Technology Plan Proposal

Jefferson County School District

 Rationale
• No Child Left Behind requirement.
• A car is useless if the teacher can’t drive it.
• Many teacher trainings take the wrong
approach.
 Planning Team
• Build from the ground up, not the top down.
 Process Description
• Be specific.
• Differentiate.
• Provide templates.
• Provide reference material.
• Prioritize.
 Vision Statement
• Curriculum first, technology second.
• Learning is the goal - enable students to:
– Read, reason and write more powerfully.
– Communicate productively with members of the global
community.
– Conduct thoughtful research into the important
questions, choices and issues of their times. Make sense
of a confusing world and a swelling tide of information.
– Perform well on the new, more demanding state tests
requiring inferential reasoning.
 Goals & Objectives
• Essential Learnings and Prioritized Benchmarks.
• Keep it real.
• Make enough time.
 Needs Assessment
• Comprehensive needs assessment.
– Sample survey to assess Smartboard fluency:
http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=516622

• Be flexible and adaptive.

 Staff Development
• One-on-one mentoring.
• Workshops.
• Collaborative teams.
• Start early.
• Practice what we preach.
• POP-ins.
• Share resources.
• Staff as mentors.
 Evaluation
• Professional Growth Plan.
• Physical evidence of use.
• Classroom visits.
• No Child Left Behind requirement.
 Timeline
• Finalize plan for 2009-2010 school year implementation: Tech plan should be ready to go
at the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year.
 
• Tech-use professional development: Twice per semester. First session should take place
by week three of school year.
 
• Professional growth plan: Due by week 12 of school year.
 
• POP-ins: At least 3 per semester.
 
• Classroom visits: At least 2 per semester
 
• Smartboard survey: Administer once every 6 weeks.
 
• Submission of tangible tech-use evidence: Once every 6 weeks.
End of presentation