Technology Forward Initiative St. Mary Parish School

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Technology Forward Initiative St. Mary Parish
School
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Create a LEGACY BEYOND YOUR YEARS and a FUTURE
BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATIONS!
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Todays Challenge

• Few schools have fully-integrated,
• technology-forward learning
• environments.
• Students using technology at home,
• disconnect when at school
• Parents need monitoring tools that
• technology provides

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Todays students learn differently
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• Tools engage and motivate todays learners. With
  digital movies, music, and photography in the
  classroom, amazing things can happen. Engaged
  through the tools of their generation, students
  are more motivated to learn, feel a stronger
  connection to the subject matter, and spend more
  time on task.

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Students need 21st Century tools to stay
competitive
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Parents need a way to stay connected to the
school and their childs progress.

• St Mary offers
• Up to date student progress via WebGrader
• Parent/teacher communications via teachers
  individual websites

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Webgrader allows you continuous monitoring of
student performance
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• Teachers communicate class calendars, and
  messages via their own webpages!
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• St Mary Parish school stays connected
• to the community via local blogs

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• St. Mary has a commitment to help keep you and
  your child engrossed in current technology.
• To do this, we need a plan
• Enter

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Technology Forward
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The Technology Forward Team

• In the spring of 2008, a new team of volunteers
  was formed to evaluate the technological needs of
  our school.
• Their function was, and continues to be, creating
  technology plans, searching out funding through
  grants and donors, and making sure St. Mary
  offers the latest and greatest in technology for
  our students.

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One of these goals is to

• Create a 1 to 1 learning environment at St. Mary
  Parish School, where students and teachers have
  24/7 access to notebook computers, digital
  content, educational software, and digital
  authoring tools.

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Apple 1-to-1 learning has been selected as a tool
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Interactive SMARTBoards will also be used at all
grade levels
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How we plan to achieve this goal
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ACHIEVE
EXPAND TOUCH POINTS Issue Laptops Class SmartBoard
MAXIMIZE COVERAGE MINIMIZE START-UP COSTS Mobile
Learning Lab SmartBoard Technology
BUILD THE FOUNDATION Research and
Implement Wireless Network Infrastructure
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Long-term vision

• Issue every middle-school student a laptop
  computer upon entering 6th grade, thereby
  engaging todays students in ways that match how
  they best learn and interact in todays world.
  Make Mobile Learning Labs available to grades
  Kindergarten through Fifth to integrate
  technology in their classrooms as well.

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Near-term action

• For the 20082009 School Year establish a
  wireless network infrastructure and implement
  interactive SmartBoard technology to immediately
  engage a maximum number of students with minimal
  up-front investment.

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How we funded our Phase I plan

• A music grant from the Beihoff Fund
• A very generous Visionary Gift from local
  author, and St Mary Alumni, John Schilling

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About Mr John Schilling

• The school, run by Franciscan sisters, was
  known for its rigorous curriculum, and strict
  adherence to Catholic Religious Teachings. That
  upbringing at home and at school taught me to
  respect others, be honest, and strive to live
  with integrity. Taken from his book Undercover
  How I Went from Company Man to FBI Spy and
  Exposed the Worst Healthcare Fraud in US History,
  author and alum John Schilling recounted his days
  at St. Mary School as pivotal in forming his
  ability to do the right thing! These teachings
  and upbringing provided John the courage and
  fortitude to turn in his employer for fraud, go
  through agonizing years in the court system, and
  deal with the stress of raising a family in the
  midst of this chaos.

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Our new technology in action
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Distribution of MacBooks to upper grade staff, to
help them become familiar before deploying Apple
1to1 Learning
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Apple iLife training was provided for staff
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5 SMARTBoards were installed
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Building SMART into the curriculum is simple and
fun
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Students love when it istheir turn
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Look at this class Participation!
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The 5th Graders have a geography lesson
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SMART provides an ever-changing set of tools
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Students are timed on their knowledge of the
states
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Students watch live stream of presidential
inauguration
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Moments captured live
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The music room gets MacBooks for Garage Band
and a midi keyboard for composing.
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Mrs Makal spearheads technology in the Fine Arts
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The Science Lab receives a new Pro-Scope CSI and
SMARTBoard
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Discoveries, inventions and breakthroughs
unimagined today might very well be sparked with
the help of St Mary and Technology Forward.
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Coming Summer 2009

• Installation of 6 more SMARTBoards
• SMART training for entire faculty
• Purchase of Senteo Interactive Response System.
  This system will provide teachers with real-time,
  on-the-fly student assessment data to help ensure
  content mastery.

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A huge Thank you to Mr John Schilling,to the
Beihoff Music Fund,The Technology Forward team,
And our staff of wonderful teachers who grasp
the technology, learn it, and in turn teach our
students