TECHNOLOGY PLAN TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership & M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO EDUCATION
Name:_____Medine SOYLEMEZ_____

Date: _____11/21/2015___________

This template is adapted from

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/documents/et14techplan.doc

INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
The plan should guide the LEAs use of education technology for the next three
years.

List specific start and end dates (7/1/2015 to 6/30/2018). Provide a brief overview
of the LEA, its location and demographics and/or share a link to the LEAs
website.
Start and end dates: 7/1/2015 to 6/30/2018
LEA Title: Hustonville Elementary School
City, State Zip: P.O. Box 6, 93 N. College St., Hustonville 40437
Phone: (606) 346-3831
Fax: (606)346-2201
District No. 341 School No. 070 Grades PS-05
Number of Students: 399
Ethnic Distribution: 95,5% Caucasian, the rest is Hispanic, Black, Two Races and
Pacific Islanders
Gender Distribution: 51% Female, 49% Male
Socioeconomic Distribution: 55,4% Eligible for Free Lunch
37,1% Ineligible for Free/Reduced Lunch
Kentucky State Assessment Performance:
School Math Proficiency 42.0%
School Reading/Language Arts Proficiency 47.0%
www.lincoln.kyschools.us/hustonville
Describe how a variety of stakeholders from within the LEA and the

community-at-large participated in the planning process.

List of stakeholders within LEA:
The Principal: ____________
Assistant Principal: ________
Director of Technology and Facility and Grounds Maintenance:
IT Manager
Computer Teacher
Information Technology Team
Director of Technology
Network Administrator
Technicians
Instructional Technology Team
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Technology Resource Instructor
Community stakeholders:
Parents, Cluster office staff, Cluster Tech committee, Technology advisory board,
Teachers, team leaders, department heads, Instructional Coaches, Engagement
and support department.
Summarize the relevant research and describe how it supports the plan's
curricular and professional development goals.
As technology is changing too fast recently, to catch up with this development a
well designed e-plan is crucial. Technology planning is done to help to
understand what is appropriate for the teachers, staff, students and
school/organization by means of the effective tool selection and usage, saving
time and money and accomplishing the organization's missions.
Summarize the plans major curricular and professional development
outcomes that are supported by research.
The main goal of this planning is to incorporate technology by means of
integrating curriculum into subject areas. Students and educators must be
guaranteed to have fair opportunities in the use of technology as an constitutional
part of education.
Describe and cite the relevant research that supports the plans outcomes.
Technology Plans and the E-Rate Program: A Primer for Schools and Libraries.
(n.d.). Retrieved November 22, 2015, from http://eratecentral.com/applicationTips/techPlan/
Describe the connection between the research and the plans goals.
It must be every educational organization's vision for students, parents, and

educators to be active in the use of technology in communication and information

gathering to raise and spread out the traditional role of education. Technology
can enable the users to have better communication, intensify thinking skills, have
more efficiency and effectiveness in understanding and applying the instruction,
and evolve life skills crucial to success. That's why not only designing an e-plan
is enough, it also must be open for development and positive changes.
Describe information gathered from site visits, including best practices.
After visiting sites it is clear that an e-plan is a school's must. The examples
websites show the importance of having a good technology plan appropriate for
the school, staff, educators, students and also the parents' needs and
requirements. The plan must be designed to accomplish these missions.

CURRICULUM COMPONENT CRITERIA.

The Plan must establish clear goals and realistic strategy for using
telecommunications and information technology to improve education services.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe teachers' current access to instructional technology and current use of

digital tools.
1. What are the current instructional technology tools that the teachers
have access?
There are 83 (Lenovo machines) and 45 (older computers-Dell or below)
workstations designed for both teachers and students' use. 11 laptops for
teachers and 45 laptops for students are available. The schools has, 1 projector
in each classroom, 14 ceiling mounted projectors, 30 interactive whiteboards, 3
Mini Labs (15 laptop in each), 25 Document Cameras, 21 CPS Clicker Systems,
1 Camcorder, 25 Tuff Camcorders, 3 Thin Client (10 unit), 7 Thin Client (5 unit),
20 Interwrite Mobi, 1 VHS/DVD converter for the teachers' use.
2. What are the current digital tools that the teachers have access?
Teachers have the access to the following resources; Infinity campus, CIITS,
Aesop for education, Discovery education, Advanced assists, Study island,
ConnectED, Stars Suit, Old Sky Drive One drive,Office 365, IXL, MyLexia,
Gradecom, Edmodo, Next Generation Science Standards, Thinkfinty, Weather
Bug, Workorder/Inventory, Renaissance Place, TalentEd, Safe Schools Trainig,
Individual Learning Plan, teachscape, Ten Marks, Lincoln County Public Library,
GCF LearnFree.org, SchoolMessenger, Air Control, PGES Resources, Student
Voice Survey Teacher Resources, KDE Media Portal. Some of them can be used
during the lessons in classrooms and links to students and parent are also
available by the specific links obtained and shared or served by the teachers. In
some applications teachers has also the access to see the students progress.

