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1. Educational Technology Update
for Future Principals in WA State
JULY 21, 2016
Dennis Small
Educational Technology Director
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
dennis.small@k12.wa.us

2. Educational Technology Funding
• Local control state, all funding and purchasing decisions
made by districts
• E-rate discounts provide $26-47 million annually
• State funding allocation for Student Technology (about
$127/student) in Materials, Supplies and Operating Costs
(MSOC) formula
• Local technology bonds and levies
• Grants and other funding
• Targeted state funding for specific initiatives

3. Key Findings from 2015-2016 Educational Technology Survey
• Data collected from 293 of 295 school districts,
representing 2090 of 2092 school buildings statewide
• IT and Educational Technology leaders provided survey
data
• Survey available for online data entry from late November,
2015 through March 31, 2016
• Survey questions available at
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/TechSurvey.aspx
• Complete survey data available upon request from OSPI

4. Technology Survey: Connectivity in Schools
• 99.96% of classrooms are networked with Internet
connectivity.
• 99% of Washington school buildings have at least a 10 Mbps
connection to the Internet, and over 95% have at least a 100
Mbps connection. 71% have 1 Gbps or higher.
• 99.1% of Washington school buildings provide some degree of
wireless access to the Internet. Of those buildings, 88.4%
provide access throughout the entire building.
• 267 districts (91.1%) allow students or staff to connect
personal devices to their district network, although 53 of
those districts limit this to staff access only.

5. Technology Survey: Access to Instructional Devices
• Of the total 700,796 instructional devices in use, 468,621
(67%) are portable laptops, netbooks, or tablets.
• The number of instructional devices in use increased by
more than 150,000 devices between 2014-15 and 2015-16;
nearly 100,000 of the new devices were Chromebooks.
• 58.3% of instructional devices run Windows OS (primarily
Windows 7), 24.4% run ChromeOS (Chromebooks, up from
14% a year earlier), 11.6% run iOS (iPads), and 4.7% run
Macintosh OS.

6. Technology Survey: Other Key Findings
• 113 districts (38.6%) report that they have adopted digital
materials (commercial or Open Educational Resources), up
from 74 a year earlier.
• Nearly all K-12 certificated staff have email accounts
provided by the school district.
• 55.6% of students now have a school-provided email
account.
• Of the 243 districts (82.9%) that have an Internet safety
initiative, 108 (36.9%) involve teacher-librarians in the
delivery of this training.

7. Statewide Educational Technology Initiatives
• K-20 Network - connects 262 districts, 9 ESDs, OSPI,
libraries, and higher education
• OER & Instructional Materials
• Technology standards & classroom-based assessments
• On-line assessments (Smarter Balanced, ELPA 21)
• Computer Science legislation (HB 1813)
• Digital Citizenship legislation (SSB 6273)
• Free Resources:
o Microsoft Imagine Academy – MS & HS students
o SketchUp Pro software
o ArcGIS software from ESRI

8. K-20 Network Fiber Optic Backbone
8
Spokane
Portland
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
K20 Site
40 Gbps
10 Gbps

9. K-20: Collaborative Services to Students
9
K-20 ON-GOING COSTS
• Transport
• Operations
• Maintenance
• Depreciation
INSTITUTION ON-GOING
COSTS
• Video maintenance &
depreciation
• PCs & LANs
• Training
• Intra-district
infrastructure
• ISP
District/Campus
Routers
Institution
Router
K-20
Data
Equipme
nt
Codec & Video
Equipment
District/Campus
Video Equipment
K-20 Network
K-20 Network
Control (KOCO)

