MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
In the Future of Education,
We’re All Students
How West Warwick Public Schools is Blazing the Trail for Shared
Educational Leadership
Just a few years ago, West Warwick Public
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Schools (WWPS) became a 1:1 Chromebook
school district as part of the “early adopter”
Recording of student reading to evaluate
their reading ability
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Recording and examining thought
program. Since putting 4,500 Chromebooks processes as a student works toward
in the hands of students, faculty and staff completing a math problem in order to see
across the district, WWPS has witnessed where they may be missing the mark in
vast improvements in measurable student solving the answer
outcomes as well as success in teacher
collaboration and lesson planning beyond
the walls of the classroom - and they are
just getting started. Currently, WWPS utilizes
educational technology tools more than any
other school district.
Beyond the physical device itself are myriad
programs and dashboards that take the
learning environment to the next level. In a
dashboard called “Collections,” which serves as
a Pinterest of sorts for teachers, colleagues can
share ideas and collaborate. Similarly, students
This past June, West Warwick teachers and teachers can collaborate on a dashboard
received a new set of Chromebooks that have called, “Playlist” in which they engage in a
advanced capabilities to assist in the classroom Distributed Leadership Model to share lesson
and collaborating with other faculty including: planning and curriculum formulation – a pride
• Flip tools with a writing stylus point for Jim Monti, Director of Educational
• The ability to record conferences Reform, Compliance and Technology at WWPS
and webinars and his team.
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Advanced data intelligence that collects
student information and presents it to the
teacher to help them interpret where they
could do better
• Speech to text capabilities
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“We found very early on in our testing of
the Distributed Leadership Model that the
more teachers and students collaborate, the
better the outcomes for everyone involved,”
said Monti.
Stronger Together
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