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End of Year Report

2016-17

iZone supports a community of schools that embrace innovative strategies to promote personalized learning. We facilitate initiatives that empower teachers, administrators, students and parents with resources and strategies for personalization to include online content, real-time data, educational practices and opportunities on how, where and when a student can learn.

iZone focuses on blended learning capacity building and supporting a robust NYC ed tech ecosystem. iZone programs include:

iLearnNYC Short Cycle Evaluation Challenge #SharkTankEDU

Compass Learning Pathblazer Program

Khan Academy Program

ILearnNYC Certification

This report provides an overview of each program to include the activities and events.

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iZone End of Year Report 2016-17

iLearnNYC Program Overview

iLearnNYC is a community of schools implementing blended and online learning to expand current school courses and support various classroom styles to create more student-centered environments. iLearnNYC schools have access to a web-based learning management system (LMS) and receive support from a designated Implementation Manager, 24/7 help desk, and customized professional development workshops.

iLearnNYC enables students to:

Access online content, assignments, and discussion forums anytime. Work at their own pace Monitor and reflect on their progress Collaborate online with teachers and students. Take Advanced Placement courses and access expanded course offerings. Own a Digital ePortfolio that will showcase their best work and follow them through their DOE career

iLearnNYC enables teachers to: Differentiate instruction. Enhance and customize existing courses with third party and original content. Monitor the progress of the students in real time. Communicate and collaborate with other iLearnNYC teachers. Develop and enhance their Professional Pedagogical Skills and Toolsets Use their own creativity, energy and unique perspectives in creating their own digital content

iLearnNYC provides large scale and customized professional development to:

Administrators and teachers on visioning and blended learning implementation. Provide customized onsite consultations and professional development workshops. Provide tiered professional development on blended pedagogy. Provide citywide professional development opportunities during Chancellor’s PD day. Site coordinators on programming and course creation.

Principals and school leaders, focused on the implementation models of iLearn School and interactive face-to-face workshops.

Participation Data

Utilization

Active Teachers = 1,078 down from 1,414 last year due to changes in school leadership, teacher turnover and funding

Active Students = 13,809 down from 17,798 last year due to changes in school leadership, teacher turnover and funding

Schools = 180 schools down from 200 active school last year. The number of active schools is lower this year due to school closings and changes in school leadership.

Active iLearnNYC Courses = 3,874 down from 4,982 last year

Course Enrollments = 45,598 up from 42,234. This increase is what we hoped to see. We continue to build capacity at participating schools year over year and they continue to grow their iLearnNYC program.

See Appendix B for School Leader survey.


Professional Development

Provided 123 Workshops – up from 43 workshops last year. See the Appendix A for titles

2162 attendees

Full Day Professional Development Conferences

November 8: Innovation Institute

• 290 participants

• 44 workshops

January 30: Innovation Institute II

• Keynote – Alan November


• 22 workshops

June 8: iLearnNYC End of Year Symposium


51 workshops

After School Teacher-led PD

15 After School PD by Teachers

Program Feedback

“I would say that one notable accomplishment would be the translation of the PD into lessons that created the

opportunities for Middle School students to experience CS in the classroom. The training of teachers in a blended learning

environment is another accomplishment in itself. Both of these benefited both students and teachers. The students, for being

given the chance to experience engaging and technology-driven lessons, and the teachers for being given the capacity and

confidence to use technology to teach science concepts using computer simulations and models.”

“I have a Bilingual class and using the technology, I was able to differentiate for both my Spanish speaking students and

my English speaking students, which led to an overall engagement in the classroom. Students were able to look at and analyze

videos in both language, research information in both languages, and incorporate their knowledge in the language that best

suited them.”

“Notable outcomes were that as a teacher I explore new ways of teaching science to my students especially unit on

ecology. Before we use to learn through videos. This year students manipulated the factors that affected the environment and

could see the real time changes.”

Support Data

Implementation Managers (IM) support schools in a variety of ways. In addition to providing onsite support, they provide support by

phone, text, PD, and webinar to meet the needs of teachers and accommodate their schedules. While site visits are critical, based on

feedback from schools and the maturity of the schools, we made a strategic shift to offer more professional development

options so that schools can build capacity. This shift resulted in 188 IM site visits to iLearnNYC schools, down from 334 site visits

last year. Additionally, our operations analyst resolved over 2500 support issues with admin console and learning management

system. These calls include, but are not limited to: course design, log in issues, and student access to content. iLearnNYC

schools include middle schools, high schools, YABC, Transfer, Hospital, as well as D75 schools.


