Technology
to Improve Instruction
• A Vision for
Technology
…and
affording it
• North
Carolina’s
Instructional
Improvement
System
Why Invest and Use Technology?
• Teachers can have better information to tailor
instruction.
• Classrooms will be richer and more engaging
environments.
• Students can connect to the world.
• Digital learning offers new opportunities for
individualization.
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Technology
3 Key Categories
Instruction
Interconnections
Things
Application  Support
Services  Infrastructure
Digital Devices  Tools
Ensuring
pressing
Enter
helps
students
learn
Making
sure that
pressing
Enter
always
works
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Something
on which
to press
Enter
% used in this graphic are meant to start a conversation about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology-enabled classrooms for all
students in 2014-15.
Technology is Important…
and we can afford it through Partnership
Instruction
Interconnections
Things
Application  Support
Services  Infrastructure
Digital Devices  Tools
50%
LEA
50%
Currently
Shared
Partnership
State
80%
LEA
20%
State
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% used in this graphic are meant to start a conversation about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology-enabled classrooms for all
students in 2014-15.
Interconnections
Services  Infrastructure
Interconnections
Services  Infrastructure
Estimated
Current
Future Goal
Responsibility for
Interconnections
Services  Infrastructure
Responsibility for
Interconnections
Services  Infrastructure
80%
20%
LEA
LEA
20%
80%
State
State
Currently
Shared
Partnership
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Technology
3 Key Categories
Instruction
Interconnections
Things
Application  Support
Services  Infrastructure
Digital Devices  Tools
Ensuring
pressing
Enter
helps
students
learn
Making
sure that
pressing
Enter
always
works
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Something
on which
to press
Enter
Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
▲
Why an Instructional Improvement System?
Improve and personalize student learning
How?
Facilitate the teaching and learning process
through
• Increased access to high quality resources for all
• Provision of timely and relevant information and data
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Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
What tools and resources will be available?
Learner Profiles Clear picture of your students and their needs
Instructional Resources
Tools for you such as unit plans, online learning
objects and media-enriched tasks
Assessment Tools, Interim and diagnostic assessment items for use
Items and Strategies in your classrooms; formative best-practices
Resources to improve and reflect on your
PD Resources and
practice and tools to manage your professional
Management development
Tools to display, understand and use data to
Dashboards and
drive instruction and professional development
Analytics choices
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Instructional Improvement System
Why – How – What -- When
▲
Developing this Spring 2012
RFP Issue
Review
Proposals
Feb – March
April – June
Becoming Available
SLI Pilot
July
2012
IIS Pilot
Early 2013 
Determine
Partner
July – August
Phased-In
Roll out
Starting
2013-14
School Year
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Design and
Build
August 