May+18th+Management+Mtg

Management Mtg Notes: Discussion of our **ICTPD website** presence. Most do not use the ICTPD website, although some have. Allan disseminates the info to all schools and schools use this as they see fit. This works well for us. Some schools do use the website extensively.

All schools should check that they code their ICTPD costs to their budget appropriately, in case we get audited. We need to ensure that we are contributing to the ICTPD, as we have pledged to do. General discussion ensued of each school’s position on Nat Standards. ICT will increase the use of SMS’s, to store raw data and use it to inform parents and teachers and children in next steps teaching. Nick believes that e-portfolios can be a good way to use ICT in line with Nat Stands. Resourcing this development out of Ops Grant is an issue for schools to develop this. We believe it is all about prioritising for our schools. Our cluster schools are at different stages of reporting to the Nat Stands. Some are comfortable with their processes. Teacher input is important. Support for the Nat Stands implementation is needed. This is a topic that our cluster can discuss at our management meetings. Perhaps have a Principal share their school’s story at each of our meetings? This would increase our collaboration and offer different ideas for each of us. What changes are taking place in our schools? How are those changes being embedded in our schools? Support of lead teachers is important. They need regular release. They need to take staff meetings and ensure that the PD plan is being progressed. The shared leadership model in a school is important for the PD to be embedded. Something planned for Principals own ICT PD is important too. Sharing each school’s journey and ideas needs to be done at each management meeting as well. Lead teachers are key to the process for the school and the success of the contract.
 * Costs:** Reminder to use the allocation, get the invoices in and Allan will check that the finances match the codes.
 * Nick’s MoE hat:** His team of people have attended the national training huis with advisors and is charged with implementing the Nat Standards.

Milestone: How are we capturing the teachers reflections and development? Kairanga: Our wiki has everything on it around our PD. This year we have come up with an ICT vision, a PD plan is in place and we are working towards this. The lead teacher runs staff meetings, workshops and then follow-ups. Each of these modules is then evaluated and decided if we want this tool to be part of our ICT toolbox. Each teacher has a reflection page that are now regularly updated. Takaro: Teachers have come up with individual plans, based on individual chn needs. ICT is related to the goals of our curriculum. EG: “Are you hard working?’ If I am that in an ICT perspective, have I got my work online that reflects this? How are we going to report to parents about this? Learning conversations take place with staff often. Tokomaru: Need to meet with staff regularly to highlight the ICT goals and the process we are using. Central Normal: Teachers use their online presence to highlight the things they are doing in the classes. Some senior teachers have not had to do this before Hokowhitu: Teachers in the future are going to be asked to have a wikisace to record their reflections.

Parents: Cloverlea: Newletters comments. There are some images online of school happenings. Have spoken to H&School assn to highlight what we are doing. Longburn: Parent evening. School as opened up and they shared what was going on. Parents and chn used the technology, which was good to see. Takaro: Assemblies have become technology focussed. The school LMS has seen parents wanting to know more. Parents beginning to look at schools LMS from home. Hokowhitu: Class blogs are active and getting huge number of hits. Tokomaru: H&S assn have committed to ICT buying. It’s a matter of focussing them on the right area. We use Mathletics and the parents love it. Trip to Southwards, with chn using Ezyspeaks. Parents seeing this had a good impact. Students leading the learning is the best vehicle for development. Awapuni: Lead tchr using it in school and celebrating this at assemblies. Each school is at a different point and the beauty of our cluster programme is that we can develop from where we are at. It’s not a case of ‘one size fits all’. Innes: It is **subtley pervasive** how ICT is being used in our school. Little things amount to a lot.

Milestone template: There are components that each school must contribute to. Strategic plan: There are four questions we must respond to. AC&D are done as a cluster. B is done as individuals. Nick will give feedback to Allan to ensure it is okayed by the MoE quickly. No need to double up on evidence - you can refer to a school wiki or website. MoE are interested in getting teacher and pupil voice. 3rd part is around the planned activities: Talk about the level of leadership created and reflect on that. Impact upon our school of attendance at the conference needed. School pledging: Have we put this in? If answer is ‘no’ then we need to give reasons. Make this accessible online, so that we can all access and have input. Contributing should be higher as a result.

Switches, cables and servers are funded as part of the upgrade. NEN is another acronym to learn, along with OTJ and SNUP we need a session just on learning these!
 * Karen (sp?)** Qtn: MoE helps schools update their network. Names go on a list and then the MoE puts them on a list. If you are successful, a letter of acknowledgment will come and the MoE will pay 80% of the cost. MoE are committed to rolling out ultra-fast broad and this will be in the next 6yrs. There are a number of different programmes and so priority is given to those that are in a better position to get fibre service first.

Milestone report: Discussion around the goals. The format for the goals need to be: evidence, or comment on how we have met the goal.

Lessons so far: We need to share as individual schools Our teacher need to meet, to get a clear idea of being a part of a cluster and collaborate. Then they will have better online collaboration. What does Allan need from us? Allan will send out qtns. We will need to respond and send data, or links that will go into the milestone. This needs to be done by Good dates for the Tea Meeting.

Allan will: Send out qtns for milestone report. Set a date for the Tea Meeting for all teachers after school one day.

Admin Bits: · Policies - Is there a list of suggested policies to guide us in children and teacher online stuff? Most schools might have a cyberspace policy and policy for images online. Have a look at digital citizenship website ‘ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-cybersafety.wikispaces.com’. The 6 tenets of citizenship are good to form basis of discussion. · Teacher Survey: An example is available on the core-ed site to survey your tchrs. Would be a good idea to do a survey on our tchrs at end of year to ascertain how they are progressing. · Budget: Be aware of what you can claim for - it’s on the wiki. Make sure you claim! The money is there to be spent! Kevin will send out invoices and cheques at the end of each term, as from this term. Term One invoices must have been in now. There is a Morning tea allowance. 

Lead tchrs meeting agenda items: Running meetings. Surveys of the teachers. Progress against goals. Wiki spaces-setting up a wiki for your school. Tea Meeting ideas. Idea: Video a class for an hour. This gives a benchmark of where a class is in terms of ICT use. Video them again a year apart. What differences are there?