Short-Cycle Evaluation Challenge

Program Overview

The Short Cycle Evaluation Challenge (SCEC) is an innovative process for pairing public schools with educational technology

developers to achieve three main goals:

1) Pilot promising technology products for 90 days before purchasing decisions are made;

2) Build educators’ capacity to evaluate technology products in an ongoing way; and

3) improve the information flow from schools to technology developers, so that the new tools landing in schools are better

able to meet the needs of educators in NYC, and nationally.

National Reach

iZone is a member of Learning Assembly, a national network consisting of:

LEAP innovations,

Highlander Institute,

Citizen Schools,

Digital Promise,

LearnLaunch, and

Silicon Valley Education Foundation

We are all involved in piloting and evaluating ed tech innovations with schools across the country. We work together to share

best practices that improve our programs, and scale solutions that work to set today’s students up for success. By fostering

collaboration between educators and innovators and creating transparency and consistency for the evaluation and pilot

processes, we believe we can truly transform education.

Participation Data, cohort 2016-17

Schools = 14 (eight elementary and K-8, four middle school, two high school) up from 12 last year

Teachers = 60 teachers in 17 teams up from 47 teachers last year. The increase is due to the increase in the number of participating schools.

Products Piloted = 10

Student Participants = 1,898 up from 1,050 last year

PD Hours Attended = On average, each teacher attends about 18 hour of professional development during each cycle.

Program Information

Product Reports are produced for each product implemented, including context and best practices from each pilot

school. These reports are shared nationally through the Learning Assembly.

The iZone contributed resources and materials for 11 pilots to the Learning Assembly pilot toolkit, which launched at the ASU-GSV conference in early May.

As an extension of our work, we formed an Inquiry Group of five teachers who piloted the USDOE’s Rapid-Cycle Evaluation Coach tool to analyze student achievement data for product evaluations to understand its role in building school capacity to evaluate ed tech tools.

In recognition of their leadership in SCEC and iZone work, iZone sponsored nine educators to attend one of three ed tech and personalized learning conferences for professional growth and to build school capacity.

Program Feedback

60 educators engaged in professional development for product vetting and selection; setting goals and metrics

for ed tech pilots; product use and reflection; and sharing of best practices.

51 educators and 1,898 students from Pre-K–12 grade are included in the evaluation, including weekly teacher logs,

teacher workshop and final surveys, as well as student surveys.

https://learningassembly.org/

http://www.leapinnovations.org/

http://www.highlanderinstitute.org/

https://www.citizenschools.org/

http://digitalpromise.org/

http://learnlaunch.com/

http://svefoundation.org/

http://toolkit.learningassembly.org/

https://www.asugsvsummit.com/summit-highlights


Those 51 educators completed 412 weekly logs entries over 11 weeks. As one example, they shared that they most

often used planning time to select product content to assign to students and to plan with other teachers.

76% (30/38) of teachers who completed the final survey felt that the pilot helped them learn to make more

informed ed tech purchasing decisions.

82% (32/38) of teachers who completed the final survey felt that the pilot helped them learn to better collaborate

around ed tech.

92% (36/38) of teachers who completed the final survey felt that the pilot helped them learn to look for evidence

of student learning in trying out an ed tech product.

Two schools hosted inter-visitations for other pilot teachers that included an introduction to the focus of their pilot,

classroom visits, and feedback discussion about practice and product.

Feedback:

“From the sharing I learned what I was doing effectively as an instructor.” ~Host educator “I learned some good ideas for using Middlebury in my class including timed check-ins with students.” ~Visiting educator Program overall:

“Having the company rep during at the workshops to pick their brain and having them offer suggestions on what to do and how to do it was a useful aspect of the pilot.” ~Middle school teacher “It was great to have our ENL teacher on our pilot team. I was able to learn so much about ELLs that I had not previously known and was happy to have students be able to use technology productively in my room concurrently with their classmates using technology in ways that were beyond their abilities due to language barriers.” ~Elementary teacher “The most successful part of the pilot was seeing student improvement and engagement.” ~Elementary teacher

Program overall:

