M6+-+G2+-+Principals+to+lead+integration+of+eLearning

• Principals and school leaders will demonstrate digital leadership in their schools. • School planning will include strategic and implementation components.

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Awapuni School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Participation in VLN. Still need to manage this better. Receive too much unwanted updates. Attended network for learning workshop. Currently investigating upgrading the school server, redirecting from the old school website to the new school blog. Using/developing teaching as inquiry with ICT ||  || Continue with webinar trainings, VLN, teaching as inquiry regarding ICT. || Staff/Management meetings have section set aside for ICT discussions and PD. Reports given to Board on progress on in the the Annual Report. ||  ||   || Management Meeting. || Shared plans and progress at management meetings when applicable. ||  ||   || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Missed one management meeting in term 3. Will miss term 4s meeting due to ERO review. ||  || Read minutes of final meeting. || Used keynote to display photos on t.v. in the admin office. This greets parents and visitors and is a record of school events. Encouraged and guided parents to read and leave comments on class and school blog Cyber safety procedure in place ||  || Support parents to access and visit their students work via blogs. || Teachers share and create with google documents. Using many programmes for recording e.g. Comic Life. ||  || Create a sustainability plan to continue with ICT progress at the end of the contract. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || Participated in my first webinar with Novopay training.
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Cluster goals integrated into the school strategic goals.
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship || Have experimented with a personal Facebook to investigate suitability for a school page
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Made huge progress. For teachers who had little understanding of web 2 they now have class blogs, entered into digi awards and made a finalist in the short movie section.

Central Normal School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Led the school Te Ohu Panoni ( Change Team)major plan which has incorporated IT into the development of the plan. Acessed information from MOE websites and Principal Leadership Leadspace and TKI. Reflected on downloaded professional readings. Duiscussed with other staff. Ensured our future palnning and implementation of our Strategic Plan has IT embedded into it. ||  || work more closely with our community. How can we support children and whanau to access and use IT more. || Ensured that cluster goals are part of our Strategic Plan and Annual Plan. ||  ||   || Management Meeting. || It was useful to get feedback on parts of our Strategic Plan from the cluster gorup. Latest initiatives within our school have beed shared at Cluster meetings. ||  || We have a strong group of IT leaders in our school My role is to nurture them and 'let them fly' || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Attended all meetings Really valued the discussions and shared understandings and knowledge that took place at these meetings. ||  || As a cluster we want to continue our networking and sharing of ideas and devlopments. || Have accessed class Blogs In newsletters we have discussed cyber safety. ||  || We are now due a SNUP. This will allow us tyo review our whole IT plan and direction ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || started to participate in VLN
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || elearning planning framework has been very useful here ||  ||   ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Our rigourous self review process had been reviewed with the whole staff. IT learning is a major component of thisplan.
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || Upskilled myself...especially my confidence in using IT as a learning tool. Now have an ipad which I use with my learning.
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || I have gained more confidence and knowledge.I have ensured we have a strong group of teachers leading our work in the school.Teacher and student capacity has greatly increased at our school. Ensured our Board is well in formed and have good information to make decisions with. I am a far more confident IT user. My colleagues have been very supportive...this is a real plus of this contract. We intned to continue our networking as a group beyond the duration of this contract. ||  || Become more confident and involved in leardership online learning ||

Cloverlea School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to:
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || I have continued with a variety of professional readings that are shared through the PLG that I belong to.

Discussion with colleagues has continued through the PLG, Cluster Management Meetings and attending the Combined Principals' Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

Collaboration with lead teachers and the cluster facilitator has continued.

A regular staff meeting slot has encouraged reflection on school development. This reflection has continued through regular discussions with school lead teachers. ||  || Continue to participate in the PLG.

Set up for continued cluster collaboration. || Management Meeting. || Completed ||  ||   || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || As director I have worked with the facilitator to produce an agenda for management meetings. This has included sharing progress of each school's development. || Minutes ||  || Parents are interacting through class blogs, online bookings, newsletters and online learning activities. || Class blogs or wikis. School Web site || Enhance the use of websites, ultranet. Investigate how these can be improved ||
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || The 2012 policy and strategic plan is on the wiki. || Wiki || Produce a Strategic Plan to take us into the next two years. ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Completed || Minutes of meetings ||  ||
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || I continue to promote digital citizenship through responsible use of all IT equipment and resources. ||  ||   ||
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || There has been huge growth across the three years. The most noticeable growth has been student engagement. Children are confidently using a variety of technologies within the classroom programme. Evidence can be observed during class assemblies, through class blogs and wikis and through entries in the Manawatu Digi Awards competition. ICT is integrated into most classroom activities and it is now rare to go into a classroom and not see evidence of ICT in use.

