Veterans Memorial High School 5 Year Technology Plan

2011-2016

Anna J. Clark

Technology Support Teacher

ajclark@bisd.us

956-574-5625

VMHS Profile

Vision

Veterans Memorial is a brand new school opening the 2010-2011 school year. Our population is roughly 1,000 students (freshman and sophomores) and will continue to grow each year as we add grade levels. Our vision statement predicates that we will “Work collaboratively to prepare students academically, socially and technologically as they become contributing members of our society”. Based on this vision, we strive to not only acquire state of the art technology for the students, but furthermore, fully train our teachers to integrate the use of this technology into their daily lessons.

Project Performance Goals & Objectives

Increase all grade levels passing rate in the areas of Reading, Writing, Math,

Science, and all other content areas.

Increase students’ interest in Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Language

Arts, and all other content areas.

Increase use of technology and technology integration in all classrooms.

Increase problem solving in all content areas.

Rational & Timeline

This technology plan is proposed for the timeframe beginning 2010-2011 through the

2015-2016 school year, students, teachers and administrators will learn to utilize the

computer software and hardware components to the best of their abilities with the

instruction and support of the campus Technology Support Teacher and professional

development courses.

Assessment & Evaluation

The following assessment and evaluation information will be used from spring of 2011

and ending the spring of 2016.

Student campus TAKS results in the areas of Math, Language Arts/Reading, and Science

along with campus and district benchmarks tests from 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-

2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016.

Campus Surveys for teachers, students and administrators prior to and at the end of

activities to evaluate changes in their technological “comfort zone”.

The campus will create a Technology Committee consisting of the TST, CATE Lead

Teacher, and Administrators which will help guide technology spending and ensure that

the campus Technology Plan is being implemented.

Campus evaluations will be shared with the district’s Assessment/Research/Evaluation

department and will provide online access for parents and the community to view such results.

Veterans Memorial High School will submit Campus Star Chart for each academic school

year from 2011-2016.

Action Time Party Responsible

Cost Evaluation Other

Increase Passing Rate

09/2011-05/2016

Administrators, Tech Support Teacher, Classroom Teachers

Unknown TAKS Benchmarks Star Chart

Action Time Party Responsible

Cost Evaluation Other

Increase Students’ and staff interest In Math, Reading, Writing and Science.

09/2011-05/2016

Administrators, Tech Support Teacher, Classroom Teachers

Unknown TAKS Benchmarks Star Chart

Technology Support Teacher will help teachers create lessons for all technology to be used effectively.

Action Time Party Responsible

Cost Evaluation Other

Increase use of technology and technology integration.

09/2011-05/2016

Administrators, Tech Support Teacher, Classroom Teachers

Unknown TAKS Benchmarks Star Chart Campus Created Benchmarks

Use of Open Source software by teachers & students for presentations.

STaRchart Campus Report

Veterans Memorial H S Year: 20102011 Printed:03/29/11 11:43 AM

TEACHING AND LEARNING

1 Patterns of Classroom Use

2 Frequency/Design of Instructional Setting Using Digital Content

3 Content Area Connections

4 Technology Applications (TA) TEKS Implementation (TAC Chapter 126)

5 Student Mastery of Technology Applications (TA) TEKS

6 Online Learning

Developing Developing Developing Advanced Developing Developing

EDUCATOR PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT

1 Content of Professional Development

2 Models of Professional Development

3 Capabilities of Educators

4 Access to Professional Development

5 Levels of Understanding and Patterns of Use

6 Professional Development for Online Learning

Developing Advanced Developing Developing Advanced Developing

LEADERSHIP, ADMINISTRATION, AND INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT

1 Leadership and Vision

2 Planning 3 Instructional Support

4 Communication

and Collaboration

5 Budget 6 Leadership and Support for Online

Learning

Advanced Target Target Target Advanced Advanced

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TECHNOLOGY

1 Students per Computer

2 Internet Access Connectivity/Speed

3 Other Classroom Technology

4 Technical Support

5 Local Area Network Wide Area Network

6 Distance Learning Capacity

Target Target Advanced Advanced Target Advanced

Strengths

Veterans Memorial is a brand new campus and we are fortunate to have new

equipment including five classrooms with full labs as well as a two computer labs

available by appointment for teacher & student use. All teachers have desktop

computers, sixty rooms have EIKI projectors installed and many teachers have

checked out laptops, MOBI’s, ELMO’s and printers.

Our greatest strength “technology-wise” is not in the equipment itself but lies in the

enthusiasm shown by the teachers, students and administrators who have shared

their desire to learn more about integrating technology into their classrooms and

lessons.

Areas of Need

Our greatest need at Veterans Memorial High School is in Professional Development.

We have access to many forms of technology, both hardware and software, and with

further training we will hit our goals of fully utilizing everything our campus has to offer.

Training Suggestions

Training sessions with the TST will be available bi-monthly during planning

periods.

Monthly video trainings (created by the campus TST and/or tutorials available

through purchased programs such as A+, COMPASS, Pearson) that are user

friendly and easy to follow, and can be accessible at any time so teachers can

view the tutorials at their convenience.

Quarterly Webinars specialized for each department.

Gather information on where teachers stand on all trainings via quarterly

surveys.

Budget Crisis

With the concerns over the BISD budget crisis, we at Veterans would like to propose

steps to take in order to save the district not hundreds, but thousands of dollars. These

steps are just suggestions that we hope will be considered in our quest to help our

district and our dwindling budget.

Each teacher shall receive only 1 toner cartridge per school year, any further

toner will need to be purchased by the teacher.

Xerox machines will be programmed in such a way that each teacher will be

issues an ID for the Xerox and a limited number of copies per 6 weeks to cut

back on paper costs and electrical costs.

The use of “Open Source” software will be standardized within our school to cut

back on licensing costs. Software such as Open Office in place of MS Office, PDF

re-direct in place of Adobe Reader Pro, GIMP in place of Photoshop, Google

Sketch in place of CAD, Dropbox in place of issuing laptops, etc…

Student supply lists issued at the beginning of the school year will include 2

reams of paper per student to cut back on paper costs.

Utilizing Moodle in place of summer school.

Offering of a remedial computer course to teach students who are lacking in

computer skills the basics of word processing, excel, powerpoint and

keyboarding.

We at Veterans Memorial High School strive to offer the best resources for our

teachers, students and staff technologically, environmentally, socially and academically

in order to give our students a better chance at a lifetime of success.