“I love the program and the opportunity to explore new products without the cost. I feel like my opinion counts, that my voice

is being heard and that what I say affects education.” ~2015-16 educator

Looking Ahead The 2017-18 pilots will begin in early September, focused on products that support middle and high school students and

evaluating if those products help students learn specific skills more effectively. Pilots will include summer professional

development as well as support through the 2017-18 school year. A major focus of SCEC 4.0 will be to provide targeted

professional development that will build school capacity to run pilots of their own in the context of their school. Prior to

edtech program implementation in schools, we had systems and frameworks in place to vet schoolbooks; we need to

continue develop systems and tools that help schools to vet edtech programs. In our decentralized system, we believe this

should happen in the context of the school, since every school is so different and has different needs. Lastly, schools are

wasting too many resources on purchasing edtech tools that do not work. SCEC 4.0 will help alleviate this issue by training

school based staff on properly piloting and evaluating tools prior to purchasing and scaling.


Pathblazer Program Program Overview

Pathblazer is a digital tool that assists teachers in creating personalized pathways of instruction for enhancing skills in

reading and mathematics in grades K-6. The differentiated learning paths assigned to students are common core

standards based and based upon students’ performance on diagnostic test results. The Pathblazer pilot is a five-year

program that started in 2016 to assist schools in accelerating learning for struggling students with individualized instruction in

mathematics and reading. The programmatic strategy was to introduce digital content to 60 elementary schools that will

increase implementation and utilization of Pathblazer’s reading and math supplemental curriculum by 2021, thereby

increasing the reach of personalized learning to the students who need it most.

Each school received a site license that grants every student in the building access to participate in the online program.

The benefits of which include:

A personalized path for learning based on individual student data and growth targets

Frequent teacher access to data for instructional planning

Potential to grow several years in achievement with recommended usage.

Participation Data

Students = 7,841 up from 4,018 last year, an indication that schools are implementing the program across more classrooms. As we continue to build capacity, we anticipate continued slight growth across the program.

Activities completed = 242,259 (~31 activities per student) up from 39,742 last year (~10 activities per student)

Average minutes on task per student = 369 minutes, or a little over six hours, per student

Teachers = 750



To assure mastery implementation, the professional development plan required the following sessions for new schools

entering the program this year. Below is a list of each and the number of participants: Fast Track - 285

Essentials I - 75

Essentials II - 0

A review of the low numbers indicated that we needed a different strategy to reach the intended users. We provided on-site professional development and coaching in lieu of central PD.

Onsite planning sessions with school leaders - 21 principals (or their designee)

Onsite professional development for teachers – 107 site visits; 670 teachers

A characteristic of schools with successful implementation is the involvement of leadership and their ability to embed the use of Pathblazer into their school’s vision. Thus, we had 3 professional development sessions geared specifically toward leaders:

Two leadership workshops provided August 2016 and January 2017.

Innovation Learning Walk at PS 273 in Queens – 10 participants

As part of our PD support, we hosted two parent workshops with 60 participants to train and share best practices to support their children with at-home use of Pathblazer.

http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/27/Q273/default.htm


Khan Academy Program Overview

Khan Academy is a non-profit education organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with this mission: provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy's website aims to provide a personalized learning experience, to anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empowers learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. The website, which includes redesigned features such as progress tracking, differentiating practice exercises, and teaching tools, is intended to be a supplement to its videos. Khan Academy also has a mobile application. Pilot cohorts began in October 2016 with select schools through an open enrollment process. As Khan Academy continues to develop, update and launch their course content we continue to expand implementation in NYC schools. In June of 2017 we extended the program and began cohort two which targeted math and science teachers from middle and high schools.. The third cohort will be open to additional content area teachers in areas such as SAT Prep, Global history and other elective courses.

Participation Data

Teacher trained- 162 from November 2016 - June 2017

Teacher Usage - 4,000 teachers with @schools.nyc.gov email domains

Active Students – 12,000 students with @schools.nyc.gov email domains

Student Usage – 106,000 minutes 2016-17 school year

Program Data

Hands-on workshops for pilot kick-off in October 2016 and June 2017

Training targets middle and high school math, high school science, and SAT prep

#SharkTankEDU events Program Overview

#SharkTankEDU events bring together educators and ed tech startups to review emerging tech solutions against real

challenges in school communities. We work to expand our partnerships with schools and product developers to increase

awareness of schools’ ed tech needs and encourage startups to meet those needs. iZone holds office hours for early stage

entrepreneurs and SharkTankEDU events with educators that include a product demo followed by a discussion.

