Action Plan

Title/Job Descritption	Location	Responsibilites/Role
Technology Services	Admin Building	There key role is to make sure the entire network for the district is running properly to allow us access to the programs we need. They also hold staff development at the district level that they feel would benefit teachers technology basics.
Administrators	Campus	To make sure they allocate enough money in the buget to take care of the technology budget.
Teachers	Classroom	They must make sure they are taking plenty of technology update classes and implementing all the technology they can in the classroom.
Parents	Home	If possible have them sit with their kid at home and do activities on the computer that have to do with what they are learning in school.
Technology Liason	Campus	They will make sure that the technology on campus is up to date and that we have the latest items that are available at the district level.

The principal is the middle man that must keep this program together. He is the person that is in charge of keeping all of his teachers up to date with what is happening with technology at the district level and relaying the information to his campus staff. He is also the person that makes sure the teachers are doing what they are supposed to with the children in the classroom. He must monitor their classroom and make sure they have the resources available in order to do relay all information to the students. They also has to make sure the teachers are communicating and sending valuable infomration home to the parents in for them to assist in the process as well.

To ensure that we cover all of the topics above we are starting PLC’s next year. These Professional Learning Communities will allow our tech savvy teachers that have on campus create professional learning development series that incorporates all the information teachers need to succeed in their classrooms. They will pull information that we received on the STAR charts, surveys, and overall comments listed that they feel they could improve on. Even though our campus is one of the high percentage that has economically disadvantaged students we are very fortunate to have promethean boards from PK-5 in all classrooms. Even though these teachers have these boards in their classroom they are lacking the skills they need to do all of the wonderful things they are available. With these PLC trainings we will be able to talk with the staff either by surveys or word of mouth and understand what they feel is important to them to learn at these trainings. Most teachers learn by example so giving someone a topic that you are interested in and having them present it to you would be more beneficial than them just saying this is how you do it. By adminsitering these PLC’s it will allow all teachers on campus to get a better feel for the boards and use them to their advantage. They can start to gather their own data in order to assit their students and reteach information immediately if need by instead of having to go back after a few days when they grade work the students have done. The feedback you get when using this technology in the classroom is so much faster and really overall beneficial to you and the students. In the interview they talked about “Bring it to the table” and with these PLC’s that is exactly what we are doing. We are having a set group of teachers that are avaialble to everyone and you are able to ask them questions and get a in full detail answer to what you are looking for.

After looking at all of the data we have and what our goals are for technology they are very specific and include lots of great ideas. I do feel that none of these things are being done from any person that is supposed to be involved though. I am hoping with the PLC’s that we can take a closer look into these goals and set a timetable and start reaching them one at a time. I feel that it is so overwhelming when you look at it that you just lose sight in what the main idea is. By taking them one by one you will be able to set smaller goals and reach them one by one.

The overall goal of these professional development sessions and the overall monitoring of technology in the classroom will be done by surveys and evaluations. Given that each teacher has to be using technology in their classroom then at any given time you should be able to walk in there and see what they are doing to incorporate their lesson into it. Having teachers meet with each other by subject will also be a good tool so that they can brainstorm and come up with ideas that they can use in the classroom that will be beneficial to the students and also give them feedback on how well the students are doing.