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Your Name and Title:

 Jason Markey, Assistant Principal

School or Organization Name:

East Leyden High School, Franklin Park, IL

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Bryan Weinert, Leyden High School Director of Technology

Mikkel Storaasli, Leyden High School Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

Chicago, IL

Language in Which You Will Present:

English

Target Audience(s):

K-12 Schools- Admin, Teachers, Technology leaders

Short Session Description (one line):

Leyden High School will demonstrate a model high school program that focuses on system wide collaboration and cloud computing to engage students in a 21st Century curriculum.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

At Leyden High Schools, are Mission statement is to "...support a community of lifelong learners who prepare for global change, respect diversity, accept personal responsibility, and pursue a sense of fulfillment."  This session will address the concern that most comprehensive public high schools have not adopted many of the 21st Century skill or fluencies that we at Leyden High School believe are imperative to teach. Prior to the 2011-2012 school year we dedicated time and resources into visiting and researching 1:1 schools in search of the ideal model for our district to follow. In conjunction with this, Google announced their new device, the Chromebook. What we have determined after research, piloting the Chromebook devices, and surveying and discussing with our staff was the fact that cloud computing, specifically the Chromebook and Google Apps, will be the key to Leyden High School becoming a model comprehensive 1:1 high school that can be replicated by other schools. Leyden High Schools believes strongly that comprehensive public high schools need to be providing our students with the best educational opportunities as the majority of students in this country still attend traditional public schools. This session will provide state, regional, district, and school level administrators a concrete and feasible model of 1:1 computing to share with their schools.  We believe by doing this, the doors to our classrooms will now be open to endless opportunities of student-to student collaboration and teacher-to-teacher collaboration that knows no borders.  As we have just started down this path, we have had a teacher who is now co-teaching with a teacher in Argentina several lessons in Spanish.  These opportunities will become the norm as we approach this new age of 1:1 computing.

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