District Technology Plan

In assessing the 2011-2012 approved technology plan for my district, it was identified in teacher and campus STaR Charts that professional development is the key area of focus for improvement.  It is clearly notated that teachers have a dire need for training on and use of digital tools in the classroom.  There are several strategies outlined in the technoloyg plan to support the goal of Professional Development on integrating technology into teaching and learning, instructional management, and administration.  Professional development opportunities include multi-level technology staff development programs, based on SBEC standards and Technology Application TEKS, that promotes integration of technology into curriculum and training on the use of technology based student projects as an assessment of student learning.  Along with Professional Development is the need for infrastructure and connectivity resources to enable technology integration.  The district is taking strides to implement and upgrade the local area network and wide area networks infrastructure as well as bandwidth adequacy to support the use of technology.

The district has identified the financial resources necessary and available to implement these aforementioned objectives.  Staff development will be funded locally while infrastructure upgrades and connectivity will be funded through local funds (12%) and federal funds, E-Rate (88%).

Frequent asssessment of this objective will be done by performing data walks to focus on the use and integration of technology in the classroom, on-site inspections, equipment repair history logs, physical inventories, utilization reports, and faculty and staff input.  It is important to note that collaborative efforts with other districts as well as business experts aided in providing input for improvements in technology integration.  The district peforms employee surveys to assess staff feedback during training and course of implementation which identifies continuous improvment opportunities for the technology plan committee.  The evaluations will be performed annually at a minimum.