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NISD's Technology Plan 2010

By: Matthew Garrett ET8012. NISD's Technology Plan 2010. The Technology Plan. Technology is the fourth Domain of the District's Strategic Plan 2008-2013.

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NISD's Technology Plan 2010

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  1. By: Matthew Garrett ET8012 NISD's Technology Plan 2010

  2. The Technology Plan • Technology is the fourth Domain of the District's Strategic Plan 2008-2013. • The Main Priority is to “Implement and Support technological and human infrastructures that maximize the purposeful use of technology to achieve academic, personal, and organizational excellence.”

  3. Technology Objectives • Ensure that all students demonstrate relevant information, communications, and technology competencies necessary for digital-age literacy. • Infuse appropriate instructional technologies throughout the curriculum to engage students, differentiate instruction, and strengthen learning and achievement.

  4. Technology Objectives Cont. • Provide appropriate staff development opportunities that meet the needs of diverse learners in order to promote continuous growth of technology competencies expected for successful job performance. • Implement and support research-based, integrated technology systems and solutions that aid in decision-making and fulfilling instructional and operational requirements.

  5. Technology Objectives Cont. • Develop, implement, monitor, and adjust plans and policies that address technology priorities, standards, access, and use. • Ensure access to reliable and well-supported technology and network systems to meet current and emerging needs.

  6. How do we meet the Objectives? • For each goal a several Major Activities are listed. • At each three month Progress Report specific examples are given. This gives information on which campuses were affected. It also provides information on success or what modifications were needed.

  7. Meeting Objective 1 • Provide instructional staff development, direction, and support for campus-based staff who implement the Technology Applications and library curricula. • Administer online technology literacy assessment to all eighth graders District wide in order to meet NCLB goals and Strengthen Technology Applications curriculum implementation. • Coordinate the District-wide Digital Media Fair.

  8. Meeting Objective 2 • Complete Technology Bond lifecycle deployments a 19 campuses, to includes a laptop for every educator. • Complete ceiling-mounted classroom projector deployments at 52 campuses. • Purchase three mobile carts with 40 iPods each to rotate among all-level classrooms, providing staff development and support for teacher-created lessons and best practices for student use.

  9. Meeting Objective 2 • Implement student network logins for all secondary students, as well as students in grades 3-5 at three elementary schools, to support sFiles and students' personal laptops. • Expand and/or support student-based instructional technology initiatives, including eClassroom, virtual high school courses, Federated Search, credit retrieval, eBooks, and online databases.

  10. Meeting Objective 3 • Complete final revisions of the Employee Technology Competencies and promote District-wide. • Provide training to employees on NISD- standard applications in a variety of settings and formats. • Coordinate the District-wide summer eCamp. • Provide professional development specifically for District leadership to continue nurturing a culture of continuous educational technology innovation in our schools.

  11. Meeting Objective 4 • Support the implementation of a new Business/HR Management system, including MUNIS Enterprise Content Management. • Complete the acquisitions of a Data Warehouse and begin implementation. • Complete the acquisition of a new Student Information System and begin implementation. • Expand and/or support new and existing educational technology initiatives. • Collaborate with the Curriculum and Instruction Department to continue implementation and support of online testing for End of Course, TELPAS, TAKS- Alt, District Benchmarks, and Spanish Advanced Placement Exam.

  12. Meeting Objective 5 • Begin implementation of Microsoft Office 2007 as the district standard, migrating from Office 2003. • Complete migrations at 15 remaining campuses and all remaining District departments to Microsoft Active Directory, the District-wide network standard. • Implement standard e-mail mailbox size allocations per user group and communicate e-mail retention legal requirements and best practices. • Monitor and support Acceptable Use, to include personal laptops on the NISD Wi-Fi. • Continuously review, update, and promote technology Administrative Regulations and Board to support instructional and operational best practices.

  13. Meeting Objective 6 • Continue planning and implementation of disaster recovery. • Implement a new self-service password management system for employees. • Acquire and implement a Software Distribution/Delivery system to expedite software installations. • Continuously review, design and implement infrastructure and network enhancements to meet instructional and operational needs for voice, video, and data.

  14. How do we know? • Northside has an 8 member board that meets every three months to review progress on the goals that were set. • In order to give clear accountability the person in charge of each goal is clearly recorded. • The general wording for the goal is put first, then a follow up of each specific item that will be worked on to meet that goal is given.

  15. Progress Report

  16. Technology Achievements Reached • • Completed Technology Bond lifecycle deployments at 22 campuses. By the end of the summer, professional staff at 10 campuses will be issued wireless mobile laptop computers and accessories. • • Completed ceiling-mounted classroom projector deployments at 52 campuses. • • Installed wireless network at 29 remaining campuses, which completed the District- wide wireless project at all NISD facilities. This includes NISD WiFi which allows staff and secondary students to access the Internet using their personal computers. • • Implemented R-TIME, a new electronic process to submit and process a “Request for Technology and Instructional Materials Evaluation.” Processed an average of 7 requests per day, adding 4,200+ items to the NISD approved lists, getting technology and supplementary instructional materials into the hands of students and staff in a more timely and efficient manner.

