Texas has committed to put technology in classrooms. Whenever you are implementing something you need to have a way to measure it and in this case, this will be STaR. Districts should know how their teachers are in terms of proficiency with the tools available. A way to do this is by providing a small question survey at the beginning of the year. I think its also important to have the survey be anonymous, this way teachers will feel more comfortable in responding it, leading to a better accuracy on the results.
I believe this survey should be based on basic technology skills as well as getting deep in specific details of the technology resources available. Once the results come the technology department, could focus on staff development on the areas where its needed, always focusing on how teachers will implement it in the classrooms? How to enrich students learning based in technology?
During that training period, staff should be able to get involved in technology, test the tools, play a little with them, at the end. Is how they will be proficient in the new skills, at the end of each staff development, including a small survey based on the skills learned. If for any reason there is no enough equipment for them to test it on that day, the survey could take place a week after. This way if teachers still have questions, the technology department could reinforce what was taught, either with and additional training, or in an email, web page, FAQ's questions sent, etc.
Regards
Eduardo
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