Welcome. This session is designed to show the impact technology
can have on schools, communicate communities and
administrators. Your presenters today are from the innovative learning
department at Broward County Public Schools under the direction of DR.
Darrell Diamond, innovative learning guides. Our district, the
technology inflammation, gifted and talented services and library
media. In short, our department focuses on the
applications and services that are not standards based
but are integral to the ongoing learning gains of our students
across the district. Please feel free to put any questions in the
chat and we will answer them throughout the presentation and we have
also set aside time for Q and a built into the end of the
session.
Broward County public schools is the sixth largest district in the
United States and the second largest district in Florida. We have
241 public schools, 60 for charters and
100,000 adult learners. Our diverse
population represents 177 countries,
151 languages and more than a quarter million
students. This section
of the presentation will focus on the use of an LMS and its benefits to the
district and administrators, as well as the
interoperability of student education plants and
accommodations app, which we call the CPAP
SEPA was initiated by Broward County public schools to meld a variety
of service applications for easy access to teachers for
differentiation and compliance, incorporating
emfs global technology standards. This integration allows
schools and district administration the opportunity to look at analytics
and student achievement accommodations and compliance, as
well as publication of district approved content.
When our chief academic officer came to our district about 10 years ago, he found
that each school within our system was using their funds to sponsor
a wide variety of learning management systems. In fact, some
schools had a different LMS for each grade level based on t shirt
choice or there was no unification within the school and teachers
were buying services on their own knowing that we are a transient
dicked district, with many students bouncing from school to
school and looking for a K through 12 continuum. Our
district set out to have one LMS that was used throughout the
county. This not only would increase the equity across the
district, it would also allow the office of academics to produce and
distribute content in a format that was to be used by
any teacher inside Broward county public schools.
This allowed the district to publish materials that teachers could import into
their roster courses. Pd materials are presented and
archived in the LMS and teachers retain access to their
past enrollments so they can copy content from semester to
semester or year to year canvas. The
LMS used by our district also includes an internal
email account for every student, which improves communication
between teacher and students. This move actually helped
the district prepare and transform for remote learning as the
district closed its doors for COVID-19 Quarantine
at the time. A week before our spring break. In 2020
58% of teachers for using the LMS on a
regular basis within two weeks and a lot of spring
break webinars, 99% of teachers were
actively using our LMS for district for distance
learning. Now that we are in a hybrid model, we continue
to have that high rate of participation even as students have returned
to the classroom and face to face instruction.
From an administrative point of view, the LMS gives
access for administrators to walk in one door
and see teaching and learning that is going on in any classroom
in the district. The LMS also enables the district or school
leaders to push out global announcements, monitor teacher and student
participation, create discussions and surveys across the
district. For instance, the need for a global citizen course
during quarantine that included online etiquette was
pushed out through the LMS. The district also has been able to
administer our Broward standards assessment, which is a practice
test for the statewide end of course exams so that teachers can
determine how to focus their instruction. For the second semester,
students were able to take the B. S. A. On their personal devices with the
use of land school to assure fidelity of the test.
The district pushes out course files for rostered courses that sink
to R. S. I. S. However, teachers and administrators can
also create their own courses and invites students, faculty,
parents or community stakeholders for PLC. S. Clubs,
community and school announcements or resources.
The administrative badge inside the LMS allows the
district and school leaders to jump into any course to see what's being
assigned and for teacher collaboration. The LMS
can also give analytics that shows student progress on district
wide tests and acknowledgement of announcements by faculty
students and parents.
The LMS also allows the district published lessons modules and
complete courses which can be downloaded by teachers
directly into their rostered classes. This provides more
equity across the district in terms of resources and it's a great aid
two new teachers who are just learning their content as well as
veteran teachers who are learning how to integrate new technology into
their lesson plans. This enables admin to see how
struggling or new teachers are progressing in their lesson plan, development
and differentiation needed on student success or
lack thereof. They can also highlight those shining
stars who are integrating I. M. S. Global strategies so that they can
be used by other teachers and parallel courses. I. M. S.
