Participants - 26 Projects
These 26 projects, involving 29 jurisdictions, were selected to be part of this initiative.
| Authority Name | Description |
| Theme 1: Enhancing Educational Technology Leadership Capacity | |
| Black Gold Regional Division No. 18 | Making A Difference: Developing A Shared Vision Through Technology Leadership This project, in partnership with the 2Learn.ca Education Society and the Alberta Teachers’ Association, will involve all school-based and central office administrators in the development and maintenance of a shared vision for innovative teaching and learning. Administrators will use Web 2.0 software and social networking tools to develop a common understanding of technology integration. They will focus on how to support teachers in a digital age learning culture and how to lead by example in their own use of Web 2.0 tools. |
| Calgary School District No. 19 | Supporting Innovative Classrooms - Enhancing Educational Technology Leadership Capacity This project models and provides self-paced, anytime, anyplace learning for Calgary Board of Education principals and assistant principals on topics related to best practice in 21st century learning environments. Creating a responsive, flexible and accessible learning community will develop new opportunities for shared leadership. |
| Edmonton Catholic Separate School District No. 7 | The iLEAD Institute: Leadership for 21st Century Learning Communities Innovative Leadership for Educational Administrator Development (iLEAD) This project is a professional learning program focused on providing leaders with the tools they need to build 21st century learning communities in which innovation and continuous improvement in the integration of technology is routine. The project will involve all school-based principals, district principals, assistant superintendents and school board trustees in a wide variety of experiences and discussions. |
| Elk Island Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 41 | Project ITLT: Innovative Teaching and Learning with Technology: Enhancing Educational Technology Leadership Capacity in Elk Island Catholic Schools This project will develop leadership skills and implement a shared vision to meet the needs of learners through innovative teaching and learning with technology. This project will involve 31 school-based administrators and five division senior administrators in face-to-face professional development and webinars with a focus on effective leadership practices. |
| Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14 | Engage - Transforming Leadership This project will involve principals, assistant principals and Central Office administrators in the development and delivery of a professional learning initiative focused on enhancing educational technology leadership. |
| Foothills School Division No. 38 | Toward a Shared Vision of Transformational Educational Leadership This project, in partnership with Galileo Educational Network Association, will create a professional development program focused on transformational leadership. All Kindergarten to Grade 9 administrators from 16 sites will use a variety of technologies, such as social networking tools and videoconferencing, to further develop their leadership skills in sustaining a 21st century culture that supports optimal learning through quality teaching. |
| Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4 | Anytime, Anywhere Technology: Building Capacity Through Professional Learning This project, in partnership with the University of Lethbridge, will develop and implement a leadership program to further the knowledge and understanding of technology and its effective use in the classroom. This project will involve 13 principals, 18 associate principals and six senior administrators taking part in a series of learning events presented in a number of different ways including videoconferencing and webinars. All learning materials will be posted online for anywhere, anytime access. |
| Lethbridge School District No. 51 | Building Leadership Capacity – Implementing and Assessing A Shared Technology Vision Among District Schools This project will help school leaders and district administrators build leadership capacity and create a shared vision and responsive culture for innovative teaching and learning enabled by technology. The program includes a combination of just-in-time professional development, online collaboration, technology training and on-site support. |
| Medicine Hat School District No. 76 | Increasing School Technology Leadership for the 21st Century This project aims to increase jurisdictional leadership capacity through a professional development program to support the integration of technology. The program focuses on the principal as instructional leader and concentrates on fostering 21st century literacy and critical thinking skills. All school principals, a lead teacher from each site and three administrators will participate. |
| Parkland School Division No. 70 | Supporting Leaders to Integrate Technology This project focuses on further enhancing the integration of technology in student and staff learning by building the educational technology leadership capacity of school and divisional administrators and using collaborative portal technology. Ongoing learning supported by onsite coaching and mentoring as well as leveraging the portal to enhance communication and collaboration will enable the implementation of a culture of innovative leadership and learning. |
| St. Albert Protestant Separate School District No. 6 | Leadership for Learning through Technology This project, in partnership with Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium, will develop a leadership professional development program focused on the planning and management of technology for teaching and learning. The project will include 38 leaders, including superintendents and jurisdiction/school administrators. The program will consist of face-to-face professional development sessions, supplemented with videoconferences, webinars, and video clips to meet the individual needs of participants. |
| Westwind School Division No. 74 | Creating a Culture of Collaborative Leadership for the Support of Innovative Classrooms This project will involve administrators in professional learning for technology leadership capacity. Strategies for recognizing evidence of 21st century student learning and for supporting innovative classrooms will be modeled. Guided practice using modern digital tools will be provided through on-site coaching to ensure that pedagogically sound uses of technology are fully understood and effectively supported. |
| Theme 2: Enhancing Information Technology Leadership Capacity | |
| Northern Gateway Regional Division No. 10 | Rural School Local Area Network (LAN) Administrator Capacity DevelopmentThis project is designed to train current support staff and students to support the technologies critical to teaching and learning in schools. This will allow schools in rural areas to access timely support for classroom technology. |
