(SPEECH) [MUSIC PLAYING] (DESCRIPTION) A logo of a person reaching upward inside a blue circle. Text. (SPEECH) OTAN-- Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. (DESCRIPTION) O Tan Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Face to face and online training, news articles, teaching with technology, annual technology and distance learning symposium, teachers' and administrators' digests, online resources for adult education. O T A N dot U S. 9 1 6 2 2 8 2 5 8 0. Digital Leadership Academy 2022 Final Reports. Campbell Union High School District. Presenters. Jill Moreci, E S L Teacher, Digital Literacy Support, FLEX Distance Learning. Lars Guntvedt, E S L teacher, Digital literacy support, FLEX Distance learning. Archana Nekkar, HiSET Teacher. (SPEECH) ARCHANA NEKKAR: Good afternoon, everyone. We are a team CACE And we are presenting our final report of DLAC 2020-2022 cohort 3, Campbell Adult and Community Education join the DLAC community like in all the others in August 2020. We are a team consisting of two ESL teachers, Jill, who is physically there at the venue, and Lars Gundvedt. Lars, can you like-- yes, and they are both ESL teachers. And I am Archana Nekkar, an ASE teacher-- thank you, Jill-- ASE teacher, and I teach a HiSET class. (DESCRIPTION) Photos of Jill Moreci, Lars Guntvedt, and Archana Nekkar. (SPEECH) We started our two-year DLAC journey not knowing where we were headed with the pandemic and are not so familiar digital and online learning. I still remember the first course that we took in IDL 101 with Destiny, and it was a video lesson, interactive lesson on blended learning. I have not shared this so far. I got a whole lot of questions wrong in that video, interactive quiz about blended learning. But from there, here we are today with our final presentation, looking back at our learnings, experiences, and experiments. Next slide, please. CACE serves West San Jose (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of the globe sitting in the palm of a hand with text, C A C E , Campbell Adult and Community Education. A photo of a woman smiling in a blue graduation cap and gown. Text, Welcome to C A C E. A world of opportunity. San Jose, California. (SPEECH) and areas of South Bay community. Pre-pandemic, CACE had multiple locations, but now we are offering classes in two locations in the San Jose Bay Area. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) A pie chart titled C A C E Student population. 56% Hispanic, 25% Asian, 13% White, smaller unspecified percentages of Black and Other. (SPEECH) Our population consists of English learners who make up 65% of the enrollment. And 20% of the student populations enrolled are for adult basic and secondary education classes. The ethnicity mix of the student population includes 56% Hispanic, about 25% Asian, which is not that common for all adult schools. 13% white, 4% African-American students. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) Illustrations of notebooks, pens, glasses, mobile phones. (SPEECH) Our mission statement focuses on advancing our communities workforce, raising all forms of literacy and preparing learners for careers all of this using current technology. Also, as a school, we commit to the equity approach by inclusion, providing a lot of support services for our students and differentiation of instructions in the classroom. Participating in DLAC has helped us adhere to our SLOs. We have acquired skills and tools to meet students at their level and help them continue to grow and advance even during these challenging times. My teammates will be talking in detail the next few minutes about our DLAC training and projects. On a personal front, it has been a huge growth for all of us. The last two years, we have all had to handle things as they have been thrown at us. And for all of us, our administrators, OTAN, and other DLAC'ers, we're someone we turn to for help and support. We shifted classes from fully online model in the year 2021 to hybrid this school year. My colleague, Lars, will take over and talk more about our journey. Over to you, Lars. (DESCRIPTION) Lars Gundvedt. (SPEECH) LARS GUNDVEDT: OK, thank you very much, Archana. Next slide, please. Our challenge. (DESCRIPTION) An emoji of a face rubbing its chin with one eyebrow raised. (SPEECH) So as Archana had mentioned, the CACE mission statement speaks to raising all forms of literacy and preparing learners for careers, college, and civic responsibilities. One of the school's student learning outcomes, one of our SLOs is to quote, utilize current technology in daily life for a student outcome. These two guiding principles helped us to form a plan for our DLAC participation. (DESCRIPTION) The D LAC logo consisting of the O TAN Logo within a rainbow badge. (SPEECH) Two years ago, we knew that the CACE administrative team had been exploring the idea of using Canvas in the classroom. Well, now we had a chance to get the ball rolling. Our solution that we came up with was to help the school move students and teachers towards accepting Canvas as our schoolwide learning management system. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) O TAN support. logos for D LAC, California Adult Ed Online Courses, O TAN Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. A list of names. Penny Pearson, Neda Anasseri, Dr. Paul Porter, Destiny Simpson, Francisca Wentworth, Dr. Usha Narayanan, C A C E, Leslie Johnson-Tatsuta, C A C E. (SPEECH) But we didn't do it alone. The DLAC program provided us with a full on village of support. Penny and Neda led our teams through the maze of OTAN requirements and deadlines, always with remarkable chipper attitudes that defied the stress that we all felt. Dr. Potter enriched us with leadership skill development well beyond what we felt we were capable of. And Destiny's amazing workshops gave us the substance to fill out the spindly frames that we had begun to construct. Francisca, our coach, she held our hand, told us everything was going to be OK. You're on the right track, keep going. You're doing great. And the CACE administration team, Leslie and Usha. Initially, we on the team were concerned with doing everything right, what an overwhelming upsome lift. But Leslie and Usha reminded us that we were building the plane as it was in air. We could make changes. We could make mistakes. We could experiment. Honestly, that acceptance strangely actually gave us a superpower. Their confidence gave us the confidence to reach further than we had planned. We cannot thank them enough for that support. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of a series of gears with hands reaching to poke them and sketches of plans and graphs all around them. Text, Ideal Course. 1, creative ideas. 2, strategy. 3, planning. 4, coaching. 5, networking. 6, meetings. 7 and 8 not visible. 9, implementation. (SPEECH) The ideal course. The ideal course built up our confidence by showing us the reality of what the real world looked like. We could see the panorama of existing distance learning efforts. What works, what has been tried, and what are the challenges. We were barraged with resources. You need a student technology survey? Boom, here's five. What about orientation programs? Here, take a look at how these schools around the country are running their programs. It was practical, real world, and it helped. Finally, the ideal courses gave us a safe forum to practice on our own and experiment. As other folks have mentioned, we were building rubrics, surveys, orientation outlines, and student assessments, all of this with the safe supports that Destiny gave us. And the best thing, she always asked us how we were feeling. Right, guys? How are you feeling? Let's put a little emoji on the screen to show this how we're feeling. Next slide, please (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of hands typing on a laptop or pointing to graphs in a notebook. Text, learning with Dr. Paul Porter. A photo of Porter. (SPEECH) Dr. Porter, strengths are good. Dr. Porter showed us our strengths and told us to befriend our strengths. We learned to read our teammates and to see what they were good at. We built a team that had confidence because we could look to each other. We knew we had to foster a culture of change in our school, and Dr. Porter showed us how we could sell an idea. We've been planting seeds of positive change all year long. Conflict? Yeah, groups, we had to deal with conflict. Our team handled conflict through mutual respect; a trait that Dr. Porter showed us how to build. We could count on each other because we could see where each of us were and what needed to be done. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of a computer screen with icons floating around it. A still image from a video call of the 3 presenters and another woman, Francisca Wentworth. (SPEECH) Finally, our coach, Francesca Wentworth. We were the Guinea pigs, and we didn't even know it. She was secretly experimenting on us. You put three type A leadership teams into one Zoom meeting every single week. What could possibly go wrong? Next slide, please. Oh, my goodness, there we were. And there's Patricia going crazy. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) Team building with coach Francisca. Setting goals, understanding our strengths with Dr. Porter, Creating a culture for change and learning, team work with Santa Clara and Pittsburg, using and encouraging our strengths. (SPEECH) Actually, it was a great idea. We all looked forward to those weekly meetings. We were all trying to solve problems and together, the three agency teams, pooled resources, knowledge, research, and skills to solve our collective problems. The group dynamic was supportive, positive and encouraging. With that encouragement, all three teams began to forge ahead with their projects with greater confidence and the willingness to take risks. Taking our plans beyond our own expectations. Jill, over to you. (DESCRIPTION) Jill Moreci speaks at a podium in split screen with slides. (SPEECH) JILL MORECI: OK, next slide. (DESCRIPTION) Text, Our first