Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative (Part 1)

I’ll have a series of blog posts about my experience for anyone who wants to embark on the 1:1 journey!

I’ll expand on each bullet point below in my next posts and share everything I have created.
Stay tuned!

We’ve worked for over a year to roll out our iPads for staff and students here at the 4/5 Academy at Fifth Avenue in City Schools of Decatur. I am the Media and Instructional Technology Specialist, and my role was to assist with planning, purchasing decisions, and training/implementation. Other district staff members actually did the behind the scenes purchasing and app deployment.

After your project has been approved and funded- here are the planning steps you can begin.

– Start a blog about the process before you do anything else!
– Have a steering committee and a few sub-committees of people with specialized skills and interests.
– Order carts ahead of time .
– Have a “case research team”.
– Have a Training and App Selection team.
– Include parents and/or community experts in the planning process.
– Hold a “Parent Work Day”.
– Have teachers set up their own staff ipads.
– Host a whole day iPad Professional Learning event.
– Reach agreements about what teachers will implement in a six-week time period.
– Plan parent communication about the iPad initiative.
– Have students show parents their ipads.
– Research and choose an LMS.
– Create a handbook and a one-page at-a-glance chart.

– Take a deep breath- it is going to be an exciting ride!