NJECC Kick-off Meeting

September 29, 2017

08:30 - 09:00AM        Registration

09:00 - 09:30AM        NJECC Welcome, Introductions, and Objectives

• Gregg Festa, NJECC Executive Director
• NJECC Member Interest Survey - 2017-18

9:30 - 9:40AM                Laying the Groundwork

• Joshua Koen, Chief Innovation Officer, NJ DOE

• Office of School Innovation, Teaching and Learning Division
• Email: joshua.koen@doe.state.nj.us 

• Hands-on activity:

• Opening Kahoot :-)
• How have you see technology used in classrooms? (Padlet)

• Slides

9:40 - 10:30AM        Innovation

• Chris Cox

• Office of School Innovation, Teaching and Learning Division
• Email: Christopher.Cox@doe.state.nj.us 

• Slides
• Links

• www.InnovateExchange.org 
• https://tinyurl.com/929innovatenj (Padlet Innovative practices)
• http://tinyurl.com/innovatenjCOPpriorities (google form community feedback)

10:30 - 10:45AM        What’s Happening Now

• Future Ready Schools - NJ Update
• NJ TRax
• NJ DRLAP

10:45 - 11:30AM        What’s in the hopper?

• Supporting educators - TiPS (LCB)

• Linda Carmona-Bell

• Office of School Innovation, Teaching and Learning Division
• Email: linda.carmona-bell@doe.state.nj.us

• Slides

• Revisiting Technology Standard 8 (EL)

• Esther Lewars

• Office of School Innovation, Teaching and Learning Division
• Email: esther.lewars@doe.state.nj.us 

• A cross-walk of the core content standards and educational technology
• Promising practices in computer science / computational thinking and technology education / design-based learning - (EL)
• Promising Practices in Digital Citizenship and what's next (SA)

• IT

• IT Director Certification
• Assisting with procurement through State contract