Participation Data

Unique Educator Sharks = 90

Products Demoed = 27

Office Hours appointments as of 5/07/2017 = 40 Program Data

Seven events held in 2016-17

Event partnerships

#SharkTankEDU Event with PTALink (Sept 2016)

#SharkTankEDU Event with Estonian American Chamber of Commerce + Finnish American Chamber of

Commerce (Sept 2016)

#SharkTankEDU Event with DreamIT Ventures (Oct 2016)

#SharkTankEDU Event with NYTM (Dec 2016)

#SharkTankEDU Event – College Access (Feb 2017)

#SharkTankEDU Event with SXSWedu (Mar 2017)

#SharkTankEDU Event with Canadian Consulate General of NY (May 2017)

https://www.khanacademy.org/

http://izonenyc.org/initiatives/innovate-nyc-schools/

http://ptalink.org/

http://www.dreamit.com/

http://nytech.org/

http://www.sxswedu.com/


Program Output

Published Edtech with a Purpose: An Introductory Guide to Edtech for NYC Educators: 970 views

Published Working with NYC Schools Insights for Start-Ups Version1: 4,153 views

ILearnNYC Certification Program Program Overview

The iLearnNYC certification pilot program was initiated at the end of the 2016-17 school year to build capacity

within the iLearnNYC community. Participants who complete the certification program become iLearnNYC

Ambassadors. These ambassadors are required to be advocates for iLearnNYC, support professional development

workshops, participate in focus groups and support the iLearnNYC programs in their schools.

Participation Data: June 2017 #Teachers – 13 #Schools - 7

Program Data

Teachers using the iLearnNYC platform that showed initiative and leadership skills as well as being collaborative and

supportive were recommended by Implementation Managers for the iLearnNYC certification program. The selected

teachers must complete a series of three blended or online courses totaling 36 hours of coursework. These courses include:

Developing Course Materials; Building Assessment and Grading Learners; and Communication and Engagement with using

the Brightspace Learning Environment.


Selected teachers attended Saturday workshops for additional support on June 3, 10 and June 17.

http://www.slideshare.net/iZoneNYC/edtech-with-a-purpose-an-introductory-guide-to-education-technology-for-nyc-educators

http://www.slideshare.net/iZoneNYC/working-with-nyc-schools-insights-for-edtech-startups


Appendix A

iZone Professional Development Summary

2016-2017

Event Date Program Title Attendees

1 July-16 iLearnNYC iLead Day 2 26



4 August-16 Pathblazer Principal's Pathblazer Overview 11

5 August-16 iLearnNYC Leading with Blended Learning 8

6 August-16 SCEC Optional summer PD 14

9 September-

16 Pathblazer On site Fast Start 30Q084

66

10 September-

16 Pathblazer On site Fast Start 17K375

8

11 September-

16 Pathblazer Onsite Fast Start 04M375

4

12 September-

16 iLearnNYC Admin Console Webinars

8

13 September-

16 Pathblazer Onsite Fast Start 27Q062

43

14 September-

16 iLearnNYC Apex New User

4

15 September-

16 iLearnNYC Apex Site Coordinator

0

16 September-

16 Pathblazer Onsite Fast Start 13K305

16

17 September-

16 SCEC Workshop 2

65

18 September-

16 iLearnNYC Leading with Blended Learning

9

19 September-

16 Pathblazer Onsite Fast Start 12X061

4

20 September-

16 iLearnNYC Admin Console Webinar

4

21 October-16 Khan Academy Staff Training 8

22 October-16 iLearnNYC Admin Console Webinar

3


3


3

25 October-16 Khan Academy HS Math Teachers

18

26 October-16 Khan Academy HS Math Teachers 14

27 October-16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

3


28 October-16 iLearnNYC Free Digital Resources to Engage Your Students

2

29 October-16 iLearnNYC Apex New User

10

30 October-16 iLearnNYC Apex Site Coordinator 9


2

32 November-


4

33 November-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Build School & Parent Community

8

34 November-

16 iLearnNYC Turning it Up with Flipped Classroom

9

35 November-

16 Innovation Institute SCEC edtech pilot session

19

36 November-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

12

37 November-

16 iLearnNYC Free Digital Resources to Engage Your Students

3

38 November-

16 iLearnNYC Innovation Institute I

290

39 November-


4

40 November-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

6

41 November-

16 iLearnNYC Free Digital Resources to Engage Your Students

4

42 November-

16 iLearnNYC Turning it Up with Flipped Classroom

9

43 November-


3

44 November-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Build School & Parent Community

5

45 November-

16 iLearnNYC Turning it Up in a Flipped Classroom

21

46 December-

16 iLearnNYC We Learn Through Stories: Digital Storytelling

10

47 December-

16 iLearnNYC Web Literacy: Becoming Search Literate

4

48 December-

16 iLearnNYC Deeper Dive with Google Drive

7

49 December-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Engage Your ENL Students

24

50 December-

16 iLearnNYC

Using iPads to promote the 4c’s: -Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity

7


51 December-

16 iLearnNYC iZone Innovation Meeting (Alan November)

23

52 December-

16 iLearnNYC We Learn Through Stories: Digital Storytelling

7

53 December-

16 SCEC Workshop 3

33

54 December-

16 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Engage Your ENL Students

13

55 December-

16 iLearnNYC


15

56 January-17 iLearnNYC We Learn Through Stories: Digital Storytelling

12

57 January-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Build School & Parent Community

5

58 January-17 iLearnNYC Turning it Up with Flipped Classroom 7

59 January-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Google Classrom

2

60 January-17 iLearnNYC Blended Learning Institute Day 1 8

61 January-17 iLearnNYC Web Literacy: Becoming Search Literate

5

62 January-17 iLearnNYC Innovation Institute II 126

63 January-17 iLearnNYC Leading Change with Alan November

11

64 February-

17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Senor Wooly in Lower Level Spanish

4

65 February-

17 iLearnNYC Future Ready Learning with Alan November

15

66 February-


34

67 February-


33

68 February-

17 iLearnNYC Blended Learning Institute Day 2

5

69 February-

17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Using Verso in Any Classroom

5

70 February-

17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Duolingo Classroom, Bots and Tiny Cards

12

71 March-17 iLearnNYC: TM Digital Storytelling as an Instructional Practice

9

72 March-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Uplifting School Leaders in the 21st Century

11

73 March-17 iLearnNYC: ELI How a School Brand Communicates Vision

10


74 March-17 iLearnNYC We Learn through Stories: Digital Storytelling

18

75 March-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

13

76 March-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Google Classroom

7

77 March-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Senor Wooly in Lower Level Spanish

4

78 March-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Build School & Parent Community

7

79 March-17 iLearnNYC Turning it Up with Flipped Classroom 8

80 February-

17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Google Classroom

14

81 March-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Engage Your ENL Students

14

82 March-17 iLearnNYC


16

83 March-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Exploring Effective Digital Leadership Part 1

16

84 March-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Exploring Effective Digital Leadership Part 2

13

85 March-17 iLearnNYC Web Literacy: Becoming Search Literate

4

86 March-17 iLearnNYC Deeper Dive with Google Drive

5

87 April-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Engage Your Parent Community

9

88 April-17 iLearnNYC Turning it Up with Flipped Classroom

19

89 April-17 iLearnNYC We Learn through Stories: Digital Storytelling

8

90 April-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher-Led Going Paperless with Google Classroom

10

91 April-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Engage Your ENL Students

11

92 April-17 iLearnNYC


6

93 April-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

6

94 April-17 iLearnNYC Free Digital Resources to Enhance Your Instruction

2

95 April-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led

Google Apps for Education at Russel Sage (5

Days)

9

96 April-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led

Google Apps for Education at Russel Sage (5

Days)

13


97 April-17 iLearnNYC: ELI School Law Part 2: More Problems and Challenges Facing School Leaders

10

98 April-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Growth Mindset to Improve Student Achievement

9

99 April-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Uplifting School Leaders in the 21st Century

7

100 April-17 iLearnNYC: ELI How a School Brand Communicates Vision

9

101 April-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Google Apps for Education at PS 196Q (4 Days)

10

102 April-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Growth Mindset to Improve Student Achievement

2

103 April-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher Led Google Apps for Education at PS 196Q (4 Days)

5

104 April-17 iLearnNYC Web Literacy: Becoming Search Literate 6

105 April-17 iLearnNYC Deeper Dive with Google Drive 10

106 May-17 iLearnNYC: IDE

A Student-Driven Introduction to Transformative Technology Infusion: Beyond the $250 Pencil

14

107 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI School Law Part 2: More Problems and Challenges Facing School Leaders

