Allentown Leader Summit WOWs and WONDERS by VILS Team

Welcome to Our WOWs and Wonders!

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AT: Session 1 Table Reflection - Reimagine a Future/Leadership Characteristics, Skills, Actions.

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Processing: What would a student need to be successful for their future?

Grounded in research, making connections to what we have already done, be vulnerable to be open to the possibilities

Collaboration on the known and unknown

Releveant to the students, student voice

Panel WOWs: AT

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Lead with Empathy, Trust, Feedback loops during this Design Thinking opportunity to build an integrated implemenation into the CORE district and school goals that enhances; Buy in with teachers: 1:1 meetings to discuss the integration, purpose, benefits, teacher student role; Remove operational barriers to ensure it is not addtional work; Distirct and School Collaboration

Know Your Role: AT Notes/Ideas

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Table Discussion Notes: Principal- Assess where our teachers and students are at, help them understand the vision, and how it connects

Share the load
Lead by example
Effective communiucation for staff
Integrated/not just another thing

Image shows the supports you receive from our DIgital Promise team to support your role.

Teacher Onboarding Purpose: What, Why, How: Buy-in, spur curiosity and innovation

Intro to VILS - School or VILS Led
Self-guided Async
Professional Learning Survey

Coach Records: AT

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How are coaches keeping records?

Inventory, Coaching support, Tech Team plans, Teacher Leader Corps documentatoipn

Barriers to Signing AUP and Parent Communication: AT

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What is our district/school protocol/procedure to get parents to sign the AUP that includes Insurance/Fees before they get the device? How do we approach families when they do not want to sign? What will this look like at the launch event?

Leader Summitt Digital Handout

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AT Reflection Learning Walks

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Noticed the well designed tech teams with a clean structure and integrated; policies, procedures and student expectations.

Wondering if students can be more integrated into those processes through a student tech team.

AT Reflection: Infinity

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There was evidence of powerful learning propelled by Technology. Each class used a technology tool to complete a task grounded in another content. The tasks required collaboration and self-directed learning. The technology enabled engagement in real world experiences.

AT Refleciton

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Lake View

Science simulations with collaboration follow previous active labs

World Language use of Pear Deck for monitoring and interactive lessons

Computer science where students create game with choice, application and self-guided through LMS resrouces

AT Refleciton

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Student tech swap visible and in common areas versus “off to the side”.

AR Reflection: Student Tech Team

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Structured and organized student tech team, they were fixing the chromebooks very fast, services: battery replacement, screen and keyboard replacement, antivirus and application services. Students were orienting the students for becoming new tech crew

AT: What do we takeaway

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Teacher practice and monitor students

Teachers as faciltiators of learning

SOI and teacher partnership with focus on pedagogy as foudnation and Integration of Tech as collaborative focus toward outcomes and student passions

Students inspired, interconnectedness between content and learning, integration of the device to enhance the rigor of the lesson, student being able to say this resonates with me and this is how I am going to apply, application of learning within their outcomes and using technology, skills needed for state assessment integrated into the core and pasion projects and the device as catalyst/bridge of learning the content; consum er vs creator

Flexiblie learning LX peagagy supporting growth contium from entry and morphs into technology transformation/full application (working toward how this trasnlates how they show it on formal writing, techniocal writing, demystifying formats/exams and beyond)

Focus on what is the experience for the teacher and what is the experience for the student

AT words or phrases

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M: Excitement with anxiety

B: Hopeful

J: Excited and Inspired

K: Challenged in a good way

JD: Transformation interconnectedness

A: Questions

P6 Leader Summit Main Links and Resources

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AT-Orange SD Reflection

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Coaches are the glue to the success of the program. School leader aligning vision, collabroative culture... Coach and teacher collab impacts what happens in the classroom. Choosing the right coach is critical.

Student lens: If we can equip students with the tools they can thrive; It is the experience we provide the students make the difference.

DRAFT Powerful Learning Goal [TAPS]

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By May 30 2026, 80% of students will report that they have meaningful opportunities to use technology in meaningful, personalized ways that support their learning goals.