Practitioner Schools
Practitioner Schools
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Participating Schools:
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Level 1: NextGen
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Level 2: Future Ready
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Level 3: Demonstration Site
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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.
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. 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.
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.
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 
PS 3.0 promoted the use of a deliberate design process to solve an authentic problem of practice and to challenge teachers and instructional leaders to continuously learn and reflect upon their practices as they develop innovative solutions. As part of the PS 3.0 model, school sites will actively participate in the following processes:
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: