Winter+Leadership+Institute+2010

=**//Looking Ahead...NCDPI's ACRE Initiative and RttT //**= ====**//Angela Quick, Deputy Chief Academic Office, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction //**====

This session will include information on the Accountability and Curriculum Reform Effort (ACRE), how Race to the Top (RttT) will contribute to that work, and provide an overview on how technology is a critical success factor for both ACRE and RttT.


 * Moving from old mode of standardized testing to developing new mode of testing (STANDARDS)
 * Introduced NC Falcon for Formative Assessment (ASSESSMENT)
 * New Accountability Model (Tracking students' progress over 3 years) (ACCOUNTABILITY)


 * Working on toolkits for schools to help parents keep track of students' progress
 * Committees formed to go around to schools across NC to gather information
 * Instructional Technology and Infrastructure Inititiatives

= **//Revving Up District Leadership to Support 21st Century Teaching & Learning//** = ==// Dr. Ann Davis, Clinical Assistant Professor & Support Coach, UNC-G, The Friday Institute //==

Overview
Current research clearly states that central office transformation cannot be simply a restructuring strategy but must be a new approach to central office work. The interface between district and school is the crux of central office transformation (Honig, April 2010). District leaders will consider the current state of the relationship between central office and schools, and ask how—and how regularly—central office staff ask or assess what kinds of supports schools could benefit from, what supports they actually receive, and how those supports address expressed needs at the school level. Districts have the power and specific responsibility to support 21st century teaching and learning. The issue facing them is how to use their positions of authority to develop and support practices that improve student learning. Economic pressure and demand for better results are forcing districts to change the way business is done. To do so successfully, districts must invest in new ways of working, and that will require revamping existing strategies and dismantling old cost structures. Districts have two choices — do less with less, or take dramatic steps to create a transformed system that generates better results.

Participants will explore current district practices through participation in a District Transformational Leadership Inventory. The following key questions will be considered.
 * Are we adequately investing in our people within the central office to forge the kinds of new school partnership relationships that seem fundamental to districtwide learning improvements?
 * Are we reinforcing those partnership relationships with new work structures and accountability systems that promise to seed and grow learning improvements?
 * Are we providing our central office administrators with the resources and freedom to invent new ways of participating in learning support?
 * Are we engaged in strategic partnerships with external organizations, not only to provide knowledge and other resources to schools, but also to bolster the work of central office reinvention?





=//Leveraging the North Carolina Education Cloud//= //**Neill Kimrey, Director, Instructional Technology Division, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction**// In this presentation, NC Education Cloud Leadership will give a history of the shared services and cloud movement in NC, provide an overview of how Race to the Top (RttT) will be a prominent part of the NC Education Cloud Initiative, and begin a "deeper dive" into what this means for instruction in our state's districts and schools.



@https://www.mcnc.org/

@http://it.ncwiseowl.org/resources/RTTT_Cloud/

=//PLANNING WITH SUSTAINABILITY IN MIND//=

//Dr. Terri Mosley, Assistant Superintendent, Surry County Schools//
==//Pat Widdowson, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, Surry County Schools//== ==//Jill Reinhardt Director of Instructional Technology, Media and CTE, Surry County Schools//== =Overview= Surry County Schools will share their long-range plan for integrating technology K-12. This plan includes 1:1 laptops for grades 6-12, 1:1 computing via mobile carts in grades Pre-K-5; laptops and professional development and support for teachers; infrastructure updates; and funding sources.

( [|Planning for Sustainability.docx])
 * Share your thoughts ** : [|Planning with Sustainability in Mind] (Google Doc)
 * What is sustainability?
 * Where are you? Use planning sheet.
 * What can be reallocated? Resources, personnel, facilities?
 * See Master Plan ([])