The Spring Branch ISD technology plan is a well detailed plan. It shows the pre-analysis they did in order to understand where the district was at in terms of technology. The district noticed some of their laptops were old and had different versions of the operating systems on them, they setup a target on proving teachers new equipment with the same operating system among them, in order to standardize.
They set up some goals, strategies and objectives in short, middle and long term to fulfill the term of 3 years for this technology plan. One of the things I noticed is the technology needs are focused in 4 different sections (Teaching and learning, educator preparation development, leadership, administration and support services, infrastructure for technology) aligned to STaR.
As Activ-classrooms are getting to the schools the need of improving the infrastructure, for providing a stable internet service, they are increasing it's bandwidth to support these new equipment as well as (VoIP among the district, Web 2.0technologies, Smart boards,etc). Due to all of these changes training and staff development is a need to integrate it to classroom. They will include staff development that is also aligned to SBEC.
I noticed it also mentions different types of evaluations some on going, in order to examine the districts success in the new implementations. Such as STaR results, Annual surveys, informal staff interviews, technology rich lesson plans, etc.
After reading their plan I can imagine where the district is heading and with clear vision, budget allocated, resources, etc.
Regards
Eduardo A.
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Spring Branch ISD technology plan 2008-2011. Plan last edited 3/30/2008. retrieved 4/24/2011
Source http://www.springbranchisd.com/admin/ts/techplan/techplan0811.htm
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