Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter Technology Timeline to 2020

By pdenen
  • CCSS Assessment Pilot

    SOEC is selected by the CDE to administer the Common Core Assessment Pilot. Teachers use the opportunity to preview the future and how their teaching will be transformed.
  • Digital Devices

    All antiquated equipment is removed from classrooms and offices and is replaced by new equipment
  • Teachers Use Digital Devices

    Teachers use digital devices with students and as professional tools
  • Building Consensus for the Vision

    The school will engage in the work of building the vision for technoloy
  • PBL

    Project-based learning activites at grade levels utilize digital devices for inquiry, reasearch and presentation. Content and inquiry is student driven.
  • Redesigning the Textbook

    Stakeholders choose digital methods of relaying content to students, rather than the old textbook and resource paradigm.
  • Digital Safety in the Modern World

    Stakeholders develop and reinforce a plan for digital security issues. The school takes on the responsibility to teach students safety through digital access; we agree that students need to be prepared to live and work in a modern digital world
  • SOEC School Web Site

    The school web site is fully utilized by all stakeholders and has replaced paper and pencil communications, calendars and resource sharing
  • Building the Vision

    The SOEC technology plan has a defined vision; stakeholders have worked together to build consensus for transforming our school. Digital devices and the development of our 1:1 program drives pedagogy, and is a student-centered approach
  • Digital Devices

    All classrooms have a digital device for every student (1:1), digital immigrant teachers are fully capable of handling the devices and the digital integration of content and curriculum with students.
  • Transition to Common Core

    This is the final year of transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. Teachers have developed a common practice through the use of digital devices and understanding of the pedagogy of the Common Core
  • Charter Renewal

    Stateholders realign the vision and mission of the charter which includes re-defining the direction of technology and curriculum at the school
  • The Flipped Classroom

    Flipping the classroom is transforming our teaching practice
  • Common Core

    The Common Core Curriculum is implemented school wide. Teachers are realigning pedagogy, PBL and assessment to the Common Core
  • Re-alignment to New Charter

    Implementation begins
  • Fluid Class Assignments

    Technology and the flipped classroom has changed the way we group students for instruction. Grade levels and classroom assignments are fluid and not bound by age, legacy content or old contructs. Space resources and classrooms are dynamic and not static.
  • Vision Realized

    The flipped classroom has not only changed our classrooms, but has transformed our teaching practice as well.