| Theme 3: Software as a Service | |
| Aspen View Regional Division No. 19 | Software Any-time, Any-where: An Enterprise Approach to Software This project will focus on the centralization of educational software on a cluster of servers. The server cluster will provide hardware redundancy to minimize downtime. Educational software will run off the server cluster and will be organized and secured via web portal software. This project will increase access for students and teachers from any suitable computer with Internet access and reduce technical time since no workstation installations will be required for portal based software. |
| Golden Hills School Division No. 75 | Anytime, Anywhere Software with Manageable Management This project will install a virtual application server that pushes applications to any user’s desktop to allow for anywhere, anytime access to software while maintaining functionality and improving response time. These server-based applications will then be streamed, on demand, to desktop and mobile users (including student-owned devices) within the jurisdiction's domain. |
| Wild Rose School Division No. 66 | Providing Exemplary Services to Students and Staff of Wild Rose Public SchoolsThis project will restructure the delivery, support, and maintenance of applications. Recent application virtualization technologies allow the decoupling of the traditional application layer from a specific piece of hardware. Applications can then be consolidated into a centralized and supported structure with much more efficient deployment. The hope is to mitigate and/or eliminate many current application challenges, such as proprietary and difficult to install applications, applications specific to an individual, legacy applications and non-network applications. |
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Theme 3/4: Software as a Service / Innovative Technology Management Solutions |
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| Wolf Creek School Division No. 72 | Leveraging the Success of One-to-One Mobile Computing This project will explore how two technologies might help overcome two significant challenges in extending one-to-one benefits to more students. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a technology approach designed to increase the rapidity and flexibility of application deployment, while Network Access Control (NAC) is a technology that will allow Wolf Creek to extend network services to student-owned devices without jeopardizing the core network assets of Wolf Creek. The project will focus on supporting learning in the Social Studies classrooms of two high schools. |
| Theme 4: Innovative Technology Management Solutions | |
| Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 | Innovative Technology Management The project will implement an innovative management solution to provide anytime, anywhere access to district networks for students and teachers. A virtualized desktop environment will be developed and tested to address security, licensing and accessibility concerns. The pilot project will be implemented in the jurisdiction’s middle and high schools. |
| Edmonton School District No. 7 | Anytime, Anywhere Access: Student Portal Ed This project will implement a new online portal called “Ed”. Ed will deliver anytime, anywhere access to district resources for students and provide the flexibility for schools to increase access to technology by enabling student-owned devices to be used alongside school-owned devices in school. Providing students with a secure, online portal will support new teaching and learning strategies that go beyond the walls of the school. |
| Greater Southern Separate Catholic Francophone Education Region No. 4 | 21st Century Learning – Anytime, AnywhereThis project will develop and implement provisions for anytime, anywhere access to district networks for students, teachers and parents through a learning management system. |
| Lakeland Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 150 | Inspiring and Supporting Learning This project will implement timely deployment, maintenance and inventory of mobile equipment to support 21st century learning. Management processes and software customization will be completed over the jurisdiction’s wireless network infrastructure with the intent to efficiently image, inventory, support and sustain laptops in three remote communities. |
| Prairie Land Regional Division No. 25 | BYOL - Bring Your Own Laptop This project will permit the use of personal laptops on school networks to improve access to computers. The jurisdiction will put in place measures to ensure students and staff can safely and securely use personal devices to reach network resources. |
| Prairie Rose School Division No. 8 | Program Installation, Monitoring, and Anytime Access (PIMA) This project will implement a new network model that will include automated programs, such as remote software installation. Through the use of server-based applications, students and staff will have seamless use of personally owned devices in schools. The main goal of the project is anytime, anywhere access for staff and students. |
| Red Deer Public School District No. 104 | Creating Efficiencies Through Virtualization This project will optimize the day-to-day tasks of managing technology in the jurisdiction’s data centre. Red Deer Public will increase the overall efficiency of its network and create the ability to bring non-jurisdiction-owned devices onto the network. |
| Sturgeon School Division No. 24 | Removing the Walls - Anytime/Anywhere Access to the Sturgeon Network This project will enhance instructional process, providing students with access to teaching and learning resources posted by teachers, on and off campus, using personal or district-owned computers. Students will be able to retrieve and post assignments; access lessons, research tools and information; and collaborate with their peers using an online learning management system. The project will also use technology to provide greater opportunities for parents to communicate with teachers and to have greater access to timely information about their child’s achievement. |
| Theme 5: Shared Services Solutions | |
| Northern Consortium Fort Vermilion School Division No. 52 High Prairie School Division No. 48 Northland School Division No. 61 Peace Wapiti School Division No. 76 |
Building Capacity: Leadership for change, managing and maintaining technologyThis project will form a consortium of four rural jurisdictions to share technical services in identified areas of expertise. Each jurisdiction will develop expertise in specific areas through professional development, and assist the others in their implementation of that technology. The intent is to develop expertise in a variety of areas and share that expertise with the partner jurisdictions while exploring the benefits of the consortium approach. |
Updated April 2013
