Investigate your district’s mission statement and policies around technology and 21st century learning? What is it? It’s an all-encompassing or does it need a gentle nudge from you? Analyze and comment.
The district’s mission statement is “Transforming lives by instilling and inspiring lifelong learning in every student.” (I think this is the mission statement. I had a hard time finding all of this.) I know the district is working through some rebranding right now so I wonder if they are still working on completing a full mission statement. NVUSD has a 1to1 device policy for all middle and high school students. Also, 21st century skills are at the heart of most everything. The website does have a page for technology, https://www.nvusd.org/tech, and right now they have all the necessary information for families to deal with technology during distance learning. My big I Wonder, is how was this section changed once we found ourselves involved with distance learning. I did see on Melissa’s blog that there used to be lots of other information up on the website about technology and 21st century skills. I think our current atmosphere has changed what information is available. At https://www.nvusd.org/about there is a lot of information in there about the strategic plan and in the strategic plan it often mentions how the different plans are connected to the 21st century skills. I do believe that it is all-encompassing at this point. I know that the district leaders are connecting their goals to 21st century skills and ensuring that students leave the district with these skills. Where I can help is the how we get this done. What a lot of the district has are all ideas, but no specifics. As a school leader I have the opportunity to work with teachers on finding the best “hows” that truly work in practice and not just theory.
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Shawna Hoxsie
7/11/2020 04:11:44 pm
I wonder that as well. And I wonder how the use of technology and teachers hesitation will change once the pandemic is over.
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