10. Over 400 K-20 Sites Connected
Thurston
Lewis
Pierce
Mason
Grays Harbor
King
Yakima
Jefferson
Pacific
Wahkiakum
Skamania
Kitsap
Cowlitz
Kittitas
Chelan
Island
FranklinBenton
Grant
Clark
Klickitat
San Juan
Clallam
Okanogan
Skagit
Columbia
Adams
Whitman
Pend
Oreille
StevensFerry
Spokane
Garfield
Walla Walla
Whatcom
Snohomish
Douglas
Lincoln
Asotin
Independent College/
University
Tribal Education Center/
Tribal College
Telemedicine Site
Public Library
Public College/
University
Community/Technical
College
K-12 District/ESD
TVW
Washington State Historical
Society
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• Roughly 270 K-12 districts and Educational Service Districts
• More than 2,000 K-12 schools and 57,000 classrooms
• Over 1.5 million students

11. Textbook photo by Cassidy Curtis – CC BY NC SA Multimedia by hugoespinozas – CC BY NC SA
Instructional Materials Revisited
Not Your Parents’ Textbook

12. Under the Instructional Materials Umbrella
Individual units, lessons, and plans
Supplemental resources
Assessments
K-12 core curricula
District-created materials/resources
Online courses
Teacher-created materials
Maple by kanegen – CC BY
May be printed or digital.
May carry different licensing types
from open to all rights reserved.

13. WSSDA Featured Policies
Instructional Materials Selection &
Adoption: Policy 2020; 2020P
Define responsibility of school
board with respect to evaluating,
adapting, and developing courses.
Provide guidance on the procedure
for selecting and adopting
instructional materials.
New Instructional Materials Model Policy

14. Roles and Responsibilities
Instructional
Material Type
Role
Certificated
Teaching Staff
Principal Superintendent
Instructional
Materials
Committee
School
Board
Core material identify
establish
adoption
procedure
recommend adopt
Alternative core identify
designate
selector
Intervention Identify
designate
selector
Supplemental identify
designate
selector
Temporary
Supplemental
select –
within district
guidelines
Model Policy 2020

15. Gone are the days of the seven-year review cycle.
Districts are now recommended to establish a
regular cycle of course design review based on
student need, rapidly changing demographics and
funding.
WSSDA Policy and Legal News, April 2015

16. Current OSPI Instructional Materials Guidance
OSPI Learning and Teaching

17. IMET Rubric
EQuIP Rubrics
Achieve OER Rubrics
Instructional Materials Guidance
Review Rubrics

18. Current OSPI Instructional Material Support Efforts
Bridge to College Transition Courses
Bridge to College Course Information
• English language arts (ELA) and Mathematics
• Forth-year (senior-level) courses designed for
students scoring a Level 2 on the Smarter
Balanced high school assessment
• Students who earn a “B” or better in the Bridge
Course are eligible to enter credit-bearing
coursework in any of the State of Washington
Community and Technical Colleges
• Jointly developed and coordinated by college
faculty and high school teachers

19. Current OSPI Instructional Material Support Efforts
Implementing Tribal Culture and History - 2015 Senate Bill 5433
Honors historic agreements between Washington State and
federally recognized Tribes.
Requires incorporation tribal history, sovereignty and
governance curriculum of the nearest federally recognized
tribe(s) as part of social studies review or adoptions.
Districts shall meet this requirement by using the “Since
Time Immemorial” curriculum
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
“Since Time Immemorial” curriculum may be
modified to incorporate regional specific focus
or to integrate into existing curriculum
materials.
Since Time Immemorial Curriculum

20. Individual Reports
 Summary
 Review Data
 Reviewer
Comments
Collaboration with Department of Health
Requires review of sexual health education resources
Current OSPI Instructional Material Support Efforts
Healthy Youth Act - Sexual Health Education
Sexual Health Curriculum Review

21. Current OSPI Instructional Material Support Efforts
Open Educational Resources Project
K-12 OER Project
OER Awareness and Capacity Building: Increase
district awareness of openly licensed resources and
provide districts with the resources to locate,
evaluate, and implement OER.
OER Review: Develop a review process to evaluate
alignments to the CCSS and act as a model for
districts considering OER.
OER Library Creation: Develop a catalog of openly
licensed material reviewed for alignment with the
CCSS. Include links to other open courseware
available to school districts free of charge.