Is the global consortium of instructional management systems
focusing on Edtech and interoperability
expectations between education technology
resources. While there are over 150,000
modules and courses available in our common space, teachers
can choose Broward approved curriculum and filter their search by
course, grade level or topic.
Ed plan is the application our district uses for I. E. P. And
E. P. Management and compliance
for I. P. S. And E. P. S. Only those teachers who are providing
services have access to create or update documents within the system,
although all teachers can view compliance documents for the students they
teach. We have also expanded our use of Ed plan for
threat assessments. This way every teacher has access to their
student files and can incorporate their observations during the threat
assessment process. We use the same system across the
district with our public and charter schools so services can follow a
student should they change locations. The interoperability of
Ed plan with programs like Excel if I. And elevation
also helps to assure for accurate billing for accommodations and
services provided by the district.
Even as the district moved to the LMS and made eggplant
available to all instructors, we found that there was still a disconnect
between student services and teacher awareness. A teacher would have
to access a variety of applications to find out which students may have an
EPIEP or 504 plan.
Then they'd have to access another application to find out which disability
health issues or s. All strategies are assigned for that student.
We heard concerns from parents that the teachers didn't even know that a
child had accommodations much less. We're offering those services
to their child. While we could point fingers or delve
into the responsibilities of different positions inside the county or an
individual school. We recognize that we needed an easier way for
our stakeholders to first be aware of student participation in
varied programs and then an even easier way for them to access the
detailed accommodations or services inside their
classroom.
Voila, the SEPA app, the SEPA app, which
stands for student education plans and accommodations, was
created for the district by PCG public consulting
group to link the large variety of applications we use for
students with disabilities, home healthcare, E L.
L. S, all and gifted. The SEPA app
integrates the information from each of our apps and displays that
participation in the teacher's grade book. So any teacher using
the LMS has a one stop shop to find out which students are
participating in which programs. The app also
updates every 24 hours along with our school information
system. So if a student is identified as gifted or has
entered into our T. I, the teacher will know that the next time they go
into their grade book,
as you can see on the slide by the red arrow, a participation
code shows up next to the student's name in the grade book, A teacher can
click on the code to get access to the documentation that supports
participation. So axl if I can explain a student
cll status or ed plan will show the latest I. E p.
That interoperability between programs also assures that the
district can build appropriately for I D. E a monies and Medicare.
That's not even the most exciting part of this application. As you can
see in the bottom picture, a menu appears for teachers whenever they
are creating an assignment, whether it's a discussion, a quiz, A
Q and A. The teacher can click on a participation code,
see which students need an accommodation. They can make that
accommodation and documented in the LMS as they are creating their
lessons. So if a student gets time and a half, they can build that
directly into the assignment. Since students only see
their assigned work, the rest of the class does not know who has
reduced workload or extended time. This way, everyone
is working on the same topics at their ability level but can still
come together seamlessly for class discussions.
Whether the teacher is looking at accommodations first or individual
students, they can implement the strategy is needed to meet compliance.
But more importantly, use the strategies for student success.
Since the teachers are documenting the differentiation as they create
lessons, the teachers can also use their course files as their lesson
plans to turn into administration rather than a separate
document with some checked boxes or scribbled acronyms. These
lesson plans actually show the difference between Janet
students assignment and they were given to a student who has accommodations
from an administrative point of view. If there is a complaint or the need to follow
due process, admin can jump into a course and look at
specific assignments to ensure that strategies and accommodations are
being implemented
utilizing I AM S Global Technology Standards. The office of
academics in Broward was able to negotiate the incorporation
of multiple applications and bring them all into one integrated
space to increase teacher awareness, ensure that
accommodations and strategies are implemented and of course
documented to show compliance. The SEPA app now
available from PCG for use with multiple LMS
programs, increases the interoperability of our digital
applications to change the way we teach and how learning unfolds for
our stakeholders. Yes,
during the next part of our presentation, we will look at the best
practices for the use of a learning management system to
maintain schoolwide communication, teacher delivery of
instruction and monitoring student learning.
We all know that communication is essential. The use of a learning
management system can make communication seamless. One
way that school leaders can utilize an LMS is by creating
global announcements. These global announcements provide
brief and timely information on the dashboard for all sub
account users to see the announcement could be sent district
wide or school wide.
