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Welcome to the Digital Learning Plan (DLP) monthly newsletter. This newsletter will explore the Wyoming Department of Education’s (WDE) DLP, its goals, and suggested strategies to ensure equitable access to opportunities and success in postsecondary, career, and civic life. Future newsletters will provide resources for districts to create their own action and implementation plans for achieving these goals.
What to expect in this issue:
1. Future Ready Gear 5
2. Innovative Idea
3. Professional Development
4. Coming up Next
Future Ready Gear 5
Community partnerships include the formal and informal local and global community connections, collaborative projects, and relationships that advance the school’s learning goals. Digital communications, online communities, social media, and digital learning environments often serve as connectors for these partnerships.
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The elements that comprise this Gear are as follows:
- Local Community Engagement and Outreach.
- Global and Cultural Awareness.
- Digital Learning Environments as Connectors to Local/Global Communities.
- Parental Communication and Engagement.
- District Brand.
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Community partnerships include the formal and informal local and global community connections, collaborative projects, and relationships that advance the school’s learning goals. Digital communications, online communities, social media, and digital learning environments often serve as connectors for these partnerships.
GOALS
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WDE Strategies
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| Develop learning spaces in local communities that engage all learners (K-12), postsecondary, business, parents, and community members. |
- Open Range Wyoming
- Statewide PLC’s
- CS Education
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| Develop partnerships between K-12 system, postsecondary institutions, and libraries that enable opportunities to learn from each other and leverage resources. |
- Open Range Wyoming
- Wyoming Innovations in Learning Conference
- K-20 Statewide LMS
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| Students have access to learning opportunities beyond the school walls by connecting to local community, national, and global partners. |
- Open Range Wyoming
- K-20 Statewide LMS
- WCCI
- CS Education
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To learn more about the WCCI (Wyoming Classroom Connectivity Initiative), click here.
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Innovative Idea
Open Range Wyoming
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The WDE is dedicated to creating and sharing high-quality units, lessons, and resources that have been aligned to current Wyoming State Content Standards. The Department wants to ensure that all resources shared with our educators are of superior quality, are easy to download and customize for their students, and serve as a tool to increase student engagement and achievement.
 Open Range Wyoming is an Open Educational Resource (OER) hub on the OER Commons website. It will launch this August. Wyoming districts and schools can make use of this hub to bring groups of educators together to create, organize, and share OER collections that meet their common goals. One of the most valuable features of this website is the groups component. Groups enable teachers to join other teachers across the state in sharing content, collaborating, and discussing student success opportunities. Through this community engagement Wyoming educators will be creating bridges from districts across the state.
If you would like to learn more about OER and the Open Range hub, contact Alisa Cook at 307-777-3679 or alisa.cook1@wyo.gov.
Stay tuned for official launch details coming later this summer.
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Student Led Conferences
Carbon County School District #2 had an extreme drop in participation from parents at their parent-teacher conferences. In order to address this issue they decided to try a student-led conference structure after research and discussion with the staff. This structure is meant to allow more student interaction, students to take responsibility for their learning, and for more parent-student interaction. After the decision to move forward with this structure, there had to be a way for students to collect and share work.
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The traditional method is for students to have a notebook, binder or folder where they keep artifacts and reflections of their work from each class. One of the teachers decided to show students how to create Google sites in order to keep track of their work and reflections for each course. Students can upload samples of work, reflections and goals with each course. The students can then share this digital portfolio with teachers and parents.
This is still a work in progress and they are making adjustments in order to get to the goal of more parental involvement. One area they are working on is the ability for students to do a “conference” even if parents cannot attend conference night with their digital portfolio. They have logistics to work out, but this idea can help accomplish the goals of increasing student accountability, increasing student-parent communication, and increasing parent involvement.
If you would like to learn more about how student led conferences can work at your school contact Steven Priest at spriest@crb2.org.
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Digital Learning Upcoming Professional Development
SCRIPT
- The WDE will be offering Strategic CSforALL Resource & Implementation Planning Tool (SCRIPT) Training. The SCRIPT training will give districts the opportunity to think through the various aspects needed to provide equitable, high-quality computer science education in their district.
- Please consider applying to attend one of these amazing trainings:
- Afton: September 16-17, 2019, March 4, 2020, and September 16, 2020
Contact Robin Grandpre at 307-777-5315 or robin.grandpre1@wyo.gov or visit the Computer Science webpage for more information.
Open Education Resources Summer Workshops:
- July 10th and 11th-Green River, WY (1 spot left).
- July 22nd and 23rd-Jackson, WY.
- July 25th and 26th-Gillette, WY.
For more information, contact Alisa Cook at 307-777-3679 or alisa.cook1@wyo.gov. Register Today!
Canvas
For more information, contact Robin Grandpre at 307-777-5315 or robin.grandpre1@wyo.gov.
Quality Matters (QM) Online Course Review, Teaching and Development
- Districts can schedule a workshop for any time of the year.
- QM courses are also available online year round.
- All QM training is sponsored by the WDE.
For more information, contact Lori Thilmany at 307-777-7418 or lori.thilmany@wyo.gov.
Wyoming Innovations in Learning Conference
- Nov. 6-8, 2019 (preconferences Nov. 5-6) - Gillette, WY.
- Sign-up for the Innovations Showcase on Nov. 6.
For more information, contact Robin Grandpre at 307-777-5315 or robin.grandpre1@wyo.gov.
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Stay Tuned
Next month’s Digital Learning Plan Newsletter will introduce:
- Personalized Professional Learning.
For more information, on the DLP, or the Future Ready Frameworks, or if you have an innovative idea to share, contact Alisa Cook at 307-777-3679 or alisa.cook1@wyo.gov.
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