Hokowhitu School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: E-learning is discussed at team and leadership meetings. ||  || Integration of e-learning will continue to important.New principal will be able to drive this. || Management Meeting. || The strategic plan has been shared at management meetings as appropriate. Ideas and feedback from the cluster have been valuable. ||  || Strategic plans will reflect continued growth and direction for e-learning. || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Have attended all the management meetings. Discussions within this group have been useful and the meetings have provided a reflective and valuable forum for sharing knowledge. ||  ||   ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || I have used the VLN and cluster wiki to support and strengthen my my professional development, especially around inquiry learning. I have found the resources on this wiki and those of other clusters provide a huge amount of very useful information.This has been my main source for accessing professional readings around e-learning and has led to my reflective practice in this area. The VLN discussions, particularly around the e-learning framework have been particularly helpful.
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Our strategic plan contains ICT goals that reflects the cluster goals. ||  ||   ||
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || Student Leaders have been working on a digital citizen model for our school. This has been reflected in class blogs and in safe internet use. ||  || I would encourage our school to continue networks with cluster schools. ||
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Lead teacher has been effective in providing PD at Team and Staff meetings. Support has been given to individual classes and teachers to develop new ideas.School webpage has been re-developed. Use has been made of Digi Awards, class blogs, assemblies and Board meetings to celebrate ICT learning, Teachers and students have developed their skills over the three years and ICT learning has become integrated into most areas of the curriculum. I have appreciated the support of all those within the cluster who have willingly shared ideas and progress. ||  || We have the expertise within our school to continue to grow and develop with new technologies and ideas. ||

Kairanga School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: I have used these discussions and other articles to maintain a forward thinking approach to developments in our school for the future. These have been the basis of on-going discussion with our ICT Lead teacher, too. || VLN discussions,plus emails and visits to other schools Discussions logged in my diary. Plans made for 2013 PD and budget buying. || In 2013 i will continue to belong to these groups. The 2013 PD plan for the school will lead into the Operational Plan and be highlighted in our budget and PD outcomes. || Management Meeting. || As above || As Above || As Above || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || All Management mtgs have been attended and I have sought to contribute and support others in the cluster. Strat Plans progress has been shared in depth with one colleague closely at our partner meetings. || mtg minutes || To continue this dialogue with fellow principal and the wider cluster as they are available. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || Principal has joined discussion groups on the VLN and receives regular updates of these discussions - too many most of the time. I go into view these discussions once a fortnight to keep up to date with trends and thinking. I have contributed twice to these discussions.
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || This term we have finalised an e-learning section of our school Curriculum Development Plan (School Scheme). It includes expectations of how we want ICT to be used regularly throughout our school and how we want to encourage and develop good Digital Citizen's. || CDP e-Learning section finished and ready for implementation from 2013. || As part of the appraisal process and on-going PD, this will be highlighted and checked up on. ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || School Strategic plan has been shared and comments sought. Our school has been actively involved in all cluster-wide PD and opportunities. || Management mtg minutes. || A new Start Plan written up for 2013. ||
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || See the CDP notes above || See above || See Above ||
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Three years ago this school was a different place. We have made good, strategic decisions because we have been a part of this ICT cluster. Teachers have all been involved and committed to e-Learning and have gained much in their understanding of ICT pedagogy, shared values and implementation ideas, plus focussed on how ICT could be used to **enhance learning**. The BoT have been committed to the development of our school into using ICTs by finding ways of resourcing hardware, upgrading the infrastructure and ensuring that the teachers have been supplied with equipment that makes learning with ICT easier. || Amount of ICTs used as part of normal learning. CDP, budget and PD plans. Teacher capability and articulation of e-leanring in our school || To continue this path, upgrading equipment, ensure SNUP happens, buying schedule adhered to, PD continues and CDP referred to often (termly. All this keeps the focus on ICT in our school). ||

