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Statement should include: philosophy 1. **Primary communication tool** (Ryan) - consistency with assignment postings and time of day - discipline - attendance - grades (?) (wait for Dept Chairs comments) access- who- (students, parents?) posting- weekly, monthly? - supplemental status reports -- tech is used to communicate ss reports. - min. usage of hardcopy materials -- encourage use of pdfs, websites, documents in order to min usage of hardcopy materials - etexts when available - websites for suppliments model proper usage of technology and equipment

//After school hours communication policy is at the discretion of the course instructor and should be communicated to students (rework this sentence) While students are encouraged to check email during non-school hours it is at the discretion of each teacher to determine their specific availability.

It is critical for the teacher to communicate their availability after school hours.//

2. **teach student technology skills** (Jason) - what technology core skills do we want students to leave Ensworth with? - foster groupwork - effective online research skills - knowledge of copyrights and usage - faculty should be educated and comfortable with using technology - imovies - Word - SketchPad - Fathom - Excel - library databases //Teacher as model/mentor of responsible use of technology; identify the ways technology can be used correctly and negatively, and discuss these options (and ultimately which choices are better) with their students//

3. **Teachers** (Anna) educated aware comfortable within curriculum as determined by Dept Chair (insert statement here from Anna/Science Dept): //Ensworth High School teachers should (do their best to) be aware, educated, and comfortable with technology and laptop methods that enhance and expand learning opportunities for their students and within their curriculum.//

4. **Ongoing Faculty Development and support** (Tory) Ensworth administration provides time and training to faculty to support ongoing usage of technology - allow time for cross-curriculum demonstrations and training -train the trainer (teacher's sharing, in house training, out of school training, conference sharing, classroom coverage, 2 campus 1 school

5. **Disclaimer** to parents concerning laptops and technology access after school hours (Jean) - parental supervision - acceptable use statement - proper academic usage //"summer course" or technology orientation prior to new freshman receiving a laptop?// (Jason, please add small summer school statement)

Statement Draft The use of laptop computers is a critical tenet of the Ensworth learning experience. Through the integration of laptops and related technology, students are introduced to learning on the individual, group, collaborative and global community levels. To foster these varied, yet critical, learning opportunities, Harkness tables and laptops provide an open and engaging environment for the Ensworth student. In addition, laptops provide a vital cache of skills that go far beyond Ensworth and immediately prepare them life in a fast-paced media-centric world. The skills range from practical experience with a wide variety of computer applications to research to cyber citizenry and ethics. Ensworth students will matriculate with a strong knowledge in the following programs and cyber skills.

- Word Processing - Spreadsheets - Presentation Tools - Movie Creation - Geometer’s Sketchpad - Fathom - Data Analysis Tools - Web 2.0 Tools (Blogs, Wikis, etc.) - Online Research - Online Databases - Copyright and Fair Use

//Each instructor at Ensworth High School is provided with a personal laptop to supplement and benefit their teaching practice.// The laptop is used to integrate technological components into subject curriculum, as appropriate for their particular subject area. For this reason, Instructors strive to be aware, educated, and comfortable with technology and laptop methods that enhance and expand learning opportunities for their students and within their curriculum. As appropriate modeling of technology use is vital to student knowledge and use of laptops in a responsible way, Instructors are expected to use laptops consistently as an integral part of the Ensworth program. This includes the daily posting of homework assignments as well as the use of electronic textbooks when available, maintaining attendance, and disciplinary records, communication with parents through email, supplemental status reports and course grades. Instructors use their laptops for educational purposes during instruction and in student environments. The unity of these two groups, students and faculty, is a powerful collaboration in creating an environment of critical thinking, reasoning, and innovation that will continue to serve both throughout their careers.

 The Ensworth Technology Department has full access to every laptop when the laptop is on campus, but when students access the Internet away from school, the content filters that control and block access to social sites; ie MySpace while on campus are not blocked at home due to the various personal services our Ensworth families subscribe to. We are in partnership with parents to protect our students from cyber-predators by encouraging parents to check where their child is searching and read their child's social networking page on a regular basis.

The administration of Ensworth High School will provide time and training to faculty to support the ongoing usage of technology. This time will allow for cross-curricular demonstrations and training as well as sharing among current faculty members. Support will also be provided for teachers to pursue out of school training in the form of conferences and school visits. Classroom coverage will be provided to facilitate these endeavors.

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