Describe students' current access to instructional technology and current use of

digital tools. Include a description about the LEA policy, practices, and/or
replacement policy that ensures equitable technology access for all students.
1. What are the current instructional technology tools that the students
have access?
There are 83 (Lenovo machines) and 45 (older computers-Dell or below)
workstations designed for both teachers and students' use. 11 laptops for
teachers and 45 laptops for students are available. Also the average
student/computer ratio per classroom is 1 computer for 4 students. Students
have the opportunity to use the tools teachers use in the classrooms such as
projectors, interactive whiteboards, computer labs, library etc.
2. What are the current digital tools that the students have access?
Elementary Online Practice, Individual Learning Plan Login, Discovery Education
Assessment, Hustonville Student Links, SpringBoard, Study-Island, Infinite
Campus, Renaissance Learning, BrainPOP, Star Suite, IXL, ALEKS,
KETencyclomedia, Starfall, Reading Eggs, Lexia Reading CORE5, Pearson
SuccessNet, Dreambox Learning, Go Math, Everfi, Fastt Math Next Generation,
Ten Marks, CERT, Follet Destiny, Edmentum Plato Courseware, TeenBiz3000,
Flocabulary, Curiosity, Moby Max, SAS Curriculum Pathways, myschoolbucks,
edmodo, Lincoln County Public Library, Thinkfinty, Weather Bug, World Book
Online, Manifacture Your Future, Breakfast&Lunch Menus, WPBK fm, Reading
Plus, CIITS Online Testing, Scolastic, Do the Math. To the following digital tolls
students has access fully free or limited versions by the passwords obtained by
the teachers. They have the opportunity to use them both in school/classroom
and they are available for home use as well. At the beginning of the school year
the links and passwords are announced to the students and their parents.
3. What are the school's policy, practices, and/or replacement policy that
ensures equitable technology access for all students?
Every student and staff who has the access to instructional and digital
technology tools need to sign a term of agreement which includes Acceptable
Use Policy. This agreement needs to be done for the appropriate use of
computing, communications resources and network security within the school
system. These rules are in place to provide protection against violations of
privacy and misuse of state resources.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for using
technology to improve teaching and learning. Describe how these goals align to
the LEA's curricular goals that are supported by other plans. Describe how the
LEA's budget (LCAP) supports these goals, and whether future funding
proposals or partnerships may be needed for successful implementation.
What are the expected outcomes both for teachers and the students in 3
years as a result of technology use?
Students will gain technology skills by receiving practice in selecting and using
various technology applications to fulfill a wide variety of duty. They are also
expected to learn the basic technology skills such as select and access
technology appropriate to needs, use correct starting and exiting procedures, use
technology independently, cooperatively, safely and ethically, every student in
grades will be afforded the opportunity to acquire basic literacy, mathematics,
problem-solving, research skills, navigate their own digital researches,
demonstrate basic computer competencies including but not exclusive to the
legal and moral ethics of technological sharing and transfer of information,
demonstrate the ability to complete a research project and real life problems
utilizing technology and electronic and/or internet resources.
The staff will be promoted and supported by the administration for technological
training. So they will be able to use technology to review, monitor, structure and
evaluate student learning and progress, as a classroom management tool, to
communicate more with parents, colleagues, the global community, other staff
and district personnel, they can be aware of latest and most successful teaching
practices.
How should the current and future funding be used for successful
implementation?
The school has KETS (The Kentucky Education Technology Systems) Contract
which includes the instructional devices, lasers, printers, network
hardware/software and services etc and State Contracts include technology
training and IDU (Instructional Device Upgrade) provided by Kentucky
Department of Education, the school plans to fund technology needs through
community members, General Funds, the PTO, Little League, and federal, state
and/or local grants. These funds will be allocated to meet the individual needs of
students to ensure academic success for all.
Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, to address
Internet Safety and the appropriate and ethical use of technology in the
classroom.
What are the goals to a address Internet Safety?
School's IT team will give training to the teachers first including all Internet Safety
components starting with the integration of Internet safety into curriculum and ,
then defining the roles and responsibilities for the school board, administrators
,teachers, counselors, technology coordinators, students; and community

stakeholders, parents, staff, Procedures to address breaches of Internet security

and protect students safety must also be known and precautions must be held.
How can the appropriate and ethical use of technology in the classroom be
maintained?
It must start at the very early grades to make the students aware of using the
internet or computers appropriate and ethically. They can be trained by the
teachers by first education themselves then the parents and then the students by
means of the ethical procedures to follow and the effective and efficient use of
technology tools for their purposes.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT

