#SUchat: Developing FutureReady Leaders – using data to inform digital initiatives
Wednesday, October 14 at 4 pm PT, 5 pm MT, 6 pm CT, 7 pm ET
Co-hosted by Julie Evans with several district leaders who are leveraging Speak Up data to inform their digital learning initiatives. Discussion will be around how to use stakeholder data specifically to engage your community, understand the needs of your stakeholders and advance your vision. Join the conversation by including the hashtag #SUchat.
Other hashtags to use include: #CE15, #FutureReady, #digitallearning
Discussion topic 1:
Stakeholder data: friend or foe? How do district leaders currently value the importance of student, teacher or parent ideas around the use of technology within learning? Are most districts deliberately seeking stakeholder data, and if so, for what purposes?
We have heard from some districts that at times their preference is “not to know” what their stakeholders’ want or value. Is that a common strategy?
What are ways that districts are collecting stakeholder data to inform their plans? Are those methods effective or efficient? Or what challenges do leaders face in collecting or using stakeholder data?
Discussion topic 2:
Using stakeholder data: What are some examples of how you have used stakeholder data from students, teachers or parents to advance your vision or to address the 7 gears of the Future Ready framework (http://dashboard.futurereadyschools.org/app/framework)?
What has worked well for you? What did not work for you?
Does stakeholder data address some of the Future Ready gears better than others? What ones are best? Professional learning, community partnerships maybe? Why is that?
Discussion topic 3:
Using Speak Up to collect and analyze stakeholder data: How does the Speak Up process help district leaders understand and appreciate the views of key stakeholders such as students, teachers, parents, administrators and community members? What are the benefits of using Speak Up to address these goals?
What have you learned from the Speak Up data that helped you advance your vision or address those Future Ready gears?
How are you planning on using stakeholder data this year to inform your digital learning plans?
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Last call for tomorrow’s webinar: Maximizing Your K-12 Communications to Support Student Success

Upcoming webinar: Maximizing Your K-12 Communications to Support Student Success

Today’s webinar: Digital Learning Trends Making an Impact on Student Engagement and Development
Last call for registration for today’s webinar with Blackboard! Join Julie Evans as she explores Speak Up 2014 data – more information below:
Don’t miss this month’s upcoming webinars with Blackboard!
Stay up to date with the most recent Speak Up data by saving your spot for Julie Evans’s webinars with Blackboard – with one coming up this Monday! Learn how you can save your spot below:
Webinar with Blackboard: Digital Learning Trends Making an Impact on Student Engagement and Development
This Friday is your last chance to pick our panel for SXSWedu 2016!
There are only THREE days left to pick our panel for SXSWedu! Get your votes in before time runs out!
Julie Evans is featured in a proposal for SXSWedu 2016’s panel picker,where educators can cast their votes for the most compelling ideas and ultimately shape the conference line-up. Voting ends on this Friday, September 4th so make sure to give our sessions a “thumbs up” – you’ll need to create a SXSW username and password if you don’t already have one, but the process is simple and free! Check out the session information below:
Pink or Blue? Examining gender in games
Contrary to what we may want to believe, emerging research indicates that use of digital tools and content within learning is not gender-blind. While girls and boys share a common interest in technology to support personalized learning, their uses of and aspirations for digital learning are often quite different. This is especially true with game-based learning. In this workshop, we will roll up our sleeves and interact with a variety of games that are popular in education. Using a new evaluation tool, participants will gain an insider perspective on gender-bias or sensitivity within games by examining the characterization, imagery and language, storyline and results of the game play.
Additional Supporting Materials
http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/Guide_EvaluatingGender-Sensitivity_DigitalGames.pdf
Questions Answered
- Learn background and terminology associated with the emerging field of gender-sensitivity in digital learning, most notably in digital content & games
- Gain first-hand experience in determining the gender-sensitivity of specific types of games through the use of a new evaluation tool and game play
- Understand the importance and impact of gender-sensitivity when designing, implementing and evaluating games for K-12 education
Did you miss Tuesday’s webinar: Technology, Training, and Teaming to Ensure Great Teaching for All Students?
If so, our friends at Alliance for Excellent Education have the webinar available “on demand” on their website! Click here to watch Technology, Training, and Teaming to Ensure Great Teaching for All Students from Alliance for Excellent Education and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF), featuring our CEO Julie Evans and Matthew Baker from Manheim Central Middle School (PA) and Pennsylvania’s Keystones to Opportunity Literacy Initiative.
If interested, you can also download Julie’s presentation from the event – click here or click on the image below.
FREE webinar tomorrow: Technology, Training and Teaming to Ensure Great Teaching for All Students
Don’t forget – tomorrow is Julie Evans’s free webinar with the Alliance for Excellent Education and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future! Plan to take part in this special event about technology and teacher training – see below for more information.
Registration required
Pick Your Panels: Vote Us Onto the Official SXSWedu 2016 Line-Up
We need your help! Julie Evans is featured in a proposal for SXSWedu 2016’s panel picker,where educators can cast their votes for the most compelling ideas and ultimately shape the conference line-up. Voting ends on September 4th so make sure to give our sessions a “thumbs up” – you’ll need to create a SXSW username and password if you don’t already have one, but the process is simple and free! Check out the session information below:
Pink or Blue? Examining gender in games
Contrary to what we may want to believe, emerging research indicates that use of digital tools and content within learning is not gender-blind. While girls and boys share a common interest in technology to support personalized learning, their uses of and aspirations for digital learning are often quite different. This is especially true with game-based learning. In this workshop, we will roll up our sleeves and interact with a variety of games that are popular in education. Using a new evaluation tool, participants will gain an insider perspective on gender-bias or sensitivity within games by examining the characterization, imagery and language, storyline and results of the game play.
Additional Supporting Materials
http://www.tomorrow.org/docs/Guide_EvaluatingGender-Sensitivity_DigitalGames.pdf
Questions Answered
- Learn background and terminology associated with the emerging field of gender-sensitivity in digital learning, most notably in digital content & games
- Gain first-hand experience in determining the gender-sensitivity of specific types of games through the use of a new evaluation tool and game play
- Understand the importance and impact of gender-sensitivity when designing, implementing and evaluating games for K-12 education