Collaborative+Agenda+Ideas

  =Purpose=

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**The purpose of this committee is to plan the implementation, integration, and the expansion of Technology accross the content areas and beyond the classroom considering:** ======


> administrators and campus leaders. =Objective=
 * Research on educational technology and funding sources.
 * Establishing a campus wide Technology infrastructure.
 * Integrating technology into the everyday curriculum taking into consideration NCLB, TLRPT, and Technology Application TEKS.
 * The buildinging technology-enhanced classrooms that enable and promote collaboration and team learning among students, educators, school
 * Collaboration with district technology integration specialist to make on-going instructional development available to learners, educators, and staff.
 * Establishing an on-going 21st Century learner-centered community collaborative on a regional, state, country and word-wide level to establish partnerships and be able to share resources, ideas, etc…

Create a Vision Completion of a Technology Plan Professional Developement Instruction Support = = = Grade level = The technology commitee will be addressing technology for the campuses of Middle School and High School.

=Facilitator’s Name = Sara Baragona

**Community members** David Silar - Middle School Teacher/ Technologist Ruth Adame - 6th Grade Reading/English Inclusion and Reading Lab Teacher Miguel Leija- Elementary Teacher Sara Baragona - Auditory Impairment Teacher Rosylyn West - Elementary Computer Technology Applications Teacher Mike Warren - Technology Applications Instructor

**Group Activities**

The Commitee will perform several activities to successfully lead the campus. Included in our Agenda will be the following:

- **Prepare a "Vision**" **Statement** from our group concerning how technology use and integration can be improved on our campus. This vision will keep the commitee focused and serve as our resolve. The statement should be the first order of business and should be completed within the first month of the new school year.

- **Completion of a Campus Technology Plan** with the purpose of providing forward direction and attaining goals.The campus plan should be adopted by the end of the second month of school.

- **Professional Development:** for the purpose of ** maintaining ** a qualified **and current** staff. ** Completion ** of a certain number of hours of professional development during one school year should be mandatory in the teacher's core subject area**.** Campus training should be required and tied to incentive. Within grade levels, target tech teachers should pair with early tech teachers to team teach with the goal of developing the early tech teacher while accomplishing technology integration (RW)

- **Technology Integration in the Curriculum:** for the purpose of proposing strategies and tools for instruction. Educators should create and execute a certain number of lessons integrating technology. Each teacher will be required to integrate technology at least twice a month for the first half of the school year. During the second half of the school year, the focus will progress to integrating technology and collarborating with teachers outside your content area.

- **Staff Support:** for the purpose of having a well -maintained and **effective** infrastructure. **District leaders shall** provide support for technology integration by modeling **daily** **use of technology and digital tools and offering** staff opportunities ** in order to be 21st Century educators **. - **Budget:** for the purpose of regulating and managing the community assets. A yearly budget should adopted by the committee.

- **Evaluation and Assessment:** for the purpose of monitoring progress and mistakes. A beginning and ending assessment should be adopted for staff. **Staff** needs should be evaluated and campus workshops and training provided with follow-up by technology department. Campus staff will be provided time to implement acquired training**.** The beginning assessment will be given during the first month of school. The ending assessment will be given during the last month of school. The committee will meet during the summer to make improvements based on the assessments.