3

108 May-17 iLearnNYC Tech Tools to Enhance Content Delivery and Student Engagement

18

109 May-17 iLearnNYC Free Digital Resources to Enhance Your Instruction

14

110 May-17 iLearnNYC: IDE Technology Infused Formative Assessment: GPS for the Classroom

15

111 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Uplifting School Leaders in the 21st Century

20

112 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI How a School Brand Communicates Vision

12

113 May-17 iLearnNYC: TM Digital Storytelling as an Instructional Practice

4

114 May-17 iLearnNYC: IDE Leveraging Technology for Individual Learning Paths

20

115 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI School Law Part 2: More Problems and Challenges Facing School Leaders

10

116 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Growth Mindset to Improve Student Achievement

15

117 May-17 iLearnNYC: Teacher-Led Going Paperless with Google Classroom

7

118 May-17 iLearnNYC: IDE Accountable Talk/Student Led Discussions: Using Technology to Increase Collaboration

28

119 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Exploring Effective Digital Leadership Part 1

16


Elementary 36%

Middle 22%

High 30%

Elementary + Middle 2%

Elementary + High 0%

Elementary + Middle + High

5%

Middle + High 4% N/A

1% School Level

120 May-17 iLearnNYC: ELI Exploring Effective Digital Leadership Part 2

17

121 June-17 iLearnNYC- Teacher-Led Going Paperless wiht Google classroom

11

122 June-17 iLearnNYC- Teacher-Led Going Paperless with Google Classroom

6

123 June-17 iLearnNYC End of Year Symposium 371

Total 2162

Results from 2016-2017 PD Evaluation


School Leader

4%

Teacher 78%

Tech-Role (Non-Teacher)

2%

Support Role (Non-Teacher)

4%

Central Office 6%

Other 6% What is your role?

School Leader Teacher Tech-Role (Non-Teacher)

Support Role (Non-Teacher) Central Office Other

Principal 34%

Assistant Principal

63%

Dean 3%

School Leader

Principal Assistant Principal Dean

English 29%

Math 17%

Science 11%

Social Studies 6%

Arts (music, drama, fine arts, etc.)

3%

Technology 13%

Other 21%

What content area do you teach?

English Math Science Social Studies Arts (music, drama, fine arts, etc.) Technology Other


I am satisfied with what I learned

2.80%

97.1%

Agree Disagree

The activity was well planned

3.6%

96.4%

Agree Disagree

Atmosphere was conducive to a collegial exchange

2.80%

97.20%

Agree Disagree

I am prepared to share what I learned

today with colleagues

4.20%

95.8%

Agree Disagree

Participant Comments

Excellent Professional Development. Will definitely recommend this training to my colleagues.

Great workshop, everything taught can be easily implemented into any content area on any level.

Great session. The Instructor was very knowledgeable and engaging.

Great strategies learned. I love that time was allowed for incorporating concepts into a lesson!

I loved it! I cannot wait to try to master the technology as I feel a bit "rusty" with it. But once I feel like I know it well enough, I cannot wait to share with my students. They are going to do great things. These are excellent tools for project-based lessons in my classroom.

Alan November's extended session was highly informative. He accommodated his presentation to the audience's needs and requests and provided usable information in a pleasant atmosphere


Appendix B

Feedback about iLearnNYC:

School Leader survey summary 2016 –17

The top reasons schools are using iLearnNYC are:

Credit accumulation

Blended Learning

Credit Recovery

Supplemental Resources for Instruction

Support Differentiation

The top 5 ways iLearnNYC has affected teaching and learning in schools are:

allowing teachers to adjust the pace of the lesson;

supported teachers with differentiating instruction to meet the needs of students;

increasing blended learning in the classroom;

supported learning activities that are meaningful and relevant to student learners;

access to real time student data;.supporting teachers with differentiation.


iLearnNYC and blended learning has helped shape our learning:

I really feel like the students have evolved into blended and online learning. Five years ago,

learning on the platform was more abstract, but now, its second nature. It used to be blended

learning for them. Now it’s just learning. Our vision is to continue to look for engaging, meaningful

opportunities for students through digital video, virtual field trips, online discussion, tutorials and

up-to-date science content.

As an IlearnNYC school we have transitioned from credit recovery into using the course materials to

support credit accumulation and blended learning during regular instruction.

Learn NYC was an essential part of helping us understand how blended learning can be a part of flexible scheduling. We are now ready to craft our courses in an LMS we are using schoolwide.

