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.