The best part of these global announcements is that they are the first thing students and
staff see upon logging in now you're going to hear a
personal global announcement from Mr Haney. The principle of Quiet
Waters Elementary School as he encourages his students to try
their best on their diagnostic test.
Good morning boys and girls and I hope everyone had a great
weekend and welcome back to another wonderful week at Quiet Waters
Elementary. Beginning this week. You're going to start
taking the diagnostic to for Iraqi
Boys and Girls. This is a very important test that tells us a lot about where you
are academically and how, what you're doing. So please
take your time. There's no reason to rush through this. We want you to
do your best on the 2nd 2nd diagnostic for I ready.
All right. So I wish you all a wonderful week and take your time and
do a great job on the I ready bye guys.
Global announcements are also used in other creative ways, such
as recognizing student achievement with reading honorable names or
animated videos created by administration to highlight the
kids of character.
Another way that an LMS helps with school wide communication
is the ability to create a central location for important information
that all staff members need. Here we see Coconut Creek
Elementary schools, staff course school leaders can
include testing, information, faculty meetings, professional
development and all other pertinent information in one
location for staff.
Alternatively, school leaders can create courses for
students by grade level or by extracurricular activities.
In this example, we see a course designed for the senior class at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. At the top of the course homepage,
we see an announcement made specifically for the seniors rostered to this
course. They recently included a slide show to
congratulate the graduating class and the tabs in the course. Welcome
the seniors and provide important reminders and information.
As the year progressed. New tabs were added to keep the students
updated Furthermore, seniors can
complete their cap and gown order forms, their prom
agreements, all in this one central location.
Now, let's see how teachers can utilize an LMS with
their rostered students in addition to
creating informational courses and LMS provides a platform
for teachers to deliver personalized instruction and monitors student
growth. Let's see what this can look like firsthand from Miss Karlie
Goodman. She's a 4th grade teacher at Coral Cove Elementary
School when students for assigning to Miss Goodman's course, they are
welcomed by her personalized bit emoji classroom and
inspirational quotes. As we scroll down. Miss Goodman's
homepage. There are buttons to indicate where students should
click to view current work as well as past work.
In addition, there are meeting links for remote learners to easily
report to class each day. We can see that Miss
Goodman uses the home page to identify blended and
in person, small groups, meeting times
and members. She also includes
buttons that brings students to announcements, the
calendar modules and standards and so on and so
forth. In Broward. We encourage teachers to build
modules to organize activities and content for students.
As I click on the module standard button, we can
see that Miss Goodman has created
modules based on clusters of standards. In
this first module, she addresses key ideas and details,
which specifically covers these standards. Listed
In the 2nd module, we can see that she is covering
craft and structure. Miss Goodman identifies
the standards, defines the standard,
includes pages that go over the learning goal for that specific
standard as well as includes a variety of
digital and traditional resources that are specifically
aligned to each standard. As we scroll
down, we can see that when the next standard comes up,
Miss Goodman identifies and defines the standard
again, includes the learning goal page, as well as another
variety of resources to go with that specific standard.
Not only can teachers use the LMS to deliver rigorous instruction,
but teachers can also use the LMS to monitor student
growth and progress. For
example, when I click on this activity RL
2.6 and ri 2.6, teachers
administrators can look and see several options to
monitor for student progress
by selecting speed Grader, we would see each individual
students results. However, if we go to quiz
statistics, we can see the data and
question breakdown for the entire class.
So here on the quiz statistics, we can see the average
high low scores as well as the standard
deviation and the average time. We also have a great
graph here that showcases the quiz scores from
zero all the way to 100. We can also see the number
of students that scored each of those results
as we continue down to look at the question breakdown.
Not only can you see the question, but we can see the
number of students that responded and chose each
option, the percent of students that chose that option.
And then by clicking here, we can see each individual
name of the students that picked each and every option.
So this can be very helpful for teachers as well as
administrators when trying to monitor student growth.
