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Districts are under severe fiscal pressures and unable to add new support staff for Internet activities |
Teachers take the lead and become learners again. However, institutionally, the changes or shifts won't get reflected in the bureaucracy to enable long-term support. |
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How do we bridge between the learning and dynamics happening in the classrooms and the inability of organizations to recognize and support the changes and shifts. |
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If monetary sources are not sustained, the other major concerns keeping up with the technology, hiring staff, keeping communications open are not applicable. |
Obtaining funding is facilitated by creating a "can't live without it" service program for people who are vital users within the system. It has also been a great motivater for building a larger user base. |
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What strategies have worked moving administrators down the technology path to generate support for programs generated by faculty? |
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Time is a factor / including political factor |
The human infrastructure focusing on long term vision and creating smaller short term pieces that are easy to move into place with support staff throughout the organization. |
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Institutionalization is a two piece process. |
Develop a mechanism to support production quality systems (top down) and keeping the research components (bottom-up) |
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Teacher Change |
Provision for teacher incentives working in innovative teams has served as a catalyst for professional development and creativity. Utilizing multi-point strategies and every opportunity available to effect change. |
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Do we know what we want to institutionalize and sustain? |
Spirit of constant inquiry, intellectual tools, willingness to re-examine, change |
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How do we institutionalize the efforts that are needed to keep an innovation dynamic? |
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