TECHNOLOGY PLAN TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership & M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO EDUCATION
Name: Kubra Unlu

Date:11/22/2015

This template is adapted from

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/documents/et14techplan.doc

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
The plan should guide the LEAs use of education technology for the next three
years.

List specific start and end dates (7/1/2015 to 6/30/2015). Provide a brief
overview of the LEA, its location and demographics and/or share a link to
the LEAs website.
LEA: Harmony School of Science Houston
Grades: 7-12
Web site: https://hsshigh.org/
Economically
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Hispanic

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Describe how a variety of stakeholders from within the LEA and the
community-at-large participated in the planning process.

Stakeholder can be identified as a person who engaged to school due to having same
goals. As we know stakeholders involvement is really important for school. IT personals,
principals, admins, assistant principals, PTO and finance employees and local
businessmen play a key role for development of planning process. To focus more,

specifically in school administrators and IT guys are responsible to introduce new

technological applications to classrooms.

Summarize the relevant research and describe how it supports the plan's
curricular and professional development goals.
Summarize the plans major curricular and professional development
outcomes that are supported by research.
Describe and cite the relevant research that supports the plans outcomes.
Describe the connection between the research and the plans goals.
Describe information gathered from site visits, including best practices.
According to 2009 digest of education statistics reports of National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) expenditure for curriculum development, staff training,
libraries, and media and computer centers was more than 23 billion dollars for public
elementary and secondary education in United States. This level of investment was made
to support effective use of technology. So, effective technology plans are a great way to
promote technology usage in schools. Therefore with this technology plan our school will
definitely extent everyones technology literacy day by day according to this plan.
Because no one wants these funds to be wasted, educators need to establish clear plans to
maximize the positive impact of their technology.
Activities may not provide ongoing, hands-on training for teachers or practical strategies
for implementing technology into curriculum. In order to facilitate learner-centered,
technology-rich instruction to K-12 students, teachers must be afforded opportunities to
develop key understandings and skills, rarely evident in most professional development
programs (Polly & Hannafin, 2010)
However, as it is stated in the article, technology usage is not easy as it is thought. So,
professional development programs have to run correctly to implement that.

Reference:
Polly, D., & Hannafin, M. (2010). Reexamining technology's role in learnercentered professional. Educational Technology Research &
Development, 58(5), 557-571.

CURRICULUM COMPONENT CRITERIA.

The Plan must establish clear goals and realistic strategy for using
telecommunications and information technology to improve education services.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe teachers' current access to instructional technology and current

use of digital tools.
Currently school district provides laptops to give every teacher in schools. Additional
example of technology usage for this school district is TV and chrome books 6-12. Some
classrooms depending on the grade have interactive white boards. Schools have great
designed computer lab for their students.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for

using technology to improve teaching and learning.
Each student has access to high-quality learning content, ongoing and regular feedback,
including, updated individual student data; and personalized learning recommendations
based on current knowledge and skills, standards, and available content, instructional
approaches, and supports.

All students understand that what they are learning is key to their success in
accomplishing their goals, identify and pursue learning and development goals linked to
college and career-ready standards, understand how to structure their learning to achieve
their goals and measure progress toward those goals
Implementation plan:
1. Recruit key personnel for implementation and support of Custom Day projects
2. Select resources and instructional materials
3. Identify resources and instructional material
4. Deliverable: A list of instructional materials for each Custom Day sub-project
5. Procure resources and instructional materials for Custom Day
6. Milestone: Procurement of resources and instructional materials
7. Roll-out and Implement Custom Day project
8. Provide Custom Day training for administrators, teachers, and students (including
sessions for each of the selected software and technology)
9. Deliverable: Educator Training calendars
10. Develop resources such as video demonstrations for students to provide additional
support for technology use.
11. Deliverable: Online student resources for technology use.

Describe how these goals align to the LEA's curricular goals that are
supported by other plans. Describe how the LEA's budget (LCAP) supports
these goals, and whether future funding proposals or partnerships may be
needed for successful implementation.
The Custom Day Initiative goal is to identify and meet the needs of each student through
the creation of a dynamic environment where teachers have the support to make
adjustments based on student data and personalize instruction. Custom Day segments
into three major tasks that change the way that students experience their school day.
First, the custom day initiative will rearrange the daily schedule for our students, offering
5 periods of English Language Arts and Reading (ELA-R) and 5 periods of Math each
week.

The Race to the Top Grant budget will be used and it is built around 4 basic initiatives;
Project Based Learning, Custom Day, Social and Emotional Wellbeing, and Data
Dashboards. Each project will work together to give our students and teachers the ease of
blended learning and accelerate all to gain the 21st century skills necessary for success in
todays workforce.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, to

address Internet Safety and the appropriate and ethical use of technology
in the classroom.
Project Goals/Desired Outcomes: To identify and prioritize needs for student and
family supports, our Director of Student Health and Safety sought input from each
schools Dean of Students, parents and school administrators, and our Site Based
Decision Making Committees (SBDMs). The Director and Deans of Students prioritized
student needs based on this feedback and determined key supports we should provide to
meet these needs, which are:1) cyber-bullying and bullying prevention, and 2) Internet
safety and ethical use of technology.
Implementation plan:
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Roll-out Internet safety and ethical use of technology program in schools

Deliverable: List of new schools for the program
Deliverable: Written needs-assessment report
Form a student committee to lead conflict resolution and anti-bullying measures
List of student committee members
Deliver a presentation in faculty/staff meetings to explain to introduce the
program to all school staff
7. Deliverable: Staff participation logs and presentation documents
8. Conduct a bullying/cyberbullying workshop for educators

9. Deliverable: Attendance sheets and training materials

10. Conduct a bullying/cyberbullying workshop for students
11. Conduct a needs assessment in each of the selected schools
12. Attendance sheets and training materials
13. Organize a family program about cyberbullying.
14. Deliverable: Attendance sheets and session materials
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT
The Plan must have a professional development strategy to ensure that staff
understands how to use these new technologies to improve education services
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Summary of the teachers' and administrators' current technology

proficiency and integration skills and needs for professional development.

Conducted needs assessment in each of the schools shows that most of the teachers are
not familiar with the trending technological platforms such as Google Classroom and
Schoology and Web 2.0 tools. Some of the experienced staff has bias and resistance for
change.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for

providing professional development opportunities based on your LEA
needs assessment data and the Curriculum Component of the plan.
An ongoing professional development will be conducted to support the staff throughout
the school year. Each teacher will master their technology integration skills by the end of
the school year. They will include more technology in their lesson plans that will help
students gaining 21st century skills.
Professional development will be an integral part of school technology plan. Specific
learning goals that will be achieved with technology usage have to be addressed in

professional developments. Adequate time for practice, hands-on activities,

demonstrations and planning have to be provided with follow-up and ongoing
professional developments.
All technology has to be functional and used effectively to the maximum capacity.
Immediate technology support will be available for teachers and students. School will
make technology easily accessible by teachers. Providing technology related professional
development is important but teachers have to be motivated to use technology. In order
to attract all teachers to improve their job skills self-motivation incentive itself is not
strong enough.

INFRASTRUCTURE, HARDWARE, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, SOFTWARE, AND

ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPONENT CRITERIA
The Plan must include an assessment of the telecommunication services,
hardware, software, asset management, and other services that will be needed to
improve education services.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe the existing hardware, Internet access, electronic learning

resources, technical support, and asset management already in the LEA
that will be used to support the Curriculum and Professional Development
Components of the plan.
Each teacher has a laptop and core area teachers have smartboard and document camera.
Also subject area departments share document cameras and classroom set of
Chromebooks. Residential Internet access is provided by Comcast which is not reliable
for instructional use. Each campus has an IT person for support. Teachers are not
provided with any paid electronic learning resources other than the free ones.

Describe the technology hardware, electronic learning resources,

networking and telecommunications infrastructure, physical plant
modifications, technical support, and asset management needed by the
LEA's teachers, students, and administrators to support the activities in the
Curriculum and Professional Development components of the plan.
Document camera is essential in todays classrooms. Also Wi-Fi coverage is not good
enough in some of the classrooms noted in the needs assessment document. A network
upgrade is required. Teachers need Lynda.com or similar electronic resource subscription
to enhance their technological skills on their own phase. Budget must be allocated for
these items to ensure that teaching and learning is occurring in a desired manner.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION COMPONENT

The plan must include an evaluation process that enables the school to monitor
progress toward the specific goals and make mid-course corrections in response
to new developments and opportunities as they arise.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe the process for evaluating the plan's overall progress and impact
on teaching and learning.
Teachers will utilize data and make data-driven decisions to set goals and measure
student growth in. All of this will be possible and much more convenient and accessible
to educators and students through the new dashboard by 2018. Data Analysts and
Instructional Coaches will support teachers in using data from dashboards and making
personalized learning plans for students, who will also be able to access these real-time
data as they progress in their Custom Day classes using online learning softwares on their
chromebooks.

Describe the schedule for evaluating the effect of plan implementation,

including a description of the process and frequency of communicating
evaluation results to tech plan stakeholders.

Task repeated every year quarterly based on data from evaluation. Teachers will be able
to utilize the evaluation results. Student progress on their personalized learning plans,
will also be accessible to students and parents with real-time data.

Repeated every year each month October through May. Instructional coaches, principals
and superintendent will meet to determine goals, review implementation roadmaps, share
ideas/experiences and discuss strategies to improve plan implementation.