District 89 Mission
District 89 empowers, educates and inspires students to achieve personal excellence in a multi-cultural society.
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District 89 Vision |
District 89 will be the school system of choice and community pride.
Instructional Tech Coaching |
Instructional Tech Integration |
Co-teaching, modeling, and designing instruction and assessment that is aligned to our curriculum is the objective of our instructional tech team. This includes:
Digital CitizenshipDigital citizenship is the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use. Students must learn how to navigate their digital footprint, understand the ramifications of their digital lives, realize the seriousness of interactions online, and be ethical in their digital actions. This EdTech article summarizes the top three elements of digital citizenship:
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Embedding technology skills throughout the curriculum as they engage in the 4 C's (communication, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration) across all content areas is the goal for our students as we support our teachers in this work:
SAMR Framework SAMR is an acronym that stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition. As instructors integrate technology tools into instruction, the model can be used to determine whether the technology application is enhancing or transforming the learning. The model, created by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, has four levels that explain the increasing impact of the integration from substituting another traditional learning method (such as writing with pen and paper) to creating a completely new learning style (such as students complete and present a team project using global videoconferencing and a virtual classroom).
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If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow"
John Dewey