Digital Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students are able to improve their skills to create a more engaging and effective education process. Here are the ways that a comprehensive digital transformation approach is dramatically shifting education in today's classrooms. Support for this toolkit generously provided by SHI.

A Culture for Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students can create a more engaging and effective education process

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Digital Transformation in K-12 Education

Digital tools are transforming the world we live in today, as well as the one our students will lead tomorrow

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The Keys to Digital Transformation

Digital transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that are relevant, valuable, and help build tangible skills

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Embracing Transformation

Today’s schools must embrace the technological future and engage with technology to change and adapt

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Digital Transformation and Disruption

Digital natives demand mobile devices in the classroom, virtual learning environments, teaching via video, and online assessment

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Managing Digital Transformation in the Classroom

This adaptable presentation shows both the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents

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Making the Right Decisions for Your School District

The success of one-to-one computing depends on several issues that must be addressed through research and policy considerations

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BYOD Planning and Implementation Framework

Developing a successful BYOD program requires extensive planning, communication, and ongoing evaluation

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BYOD Readiness Checklist for School Districts

Determine your school or district's readiness for BYOD

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Technology Policies for School Boards

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting

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Technology Policy and School Staff and Faculty

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting

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Components of a Successful PLC

A comprehensive checklist that details what all thriving Professional Learning Communities have in common

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The Decision To Go Digital

Success depends on a strong network of professionals working together to support digital programs

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Digital Curriculum Challenges

Consider the following challenges you might encounter when migrating to digital content

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Digital Curriculum Checklist

Evaluate your school’s readiness for a digital curriculum

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Mentoring and PLCs

Professional Learning Communities can act as dynamic support systems for teachers

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Common Core Approach to Lesson Structure II

Learn how to take lessons further with cross-curricular planning and project-based learning

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Opening Up to Open Educational Resources

A comprehensive guide to OER and how these teaching and learning materials are freely available to anyone

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Ready to Alter Your Role?

New tasks and challenges call for developing new abilities and setting aside old habits

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Strategies for Principals to Implement Effective PLCs

A checklist for principals in creating a culture of continuous learning for their schools

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Thinking of Flipping

Additional details on what this approach entails and the policies that impact flipped classroom

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Tablets in education: Why one Texas school district turned to the Surface

Here’s how a Texas school district narrowed down the tablet field and what option they ultimately settled on.

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Upgrading to Windows 10: How SHI helped one school migrate 45,000 devices

Here’s how one school district migrated—and staved off a major ransomware attack in the process.

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A Simple IT Environment can Harbor Complex Challenges

An upgrade in a Washington, D.C. school ballooned into a bigger project that improved the IT setup of the entire school.

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NMC/CoSN Horizon Report: 2017 K-12 Edition

A comprehensive report serving as a straightforward technology planning guide for educators, school leaders, administrators, policymakers, and technologists

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Outpacing the Traditional Ed-Tech Timeline

Discover three emerging technologies affecting our lives outside the classroom today, and see how schools could implement them tomorrow.
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SHI's Value to Digital Transformation in Schools

Enter North Carolina's Knightdale High School and see Chromebooks, 3D printers, teachers creating virtual field trips, and students rearranging maker space furniture.
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Pushing Beyond Future-Ready: Creating a Bold Context for K-12 Libraries

Rethinking the school library means being bold and thinking in disruptive directions. The question is: in what direction? David Jakes gives you four ways to jumpstart your thinking.
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STEMming the Tide: STEM Tools for All Levels of Education

Utilizing hands-on curriculum is the key to inspiring our children to pursue STEM-related fields. It is vital that these lesson plans be engaging and accessible to all students.
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Transform Teaching with the New SHI Digital Transformation Toolkit

The new Digital Transformation Toolkit —sponsored by SHI—provides vital information on the essential components of digital transformation in today’s schools and districts.
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How Learning Happens: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
New Report Released on Supporting Social, Emotional and Academic Development

The National Commission just released their 2018 report, “How Learning Happens: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development”.  
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Scholastic Tool for Teaching Civic Engagement

Scholastic recently launched We the People, a free online tool focused on civics education and media literacy for students in grades 4–10. 
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Not the Same Old Story: Tech and Text Work Better Together

Just as deeper reading creates better writers, this skill helps students to break down narrative as media consumers so that they may become more skillful creators.
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YALSA's Teen Literacies Toolkit

YALSA (the Young Adult Library Services Association) has just released its Teen Literacies Toolkit to help teens make sense of their digital world.   
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Cloud Computing in Education: Tip of the Iceberg

The past four years have seen a radical shift in how K-12 schools are deploying and managing devices, due almost exclusively to low-cost Chromebooks. For many IT departments, gone are the days of creating gold builds, overnight image pushes, and even shared network drives to manage student data and devices. The replacement is, of course, the software side of the Chromebook offering: G Suite for Education.
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