Every Child, Every Day: A Digital Conversion Model for Student Achievement

This is the story of how 2013 Superintendent of the Year,  Mark Edwards, led the Mooresville, N.C. Graded School District in its goal of creating a vibrant new learning environment for teachers and students and achieving outstanding academic results through an innovative digital conversion initiative that provided every student and teacher with a laptop, despite a very modest resource base. Every Child, Every Day gives readers a look at the visionary success factors that worked together to produce positive results–a culture of caring, digital resources, a relentless focus on data, leadership at all levels, and student-centered learning–and shows how their interplay drove, and can drive, academic improvement in virtually any school district. New funding strategies that address the budget issue combine with step-by-step replication tips to provide valuable inspiration and guidelines to help every school succeed on the digital conversion path to student achievement.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Governor Jeb Bush and Governor Bob Wise

Prologue

Chapter 1: Digital Conversion and the Moral Imperative

Chapter 2: A Culture of Caring

Chapter 3: Digital Resources and Infrastructure

Chapter 4: Evolutional Capacity Building 

Chapter 5: Instructional Transformation 

Chapter 6: Infodynamo: A Daily Date with Data

Chapter 7: Resource Alignment

Chapter 8: All In: Everyone Counts

Chapter 9: Replication

Epilogue

Appendices:

A.    Sample Meeting Agendas

B.    Planning Documents

C.   Teacher Evaluation Materials                       

D.   Real-Time Data

E.   Help Desk Procedures and Guidelines for Damages

F.   Mooresville Graded School District Visitors

G.  League of Innovative Schools