22. OER are…
Open Educational
Resources (OER) reside
in the public domain or
have been released
under an intellectual
property license that
permits their free use
and re-purposing by
others.
Beyond Definitions by opensource.com – CC BY SA

23. Photo by nickwheeleroz – CC NC SA
OER are not…
Any free resources on the
internet FREE is not the same
as OPEN.
Strictly digital resources
OER is a license not a delivery
platform.
A replacement for copyright
Open licenses are just a set of
permitted uses that the
copyright holder clarifies.

24. 24 Full-Course Curricula:
Algebra 1, Geometry, Integrated Math 1
& 2, Grades 6-8 Mathematics
MathematicsEnglish Language Arts
60 Units (3-6 wks):
Grades 6-12 ELA
OER Review
Reviewed OER Library
Reviewed OER Library

25. How to think about OER as a part of a district’s instructional material
strategy.
Understand the critical lenses through which to view instructional
materials and special considerations for OER.
Provide a forum for cross-district discussion of OER implementation.
OER Summits: Purpose
Mt. Rainier by Wsigemund Service CC BY SA

26. OER User Groups
Together by JD Hancock CC BY
Organized around a problem of
practice
Share ideas and define best
practices
Champion effective distribution
and implementation of resources
EngageNY Mathematics User Group

27. Technology & Common Core Standards
Connections between CCSS and WA
Educational Technology standards:
 Goal Three of Washington Basic Education
Act includes educational technology as a
foundational component of student thinking
skills
 Crosswalk document and WebApp with deep
alignment with CCSS English Language Arts

28. Deep Alignment Example
CCSS Writing
6. Use technology, including
the Internet, to produce
and publish writing and to
interact and collaborate
with others.
9 Use technology, including
the Internet, to produce,
publish, and update
individual or shared writing
products.
EdTech GLE 1.2.1
Communicate and
collaborate to learn with
others.
9 – 12 Communicate
information and ideas
effectively to multiple
audiences using a variety of
media and formats.

29. CCSS & WA EdTech Standards Crosswalk Document

30. WebApp: Crosswalk CCSS ELA & WA EdTech Standards
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/Standards/edtechcoresubjects/CCSS-Crosswalk.aspx

31. Educational Technology Assessments
Integrated into core content areas:
 The Arts
 English Language Arts
 Health
 Mathematics
 Science
 Social Studies
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/Assessment/edtechassessments.aspx
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/Assessment/edtechassessments.aspx

32. http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/Assessment/Tutorials.aspx
Educational Technology Assessments

33. Hardware Requirements – Online Assessments
Minimum screen size: 10” class or larger
Minimum screen resolution: 1024 x 768
Requires SecureBrowser software application
Mechanical/external keyboards are required (wired or
wireless)
Headphones (or a secure room) are required for the ELA
test (listening portion) and if text to speech is enabled;
headset (with microphone) needed for ELPA21
Additional hardware will be required for specific
students needing accommodations
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34. Deployment Options
Traditional computer lab
Thin-client computer lab
Portable lab of laptops, tablets or netbooks (AKA,
“Computers on Wheels” or COW) with wireless access
Quiet spaces with computers with Internet access
Computers in libraries (if appropriate)
1-to-1 initiatives
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35. Student Readiness
Ensure students have at least two opportunities at school for guided practice with
assessment tools and question types
Use sample performance tasks (and eventually formative tools and released
items) to give students experience with math and ELA performance tasks
Provide student keyboarding/data input opportunities in grades K-2 to ensure
readiness for grade 3 online assessments
Provide additional keyboarding opportunities for grades 3-6 to ensure readiness
for SBAC writing tasks
Partner with libraries and community organizations to promote equity of access
to technology for students outside of school time
Consider loaning machines or providing useable surplus machines to needy
students
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36. Computer Science Legislation (HB 1813)
• Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Professional
Educator Standards Board (PESB) to adopt computer science learning
standards.
• Requires the PESB to develop a K-12 computer science endorsement.
• ESSB 6052, Sec. 501, (42) provides $1,000,000 of the general fund –
state appropriation for fiscal year 2015-16 and $1,000,000 of the
general fund – state appropriation for fiscal year 2016-17 solely for the
Computer Science and Education grant program.
These funds support the following three purposes:
◦ Train and credential teachers in computer science;
◦ Provide and upgrade technology needed to learn computer science; and,
◦ For computer science frontiers grants to introduce students to and engage
them in computer science.

37. Digital Citizenship - Legislative charge (SSB 6273)
By December 1, 2016, the office of the superintendent of public
instruction shall develop best practices and recommendations
for instruction in digital citizenship, internet safety, and media
literacy, and report to the appropriate committees of the
legislature, in accordance with RCW 43.01.036, on strategies to
implement the best practices and recommendations statewide.
The best practices and recommendations must be developed in
consultation with an advisory committee as specified in (b) of
this subsection. Best practices and recommendations must
include instruction that provides guidance about thoughtful,
safe, and strategic uses of online and other media resources,
and education on how to apply critical thinking skills when
consuming and producing information.
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38. Advisory Committee
The office of the superintendent of public instruction must
convene and consult with an advisory committee when
developing best practices and recommendations for
instruction in digital citizenship, internet safety, and media
literacy. The advisory committee must include:
Representatives from the Washington state school directors'
association; experts in digital citizenship, internet safety,
and media literacy; teacher-librarians as defined in RCW
28A.320.240; and other stakeholders, including parent
associations, educators, and administrators.
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39. Possible Recommendations
Recommendations produced by the committee may include, but are not
limited to:
(i) Revisions to the state learning standards for educational technology,
required under RCW 28A.655.075;
(ii) Revisions to the model policy and procedures on electronic resources
and internet safety developed by the Washington state school directors'
association;
(iii) School district processes necessary to develop customized district
policies and procedures on electronic resources and internet safety;
(iv) Best practices, resources, and models for instruction in digital
citizenship, internet safety, and media literacy; and
(v) Strategies that will support school districts in local implementation of
the best practices and recommendations developed by the office of the
superintendent of public instruction under (a) of this subsection.
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40. What comes next?
(3) Beginning in the 2017-18 school year, a school district shall
annually review its policy and procedures on electronic resources
and internet safety. In reviewing and amending the policy and
procedures, a school district must:
(a) Involve a representation of students, parents or guardians,
teachers, teacher-librarians, other school employees, administrators,
and community representatives with experience or expertise in
digital citizenship, media literacy, and internet safety issues;
(b) Consider customizing the model policy and procedures on
electronic resources and internet safety developed by the
Washington state school directors' association;
(c) Consider existing school district resources; and
(d) Consider best practices, resources, and models for instruction in
digital citizenship, internet safety, and media literacy, including
methods to involve parents.
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41. Free Resources: Microsoft Imagine Academy
Free training on Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access,
Project, as well as advanced topics, including programming,
Web development, and database development
Free certification testing for students, teachers and staff at
each middle and high school.
http://www.k12.wa.us/CareerTechEd/IT-Academy.aspx

42. Free Resources: SketchUp Pro & ArcGIS
Free licenses for SketchUp Pro, popular 3D modeling software -
use the power of 3D graphics to strengthen core curricula with
realistic visualizations.
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/EdSoftware/SketchUpPro.aspx
Free licenses for ESRI’s ArcGIS (geographic information system)
software for instructional purposes - visualize, question and
interpret data in ways that bring relationships, patterns and
trends to light.
http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/EdSoftware/GIS.aspx

43. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dennis.small@k12.wa.us
http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech
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