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Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Districts

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Anyone who collects or has access to students’ personal information needs training and resources on how to use student data securely, effectively, legally, and ethically in keeping with district policies and requirements. Data privacy training should not be a checkbox at the beginning of the school year.

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Prioritizing Diversity and Equity in Technology

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Connecting their responsibilities to the organization’s strategic direction and providing training and support to ensure everyone knows what they are doing regarding equity, inclusion, and diversity is essential to students’ success in and out of school. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives.

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5 Critical Guidelines for Student Data Privacy

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Both presenters said their districts offer a variety of training programs from in-person to online compliance courses to self-guided training. Finally, remember that training is resource intensive. It requires considerable effort to coordinate, especially when you are training students and families as well as educators.

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Are You Prepared for the Next Cyber Attack?

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The training needs to be ongoing—especially because states are constantly adding and updating the requirements. Provide continuous training for teachers, staff, students—anyone associated with the school. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives. However, a quick session during an in-service isn’t enough.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

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Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators. Allison is a member of the Wake County Public School System’s Digital Learning & Libraries team where she serves as their senior director.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

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One suggestion was having video training available during the summer so that staff can do more extensive learning on their own time. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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Taking Districts’ Technology Integration to the Next Level

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Mary Wegner, former Superintendent of the Sitka School District (AK), described a process used to achieve this goal by providing professional development for educators and training for the IT staff, as well as having tech implementation committees that were led by teachers so the end-users’ needs were articulated and prioritized from the start.