The next step in the process was onboarding a little over 600 instructional staff. Tom\u2019s team needed to make sure the district\u2019s teachers could master their tools and hit the ground running on the 6th of April. It was a PD session but times 20!<\/p>
The first phase was creating a central hub where teachers and students could access the information and tool logins they needed. Tom created a website (Colonial #techcsd) to host all of this information in an easily navigable fashion. For instructional staff, this was supplemented by a 6 module PD course created in Schoology. This covered each of the top 5 tools from a basic to advanced level.\u00a0<\/p>
\u201cThe expectation was that staff would participate in 2-3 trainings a week and we calculated that each module would take no more than 2 hours\u2026 We wanted it to be flexible. Everyone could choose which modules they took and when\u2026 the goal was that they would eventually do it all but at their own pace.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>Part 4. Getting the curriculum made online\u00a0<\/h5> The final piece of the puzzle was the backing of the district\u2019s curriculum developers.\u00a0<\/p>
\u201cWhat\u2019s been great about the remote learning strategy is that our curriculum content people have really got behind the move towards a comprehensive homogeneous online plan. They have begun building their curriculum content using our 5 tools, particularly Kami. Having their support has been a great tie in for the whole process.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>Colonial\u2019s current remote learning strategy gives two days to math curriculum and then 2 days to ELA subjects. Curriculum for each is now made using Kami or Screencastify and then stored on Schoology, ready to be deployed by teachers. Having the curriculum directly involved in the edtech tools makes the process of creating and assigning work as smoothly as possible for both teachers and students.<\/p>
Kami: all the tools teachers need in one place<\/h4>\u201cOur teachers were able to transition pretty easily to Remote Learning and one reason was just how seamless Kami is to use. Kami provides all the tools teachers need in one place.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>One of the most brilliant aspects of Colonial District\u2019s remote learning materials is that the Kami module has all been made in Kami. Tom firmly believed that the fastest way for his staff to learn about Kami was to interact with it straight away and pick it up from its intuitive layout and design.<\/p>
\u201cThe beauty of Kami is that it\u2019s so easy to use\u2026 it\u2019s so intuitive for teachers and students.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>On top of its ease of use, Kami provided an obvious solution for a key issue within a remote learning workflow.<\/p>
\u201cWe needed a way for teachers to be able to distribute work electronically,\u00a0 and then have students complete and easily turn it in on their devices. It [Kami] literally is the one tool that can accomplish all tasks a teacher could want a student to complete – Text, Audio Recording, Drawing, Video Recording, Screencasting, links, shapes,\u00a0 pictures, OCR, split up PDFs and even signature.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>And the popularity of Kami as a teaching tool is easy to see in Tom\u2019s data:<\/p>
Over 100,000 Kami docs have been opened since April 6th.<\/li> District users had performed 98,000 interactive actions (drawing, writing, commenting – any Kami activity not just screen reading).\u00a0<\/li> By March 13th Colonial school district had 1,300 new Kami users in the district.\u00a0<\/li> By June over 50% of the district\u2019s teachers had chosen to complete the Kami training.<\/li><\/ul> So what\u2019s the plan for the future? Much like the rest of the world, Colonial School District is unsure what the next school year holds, but Tom is excited about having the support of a solid and tested Remote Learning plan.<\/p>
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