft Innovative Educators. He kicked it off by taking the classes himself, he and his entire cabinet are all certified as well. Most of the teachers across my district have completed their MIE certification.   

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Educator Center Overview - Microsoft Learn Educator Center

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Microsoft Learn for Educators takes the best of Microsoft Learn online learning paths and helps you to bring instructor-led training materials from Microsoft into your courses. This program provides members with access to Microsoft ready-to-teach curriculum and teaching materials aligned to industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications.

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One of our Elementary School principals requested for her entire staff to become Apple Teachers through online learning and ITS support through workshops and individual coaching sessions within one month they achieved 100% at the end of March.

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One of our Elementary School principals requested for her entire staff to become Apple Teachers through online learning and ITS support through workshops and individual coaching sessions within one month they achieved 100% at the end of March.

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A better world starts in the classroom with flexible, easy-to-use tools that have privacy, accessibility, and sustainability built right in. Apple products and resources are designed to make learning personal, creative, and inspiring.

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Apple products and resources help make learning personal, creative, and inspiring - and have privacy, accessibility, and sustainability built in.

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Our district purchased Canvas Learning Management System 3 years ago. Our ITS staff has completed once a month workshops for all staff at each school to learn how to create various assignments for students. Some of these are Nearpod, Flipgrid, Office365 Cloud Assignments-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, File upload-pictures, videos, class discussions  online and through Microsoft Teams. Many teachers sent our ITS training staff emails and instant messages stating how prepared they actually were during the last 4 weeks of distance learning. 

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Our district purchased Canvas Learning Management System 3 years ago. Our ITS staff has completed once a month workshops for all staff at each school to learn how to create various assignments for students. Some of these are Nearpod, Flipgrid, Office365 Cloud Assignments-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, File upload-pictures, videos, class discussions  online and through Microsoft Teams. Many teachers sent our ITS training staff emails and instant messages stating how prepared they actually were during the last 4 weeks of distance learning. 

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Our district purchased Canvas Learning Management System 3 years ago. Our ITS staff has completed once a month workshops for all staff at each school to learn how to create various assignments for students. Some of these are Nearpod, Flipgrid, Office365 Cloud Assignments-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, File upload-pictures, videos, class discussions online and through Microsoft Teams. So most assignments were sent and received through Canvas.  

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Our district purchased Canvas Learning Management System 3 years ago. Our ITS staff has completed once a month workshops for all staff at each school to learn how to create various assignments for students. Some of these are Nearpod, Flipgrid, Office365 Cloud Assignments-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, File upload-pictures, videos, class discussions online and through Microsoft Teams. So most assignments were sent and received through Canvas.  

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We have a Help Desk-Incident IQ for teachers and staff who need IT support with devices and/or ITS (instructional technology specialist) support. We added a location during Remote Learning for student device IT support. They fill in a ticket and it is sent to the correct person or team. 

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We have a Help Desk-Incident IQ for teachers and staff who need IT support with devices and/or ITS (instructional technology specialist) support. We added a location during Remote Learning for student device IT support. They fill in a ticket and it is sent to the correct person or team. 

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We checked out Kajeet Mobile HotSpots to families through each school's counseling services. We also noted on our district website any community opportunities available.

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We checked out Kajeet Mobile HotSpots to families through each school's counseling services. We also noted on our district website any community opportunities available.

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Parents picked up devices at their Ss campus or buses delivered the devices to the Ss home. They were checked out  using Follett.

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We use Google Classroom for our students 3rd thru 12th grades. For PreK thru 2nd grades we are using some online resources such as iReady, Learning A-Z, etc. as well as paper packets. 

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We use Google Classroom for our students 3rd thru 12th grades. For PreK thru 2nd grades we are using some online resources such as iReady, Learning A-Z, etc. as well as paper packets. 

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Students, parents and teacher complete a technology work order via an email address for their technology issue. The issue is assigned to a technician who reaches out via a phone call or TeamViewer to assist the end user. Due to number of Chromebooks and limited IT staff members, issues with Chromebooks are done via a swap for a loaner device. This is noted in our work order system. We will be deploying the remote access Chromebook extension next week to assist teachers that have issues with their district Chromebooks.

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Students, parents and teacher complete a technology work order via an email address for their technology issue. The issue is assigned to a technician who reaches out via a phone call or TeamViewer to assist the end user. Due to number of Chromebooks and limited IT staff members, issues with Chromebooks are done via a swap for a loaner device. This is noted in our work order system. We will be deploying the remote access Chromebook extension next week to assist teachers that have issues with their district Chromebooks.

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We deployed wifi hotspots from T-mobile for parents that answered a survey stating they did not have Internet access at home. 

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We deployed wifi hotspots from T-mobile for parents that answered a survey stating they did not have Internet access at home. 

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We have a district Chromebook agreement for parents in the middle and high school sign online within our SIS system. We have a 1:1, 6th thru 12 grade where 9th thru 12th take home Chromebooks and 6th thru 8th use Chromebooks that are stored in carts located in their homerooms. For the remote learning process, we printed out the application and any parent that picked up a device signed the form. This also applied for elementary students. The WiFi hotspots were also signed out by parents in the same fashion as the Chromebooks. 

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We have a district Chromebook agreement for parents in the middle and high school sign online within our SIS system. We have a 1:1, 6th thru 12 grade where 9th thru 12th take home Chromebooks and 6th thru 8th use Chromebooks that are stored in carts located in their homerooms. For the remote learning process, we printed out the application and any parent that picked up a device signed the form. This also applied for elementary students. The WiFi hotspots were also signed out by parents in the same fashion as the Chromebooks. 