Longburn School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Professional readings sourced mainly from digital media now but reflections are still mainly taking place at a school site level. Have utilised webinars as one form of PD for both teaching and management. ||  || Utilise digital platforms as a means of reflection on professional readings. || Management Meeting. || Plans shared on Cluster wiki, at management meetings and with colleagues as and when relevant. ||  ||   || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Attended management and other cluster meetings at which our school progress towards meeting our strategic goals was shared/discussed. A valuable forum for such discussion, with support and advice readily onhand. ||  || Participate in future network meetings once this ICT Contract terminates. || Several students have had an opportunity to participate in the cluster ' ICT Student Leaders Group'. Utilising Smartphone technology on a trial basis, identifying potential within teaching, learning, management/admin. ||  || Have student leaders 'teach on' to other students within our school. || The school has a 'Longburn Parents' facebook page that is being trialled as a group off my personal page. The parent community have been using this space for over a year in a very positive manner with no user issues to date (parent community all showing good cyber citizenship in this instance). We are now looking at the possible use of twitter to feed 'one way' communication to our parent community where relevant (eg notices, announcements). We have just had our SNUP completed and have fibre to the door. Have had a change of LT ICT and have been appreciative of the ownership and leadership this colleague has shown in this area across the school. They have grown in their role and are an integral part of our school e-learning development. The advice, support and leadership available in our school through this role is invaluable. Have had students, from the middle and senior areas of the school, enter their digital work into the Manawatu Digi Awards in 2011 and 2012. We have been proud to have had several students make it into the finals in both years. The networking for all staff across the cluster has enabled the sharing of ideas and practices for the benefit of all akonga. ||  || SNUP will be utilised when we can secure an affordable supply cost for UFB but business remains as usual until then. We are now looking at options for enabling BYOD. Extend the entries into the Digi Awards to include junior school students in 2013. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || Participate in VLN but not yet on a regular basis. Need to learn how to minimise amount of email traffic being received from VLN as I find this a bit 'off putting'.
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || Will be utilising the elearning planning framework as a review tool with staff next year to determine where we are at...[] so that all e-learning policies and plans can reflect our needs and be 'site' relevant. ||  ||   ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Our school strategic plan reflects the cluster goals as welll as our school needs. ||  ||   ||
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || Adapted and online Cybersmart Curriculum to be utilised schoolwide. This has been implemented successfully for the past 18 mths.
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Teaching, Management and Administration practices and systems have all been enhanced over the three years of the ICT Contract. We have been able to develop a shared vision for e-learning within the school and identify steps to take to ensure that the vision will be realised for all akonga. This has included changing our SMS and ensuring we have interoperability between our LMS and SMS to be able to move to being able to offer a parent portal for our school community. We have also reviewed our LMS and are now looking at more effective ways that we can manage this environment, including school and class blogs, wikis and other cyber spaces.

Te Kura o Tākaro
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Te reo Maori - The examination and developments in Te Reo as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. Resourcing and using apps that promote and use te reo Maori. Discussion around the revitalisation of te reo and use of it in schools [] Acessing MoE and ERO information electronically - easy to share links, parts and use for staff meeting etc. Discussions with other principals around the network for learning/ attended workshop, emailed other principals and participated in on line discussions. ||  || Continue next year reflect on where to next
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || Participation in VLN

Develop and promote the use of Google Doc within the wider school community || [] ||  ||   || (Write in major actions from strategic plans) ||  ||   || Management Meeting. || Management meetings used as a forum to discuss successes and actions from our strategic plans as a way to get sharing across our group ||  ||   || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Inter-related Attended all meeting ||  ||   || facebook Twitter Newletter cyber safety, cyber bullying ||  ||   || Teacher understanding of ICT integrated into learning not separated out ||  ||   ||
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || elearning planning framework is really helpful.
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Reference has been made back to our plan at our ICT leadership meetings. Staff reflect on our goals at staff meeting guided by lead teacher and principal. Reporting to Board and MoE are reflected and commented on in the the Annual Report.
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || home school partnerships
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Celebrating progress over the last 2 years.

Tokomaru School
their own e- learning PLN by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Management Meeting. || Plans shared on Cluster wiki, at management meetings and with colleagues as and when relevant. ||  ||   || towards meeting the school strategic plans. || Attended all meeting ||  ||   || The use of class blogs is embedded across the school with the majority of teachers actively contributing on a regular bases. Utra Fast boardband cabled to school Students participating in Manawatu Digi Awards. ||  ||   ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Principals and school leaders will model a commitment to developing
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || I have used the VLN and have participated in some discussions. Also used the webinar with Novapay trainning. While I have found some valuable information, resources and links, I find that you can get somewhat "bombard" with information overload. Now that we have cabling in place for utra -fast boardband, I am investigating it's potential use within the school. I have continued to participate in the use of Google Doc's through our appraisal system. ||  || Will continue to look at ways to develop e-portifolios linked to our SMS system. ||
 * 2. All schools will develop and share a 2012 digital learning policy/strategy. || Have been examining the use of the e-learning framework and its use for 2013 ||  ||   ||
 * 3. School strategic plans will reflect the cluster goals as well as school needs. || Our strategic plan contains ICT goals that reflects the cluster goals. ||  ||   ||
 * 4. School strategic plans will be shared across cluster with progress reports at each
 * 5. Attending Management Meetings and sharing how each school is progressing
 * 6. Promoting and modeling digital citizenship. || Use of Google Doc's for parents regarding understanding of Basic Facts, whole school community texting ||  ||   ||
 * 7. Progress made across the 3 years of being in the ICT Cluster. || Over the past 3 year the use of ICT across the school has significantly increased. With the school investing in the new SM System, Assembly, teachers now enter all student data online allowing teachers and management to track student achievement and progress. It also has given the school the ablitiy to track/monitor student behaviour and attendance. We are currently waiting and watching to see what developments will take place over the next year with Assembly's LMS system. The use of Google Doc to share and collarate information between teachers has significantly increased (with the used of Teacher Appraisal). While currently under development, teachers have/are constructing a google doc whereby parents can access to help them with our Basic Facts Maths homework so that there is consistency between home and school.