Communication and Collaboration!
Essential Questions and Focus Topics!
Essential Questions!
1. How can technology best be utilized to help us overcome communication barriers!
2. How can technology help us streamline communication (while simultaneously
accommodating personal preferences)?!
3. How can technology be used to promote collaboration across schools-beyond the school-
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student/teacher/parents?!
Focus Topics!
1. Communicating shifts in curriculum and instruction along with outcomes to parents!
2. Emerging technology!
3. Social media - different levels of engagement in social media among schools. !
4. Accessibility!
5. Expectations of communication including response time, frequency, multiple venues,
push/pull information!
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Gap Statements!
CC1.1 Baseline expectations for the district in terms of disseminating information to parents
need to be defined.!
CC1.2 Expectations for regular communication with families, regarding technology,
curriculum and instruction need to be defined.!
CC1.3 Clarification of what gets communicated from district, school and classroom levels is
needed.!
CC1.4 Clarification of when to use different communication tools (School Messenger, blog,
etc.) is needed.!
CC2.1 There are a lot of resources but there is not a clear standard set for communication.!
CC3.1 Access to social media at work is ubiquitous. Each school has different levels of
engagement, naming conventions for their handles, and access to tools.!
CC4.1 If parents are not aware or active on the Internet, then they may not be getting the
opportunities to communicate and collaborate. It is difficult to keep track of which families
have do not have access to technology and who might be missing communication as a result.!
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