All of this goes to show that using an LMS is an easy
way to make corks content visually appealing and easy to
navigate. Courses can be used to house standard based
content, schedules, meetings,
links and so much more
being able to communicate effectively is one of the most
important life skills to learn. Please join us to watch and
listen how different principles in our schools. Um,
effectively communicate using a web conferencing tool.
Using this tool helps school administrators to preserve school culture and
manage their school environment.
In this video clip we will hear from Marcia Wagner, who was awarded the
innovative principal of the year 2018,
Marcia Wagner embraces technology at her school
and encourages her staff and students to use digital tools to
improve the educational environment.
I have to be honest, as soon as we became a Microsoft school, I had my eyes
set on becoming a Microsoft showcased school because I knew that
having that passion paired with the newly acquired skill set would
catapult our instructional practices. We are the only school in Broward
County and one of five schools in the state of florida. Mm hmm.
Innovation cannot exist without risks and without failure.
So our culture of innovation is really built on mindsets. She doesn't shy
away from any innovative programs that are being introduced and that has
made a tremendous difference in the culture of our building. She brought
a culture of try it and it's okay if it doesn't
work the first time. The Tech PLC s have been driven
specifically by what teachers want to learn about.
Marcia Wagner uses a Web conferencing tool to promote
communications and lead her staff in the upcoming video.
You will hear how she uses teams for school faculty meeting,
hold special group meeting for instance, Artie
She also mentions and I need help channel this channel
is designed for teachers to be able to go and ask a
question and those technology leaders in the school can
answer it right away. As you can
see here. We have a general channel where teachers
can post videos that they've created as how
two's um, they can ask questions, they can share
resources. So it is all in here for everyone to
see. And then I also created specific
channels for grade levels. And
so all of those grade levels are here, including R E S P. S.
We also created a channel called I Need Help. And this was just
a forum to have individuals post questions that they
needed help with. And it allows our technology teacher
leaders really a platform to assist
colleagues and showcase their knowledge.
And it also avoids individuals
emailing administration multiple times with the same questions and
bombarding our emails. Um and so what I
also did is I created channels for um specific meetings that I
know we would have. So any time we have a faculty meeting, everyone
knows that they're just going to go to general and they are
um as an organizer, I will click meet
and down here in this thread, they will see a joint
button so that they can join. And then there is just a history
here and I can see through this icon that this was a meeting that was held yesterday
for P. B. I. S. And I can see who attended that meeting.
And if the meeting was recorded then it will be embedded here for everyone to
see. So everyone in my school knows that when we are
having a faculty meeting, you just click on General
Channel and you just join right here, which would be a button that would show
right in this thread. If we are having an R. T. I.
Meeting, then we would simply click on our T. I. And follow the same
process when I'm meeting with my support staff. We
um click on here and we join there and same with
team leader. So as a leader, it's a lot of different meetings that we have for
different purposes and and with different people and I can choose to have a
channel that's locked and invite only certain people so that I know that only certain
people have access to that conversation and those recordings that
we might have in there, or I can just make it public and you'll see that there is
no lock there. And that means that anyone can have access to
that link, such as the R. T. I'm eating. Many teachers are going to be
participating in our T. I. And so all teachers should have
access to that link to be able to join the meetings at their appropriate
times.
As you have heard, Marcia Wagner created many different channels for her staff.
I particularly like the idea of a training room channel for in
house pd let's listen in on how Marcia uses
this channel with her staff.
So one of the channels that I created was a training breakout
room. And in this channel teachers can feel free
to pop in and provide little mini P. D.
So it really gives our teacher leaders a platform
to assist their colleagues. So let's say I have a teacher who's
really proficient at buoyancy and many colleagues are
asking for his or her help with fancy. A teacher can
say, you know what, I'll provide you all with a little mini P. D. Let's
jump on the Training room breakout channel and I'll record the
session and so that will be embedded in here
and you can see who has joined the meeting and if they choose to record the
meeting then that recording will also be embedded here. For anyone that might not have
been able to join the P. D. At that specific time.
Next you will hear another great example of a principal productively
using a web conferencing tool to support collaboration
within the school utilizing strength of teacher leaders at the
school level.
