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Ahsan Karim (Buckley) and Kristin Webster (Marymount) Facilitators Liam Webster Note taker - St Hilda's and St Hugh's School

Megan Jones - Pingry Teacher have responded to Google Classroom

What technology has been useful to help reach more resistant faculty? Kristin has students who actively code essays to be interactive. If it can be doing such a thing in a latin classroom how can we help other subjects see this?

Is there a drive to get a journeyman teacher who has never used technology to adopt new resources when what they use has worked so well? I already do it this way, why is it better that way? Does not need to be a big jump to something that is so transformative that it couldn't ave been done without technology. Collaborative resources are an easy buy-in. Especially those that can help extend learning beyond the classroom.

How do you, Kristin, share what you are doing with other teachers? Parents? A: through conversations, but mostly students who want to share their work and broadcast what they have achieved. Girls get excited and ask if they can do this new thing that they learned in latin in another classroom. Often teachers just say no, I"m not doing new work. How do we get a teacher to stop saying no to a student?

Reword the tech, something along the lines of Enhanced collaboration, writing, etc. Staff can be broken into partitions of early adopters (25%), late adopters (50%) and non-adopters (25%) The 50% will usually follow the first 25%.

Berkeley-Carroll had faculty share the tech work they have been doing to the other faculty members during a faculty meeting. Additionally, showing the assessment tools and rubric will go a long way t help smooth the transition into another classroom. If they have an advance idea of how long a project might take, it's easier to bring it into their lessons and planning.

Pingry recruited about 25 different faculty from 125 total. Teachers identified who can teach in different ways. Had them bring the work they were doing in their departments that might not be known across departments. The day was structured as a list of options to attend, rather than a straight schedule. The teachers could choose what to investigate. Having it come from a fellow teacher and colleague is an easier way to intro tech. Faculty more readily adopt when it comes from peers rather than admin

NYSAIS Teaching With Technology conference. Teachers teaching teachers, not tech people.

When at your school, being able to have a person who can help a teacher with something, Tech Integrator, work through something in advance, help plan lessons, etc. Someone to guide and help answer questions in the planing stage.

Brooklyn Friend's School: Coach's Eye app, has been big in PE department. Such has resulted in the PE being the most tech forward department. They are now helping other teachers with tech by introducing this tech peer to peer.

It's rarely a tech issue, its reflective practice and cultural.

Steer away from PD projects, those tend to be one time things. Little habits and skills are the ones that add up and stay with them.

Discuss with teachers allowing students to use the knowledge they have. Maybe not the entire class, but one or two students that take a different approach, let them explore that.

If these little things we are trying to encourage teachers to use don't get used regularly, they do get stale and forgotten.

Tech can help enable student choice. Students are more engaged when the have a choice in how they learn/complete a project. Having a support to help a teacher so they don't feel that they need to have all the knowledge themselves, but that the knowledge is available in the school makes it easier to smooth new tech into classrooms.

Teachers often feel they have to be the smartest person in the room and must know more than the students on all things the students may want to explore.

Grassroots is the best. Small number of early adopters that then act as evangelists to a few more peers, etc.etc.

Volunteers who want to be interviewed to become a tech liaison for their departments. If full admin support and can involve a stipend. Acknowledge extra time and effort to have them become involved in the tech process and planning.

Ahsan has a annual event where faculty come for wine and cheese and make an electronic gift card with LEDs and circuits. All faculty and staff are invited.

Introducing small, relevant tasks with the tech you desire to have teachers use. E.g. using a Google Doc for them to submit high-stakes info like what they want fixed in their classroom. They have incentive to invest and learn what the tech is.

If administrative support, a mandate to go and visit another school. Especially a tech forward program to see what tech is being done. Even do it inside the school to see what their peers are doing.

How much is technology a thought or question in the interview process for a new teacher? Can there be room for this? Pingry has TI involved in the interview process. Has there been a situation where a clash has resulted where admin wants a teacher who the tech department says is the wrong hire. Usually no. The one part of tech is not a big enough piece to negate a potential good hire.

What happens with admin/long-term teachers when they have a certain level of clout, but don't use the tech. When those who could be the best evangelists are the most resistant?

Technology being used to help meet students needs. Especially individual students. One who is scared to speak, but will openly communicate when recorded or writing in a public forum (twitter).

Meetings and conversations with teachers often results in finding teachers are using tech already.

The resistance can be department based. Smaller cultural spaces that create fear within each other.

Is there a teacher who is very unskilled with tech, but who is always willing to try? Spending time with them can create a role model for other faculty. If the one who is hardest to teach is still willing to learn.