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Parents picked up devices at the two middle schools. It was done via grade level and alphabetically on a daily basis. At the elementary levels it was combined and two pick up stations were created at two of the elementary schools.

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We are deploying mobile hotspots on our fleet of buses. These will be parked in strategic areas of the community and will route back through our filter.

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We have set up pick-up stations at various high schools in our area. Students/parents come at assigned times to pick up their devices.

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This experience made us re-think EdTech integration in the School, not only within the classes with the students, but also in administrative tasks.  I think is an opportunity to stretch our EdTech practices with the objective to transform educational scenarios for students to learn.

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We did a combination of school referral and parent application. At distribution each family adult recipient will sign an agreement of responsibility and the device is checked out in Destiny (same as our iPads) to the oldest child. Due date is the first week we are back in buildings.

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Every principal was required to create a virtual school (course) to use for their faculty meetings and communication. Our Ts are Ss and experiencing it. We allowed Ts to choose their own platform so not all went with the LMS, but each week more move over there.

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Keep the devices...it allows us to be flexible 

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Keep the devices...it allows us to be flexible 

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We were already moving in this direction and expanded our insurance coverage this school year from Aug-Sept 8. We are only collecting graduating senior devices.

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Plan to have parent/student/staff support available in the evening when essential workers or work from home parents are able to reach out. We have a planned rotation to help cover the evenings on certain days.

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Help is needed in this area. Band aids are being applied, but a more robust and comprehensive approach is needed moving forward.

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Kansas Educators have a Facebook page with 1000’s of subscribers supporting and offering tutorials, support and ideas!

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Some students that were not successful in traditional school are doing very well and getting things done quickly in order to follow personal passions such as coding.

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Counselors are doing podcasts and having special guests in for Zoom lunch and Learns. This week was a New York Times  best selling author and  an scientist that studies cat litter! Great new way for career exploration!  Also., creation of creative less than 3 minute videos in social skills.

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Why collect them ? Could the learning continue? Our district allows year long devices to be at home.

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ClassLink is a common platform with all applications students need. Single sign on so no need to remember passwords. Analytics are are kept for signing on and the applications being used.  Make it easy on families with  a one stop landing page.

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In Kansas we teamed with PBS and tv stations are rolling out classes produced by Kansas teachers.

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In Kansas we teamed with PBS and tv stations are rolling out classes produced by Kansas teachers.

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Make sure that teachers are allowed time to collaborate with their teaching teams to develop robust, cross-curricular lessons during the school week. In other words, you don’t necessarily have to make each day an ELearning day for kids. Instead, give them (students) time to work independently on those teacher planning days or work with their peers to collaborate on class projects together.  Also, make sure teachers are allowed to not load a ton of work on the kids during this time each day.  Students and parents are already stressed enough in these situations and loading a lot of busy work or extra work because they are afraid that students will plow through it in a heartbeat is just not practical.  Always remember that you are teaching students, not content.

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Opportunities to think outside of the box!

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Opportunities to think outside of the box!

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When we were piloting the concept of ELearning a few years ago in Illinois, we asked our teachers to think outside of the box when preparing lessons for their students to take advantage of their new “flexible” learning environments of learning at home or at a grandparents or caregivers house.  For example, baking cookies can provide for excellent problem based learning for both science and math.  Shoveling the snow on the front walk can provide for aerobic activity that can be documented for PE class. Using Zoom can provide an excellent feedback mechanism for peer review of musical instrument practice or speech therapy.  These ideas make lemonade when life hands you a lemon of a pandemic!

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Kajeet Mobile HotSpots for each student in a Family

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Kajeet Mobile HotSpots for each student in a Family

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We used Title 1 dollars to pay for about 200 Kajeet mobile hotspots to go to students of families that our principals pre-qualifies need for.  Since they are limited to 500MB per day, we felt it was important that each student in multi-sibling families have their own hotspot to make sure they had what they needed to connect to ELearning and complete their assignments. We’ve been doing that for the past 3 years for the entire school year, not just during snow days or pandemics!

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Teachers place links and resources on their e-Learning Page of their websites for students and parents to use as a springboard to school work and activities.  From their they are connected to Schoology, Google Classroom, and See-Saw classroom sites.

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We use a link we setup with BackChannelChat.com to host a real-time support chat for teachers and parents and students to ask for technical assistance during “school” hours that our techs and admin monitors.

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We organize channels with Departments and Areas.

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We created a Form inside a Team (Microsoft Teams).  Teachers complete the from when need some help from IT Department.

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We created a phone number hotline to help answer and address questions and concerns that people have. Our internal ticket system that was already in place handles any other issues.

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I think that there are many educators that have been introduced to digital learning by the way of remote learning. Educators are more willing to try and experience new concepts now because they have a new perspective.

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We luckily have digital learning experts with office hours for every campus plus a robust digital learning channel with many videos. url.lcisd.net/digitallearning

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This site is accessed with your LCP Google Account. Videos and features will work the best if accessed through the Chrome Browser.-

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We have had success with using Google Classroom as the hub of distribution for all work. Teachers have also built google sites and also recorded videos unlisted to YouTube.

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WFISD is looking at doing curbside drop off the last week of school and using that drop as their weekly checkin for attendance. 

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WFISD is looking at doing curbside drop off the last week of school and using that drop as their weekly checkin for attendance. 

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We have publicized the campuses that have wifi in the parking lots and stadiums. We have also deployed some wifi hotspots. We provided families with info for low to no cost internet connectivity.

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We have used our campus police officers to pick up devices that have been set up for students and deliver them. They have also picked up damaged devices.

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We have used a Google Form and also pointed families to our mobile device policy on our school website. We also used our mdm to put icons on the devices to guide learners and parents/guardians to the forms, best practices and policies.