Our schools were close since March 14th and we have since started opening our virtual classrooms in Teams. Before going into the story, a little background to know:
1. Israel MoE promotes the use of Edu cloud as part of the National plan of adjusting the education system to the 21 century new challenges. A plan presented to the Knesset Education Committee in April 2010 by the MoE Department of Science and Technology Administration.
2. The National plan has introduced innovation, flexibility, openness and a new role in the schools to promote the plan in the school: the ICT coordinator= the change agents. They have annually PD with me and my instructors’ team.
3. Once a year all the schools train Emergency Remote learning – which aims to simulate a transition remote learning in case of emergency.
4. From 2017 - the Petah Tikva Municipality Educational Dept. provided to its Edu- community: all schools, educators and Students, the edu365 cloud. Dozens of schools have embraced the 365 cloud. But not all and not enough.
5. Beta works in full collaboration with the Education Dept. and the the TelAviv District, MoE
6. This summer, in collaboration with the MoE Department of Information Technology, we connected our 365 cloud to their SSO, a fact that greatly simplified the entry into our 365 cloud.
So, the shifting to a virtual learning routine in the schools working with the 365 cloud was intensive but relatively smooth if we compared to other cities without a leading cloud or other clouds.
We introduced Teams as the virtual classroom. We immediately began to train teachers on Teams about how to open and run Teams as the virtual learning and communication space. We guided them to include in Teams also socio-emotional and wellbeing aspects, social We created a BetaTeams playlist: short videos and recap Sways.
The whole operation was a success! We experienced an increase in the usage of thousands of percent from 1900 to 13000 active users, principals, teachers and students collaborating on Teams.
Take a look on this recap Sway about the whole operation: https://sway.office.com/mCPdX4UsyhfprZOf?ref=Link&loc=play
Many colleagues talked to me lately and told me now we understand you! You talked about it long ago. Your dream is finally coming true. And my answer is: we are living the change in education that we have worked so hard before COVID19.
Let’s get the best out of it!
TEAMS meeting of the city's educational leadership: Deputy General Manager and Director of PetahTikva education department together with the supervisor and School Principals
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