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Professional Development Plan

Activities Stakeholders/Person(s) Responsible

Expected Outcomes

Instructional staff professional development on using CSCOPE with a focus on integrating technology.

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director, Chief Technology Officer

Provides training in how to efficiently and effectively use the online curriculum with a focus on integrating technology including but not limited to integrating interactive websites, wikis, nings and podcasts.

DMAC professional development


Training in how to efficiently and effectively use DMAC and its reports to access student and district data to target areas of concern.

STaR Chart Staff Development


Provide stakeholders with information on the STaR Chart—what it is used for, what the ratings mean, where we are, and where we would like to go.

Professional development in creating and facilitating an online course

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director, Chief Technology Officer,and students

Online learning opportunities will be increased.

Professional development on effective technology integration strategies

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director, Chief Technology Director

Further instructional staffs’ knowledge and skills in integrating technology; provide the opportunity for lesson relevancy for students—active engagement

Attend State Conferences Superintendent, Assistant Opportunity to network with

Superintendent, Chief Technology Officer, Instructional Technology Director,Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, and Instructional Staff

other practitioners; attend sessions presented by practitioners who can provide the advantages and disadvantages, do’s and don’ts on technology integration; gain new knowledge and project ideas

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Evaluation of Action Plan including:

Effectiveness of Professional Development, Policy Improvements and Infrastructure

Strategy Stakeholders/Person(s) Responsible

Expected Outcomes

Timeline Evaluation

Collaborative technology integration planning using a ning or wiki to collaborate

Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Chief Technology Officer, Instructional Technology Director,Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, , and a sampling of campus instructional staff

More comprehensive plan for aquiring needed technology; provide campus principals with information on the types of technologies already available; help in integrating AEIS data, AYP data, and STaR Chart results in all planning; help the district and campus

2009-2010 academic year; ongoing

Completion and approval of district technology plan

leadership budget for individual campus technology needs

Upgrade Infrastructure to support wireless technologies

Chief Technology Officer, Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent

Ability to provide mobile labs with laptops for classroom use; save money on having to run new wiring for current “drops”.

January 2010-August 2010

Completion of the project. All schools have wireless high-speed capabilities

Continue participation / contract for CSCOPE, a web-based curriculum

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Assistant Superintendent, and Instructional Technology Director

All instructional components of C-Scope including the parent portal will be used as the basis of all instruction as well as a tool for parent information and support.

ongoing State assessment data including AEIS data, increase the “met standard” rate as outlined in the CIP.

Acceptable Use Policy revision

Chief of Technology, Assistant Superintendent, and Instructional Technology Director

Policy is revised to increase the ease of use for online collaboration.


Completed and approved revisions allow students and teacher access to sharing and collaborative websites.

DMAC professional development

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director

Training in how to efficiently and effectively use DMAC and its reports to access student data to target

May 2011 Targeted student instruction will lead to a 5% decrease in students needing TAKS

areas of concern.

remediation.

STaR Chart Staff Development

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director

Provide stakeholders with information on the STaR Chart—what it is used for, what the ratings mean, where we are, and where we would like to go.

May 2011 Current rating of Advanced Tech will increase to Target Tech.

Professional development in creating and facilitating an online course

Instructional Staff, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technology Director, and students

Provide additional course offerings for students


25% of teachers attending this pd will have an online course live by following school year.

Professional development on integrating interactive websites, wikis, nings, and podcasts into the C-Scope curriculum.


Provide instructional staff the opportunity to learn about and integrate technology into existing curriculum; provide opportunity for students to be more actively engaged in the lessons and in their learning.

Ongoing

(This curriculum is ever-changing; therefore the pd must be ongoing)

100% of instructional staff will provide evidence through lesson plans that they have used at least one of the listed tools in each content area.

Attend State Conferences

Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Chief Technology

Opportunity to network with other practitioners;

Ongoing Report relaying new learning and expectation of

Officer,Technology Director, Curriculum Directors, Campus Principals, Instructional Technologists, and Instructional Staff

attend sessions presented by practitioners who can provide the advantages and disadvantages, do’s and don’ts on technology integration; gain new knowledge and project ideas. Expectation of attendees to turn around new trainings.

implementation required by all attendees.

Online communication of new learning will be made available to all instructional staff through a district Wiki.

action plan: pd/evaluation

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