Vision The role of technology at Charlotte Country Day School is to support the mission of the school, directly addressing each of the School’s key values. Technology is a vehicle through which diverse information and ideas can be located, evaluated, applied, and shared in both personal and academic pursuits. To that end, technology is integrated into the daily life of the School community through authentic and ethical experiences that promote learning, communication within and beyond the School community, and service opportunities that address social, environmental, and global issues. Our shared goal is to help students and faculty to develop a sense of control over technology while preparing them to work in diverse teams and to be technologically literate as they explore issues, challenges and new directions. We give students and faculty the resources to respond intelligently to evolving technology here at our school and for their years beyond.

Technology at Charlotte Country Day School

JK-12 Technology Goals

1.Ensure that technology is an integral part of curriculum planning, instruction, and classroom management.

2.Design and carry out a comprehensive professional development program for faculty, staff and administration.

3.Standardize JK-12 Technology Continuum

4.Provide superior infrastructure, software and Information Systems support

5.Foster active research in current educational technology trends and innovations

US Technology Committee

Erin Springfield (CS)Matt Less (Admin)Eileen Neville (Admin)MaryBeth Luxton (IT)Ryan Knick (Media)Donna Campbell-Patrick (Science)Katie Jolly (ML)Rick Hackett (Math)Tim Waples (English)Tony Lambardino (History)Zhenya Arutyunyan (History)Chris Rydel (FA)

21st Century Skills

CreativityInnovationCritical ThinkingProblem SolvingCommunicationCollaborationGlobal AwarenessLife and Career

ToolsKnowledge Base

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Haiku Learning’s online annotation enables paper-free grading with a virtual pen. Students hand in assignments online, you open, annotate and grade homework straight from your browser.

Paperless Grading

Class WebsiteFrustration-Free Classroom WebsitesQuickly create pages, add blocks of interactive content, and publish for your students and their parents to access.

The Whole Web in Your Hands

You can use interactive content from dozens of external web services—from TED talks to Google Maps—in your class, allowing students to easily access the resources they need in a contained and focused environment.

Collaborative Projects, Wiki-Style

Using Haiku Learning’s WikiProjects, students can work together as an entire class, in groups, or as individuals to post text, links, photos, videos, and more to project pages within your classroom website.

Safe, Spam-Free Communication

Haiku Learning’s internal messaging system works just like email, but unlike email it’s completely secure and spam-free. Need to get the word out quickly? With Haiku Learning you can post reminders and announcements that won’t go unnoticed. Students will see notifications as soon as they log in to Haiku Learning, but can also be notified via text or email.

See the Big PictureWhile other systems organize by lists, Haiku Learning’s portal provides students a big picture view of the latest scores, assignments, grades, announcements, and activity in all of their classes.

Easy ePortfolio

Creating and maintaining an student portfolio may seem hard, but our ePortfolio streamlines the process so your students can easily capture content from any of their classes to showcase in their personal portfolio. Schools and districts can create templates to kick-start the creative process, and portfolios can be exported as a portable website in HTML.

Assess Knowledge with EasePoll, quiz, and examine what your students know with easy to create assessments. Use multiple question types including true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blanks, and short answer/essay.

21st Century Skills Professional Development Workshop

Professional Development for EducatorsClass/Student Communication

Presenting and PublishingFinding and Making Use of Content

Content ManagementiPads in Education

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