Principal Mrs devon at Manatee Bay
says teams has been the glue for us staying connected and
informed paul Meyer states that
communication, the human connection is the key to personal
and career success. Let's hear from Mrs Devon
herself about how she uses a web conferencing tool in
her zone to effectively communicate
for those of you that know me, I'm a very personable person. Um It's
not that I just love to have meetings but I do see that there's a value
to meeting. Um So um years
before the pandemic, um I was tasked with
being the zone facilitator and found it very challenging
to get everybody scheduled together. So we decided to do something that was very
convenient and we did zone by phone, we would just conference call
once a month with our zone director and just have a
conversation and maybe invite a speaker. And that's how we had our zone
meetings and we were able to be consistent. Well then we decided to up it because we were very
consistent with that and went to Skype and decided we wanted to see each
other's faces. So it made it more personable and we were able to conduct
business that way we'll fast forward. Here comes the pandemic.
Right? So um for um for
that we had the same need. How do I lead a school with such a challenge
to try to find an effective way to
safely lead a school communicate and make
sure we can meet the needs of our schedules and everything else.
So um once again being introduced to teams,
teams was like a lifesaver, very easy to navigate
through. Um I started using it right away over the summer. Teachers had a
lot of questions, they were hearing, what other schools were doing, what other
zones were doing, other states were doing, and I was learning
some information from my end at the district level. So um
I was able to open up a very casual coffee conversation that
went on all summer with my teachers. Um once a week I would meet with a
different specific team, so it would be a little bit more
focused and we would just talk about their team concerns with their particular
grade level and what that means and what that looks like and what they're thinking and
hearing. And we began to start planning, I then started
hearing information about the reopening of school and then started
a reopening meeting and we would meet every other week with the school
nurse, all the leaders in the school, um
custodian my office staff, administrators, support staff
and began to formulate our reopening plan before we even needed
to start our reopening plan, we started thinking about what that might look like a
manatee bay. So teams has really helped us to really even
get started. Um And then I parallel that with
parents. We had a lot of parent questions and so I opened
up a friday coffee conversation with with parents, which
I continue to do. That actually have one coming up this week. Um And we
select different topic. Parents log into teams that get the link.
Um They're used to it, it's something like I said, we do every other week and we did
it when we were in the in the building as well. Um We did it once a
month, but now with so many questions, I've moved to the every other
week and it gives our parents a platform to answer
questions, to hear what's going on until allow us to be
transparent. I've also now um
incorporated meeting with students and I have a
mentor group that I meet with once a week. We just kind of
um brush up on some of their skills that they may
need motivation on. Um and also have a lunch group that I
meet with students for for lunch. Um and now that we can do face to face, what
kind of gradually weaning away some of those
teams opportunities because you know, Children who spend a lot of
time on the computer uh and now we're trying to wean back to face to
face, but I will say teams has been a lifesaver, we
continue to use it and it's a sick, the safest way for us to communicate
and be effective. Leaders,
Guidance Counselor, desiree tank. He says teams has made it easier
for me to schedule parent conferences and 504 meetings with
several parties at once. This technology has also
made it more convenient for parents to meet without having to leave their
jobs or home. Nat turner also
states that good communication is the bridge between
confusion and clarity. You can see how
effectively using a Web conferencing tool can improve
communication in your school community and district.
Yeah. As you heard in the previous section, our teachers were using
canvas LMS to create and post lessons.
And as a Microsoft district we were using teens
for our Web conferencing application. However,
as students returned to the face to face environment, it now became
necessary to provide an audio visual tool that would enable
the teacher to engage the students in person and the
online students in a more natural setting. This was
necessary because teachers were no longer tethered to the laptop and
sometimes needed to move around the room in a more natural way to
support the in person. Students.
There are devices on the market such as various Web cameras or
products such as swivel that could have been used to address this name.
Our district chose the poly studio USB Bar as the
tool of choice and this is the device that we will be featuring in
today's presentation. However, please keep in
mind that the same effect can be achieved using other
available products. Ultimately, what the Police
Studio USB bar helped us to achieve as a district
was to provide a high quality audio visual device
that could be used across the school community in the existing
hybrid environment to promote communication,
engagement, interaction and collaboration.
