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Planning into Practice
Michigan Technology Planning WorkshopsPutting It All Together -- Goals, Actions, and
Evaluation
Lining Up the Elements
Why
What
How
Vision
Goals
Action Plan
Technology’s Link to the Big Picture
Curriculum
Instruction Assessment
Curriculum-based Standards for
Student Technology Use
(e.g., NET-S)
Electronic Portfolios of
Student Work
District-Level Expectations for Teacher Use of
Technology (e.g., NETS-T)
Student-Centered,
Project-Based Learning
Tecnology Professional
Development that Explores New
Models for Technology Use
Your task is to create goals and actions that reflect how technology links to these big-picture elements.
Creating Goals
Goals are statements of particular ways in which you intend to actualize your vision. Goals break down the vision into manageable
(and measurable) pieces.
Most plans have groups of goals around various elements of the vision...
Types of Goals
Curriculum IntegrationProfessional DevelopmentAdministrationCommunity Involvement
and other areas that are critically important to your vision
Good Goals
SpecificMeasurableAttainableRelevantTimeboundThink about your goals in terms of how you
will ultimately need to evaluate them!
Goal Creation Activities
Post-It Activity Ask the individual committee members to brainstorm a set of
things they would like to see happen with the district’s technology effort. Write one idea per post-it note.
Create a sheet of newsprint for each goal category. Ask members to choose the appropriate sheet to attach each of their post-its.
Subcommittees -- one per goal category -- will distill the notes into a set of goal statements.
Round-Robin Structured Brainstorming
Example...
In what ways should technology support state and district curriculum frameworks? 2 minutes -- Think 10 minutes -- Round-robin of ideas 10 minutes -- Clarification Pick top two ideas
Goals lead to Activities
Goals are the higher order, categorical, objectives you intend to achieve Activities are the various things you will do to
achieve those goals. Activities are smaller than goals Most goals will be supported by many activities Activities are organized into action plans
Action Plans
The action plan organizes your activities First by goal group -- e.g., curriculum,
professional development, etc. Second by year -- e.g., year one action plan, year
two, and so on
The reader of your action plan should be able to see your plan unfold element by element, year by year.
Use a template (pg 45)
Connecting Goals to Actions
Action plans need to be more than just cool ideas.
How do these ideas and activities directly relate to fulfilling goals?
Also, how do your actions transpire over time? Time and sequence become critical elements in
your action plan
SMART test (pg 46)
Presenting and Using the Plan
“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
• How will you present your plan?• Board meeting• Public forums• Distribution and presentation to staff• Think about what parts you want to share and highlight
• Creating expectations for on-going planning• What happens next?
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