project. (SPEECH) All right so the cornerstone of our participation in DLAC was the planning, research, and development of our agency's tech plan. The very first year of DLAC prepared our team for project number 1. And that would be, next slide, (DESCRIPTION) A computer screen shows the logo for Canvas. Text, 3 Canvas modules, 1 HiSet, 2, Intermediate low E S L, 3, advanced E S L. Pilot began May 2021. (SPEECH) the Canvas LMS. So our team implemented Canvas into our individual online classrooms, and the transition went very well. However, the HiSET and the ASE programs found it difficult to integrate their curriculum into Canvas. So we will continue to work on this challenge. Overall, progress has been made. Let's go ahead to the next slide. (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of a teacher in a classroom by the black board which reads, Welcome to English class. Buttons below, today's lesson, discussion, conferences, email your teacher, vocabulary, library, calendar, zoom link. (SPEECH) Three other teachers joined the pilot and they transitioned from Google Classroom over to the Canvas LMS, and they really enjoy it and so do the students. And this is my Canvas classroom. And I went with the Bitmoji banner and these buttons that are like a choice board so the students can go directly to today's lesson and so on and so forth. And more of that to come later in comments. Then we went on to project number 2. When we transitioned into a hybrid learning program over the past school year-- let's go ahead to the next slide-- (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of laptops and notebooks. Text, Our 2nd project. Canvas Module. CACE Connect. Orientation bootcamp. Online, face to face, blended learning. Fall project 2021. (SPEECH) our team was challenged to establish an online tech plan that would ensure that our students would have equitable access and connection to the hybrid learning environment. And as a bonus, our administration gave Lars and me-- surprise-- new positions at CACE. We were now called the Digital Literacy Support Teachers, and we conducted orientations and we helped our students by training them in technology and we helped ensure that they were connected to our hybrid program. So next slide. (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of a computer screen displaying cables connecting and text, CACE Connect. (SPEECH) Our new roles helped us on our second project, and this project is an online orientation course that we named CACE Connect. So hello, CACE Connect. CACE Connect is a four-day orientation program designed to introduce our students to school and also train them with their digital literacy skills necessary to participate in our program. CACE Connect, let's go on to the next one, please. (DESCRIPTION) Buttons below CACE Connect logo, Welcome, accounts, bootcamp, coach, email, laptops, teachers, Zoom. (SPEECH) CACE Connect, up close here, it's organized into several modules that house all of the presentation materials that take place over four days. So for example, these presentations a teacher can just log in and give the orientation herself or the orientation team can present these materials. They're always accessible in the Canvas module. So as you can see, we have a welcome and introduction module. The students also are trained on their Google accounts, that's a different module. The boot camp is the overall agenda. So at a snapshot, you can see the four-day course. The coaches can be contacted on this button. Students will learn how to email their teachers and about their laptops, as well as Zoom conferencing. So this has worked well this past year. Next slide, please. (DESCRIPTION) An illustrated toolbox labeled Teacher Toolbox. drawings of various tools. Text, Our 3rd project. Online teacher resource center. Spring project 2022. Establish and build online teachers' resource center. Tips, tools, training teaching. (SPEECH) So our next module, the teachers one, back there, is actually the home of our teacher's toolbox. This was our third project where we designed a teacher's Resource Center. So that's in Canvas as well. OK, let's go on. I was going to share, but we're just about out of time. This is a resource that we have. It's animated. It's through canva.com. If many of you are using that, it's wonderful. So that was a fun resource. But just to wrap it up, (DESCRIPTION) An illustration of a branching gray tree. Text, Growing and learning. Plant a seed and soon it will touch the sky. (SPEECH) I just want to say, over the past two years, we've done a lot of growing, a lot of learning, and we really appreciate the time that we've been together as a group online and today in person. So thank you very much, everyone, for being with us today. And next slide. As we look to the future, we will continue to work on our projects, improving them, developing them and we will continue to take what we've learned from DLAC along with us. Take care, everyone. And thank you very much. (DESCRIPTION) Subscribe. 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