Week 4--Action Plan

Anna Aguirre
Part 1--Organizational Chart

Superintendent
(Dr. Kirk Lewis)
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Technology Advisory Committee:
Associate Superintendents
(Joyce Eversole, Candace Ahlfinger, Gloria Gallegos)
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Executive Directors
(Karen Gibson)
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Directors
(Donna Summers, Sara Wrobleski)
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Assistant Directors
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Instructional Technology Specialists
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Principals
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Campus Liaisons
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Teachers
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Students



Principal: responsible for implementing Pasadena Plus strategies on all campuses;

Teachers: expected to complete Awareness level courses within first year of receiving computer and required to begin integration process by the second year.

Instructional Technology Specialists: responsible for training and working with the campus technology liaisons.

Campus Liaisons: responsible for working with campus faculty, staff, and administrators.

Part 2

Based on data gathered from principal surveys, campus School Technology and Readiness (STaR) charts, Campus Technology Assessments, District Technology Assesments, and Peer to Peer Assessment of Technology and Systems to comparable districts, the committee determined that for technology staff development three categories of workshops had to be designed to meet the needs of teachers and administrators.
• Awareness: skills needed for staff to manage their needs, such as basic operations of computers, e-mail, use of the internet, internet searches, and Technology Planning, Policies, and Procedures.
• Application: skills needed for the staff to acquire the productivity skills they would need for word processing, spreadsheets, databases, thinking maps, nad web design.
• Integration: skills needed to provide teachers with resources and modeling on how to infuse technology and the Internet into the curriculum and instruction.
Our district provides workshops via our Instructional Technology Specialists, outside resources, and campus technology liaisons. If staff members request a workshop they need, the district will provide the training or hire someone from outside the district to provide the training.
After interviewing my campus principal, she stated that she would like to see the district move to an on-line model of instruction for high school, similar to what I am doing here at Lamar University. She stated that she would also like to see students have access to the curriculum on-line and work on research projects with other students in other districts. She continued by stating that they could video conference; make dual presentations using web cams and WIMBA. To have our students actively engaged, my campus principal also stated that the Active Boards need to become more than just a teacher presentation board. They are designed to be interactive between teacher and student and should be used as such. However, before this can be fully implemented, the teacher needs to become more familiar and more fluent in its use.
Part 3

The evaluation of the Action Plan will be ongoing at various levels by the Campus Technology Committee: The campus will set local goals and evaluate its outcome. How the Plan is being implemented and its effectiveness—scheduled implementation dates will be created as well as indicators of its completion; a re-evaluation with assessment tools such as student assessments and teacher surveys will determine the impact of the Plan; Data such as STaR and NCLB requirements will be monitored, collected and analyzed. Recommendations will be considered and applied where appropriate.