Long International Middle School Teacher Digital Learning Guide 2022-2023 The most valuable resource teachers have is each other, without collaboration, our growth is limited to our own perspective.

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Long International Middle School Technology Handbook, 2022-2023 Table of Contents Vision Statement................................................................................................................. Introduction........................................................................................................................... SMARTIE GOALS 2022/2023……………………………………………………………. Access, Digital Citizenship & Safety, and Privacy & Security ........................................... 1. ADDRESSING ACCESS........................................................................................ 2. TEACHING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP & SAFETY............................................. 3. ENSURING PRIVACY & SECURITY ............................................................... Personalize Learning for Students....................................................................................... 1. EMPOWERING THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNER............................................... 2. FOSTERING STUDENT NGAGEMENT............................................................ 3. DEVELOPING AGENCY AND SELF-DIRECTED DIGITAL LEARNING..... 4. OPTIMIZING ASSESSMENTS USING DIGITAL LEARNING....................... Collaborate with Parents and Families to Support Students ............................................... 1. COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS FAMILIES............................................ 2. SETTING EXPECTATIONS AND SUPPORT FOR STUDENT PARTICIPATION 3. SUPPORTING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS ............ Teacher Professional Learning and Well-being ...................................................................

Long International Middle School Technology Handbook, 2022-2023 INTRODUCTION Digital learning and its supportive technology can help you as a teacher advance learning, mitigate learning loss, and create opportunities for social and emotional engagement. These benefits are possible when you and your students are in the classroom and when you are teaching students who are learning at home. To achieve these goals, access to devices and the internet must be available for you and all your students, and digital learning should be as nimble and accountable as possible. When school buildings closed across the country in the spring of 2020, there were varying approaches and levels of success in transitioning from an in-person classroom to a remote learning environment. Due to Verizon Innovative Learning, Long Middle School was able to ensure all students had access to technology and more options for staying connected and supporting students, parents, and families. In order to achieve the promise of digital learning, each of our students (and you!) need access to a device, the internet, digital tools and resources, and the skills, norms, and practices to ensure digital learning is empowering, engaging, and productive. While the pandemic has been challenging and uncertain, it has also provided an opportunity to rethink our approach to education and strengthen the partnership among parents, families, teachers, and leaders to best serve our nation’s students. Technology can help you achieve a myriad of teaching, learning, and assessment goals regardless of the educational environment in which you find yourself, whether virtual, fully in-person, a hybrid of the two, or an alternative approach, such as pandemic pods or micro schools. This guide will help you understand how to use technology to support our four key goals: 1. Access, Digital Citizenship & Safety, and Privacy & Security: Empowering students with the mindsets and skills needed to responsibly use devices and meaningfully, safely, and securely engage in digital learning. 2. Personalize Learning for Students: Meeting individual students’ needs through personalized learning. 3. Collaborate with Parents and Families to Support Students: Engaging parents as full partners in their child’s success and connect with students in a virtual, hybrid, or in-person learning environment. 4. Teacher Professional Learning and Well-Being: Building pathways to continually learn and refine strategies for using technology to its fullest potential. In each section, you will find tips, resources, and questions to help you make the best use of technology to support students and learn new skills to add to the timeless educator attributes of creativity, caring for students, and ensuring love of learning. SMARTIE GOALS

Long International Middle School Technology Handbook, 2022-2023 GOAL 1: By the end of the 2022/2023 school year, 100% of teachers will improve explicit vocabulary instruction supported by technology measured by aggressive monitoring. Teachers will dedicate a portion of lesson time in each content area to: (1) word study, (2) repeated exposure to new words in multiple oral and written contexts, and (3) providing students with strategies to make them independent vocabulary learners. ▪ We will teach root & affixes (prefixes, suffixes) to all students during all classes. ▪ We will incorporate technology to increase interest in learning new vocabulary words. ▪ We will explicitly teach tier II academic vocabulary through minilessons (of 5 to 15 minutes each). ▪ We will participate in weekly PLC & data team meetings to discuss student progress based on CFA & STAR (when appropriate). GOAL 2: For the 2022/2023 school year, 100% of our students will make measurable growth in reading. Each student will improve in fluency, comprehension level, and vocabulary knowledge as measured by STAR and MAP assessments. At least 80% of students will move up one performance level. ▪ Students will use new vocabulary words in speech, writing, and during reading no less than 10-15 times per cycle. ▪ Students will increase their independent reading by 3 or more books within this school year. ▪ Students will participate in 60 minutes of Success Maker (tier III intervention) each week. Goal 3: For the 2022/2023 school year, 100% of our students will improve their ability in mathematics to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. All students will make measurable growth identified by the STAR assessment. 80% of students will move up at least one performance level on the end-of-the-year MAP assessment. ▪ Students will participate in 60 minutes of ST Math per week. ▪ Students will engage in discussions of the mathematical purpose and goals related to their current work in the mathematics classroom (e.g., What are we learning? Why are we learning it?). ▪ Students will assess and monitoring their own understanding and progress toward the mathematics learning goals. Goal 4: By the end of the 2022/2023 school year 100% of educators will identify, prioritize, and incorporate the use of technology to achieve learning objectives in all disciplines within the schools’ curriculum measured through observations, TTS survey, Lesson Plans, and exit tickets. ▪ Educators will explore, identify, and integrate technology -enhanced activities to achieve learning objectives within their respective disciplines.

Long International Middle School Technology Handbook, 2022-2023 ▪ Educators will share successful integration practices with colleagues via PLC and PD.

Long International Middle School Technology Handbook, 2022-2023 ACCESS, DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP & SAFETY, AND PRIVACY & SECURITY 1. ADDRESSING ACCESS 2. TEACHING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP & SAFETY