What We Do
The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) designs custom professional development programs to engage teachers and leaders in rethinking education for the digital age. Utilizing CTSC’s research-based model for Innovating Instruction©, programs engage teachers as designers of rigorous learning experiences, and consider approaches to leadership that grow and sustain transformative school environments.
Innovating Instruction Model
Professional Learning Projects
Systemic Transformation of Inquiry Learning Environments for STEM (STILE) 1.0 2.0 3.0
20xx-Present
The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) is implementing a four-year implementation research initiative, Systemic Transformation of Inquiry Learning Environments for STEM (STILE 2.0), during which project partners develop, investigate, and refine a transformative approach for advancing STEM learning experiences in K-8 schools.
Education Technology Directors' Program (ETDP)
20xx-2017
The Education Technology Directors' Program (ETDP) prepares a select group of 20 Bulgarian educators over two years to assume positions as Technology Directors (the equivalent of the New York Department of Education's Technology Specialist) in the Bulgarian primary and secondary schools.
Magnet Project
20xx-20xx
CTSC is collaborating with the New York City Department of Education on two Federally-funded Magnet initiatives. In partnership with the Center, these schools are transforming their culture, and more specifically building a practice for designing and implementing authentic, interdisciplinary STEM learning experiences that embrace their respective themes.
The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) is positioned to research a range of issues pertaining to innovating instruction for students. Specifically, our assumptions about research include the need to work collaboratively with schools in pursuing big questions related to the role technology can play both in reimagining teaching and in deepening student understanding.
Research Agenda
- Informs the transformative use of technology in existing and emerging practices;
- Contributes to theoretical perspectives on professional learning for the digital age;
- Explores student learning environments that take advantage of digital tools;
- Identifies and shapes best practices for emergent technologies and their use in K-16 educational practice in core areas such as instruction, assessment, organization, and leadership;
- Influences policy and programs in the area of educational technology; and
- Develops rigorous, practical methodologies to measure the added value of technology on learning.
Research Projects
STILE 1.0 2.0 3.0
20xx-Present
The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) is implementing a four-year implementation research initiative, Systemic Transformation of Inquiry Learning Environments for STEM (STILE 2.0), during which project partners develop, investigate, and refine a transformative approach for advancing STEM learning experiences in K-8 schools.
Math for All
20xx-2017
The Center for Technology and School Change partnered with the Education Development Center (EDC) and Bank Street College of Education in a multi-year, IES-funded study of the Math for All (MFA) professional development program. MFA aims to provide teachers with knowledge and strategies around adapting mathematics lessons for a wide range of diverse learners.
The Center provides program evaluation services tied to the larger mission of the Center in service of innovating instruction and promoting equity in PK-16 programs. Recent projects focus on the use of digital tools in educational settings, college readiness and retention, and data-driven decision making. The understandings generated through evaluation provide feedback to stakeholders and can inform the evolution of new initiatives for the larger educational community.
Evaluation Services
- development of logic models to link program goals and outcomes;
- identification and/or development of evaluation instruments;
- collection and analysis of program data;
- formative project feedback;
- summative reporting; and,
- model building.
CTSC also works with districts and schools to help them reflect on their institutional capacity for infusing technology at all levels of education practice. Using formative and summative approaches, CTSC staff members partner with administrators and teachers to develop a systematic evaluation approach for assessing their capabilities and professional development/resource needs.
Evaluation Projects
City College
20xx-Present
The Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) at Teachers College, Columbia University is partnering with the City College of New York to evaluate the federally-funded CiPASS initiative.
Boston STEM Week
20xx-2017
Organized and created by i2 Learning, Boston STEM Week provided students with the opportunity to engage in real-world STEM-based problems through hands-on “learning labs.”
The Center provides policy formulation services tied to the larger mission of the Center in service of innovating instruction and promoting equity in PK-16 programs. The Center has been involved in local and international policy efforts.
Policy Formulation Services
- Nation-wide education sector review;
- ICT integration in education policy analysis;
- Policy recommendations based on national and international contexts;
- UN Sustainable Development Goals alignment strategy.
Policy Formulation Projects
Paraguay’s Plan Nacional de Transformación Educativa 2030
2019-Present
ICT domain for the Plan Nacional de Transformacion Educativa 2030, the nation-wide effort for a 10 year education plan in Paraguay.
New York Board of Regents
20xx-2017
More Information Coming Soon!