#CUE16 - Day 2 and 3

#CUE16 Student Power Showcase

My CUE day 2 began with an inspiring keynote from Code.org CEO and Founder, Hadi Partovi. Hadi reminded attendees of America's proud future in inventing the computer and the need to continue to inspire the next generation of computer programmers. Hadi highlighted the new Inland Area Consortium with Code.org which includes Jurupa Unified.

Robert Craven, CTO for Tustin Unified shared the work he is doing to create a 1:1 deployment guide in partnership with CUE. Some of the key insights he shared was to use student, staff and parent surveys as well as infographics from Haiku and other platforms to show the benefits of going 1:1.

Next up was a student data and security session from Angela Larkin, Program Manager from Google. Highlights of the session included: 

• Students can view all personally identifiable information. 
• If Google did have a data breach (let's hope not!), the district would be responsible for notifying all students.

Coachella Valley USD's Darryl Adams, Michlelle Murphy and Israel Oliveros shared how their IT department has evolved with the California Standards and SBAC. These changes have lead them to focus more on customer service, operational effectiveness and ensuring that computer techs are aware of the California Standards so they can be better prepared to support teachers. 

My Friday ended with an amazing Inland Area CUE affiliate meeting. Ina Arbuckle's Jason Atkinson and Mira Loma Middle's Mary Ward received awards for their work with the Student Powered Showcase. The affiliate meeting was a great time to network with other like minded colleagues from the area. 

Day 2 ended with the annual JUSD CUE dinner. Our group is getting bigger every year. 

Saturday was an incredible day seeing JUSD students participate in the Student Powered Showcase. The event is designed to help us reflect on how students are learning by doing. This was a special year for JUSD as two projects from JUSD were chosen to participate. Temecula Unified was the only other district in Riverside County to have a presentation in the showcase. Way to go JUSD! JUSD was represented by a Sparki the robot project by Jason Atkinson's Ina students and Mary Ward's Mira Loma Middle students wind power project. Both were very impressive. Special thanks to our CBO Paula Ford @pfordjusd and our board trustee Mr. Robert Garcia @gamiroo1969 for making the trip out to support our students. 

Student Power at the CUE Student Powered Showcase.

#CUE16 Day 1

 @veronicajusd, @edtechgypsy, @joseramirezjusd, @richardsroom16 and I had a chance to discuss #JUSDdigitalgateway with @tomtorlakson.

My #CUE16 journey began with a pep talk from  @iamkidpresident who reminded us we were made to be awesome.

@pgilders shared how her staff is personalizing their learning by creating personal learning plan. Professional learning in her district is broad-based, inclusive of classified staff, geared to inspire passion, intentional. Many professional learning options were shared including virtual collaboration using Voxter and Skype. In her blog pgliders.com , Pam shares recommendations for those interested in Leadership, Education and 21st Century Learning. The biggest take away was to get out of our comfort zone.

Esther Kligman shared the power of multiple primary resources to help students gain a deeper understanding of history and the complexity of the past. 

Joanna Conrado, Teacher Tech Coach from Ballico-Cressey School District shared several strategies using Google resources to teach writing skills, promote collaboration and publish writing. Many of their resources including their CUE presentation can be found here.

Here's an example of how a teacher pushes out an image to students and then asks them to write what the character is thinking or saying. 

This was an example of a picture that was shared to help students develop character by asking them to describe who is in the picture using creative details. 



In my final session Jeremy Davis, executive director, Capistrano Unified, explained how they were able to deploy 24,000 chromebooks in 24 months (#24in24). Jeremy's homepage for all users of Chrome is a genius idea we will need to develop in Jurupa. As part of the initiative parents, students and teachers were surveyed to capture the impact of the tools (chromebooks) in the classrooms. Jeremy shared many inspiring quotes on failure include (FAIL=First Attempt In Learning).

My first day ended with a CTO focus group. As a group we discussed the challenges, opportunities and specific next steps the CDE can take to support our work. The main topics discussed included Data Privacy, Equity of Access, and Infrastructure. Some of the ideas from the brain trust included:

• Data Privacy Certification similar to the new mandated reporting and sexual harassment trainings. 
• Equity of Access - Susan McPeak is advocating for Internet For All Now. The homework gap is a reflection of the income divide and opportunity divide. Access delayed is access denied. Charter article regarding affordable internet. 
• Infrastructure - The Common Core Standards require more bandwidth than SBAC. We can't have one-time funding for devices and infrastucture. We need to develop a minimum bandwidth needed for CCSS (not just SBAC) and receive adequate funding.