The Police Studio USB bar has a powerful audio
quality. The clarity of the audio is remarkable
and the microphone picks up conversation anywhere in the standard
classroom. This allows for teachers and students in the
classroom to speak from anywhere in the classroom and the
remote participant hears them clearly. The audio quality
is also reciprocated in that online students can put
online, students can participate in the dialogue and the
students in the classroom can hear without the need of having to
join a Web conferencing application or where headphones
in the classroom. Another nice feature of the device
is that the video is very sharp and thus it makes
it easy for the students online to see what's happening in the
classroom. It works with any videoconferencing
platform to include but not limited to
zoom teens and google duo
and because of its small size it is portable, it can be
used in two different modes, speaker tracking mode
or group frame mode. We will look at those two modes in
greater depth. Later
earlier I shared that the audio quality is remarkable
in this video, you will see Sabine phillips principle of
margate middle school using the device in her hybrid
sat staff meeting in this snippet, the
parent is presenting online remotely while
mrs MS Williams is in her school's media centre. Please
note the quality of the audio as you listen.
It was a christmas party, like they hadn't seen that, they were super
excited, we had a DJ and everything and and
definitely was the one that really put that whole thing
together, um you know, the outline of
it, how it's gonna go down, but it was just a blast to see the kids
so happy and it was, you know, everyone got to do something
for the kids.
So as you can see, this device is not only useful in the
classroom, but it is also a tool that is being used by
administrators to engage their faculty as well as
stakeholders possible. Therapy using the device
includes the following. When administrators are using the
camera, they can position the device so that the camera is
focused on the administrator during the presentation or
it can be positioned to do the larger room so that the
in person audience is visible to the online participate.
The same applicable when being used by teachers.
Teachers use of a poly studio USD bar can use it
in the lecture mode where the camera is focused on the teacher
during the instructional activity. They can also
use it in the student centric mode, which means the
devices position so that it is focused on the student
in so doing the online students can see their peers in
the classroom and have visual connection as they
communicate and collaborate,
looking a little closer. In the future the device offers,
the polic studio is a plug and play device, which means
no drivers are needed to be installed for to be applicable.
All the user needs to do is plug it into an available
USB port and it's ready for use.
The privately shutter is controlled manually,
user reaches under the bottom of the device and
slides it from left to right. If they need to have it clothes.
For any reason the remote is connected to the
device be a bluetooth if for some reason
connection is lost, it is easily fixed by going through
the bluetooth parent connection steps which would
involve pressing the bluetooth button under the bottom of the U. S. B.
Bars in pressing the red mute button on the remote.
Additionally the remote is used to control the volume of the U. S.
B. Bar and the volume of the laptop or desktop to
which it is connected. The remote also allows the
user to switch between the speaker tracking mode
and the group frame mode.
Well now watch a video that shows the divide the device being
used in the lecture tracking mode which allows the
instructor to move freely around the room.
Let's take a look at the present attracting feature on Polly Studio. So I'm an
instructor in a classroom. There are students here in the class with me
who are spread out there wearing mass and I'm wearing a mask for
protection and we also have more students on the far end over
video. Now as an instructor, sometimes I'm not comfortable with
video with being able to teach the way I want to because I'm
afraid if I get up and move, I'm gonna be off camera
either, I don't have a tracking camera system at all or I've got one that moves too
slow and I'm afraid I'm going to get out of the field of view. The great thing
about Polly Studio with presenter tracking is I can be confident that I can
get up and walk around the room. Maybe I want to come over to this whiteboard to
be able to write something or I want to come over to my virtual interactive
whiteboard annotators share some content. Or maybe I just want to
pace around a little bit and be more mobile and active ball and teaching
because it's a more natural fit for my style rather than having to stay locked down in
my chair all the time. And this is one of the great benefits of this presented
tracking feature on Polly studio. So to learn more, visit us
at dot com.
School administrator have seen an increase
in collaboration in connection with community
stakeholders and staff members. There is an
increase in parent communication participation as
parents or community partner. Consigning remotely to
attend open house or virtual classroom tour
with their staff administrators and team leaders to
use other advice for staff meeting, departmental
meeting, professional development collaboration
or co teaching.
