Connect Common Core, inquiry, and technology!
While technology ushers in exciting and innovative educational opportunities, finding best practices for complete integration remains a challenge. In this practical resource, educators will discover a roadmap for implementing digital age best practices. With discussions on how to promote networked collaboration, bolster purposeful inquiry, and anchor student decision-making and learning with digital-age tools, these research-based strategies deliver:
- A user-friendly road map for digital transition into new Common Core Standards
- Lesson plans, benchmarks, and instructional units to bridge the link between 21st century skills, Common Core Standards, and student achievement
- Practical tips for classroom, building, and district implementation
- Tools and guidance for successful PLCs
Dr. Chris Moersch, founder of the internationally-recognized and research-based LoTi Framework and author of numerous publications including Beyond Hardware: Using Higher Order Thinking to Promote Effective Technology Use, is a presenter at national and regional conferences including ISTE (formerly NECC), GaTEC, Classroom Connect, METC, TCEA, and California C.U.E., offering the audience insight into the world of instructional leadership, digital-age learning, and continuous improvement. He has served as a featured or keynote speaker at over 75 regional and national conferences to date.
Moersch′s Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi) program is an international research-based school improvement model designed to harness the power of existing state and district initiatives into one united effort designed to promote H.E.A.T. (i.e., Higher order thinking, Engaged learning, Authentic connections, Technology use) in student learning according to the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) and 21st Century Skills. The LoTi implementation model focuses on the delicate balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of the available digital resources to increase the amount of H.E.A.T. while simultaneously improving student academic progress.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Chris Moersch has been the principal investigator of the LoTi project and Executive Director of LoTi Connection Inc. In that capacity, he has worked with thousands of educators nationwide promoting the tenets of digital-age literacy and professional development in an effort to transform low performing schools into high performing schools. He has over 20 years experience in the areas of curriculum development, program evaluation, and technology integration practices. His specialization includes implementing school improvement initiatives, creating 21st Century learning environments, and facilitating organizational change.
Donna Haye is Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in the Atlantic City School District and has been instrumental in the turn-around in Atlantic City. Haye and co-author Marilyn Cohen have a combined 40 years of experience in the Atlantic City School District.
Marilyn Cohen is Supervisor of Technology in the Atlantic City School District and has been instrumental in the turn-around in Atlantic City. Cohen and co-author Donna Haye have a combined 40 years of experience in the Atlantic City School District.