We have clarified our local roles, improved our knowledge and capacity in using the system, and are

planning to approach the work in the coming year with some modifications, starting earlier in the

year and setting clearer pacing guides for students identified for blended coursework.

iLearnNYC fosters our school’s implementation of blended learning:

As we purchase more digital classroom displays, more teachers have been incorporating blended

learning tools from sources like Discovery, NBC Learn, and Apex.

ILearn provides the platform and curriculum along with the nuts and bolts. Support from my

Implementation Manager and Ed are only an email or a phone call away. It is comforting to know

that tech operations are smooth and trouble free.

We would not be doing blended coursework without the ILearn option.

We have been able to use blended learning across grade levels and content areas.

Additional comments about my experience with iLearnNYC:

Students are more apt to check progress and grades. Parents have data at their fingers. .

We use iLearn for our Regents courses and this year 27 of 30 students passed their exam and earn

high school credit in 8th grade.

iLearn has increased our access to content for blended learning and is an effective platform for

blended learning.


Appendix C

Compass Learning Pathblazer Summary 2016-17

DBN Participating Schools 01M184 Shuang Wen

01M188 The Island School

03M191 The Museum Magnet School

04M007 Samuel Stern

04M038 Roberto Clemente Learning Center PS 38

04M375 Mosiac Preparatory Academy

05M125 The Ralph Bunche School

05M129 John H. Finley School

06M004 Duke Ellington

06M128 The Audubon School

07X385 The Performance Elementary School

09x022 Jordan L. Mott

10X032 The Belmont School

12x061 Francisco Oller

13K054 The Magnet School for Environmental Science, Technology and Community Wellness

13K067 The Charles A, Dorsey School

13K305 Dr. Peter Ray Elementary School

14K196 The Ten Eyck school

16K025 Eubie Blake School

16K028 The Warren Prep Academy

16K627 this school will replace 16K636

17K012 The Jacqueline Peek-Davis School

17k092 Adrian Hegeman Elementary School

17K375 Jackie Robinson School

17K394 The Mary McLeod Bethune School 394

18K115 Daniel Mucatel School

18K268 The Emma Lazarus School

20K030 Mary White Ovington

20K185 Walter Kassenbrock

20K186 Dr. Irving A. Gladstone

20k264 Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts

21K215 The Morris H Weiss School

21K216 Arturo Toscanini

21K226 Alfred De B Mason

22k251 The Paerdegat

24Q014 The Fairview School

25Q021 The Edward Hart

25Q024 The Andrew Jackson

27Q062 Chester Park School

27Q104 The Bays Water School

27Q106 PS 106

27Q108 Captain Vincent G. Fowler

27Q273 P.S. 273

28Q080 Thurgood Marshall Magnet School of Multimedia and Communication

28Q086 PS 86

28Q117 Joyce Keld Briarwood School

28Q161 The Arthur Ashe School

30Q084 The Steinway School

30Q085 Judge Charles Vallone

30Q151 Mary D Carter


DBN Participating Schools

31R016 The John J. Driscoll School

31R021 The Margaret P. Emery School

31R022 The Graniteville School

31R031 The William T Davis School

31R078 Stapleton Lighthouse Community School

31R861 Staten Island School of Civic Leadership

32K116 Elizabeth L Farrell

75K231 75K231@ 238,

75X017 PS X017

75X352 The Vida Bogart School For All Children

Grade number of students 2015-16 number of students 2016-17

1 660 1178

2 1080 1216

3 605 1407

4 743 1834

5 488 1603

6 5 32

Total 3581 7270

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IZone Team

Celine Azoulay-Lewin, Senior Executive Director, iZone

Winnie Bracco, Executive Director, iLearnNYC/iZone

Allison Sciandra, Deputy Executive Director, iLearnNYC/iZone

Edward Talentti, iLearnNYC Operations Analyst, iLearnNYC

Natalie Cosby, Implementation Manager, iLearnNYC

Kelly Henning, Implementation Manager, iLearnNYC

Arlene Francis-Scarder, Implementation Manager, iLearnNYC

Vasilia Lambrides, Implementation Manager, iLearnNYC

Monica White, Senior Director of Special Projects, iZone

Preeti Birla, Director of Special Projects, iZone

RahulkumarPatel, Director of Special Projects-iZone

Documents

End of Year Report 2016-17ilearnnyc.wikispaces.com/file/view/iZone_Annual_Report...End of Year Report 2016-17 iZone supports a community of schools that embrace innovative strategies