  17. Technology Achievements Reached Cont. • • Implemented the Hayes Online Textbook Management System District-wide and trained administrators at all campuses on its use. This system allows campuses to view their textbook inventories online and order textbooks as needed, streamlines shipping and receiving operations so that textbooks can get into the hands of students faster, and includes a barcode scanning feature to check textbooks in and out more efficiently. • • Completed Technology Literacy online testing of 5,600+ 8th graders at all middle schools, aligned to the Technology Applications curriculum and NCLB goals. Results will be used to improve how the Technology Applications curriculum is taught in middle school, guide professional development efforts, strengthen efforts to purposefully infuse technology into the curriculum, and differentiate technology literacy instruction for all students. • • Implemented two-tiered Internet filtering policy, thereby providing employees with access to more websites than students in order to meet instructional and operational needs.

  18. Technology Achievements Reached Cont. • • Upgraded the District’ s V oIP (V oice over IP) telephone system servers and software, providing better performance, reliability, functionality, and security for all users. • • Provided iPods to Special Schools’ classrooms on a rotating basis, accompanied by NISD-teacher-created instructional podcasts for students, aligned to the curriculum. This initiative will be replicated at all campuses next year, with the addition of three more mobile carts with 40 iPods each.

  19. Imbedded Technology Achievement • In Domain 1 Curriculum and Instruction The District continued the development and refinement of the Curriculum Management System as a data tool by: o Providing access to concept based curriculum documents o Modifying curriculum diagnostic benchmark items in math and science for special needs students and including those benchmark results in the system o Providing staff development for campus leaders in the effective and efficient use of the system as an aid for data driven decision making o Developing test views as new test versions are available from the state o Expanding on-line benchmarking at additional elementary schools

  20. Imbedded Technology Achievements Cont. • In Domain 2 Safe and Secure Schools • • Expanded and improved campus and NISD police radio communication coverage and made plans for future improvements. • • Received funding, through a grant, for visitor identification units in 46 elementary campuses, which will go into operation at the start of the 2009-10 school year. • • Completed installation of security cameras at all NISD middle schools. • • Planned to have all NISD staff with a photo ID by the fall of 2009. • • Updated and expanded the Learning Space online trainings related to Drug Prevention topics. • • Continued to provide drug prevention and anti bullying research-based materials to students and parents at NISD secondary schools. • • Began pilot program to examine the feasibility of digital video on NISD school busses that can be accessed remotely by campus and police administration.

  21. Imbedded Technology Achievements Cont. • In Domain 3 Human Resources • •Received Recognition from TEA Best Practices for the Paraprofessional Appraisal Process, the Substitute Teacher Orientation, and Absence Management Process. • • Began completing fingerprints for over 3,000 Auxiliary, Classified,and Professional employees. • • Began completing ID pictures for over 13,000 NISD employees. • • Created a Benefit Blog site to facilitate exchange of information in a semi informal setting for employees.

  22. Imbedded Technology Achievements Cont. • In Domain 5 Communication • • Redesigned a more effective Intranet. • • Launched a weekly employee newsletter (INW) and a monthly employee HR newsletter. Web polls on both newsletters indicate positive reactions from employees. • • Implemented a web streaming technology for special events.

  23. Imbedded Technology Achievements Cont. • In Domain 6 School-Business-Community-Family Partnership The District continued to improve Partnerships website and electronic communications with four web-based (2 e-mail-only) fundraisers; posted best practices attachments for campuses and Partner Directory updates • In Domain 7 Facilities The District received the Bill Sinkin Solar Energy Aware for the solar panel installation at the Northside Aquatics Center • In Domain 8 Budget and Finance The District expanded the online payment system for Child Nutrition Services to include 92 campuses.

  24. Meeting the NETP • Northside has been making huge gains to meet the National Standard. • Including implementing a SIS and data warehousing. • Meeting CIPA requirements by installing 8e6 system and annual reviewing sites and upon request.

  25. Meeting the NETP Cont. • Northside has an on call help department that tries to asses problems on the spot. • It receives 14,222 requests. • Northside has been setting aside time and money to train Administration and Computer personnel. Making strong leadership as the NETP suggest. It also instituting a train the trainer model.

  26. Bibliography • http://www.nisd.net/general/strategicplan/2008_2013/data/y1s.pdf • http://www.nisd.net/general/strategicplan/2008_2013/data/y1a.pdf • U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Toward A New Golden Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Students Are Revolutionizing Expectations, Washington, D.C., 2004. • file:///Users/m1g1recap/Desktop/Lamar/Information%20Mangament%20Systems/Easy%20-Technology%20:%20Northside%20Independent%20School%20District%20-%20San%20Antonio,%20TX%2078238.webarchive

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