Texas Long Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020 (EDLD 5352 Week 2 Post #1)

The Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support portion of the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, addresses that it is imperative for administrators to understand and model the use of technology as an integral part of their professional activities. As an instructional leader you must make it a priority to take a leadership role in assuring other members of your staff embrace and utilize technology. Educational leaders must develop, implement, budget for and monitor a dynamic technology plan that aligns resources to improve student learning and support school operations. To develop a technology plan with a shared vision, school administrators need to create an ongoing technology committee with representatives that are key stakeholders. At our campus we have remained in the Advanced Tech level on the STaR Chart for this section for the past three years. Compared to the results given in the campus statewide summary report our campus is performing as well as roughly 46% of other schools in the state. In order for our campus to improve to the Target Tech level of progress, our administration team needs to devote more time to planning the use of technology and also leading by example. If our administrators initiated blogs or web conferences I think that would help set the tone for the rest of our staff to follow their lead at integrating technology into the classroom. Another recommendation that would help our campus make improvements in this area would be a weekly technology tidbit from our CIT or another staff member who is tech savvy.