NB
  • This is a working document and is subject to change at any time. The current version will always be on www.empoweringschools.com
  • Please contact john.anderson.deni@nics.gov.uk with any requests to amend the document, or to comment.
  • The purpose of grouping the milestones in the document is to help schools and other stakeholders identify where the main responsibility for making progress lies, and to undertake action planning.
  • The assignment of responsibility for the milestones indicates that progress on most will require active collaboration across a range of stakeholders.
  • Drawing up the necessary action projects, based on these milestones, will require detailed discussions with, and reporting to, a wide variety of partners.
  • A Strategy Executive, operating through partnership approach, will take the lead in to stimulate action planning, challenging schools and other stakeholders to incorporate the milestones in their corporate and development planning.
  • The Strategy Executive will initiate partnership-based programmes, manage operational boards – such as those for the eLearning Partnership, the Editorial Board and the Virtual School, and will provide evaluation and quality assurance services for those initiatives which need to be taken forward on a regional basis.
  • C2k is currently developing a business plan to address the technology innovation and development implications of the emPowering Schools Strategy.
  • The Strategy Executive will provide a channel for accountability about progress on the Strategy as a whole which will not remove the responsibility for accountability where it lies with individual stakeholders.

Milestones Milestones Download

Tick Embedding ICT in the Curriculum: planning

Tick Enhancing learning through ICT

Tick Assessing and examining ICT competence

Tick Recording and Reporting about and through ICT

Tick Quality-assurance in elearning

Tick Implementing elearning in schools

Tick Benefit Evaluation

Tick Capacity Building: professional development for teachers

Tick Capacity Building: leadership development

Tick Capacity building: development of the professional support community

Tick Reducing bureaucratic burden: improving efficiency: unified approaches

Tick Access to ICT: Digital Divide

Tick Technology Innovation and School Building