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The strategic thinking roadmap

The Connected Learning Advisory – Te Ara Whītiki has produced the Strategic Thinking Roadmap (http://bit.ly/CLAroadmap) to support school leaders as they plan to integrate technology within their overall strategy for effective teaching and learning.

The strategic thinking roadmap helps you:

• facilitate the strategic discussions needed to ensure your school, or group of schools, develops a practicable digital technologies action plan
• consolidate your vision and principles for using digital technologies, aligned to wider school thinking
• make an assessment of where your school is currently – consider: components, relationships, strengths, barriers, initiatives, and collaborations
• articulate a sense of progression from current to an improved future state
• identify specific goals and actions, and how these will be achieved
• plan to monitor progress and evaluate impact against expectations.

Term 4 workshops

To support your school in using the roadmap to develop your digital technologies action plan, the advisory is running free, half-day workshops in November across the country. To register for a workshop in your area go to the CLA website.(external link)

Who should attend these workshops?

The workshops are aimed at school leaders/leaders of digital technologies/Board of Trustees members with responsibility for planning and implementing a strategy for the use of digital technologies. Up to three people from a school/kura can attend each event.

Workshop content:

• An introduction to the Strategic Thinking Roadmap.
• Practical, tested strategies and plenty of opportunity for collaborative discussion.

You will come away with:

• links to research, planning templates and stories of change from other schools for you to access at your leisure
• a planning framework to help develop your digital technologies strategy
• connections to other local schools who are also developing their digital technologies strategy
• next steps and an understanding of how the Connected Learning Advisory can act as a critical friend via online community spaces (VLN/Pond) and regional advisor support.

Feedback from previous workshops on the strategic thinking roadmap has been very positive:

“Your facilitation and resources have enabled us to break down a seemingly daunting task into fun, relevant learning tasks that have started open discussions among staff.”

To register for a workshop go to the CLA website(external link). 

Contact the CLA

The Connected Learning Advisory is supporting hundreds of schools, and now also Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako, as they make strategic decisions related to learning with digital technologies.

If you have a query about integrating technology with teaching and learning, or you want to suggest a topic for this column, visit the TKI website(external link) or CLA website.(external link)

The Ministry of Education’s Connected Learning Advisory is managed by CORE Education.