Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Priorities
Deepen the commitment of students, teachers, parents, and administrators to the best uses of
technology in teaching and learning
• Establish mechanisms and allocate time to share and discuss the role of technology in
the academic program and particularly in student learning: consider what we're doing
and what we need to be doing
• Ensure that hiring, professional development, curriculum, and evaluation reflect the
important role of technology in education
• Accommodate and foster the use of technology to enrich extracurricular and athletic
experiences
Develop forward-thinking curriculum that includes contemporary (21st century) literacies
• Increase understanding of the academic environment and its interface with technology
by all members of the technology department
• Create redundancy in roles to ensure timely, effective support is always available
• Perform an annual audit of the efficiency and efficacy of applications and processes that
support the academic program
II. Using technology as a catalyst/accelerator for student centered learning
• Identify pre-existing student skills and help build a well-rounded student technology
toolkit which can be used where relevant in learning
• Leverage students’ eagerness, comfort and fluency with non-Academic uses of
technology in the service of their own learning
• Lead students to understand and exercise executive function, digital citizenship, and
ethical use of technology
Partner teachers and students in learning to facilitate a pedagogical shift in the role of teachers
• Increase access to human and technological resources beyond the typical school day
• Provide formal and informal online/distance education opportunities
• Employ virtual worlds as venues for collaboration and exploration
Integrate the work of the library and technology
Build teacher investment in ongoing learning about technology, emerging strategies, research
on learning, and contemporary curriculum