What is a Practitioner School?
2023-2024 PRACTITIONER SCHOOL
Canoga Park Elementary is proud to be part of the Practitioner Schools model as a Level 2: LAUSD Future Ready school!
The Practitioner School model of support aligns digital citizenship education with literacy instruction and social-emotional learning, integrating computer science education with numeracy across the curriculum by utilizing the International Society for Technology in Education Standards (ISTE) as a framework to enhance standards-based instruction to encourage and foster creativity, problem-solving, and learner agency.
- The program consists of three levels, as detailed below:
Level 1: LAUSD NextGen. This level will entail completing an instructional technology cohort, where the sites will determine their respective requirements and develop a plan for introducing new technology to enhance student learning and engagement. - Level 2: LAUSD Future Ready. This level will focus on using technology to equip students with the necessary skills for the future, facilitated by an Instructional Technology Facilitator.
- Level 3: LAUSD Demonstration Site. This level will feature District Models that exhibit future-ready teaching and learning practices, serving as an example for other schools to follow.
For more information, view the Instructional Technology Initiative's webpage.
2022-2023 PRACTITIONER SCHOOLS 7.0: EMPOWERED LEARNER
Canoga Park Elementary proudly participated in the Practitioner Schools PS 7.0 Empowered Learner Program.
The purpose of the Practitioner Schools 7.0 Empowered Learner Program is to strategically and systematically ensure that Los Angeles Unified students are granted intentional exposure to leveraging digital resources and to developing and integrating foundational future ready practices within the K-12 classrooms. The goal is to create learning experiences that grant students opportunities to be interconnected and engage in practice of future ready skills, computer science education, digital citizenship, and dispositions on a daily basis.
2021-2022 PRACTITIONER SCHOOLS 6.0: CREATIVE COMMUNICATOR
Canoga Park Elementary proudly participated in the Practitioner Schools PS 6.0 Creative Communicator Program.
The Practitioner Schools (PS) 6.0 Creative Communicator Program focuses on strategically and systematically ensuring that L.A. Unified students are granted intentional exposure to leveraging digital resources and to developing and integrating foundational 21st century practices within the K-12 classrooms.
2020-2021 PRACTITIONER SCHOOLS 5.0: DIGITAL CITIZEN
Canoga Park Elementary proudly participated in the PS 5.0 Digital Citizen Program.
The Practitioner Schools (PS) 5.0 Digital Citizen Program focuses on strategically and systematically ensuring that L.A. Unified students are granted intentional exposure to leveraging digital resources and to developing and integrating foundational 21st century practices within the K-12 classrooms. The goal is to create learning experiences that grant students opportunities to be interconnected and practice 21st century skills, computer science education, digital citizenship and dispositions on a daily basis.
2018-2019 PRACTITIONER SCHOOLS 4.0: INNOVATE DESIGNER
Canoga Park Elementary proudly participated in the 4.0 Innovative Designer Program.
The Practitioner Schools 4.0 Program is designed to promote collaboration and learner agency and to challenge teachers to continuously learn and reflect upon their instructional practices. As participants of the program, school sites will use the ISTE Standards for Students to guide their work as they actively participate in the following:
- Collaborate in exploring local and global issues that impact schools, using collaborative technologies to find effective solutions and increase student achievement.
- Provide students with learning opportunities to practice Global Collaborator skills on a daily basis, thereby granting students the ability to build proficiency in 21st-century practices for success.
- Enhance and improve collaborative teaching and learning practices by strategically leveraging digital resources through 21st-century lesson design.
2017-2018 PRACTITIONER SCHOOLS 2.0: LEADING WITH COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Canoga Park Elementary proudly participated in the 2.0 Leading with Computational Thinking Program.
In alignment with the ISTE Standards for Students and K-12 Computer Science Framework and Practices, the Practitioner Schools 2.0 goals are as follows:
- Collaborate in the creation of interdisciplinary lesson design through a cycle of reflection-and-refinement with an emphasis on creating engaging learning environments and increasing student achievement.
- Provide students with learning opportunities to practice their computational thinking, argumentation, and debugging mindset on a daily basis thereby granting students the ability to build proficiency in 21st century skills and practices for success.
- Enhance and improve teaching and learning practices by strategically leveraging digital resources through 21st century lesson design.
- Provide collaboration among other Practitioner Schools, which includes inquiry group meetings centered on lesson study, action research, text-based discussions and other activities to convene in common dialogues about the intentional embedding of computational thinking, argumentation, and debugging mindset in the K-8 curriculum.