Technology Plan of Action

Action Plan

District Goal:

· To ensure that Career and Technology programs are developed to meet the needs of future careers.

· To ensure all facilities provide a proper learning environment for our students.

· To ensure that CTE training and equipment are updated to meet current industry and business standards.

· To review, develop and market relevant high-quality CTE programs at every campus in our district.

· To develop clearly defined career pathway course sequences in order to ensure that students graduate with appropriate credentials for employment.

Campus Goal:

· Teachers will integrate grade level technology TEKS a minimum of once every six weeks. Through lessons, projects and presentations, students will demonstrate mastery of technology TEKS.

Objectives:

· All students will be exposed to a computer-based activity a minimum of once six weeks.

· All 8^th grade students will complete Career Cruising activities through the Technology Applications and Career Investigation course by the end of each semester.

All subject areas will integrate technology into their curriculum. Every teacher will schedule computer lab time once every six weeks. The Computer Technology Coordinator (CTC) will work collaboratively with content area teachers to develop lessons where technology is integrated once per six weeks. All 8^th grade students have been placed in a Career and Technology course where Career Cruising will be completed. College tutors will provide afterschool tutoring using TAKS software to provide support. By the end of the school year 50% of the staff will integrate technology into lessons a minimum of once every 4 weeks. By the end of the school year 25% of the staff will increase their technology competency by one level as determined by the Teacher STaR Chart on the area of Teaching and Learning. During the 2010-2011 school year 5% of teachers will develop and present Technology Integration lessons/strategies to faculty or at conferences.

By the end of 2010-2011 school year 1/3 of all computer hardware will be increased or replaced with new units. By the end of 2010-2011 school year 1/3 of all computer hardware or software will be updated. Old teacher laptops white Mac books 13” BoB’s will be re-imaged and distributed to the Math Department for Fastt Math instruction.