We've just reviewed some of the benefits of using this
technology in this video principles. Being
phillips shares her insight on how the polic
studio has impacted her ability to connect with her
school stakeholders.
Hello, everyone, my name is to being phillips and I'm the principal at Market Middle
School and I was very excited to have an opportunity to share
with you why I think the poly studio is such an effective tool
for teachers, administrators, anyone who's doing a presentation
if you're going to engage students both and uh, and
parents and adults in another location as well as right in front of
you. The best thing about the cameras is that they
follow you wherever you go. So if you're in the classroom
and you're at the board and your students are responding to
you in front of you, they respond you can hear them on the
camera and and you can hear the students from
home when they respond to you. So it's just a great tool to
have in the classroom for me as a principal, I thought it was very important
to be able to show the use of it with my staff
because they were a little apprehensive in the beginning, you know Polly Polly
Studio, what is this camera, How does it work? Of course we got a few to
start and then before you know it just about every teacher in the building is using it
because they see how effective it is, especially with the way I was using it at
faculty meetings. And uh so I decided also since
I'm going to use the Pollock and I started using it for my faculty meetings,
I said why not use it with my my uh parents
for our P. T. S. A. Meeting in our sac meetings in the
beginning as you know, we weren't allowed to come on campus for
meetings and we had to do our meetings completely online.
Well I have never had as much participation from my parents as
I've had since we had to use the poly studio
with the camera. So it because of that reason alone
just tonight we had a meeting and I had well over 20 parents in
attendance. There's been times that we had five or six but the parents
appreciate that they can be home. They can still participate in the
meeting. They can ask questions as they did tonight and get
questions answered and still feel like they are part of the school community.
So always going to continue to do that. I'm so thankful for
that and I know for sure that many schools will follow still with
continuing to use. That's the system. Yeah.
Using the device within a hybrid environment has been a game change of
breath of the death strip as we return to impersonal
instruction or district belief that it will continue to be used by
administrators and staff to increase and tormenting
communication with the community and students.
Here are a few other ways we forcefully using the Pollock's studio in the
classroom of tomorrow. Teachers will be able to collaborate
or co teach more effectively using the Palestinian
USB bar. This collaboration can take form
of peer to peer small groups or pl
fees within the school or across the district,
the schools that have senior capstone exhibitions and
presentations, community partners will be able to participate
remotely, thus eliminating travel time.
This will have to increase the number of participants that can take
part in these events. The policy studio is
currently used for parents and community outreach through
Broward County Public School parent University, which
provides families additional tools, resources
and strategies that support student achievement and
engagement within the hybrid and learning environment.
Students who are designated hospital homebound will no longer
need to be removed from class. Teachers will be able to use the
device to help me their accommodation or implement new
strategies based on students need
when conducting in class demonstration and experiment in
science. As an example, the teacher will be able to project their
extended screen and students can easily view and
participate without huddling around the teacher's death.
Additionally, our district has broadcast classrooms.
Teachers with unique expertise are identified and
provide instruction to classrooms across the district.
For example, if a student would like to take chinese and it's not
offered at their school, the identified teacher, broadcast
lessons to those students finally
materiality in this next video shares how she in virgin
future use of the polish studio us rebar.
I honestly think that the probably studio is not
going anywhere because of the fact that it can work with
students who are home and maybe home balance students, their hospital
homebound students who in the past a teacher would have to visit their
home. Now they can be right in the classroom with all the other students
and not even skip a B. Besides that. I just,
you know, I'm creative. But I can think of, I know that
my teachers will come up with some very interesting ways to use it,
the use of technology as we know it will evolve and
will change. And for me, it's very exciting because I think that
any time you can bring something into the classroom that's going to
bring some excitement, engage students. It's a good thing. And that's what
happens with our technology, especially with the polish studio. So I'm really happy that
we're using it here at market, and I intend for it to continue to be used
for years to come.
As you can see, our district has worked hard to provide
cohesive digital integration to enhance the teaching
learning environment. We know that this work will continue to
evolve as we integrate innovative technology that