The Plan must have a professional development strategy to ensure that staff
understands how to use these new technologies to improve education services
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Summary of the teachers' and administrators' current technology proficiency and

integration skills and needs for professional development.
What is the current technology proficiency situation of the teachers and the
administrators?
Teachers can use computer applications and web based programs and Mimio,
CPS, Document Cameras, Digital Cameras and the other tools provided in the
classrooms but need training for the use of internet and computer based skills by
means of effectiveness in their subject area. Also the administration must have
the same training as well to use the tools more sufficiently.
What can be planned for the staff professional development?
Teacher will have training for effective use of webcams for multimedia
presentations, and also computer applications such as creating a website, editing
digital photos and creating educational videos. Teaching teachers on the use of
web based sites and sources that support instruction as well as a gateway for
students to student, student to teacher and teacher to teacher communication.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for providing
professional development opportunities based on your LEA needs assessment
data and the Curriculum Component of the plan.
How does the school evaluate teachers and administrators personal
technology proficiency skills?
By the help of the Director of Technology and Facility and Grounds Maintenance

and the IT team as they are assigned to support and help the teachers in the use
of technological tools in their classrooms a basic frame of the teachers' personal
technology proficiency skills can be drawn. With the regular meeting for the
development of these skills teachers are observed and evaluated according to
theirs progress.
What kind of professional development opportunities must be provided for
the schools needs assessment data?
A technician or technology support personnel will be coming to the school to give
assistance services in meeting their individual curriculum technology needs. The
school will be taking responsibility for a schedule to make sure that each teacher
has access. All staff is responsible for providing basic care, safe setup, and
simple maintenance of classroom technology equipment. The School Technology
Coordinator and will be available to assist teachers in meeting their instructional
needs as it relates to student achievement.

INFRASTRUCTURE, HARDWARE, TECHNICAL SUPPORT, SOFTWARE, AND

ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPONENT CRITERIA
The Plan must include an assessment of the telecommunication services,
hardware, software, asset management, and other services that will be needed to
improve education services.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe the existing hardware, Internet access, electronic learning resources,

technical support, and asset management already in the LEA that will be used to
support the Curriculum and Professional Development Components of the plan.
How does the teachers use technology at school to communicate the
students and the parents?
All teachers have e-mails provided by school and they are all displayed on the
website of the school for everybody's reach. Also the resources on the school
websites for students/parents allow the teacher to see the students progress.
The website of the school upgraded regularly to make sure that the parents and
the students get the news on time.
What are the most used electronic learning resources used for the learning
process of the students?
Both sides of the teaching-learning process prefer the internet based applications
that make follow up easier. Programs such as reading eggs, brainPOP. ALEKS
allow the teacher to see the student's progress. Also the students himself and the

parents can follow up these curriculum base programs as they can also be used
as practicing tools in classrooms and at home as well.
Describe the technology hardware, electronic learning resources, networking and
telecommunications infrastructure, physical plant modifications, technical
support, and asset management needed by the LEA's teachers, students, and
administrators to support the activities in the Curriculum and Professional
Development components of the plan.
What kind of activities are needed by the teachers, students and
administrators to support the integration?
The staff will integrate technology into the curriculum by virtual field trips,
processing skills to communicate to students, teachers, and paraprofessionals,
multimedia presentation, distance learning, video conferencing especially created
by the staff or the students and with remedial practice and reinforcement.
How can the public relations can be used to achieve and support the
integration of technology?
The school encourages and give importance and promotion to the parents active
participation. They are always informed by newsletters from where they have the
access to the school itself. By the parent portal they have the opportunity to see
their child's school-based data. They will be informed how to use it. School
Messenger System will be used to provide contact information for parents and
teachers, as well as, information on current events.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION COMPONENT

The plan must include an evaluation process that enables the school to monitor
progress toward the specific goals and make mid-course corrections in response
to new developments and opportunities as they arise.
(Answer at least 2 questions for each subsection below)

Describe the process for evaluating the plan's overall progress and impact on
teaching and learning.

How the staff will be evaluated?

Staff will be evaluated on how well they can design and implement learning
experiences (e.g., units of instruction) that empower students to solve authentic

problems relating to an overall theme/concept using the available technology

(e.g., multimedia applications, internet, databases, spreadsheets, word
processing).

Describe the schedule for evaluating the effect of plan implementation, including
a description of the process and frequency of communicating evaluation results
to tech plan stakeholders.
Who will be in the evaluating team?
The School-Based Decision Making Council, Professional Development
Committee, Technology Committee, Technology Resource Instructor, Special
Education Director, School Principal and District Superintendent will annually
assess and recommend improvements Guiding questions will be used for
evaluation of the plan.
What will be the next step after evaluation?
After the revision, staff may be encouraged to add technology professional
development components to their personal growth plan.