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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

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Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators.

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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. Join the Community.

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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. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

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The presenters offer constant professional development and feedback so that they can help their staff make protecting student data second nature. One suggestion was having video training available during the summer so that staff can do more extensive learning on their own time. Join the Community.

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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.