1+Leadership

= = TCEO acknowledging the financial and other support received from the Commonwealth. Our secondary schools have been fully funded to achieve 1:1 by Deember 2010 and sustain this ratio until the end of 2013.

=2013 Achievements in "Leadership"=
 * Brainstorm Session (9th October 2009. Assume it's 2013. What do we expect to see?)**

**Assumptions:** We will have a fiber connection to the WAN; a symmetric Internet service; access to Video Conferencing(VC). **Vision Statement:** By the end of 2013, our vision for 21st Century Learning is.....  Click to see larger view of vision.

We will achieve this vision by implementing the following strategies in the "leadership" domain. Establish a "Futures Task Force" with representation from all stakeholders to explore and oversee.... To this end, we are trialling the Google Apps suite ||= the introduction of Video Conferencing as a means of delivering services. We can collaborate with other schools to share teaching staff and offer more subject choice. Our secondary colleges will have 10Mb/10Mb fibre by June 2010. We have settled on the Tandberg platform and have budgeted to purchase these devices. ||= the integration of connected classrooms and students with devices to the existing behaviour management processes within the school. ||
 * = All Executive Leadership Team members, principals and a selection of other school staff are engaged in a one on one exploration of how ICTs can change the way they do business. This PD will make them familiar with: desktop chat, video chat, full blown video conferencing; Blogs, Wikis and shared documents. It leave them confident with teleconferencing; video conferencing; paperless meetings and the range of online communication and collaboration options available to our staff and students. ||= the selection of a set of Web 2 tools (as the basics) that will allow staff and students to use ICTs to: create; collaborate; inquire and communicate. Provide the necessary opportunities for staff to become confident with this set of tools.To this end, we are trialling the Google Apps suite including Chat and video chat. ||= educate the community about the opportunities and threats posed by constant access to technology. Engage them in the process of designing acceptable use policies for the use of connected devices. ||
 * = the shift to cloud computing. This reduces the need for infrastructure in the school and allows groups of schools to share the cost of infrastructure and support for services such as: mail; filtering; file access; portal and associated portal services access; etc
 * = set classrooms up to deal with the injection of ICTs. Access to power points (or battery recharge facilities); high data throughput wireless access points; smartboards; dataprojectors;... ||= an ICT strategy that brings good teaching and good teachers to the surface, rather than one that alienates experience and wisdom in favour of all things new. ||= community forums to discuss the shift from didactic teaching approaches to ones that place a greater expectation for students to be active participants in the making of meaning. ||
 * = the deployment of classroom management software such as NetOp or Heu Campus which allows teachers to: see (on one screen) what is on all student devices; send messages to all students to return to class; lock student screens; push one person's screen out to all other students; block internet access to all but sites in a white list; etc..We have settled on HeuCampus. The installation underway across the diocese. ||= the introduction of "Google" as an acceptable resource during exams...It would transform the nature of pedagogy. Emphasising the delivery of content and its recall during exams will soon be a thing of the past. ||= a strategy to support the extra devices with minimal expenditure on extra staffing.... This may require a rethink of what is a teacher's role, the technician's role, the student's role...eg. there may be an expectation that students are able to rebuild their own laptops to new again via a rebuild partition on their device without the need for a tech to intervene. Similarly, students may be given the series of steps required to register a warranty claim on their own device. ||

Please add to this list but do not delete from it. As schools, each of you have a range of approaches to deal with 1:1 and the variables at your disposal will enable certain strategies and philosophies and make others unmanagable.