4.+Pilots+next+year?

*I'd like to see "whole" grade levels be a part of the pilot. (Ex. the whole third grade at Lakeside) At the high school, a possible pilot would a core, or cross curricular subject and planning.

 * Could the 3rd and 4th grade pilot students stay together as a class? (Ideal if they could go from one pilot classroom to another pilot classroom)
 * Could we track the student progress over mulitple years in the pilot?

==*Affirmative, we need to add additional pilots. Would like to have staff apply early, so we can bring them into the training, and then new group would go to BC as well as current group. This would allow our district a critical mass to begin a training site for all.==
 * Can we identify the new pilots by the semester? (Even if we know we can only have 2 or 3 right now.... get them going and then keep apps and add more when funds allow
 * Can the new pilots shadow us the rest of the year so they dont' feel so overwelmed over the summer or begin of year? (Could start using tools and doing things on a smaller scale with their kids this year)
 * Could we get carts into the new pilots room at the end of the year this year so they can experiment with tools to prepare for a smooth start?

*Possibly one cart per grade level at elementary. Need to keep integrating at a slower pace, so one cart would work between teachers in a grade level.

 * Is this a good stepping stone in the elementary?
 * Could we have 1 cart to rotate at the elem level and the lab? Using the 2nd grade to put into a specific grade level... ex. 5th grade teachers share 1 cart

*Present pilot teachers should report out to whole staff on successes.

 * Could pilots present at conferences?
 * Could we schedule pilot teachers into staff meeting time? (Show the staff little by little what is going on... they can pick up on what they could use after seeing the success)

*Roll out to earliest grade levels at elementary (2nd), ms (6th) and (h.s.) third......work to roll upwards through the schools. Maybe even roll the entire program out over three years.

 * Is 2nd grade too young? (Should 2nd focus on just the core basic skills? saving, in/out, etc...)
 * Should we be building this from the bottom level up? (elem instead of k-12)

*Would love to see this technology rolled out in February -- perhaps dedicate one day of the professional development to the applications and technology.

 * Should we offer lots of cross curricular technology session in February PD?

*Identify in each building teachers who would be willing to be the leaders/guides/standard bearers for this next level of technology.

 * Could we give these people a chance to share? technology lunches? etc...

*Encourage students in the middle school and high school to bring their own laptops to the classroom. Then using the funds to purchase the computers for the elementary.

 * If we push that how many more computers would we have a lot more?... could we put these kids together and make another pilot out of their personal laptops? (Money Saving$$$)
 * Could Middle School and High School easily expand pilots by students personal laptops?

*We need to take away what we learned from the pilots this year to get ALL pilot classroom up and running on day one next year

 * e-mail
 * passwords
 * cart orginizations
 * carts in classroom week before school starts ready to go
 * Ning/Kablink