>> Our next changemaker is
a principal at Escola Bosque in Brazil.
Two years ago,
her school took on the challenge of undergoing
a digital transformation to provide
experiences to all of their students no matter what age.
Designing immersive, engaging learning
that prepared them for an unknown future.
Silvia, is here to share how
she supported her teachers and
how to provide principals everywhere
with the steps that she and her teachers took.
To build a school that supports the creation of
innovative minds who will transform the world.
But before we welcome Silvia to the stage,
let's begin with a video.
So, we can see inside
their school and the transformation process.
>> I'm so glad to be here all the way from Brazil.
As a school, we have excellent partners
and nice collaborative spaces.
Our digital transformation journey started two years ago.
It's not a long time but we are going fast.
The results are already impressive,
and I truly believe that
teachers are the real changemakers.
Anthony Salcito mentioned it last May during Bett Brazil.
"More than just technology,
we need motivated teachers."
He's totally right, because we
have to give teachers all the support they need.
My role as a school leader,
is to provide the best resources
and create strategies that
motivate and empower the team and
help them to have a growth oriented mindset.
Give them space and freedom to take risks,
to innovate, and the opportunity
to lead their way in teaching.
Our development, and deploying took four steps.
We started with a nice presentation
that we call it Enchantment Time.
The teachers we had were amazed about digital tools,
and how technology could improve
their teaching and learning processes.
Then we start to do professional
development for the teachers,
but there's one thing I'm pretty
sure made a huge difference.
We divided the groups based on
their prior technological skills to
give the beginners time to learn the basics.
As in many schools,
we had teachers with
different technological skill levels.
Then we started personalized learning.
We created a digital learning path and we
use it open spaces in teacher's agenda,
lunch breaks, every spare moment to help them.
Even asking them basic questions such as,
"What do you want to prepare for your next class?"
At this point, everybody with
a good technological knowledge help the teachers.
Our TE, IT, my Assistant, other teachers,
it was a task force. That worked really well.
Then continuing education.
We call it a Digital Transformation Journey because it's
a process and once we start, we never stop.
So, many new and amazing things to apply and to learn.
That's why we regularly
provide to the teachers workshops,
seminars, and we still have personalized sessions.
We also encourage them to use
the Microsoft Educator Community for courses, resources.
And many times they meet after
their work shift to take courses together.
And we have our own
PLC or Professional Learning Community
with our excellent partner Big Brain Education.
It's really rewarding and we're really happy
to see teachers' motivation,
and how they are proud of every achievement.
And we are so proud of them as well.
Today, all teachers are MIEs,
MIE Experts, Trainer, Master Trainer,
and our TE is also
a Minecraft Global Mentor and he went to the E2,
Education Exchange this year in
Singapore representing our school, and Brazil.
I'm sure it has been an amazing journey for the teachers.
They are learning a lot, sharing more,
and collaborating like never before. Check this video.
>> They are also communicating better,
and we save time in our regular meetings.
Our projects using Teams as a hub are going
further because all teachers collaborate.
Even teachers who come to school just
once or twice a week, like PE, arts, music.
They can follow everything
about the projects through Teams.
We have a student,
she's facing a severe illness at this time,
is not attending classes,
but she can follow everything using Teams.
And many times, she can watch the classes using Skype.
It's an amazing opportunity. And actually,
we have all lesson plans and programs
shared with me and the coordinators using Teams.
Today, all teachers are
applying technology in their classrooms,
especially Office 365. And
they are really doing an amazing job.
We have some examples,
because technology enhances
our multidisciplinary projects,
and since early education,
they are using digital tools.
We have an example like this Life Under the Sea project,
where four year-olds, using Paint 3D,
they draw and customize their own fish. And the teacher,
using PowerPoint, assembles all of them in
an animated aquarium with bubbles, music.
They like it so much.
They also painted a cardboard submarine
and went to a ride using VR glasses.
It was so cute.
Our five year-olds, they followed a butterfly life cycle,
a real one, in their classrooms.
By using Paint 3D in tech classes,
they logged every step of the transformation,
and they drew a beautiful collaborative garden
to welcome all the butterflies.
They were so proud of themselves.
It was really nice.
All projects integrate technology and digital tools,
no matter the subject or the content.
As an Eco-School, we are always
looking for ways to save natural resources,
and our students came up with a solution
to save water: a vertical cistern.
They started with a project using Paint 3D,
made calculations using Excel,
and we actually built the cistern that
holds 530 liters of water.
It's a lot. Thanks to Skype sessions,
we can share our projects with
our sister school in England, the Moreland Primary.
Using AI, the students created a chatbot about bullying,
where they can ask questions and get
answers on how to cope with bullying.
Minecraft, it's widely used,
and students love it.
Using the original school plan,
they recreated the entire school in Minecraft,
and it's so perfect. It's amazing.
Coding, mixed reality, cognitive services,
VR are also important resources but Skype...
Skype transforms our classroom in a global hub.
Students and teachers and even myself, I love it.
We love Skype sessions.
Hacking STEM, it's also amazing,
and the students are developing a project.
It's an experiment for a contest that we'll send
the best projects to International Space Station.
And many of the simulations,
they are using Minecraft Chemistry to check.
For sure, students are really more engaged,
motivated, because personalization, collaboration,
metacognitive awareness,
and inclusion are important technology features.
But the most important,
kids love technology and it makes learning more fun.
And we are sharing our projects and
digital transformation in many important events.
We have been hosting Microsoft Showcase School tours.
We already welcomed about 400 educators
from Brazil and abroad.
We presented at ISTE 2018 and many others.
It's really rewarding for everybody.
Now, our teachers, they have
a special message for all of you.
>> Hi, I'm Teacher Natalie,
and I am so proud to take part in
all these changes brought through
technology and innovative ideas.
Children are learning so much that we want to spread
this message to all the teachers
and educators around the world.
We have the power to change education because?
>> We are changemakers!
>> Thank you, Silvia.
>> Thank you.
>> That was amazing.
>> Thank you so much.
>> I know all of you that have principals like
Silvia feel the effect of
a supportive leader, who's there learning.
You learn alongside with your teachers,
and you go into their classroom and help them.
That's just amazing. So, thank you again.
>> Thank you so much.
>> All right. Silvia, again,
will join us at the end of our broadcast
as we do our live Q&A.
So if you have any questions for Silvia and
what she's doing at her school in Brazil,
feel free to put those in the comment box right now.
I wanted to show all of you school leaders out there,
we actually have a couple of courses just for you
on how to really get going with changing,
that whole transformation of your school,
and they're tied to
our Education Transformation Framework.
We have one course here that's
on building system-wide leadership
and change and understanding
the leadership and policy needs by addressing vision,
developing a change strategy,
planning of monitoring and evaluation,
and ensuring differentiation and access for all.
Our second course here is about really
focusing in on modern teaching and learning.
And in this series,
you'll learn how to develop leader and educator capacity,
how to build learning communities and support for staff,
ensuring that you're creating
inclusive learning environments and more!
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