5352 Week 4 Part 3

In order to evaluate technology integration on our campus, we will need to have a Technology Action Committee. This group will take part in action research project for our campus. The group will be led by the campus technology liaison and will have representatives from each department. The technology liaison will train the committee members for one week. The training will consist of proper action research, technology applications, delivering professional development, and proper data analysis. Once the initial training is complete, the committee will develop two goals for the campus and the department representatives will develop one goal for their department. The campus goals will be set by looking at the campus STaR Chart and by looking at the District Technology Plan. The department teams will be decided by looking at the Campus Improvement Plan and by input from the members of the department. All of the goals will be SMART goals so the committee can measure growth over the school year. The committee will design a technology survey that will be given to the staff members and these will be used to generate the measures for the SMART goals. All professional development offered in the area of technology improvement will have a pre and post assessment for participants. Staff members will be able to rate themselves on their skill before the professional growth and after. There will also be a follow up assessment sent out electronically to the participants so they can monitor how they are improving on their technology skills. The technology committee will collect and evaluate if the professional growth is helping the staff grow in this area. The technology committee members will from time to time in department meetings ask their groups to talk about the professional growth opportunities they are taking part in at school. The technology committee will ask the principal to add a technology component to the walk through forms that the administration has to do for PDAS. All surveys will be completed by using googledocs or some other online survey. This will help in collecting data and one would hope that using technology in a way to collect data would inspire staff members to use them with their students. Once all of the data is collected throughout the year, the technology committee will gather in the summer and look at their SMART goals that they made for the school and their departments. They will create a report that they will deliver to the principal and the site based decision making team. The committee will create new goals and then create another presentation that will be shared with the staff at the beginning of the next school year so the whole process can be completed again.

5352 Week 4 Part 2

Need: Strengthen data driven decision making Activity: Technology Professional Learning Community (PLC) will receive training on making and updating spreadsheets. The PLC members will then train their content teams on how to use and maintain spreadsheets. The spreadsheets will then hold information on students like Lexile level so students can be given appropriate reading materials in their classes. They will also include test data and formative assessment results so students can be monitored the entire year. Need: Communication with stakeholders Activity: Campus technology liaison will conduct professional growth that shows proper email communication with parents and other interested stakeholders. Teachers will also be shown how to set up and maintain a webpage for students and parents. Need: Students need to engage in using higher order thinking skills Activity: Content coordinators will create technology lessons that integrate higher order thinking skills. Coordinators will then have professional development for teachers who will learn the new lessons and then come and use them with their students. Need: Students who failed TAKS should receive remediation Activity: Teachers will receive training from district technology personnel on computer software that will provide remediation to students who need help with TAKS objectives. One of the biggest needs on our campus is building staff confidence in working with spreadsheets. Our Math department works with spreadsheets in their curriculum, but the others do not. Spreadsheets are the way we will analyze our test results and we need to help our staff outside of the math department grow in using these tools. Most of the teachers admitted that they have a spreadsheet person on their team and that person leads the data analysis for the team. All of our teachers need to have the ability to run data analysis for their classes. The development of the technology PLC that will learn and then train their teammates will help in this area. The technology PLC will put all the data for students into one place. Teachers are always going to many different sources to get the whole picture of the child. A teacher usually has to go to the counselor to look up the cumulative file to retrieve old grades and test scores from the previous years. Another step would be to go the Reading Teacher to go and get the Lexile score. This would be followed by a trip to the assistant principals’ office to see if the child has a discipline folder. Finally, the teacher might visit with their previous teacher to see what kind of student they were the year before. This can be exhausting. Having all the data in one spreadsheet will allow the teacher time to sit down and really evaluate their students and make proper data based decisions for the students’ learning path.