5352 final week 4

EDLD 5352 Instructional Leadership: The Technology Link

Week 4 Assignment: Due at the end of Week 4.
Overview
Last week, you engaged in an analysis and wrote a report describing the use of technology and
information systems to enrich campus curriculum, enhance teaching and learning, and generally
integrate technology into our campus improvement plans to effectively integrate technology and
instructional leadership. Your analysis and report should provide the necessary background for
the Week 4 major assignment – developing an action plan for gathering, analyzing, and using
data from a variety of sources for informed campus decision making focusing on integrating
technology, instructional leadership, professional development and organizational leadership.
As a result of this week’s assignments, you will be able to:
• Examine and assess procedures for gathering, analyzing, and using data from a variety
of sources for informed decision making regarding the integration of technology,
instructional and organizational leadership (SBEC Principal Competency 7 indicator);
• Design and apply skills for monitoring and evaluating change and making needed
adjustments to achieve the campus vision and goals, including the integration of
technology as described above (SBEC Principal Competency 7 indicator).
Both of these outcomes are elements of Domain II, Instructional Leadership.
In writing your Week 4 action plan, use your interviews, your readings, including campus and
district improvement plans as well as any technology plans, and your Week 3 report to make
sure the action plan:
• Identifies data gathering sources;
• Provides a description of an organizational chart describing decision making
responsibilities regarding the integration of technology from central office personnel to
campus leadership and staff;
• Describes comprehensive professional development activities to achieve your action
plan (this may utilize information from the previous three weeks of readings and
activities);
• Includes an evaluation plan to assess the progress and success of the action plan.
Students will be asked to post their action plan on the Discussion Board and each student must
review and comment on at least one other action plan focusing on organizational leadership
designed to maximize the use of technology in data gathering and decision making.
Submit your assignment by 11:59 PM on the seventh day of Week 4.

Page 1 – Revised October 2009


Rubric
Use the following Rubric to guide your work on the Week 4 Assignment.

Tasks Not Meeting
Accomplished Proficient Progressing
 Expectations

Action plan Student completes the Student completes Student provides a Student does not
includes an organizational flow the organizational partial organizational complete the
organizational chart identifying key chart with some chart that does not organizational chart or
chart identifying personnel from the identification of include all key description of roles and
key stakeholders in district administration district and stakeholders, and responsibilities.
integrating through campus campus does not describe the (0 points)
technology and implementation personnel, but roles and
district and responsible for does not address responsibilities of key
campus integrating technology the roles and personnel.
organizational and instructional and responsibilities of (16 point)e
leadership organizational personnel in
leadership. Chart must integrating and
identify personnel titles implementing
responsible for this technology,
integration and instructional and
implementation, and a organizational
brief description of the leadership.
role and responsibilities (18 points)
of all personnel.
(Maximum 20 points)

Comprehensive Student describes a Student provides a Student provides a Student fails to develop
professional professional professional professional a professional
development development plan or development development plan(s) development plan(s).
plan(s) designed to activities designed to plan(s) that that addresses only
one of the three (0 points)
achieve the action achieve the action plan address two of the
plan of integrating of integrating three bulleted bulleted items from the
technology with technology with items from the Accomplished column.
instructional and instructional and Accomplished
organizational organizational column. (16 points)
leadership. leadership. To achieve (18 points)
maximum credit, the
professional
development plan(s)
must:
• Reference analysis
and lessons
learned about the
technology needs
from the Week 3
report
• Addresses
professional



development
designed to
improve the
gathering, analysis
and use of data
from a variety of
sources
• Includes
professional
development to
improve decision
making in the
integration of
technology with
instructional and
organizational
leadership.
(Maximum 20 points)

Evaluation plan to The action plan must Student provides Student provides an Student fails to include
assess the also include an an evaluation plan evaluation plan that an evaluation plan in
progress and evaluation plan that that addresses addresses only one of the Week 4 action
success of the provides measurable two of the bulleted the bulleted items from plan.
action plan. outcomes designed to items from the the Accomplished (0 points)
address the following: Accomplished column.
column.
• Uses data and (16 point)
other analysis from (18 points)
the Week 3 report,
including using the
campus and district
improvement
plans, and local or
state technology
plans;
• Provides
assessments
and/or monitoring
reports measuring
professional
development
designed to use
technology to
improve the
gathering, analysis
and use of data
from a variety of
sources
• Provides



assessments
and/or monitoring
evaluating
professional
development to
improve decision
making in the
integration of
technology with
instructional and
organizational
leadership.
.
(Maximum 20 points)

Posting action plan Student posts their Student posts their Student posts their Student does not post
on the Discussion action plan on the action plan on the action plan on the on the Discussion
Board and on their Discussion Board and Discussion Board Discussion Board and Board or on their blog.
blog, and provides on their blog and and on their blog on their blog but does
evidence of provides evidence, and provides not provide any
reviewing and through written evidence, through comments or (0 points)
commenting on comments, of reviewing written comments, reflections on the
action plans of and reflecting on at of reviewing and action plans of other
other students. least two other reflecting on one students.
student’s action plan. other student’s
(Maximum 20 points) action plan.
(16 point)

(18 points)

Assignment Responses are relevant Responses are Responses are Responses do not
Mechanics to course content; relevant to course relevant to course reflect knowledge of
student uses correct content; one or content; more than course content, lack
APA writing mechanics; two errors in three errors in clarity and depth,
no errors in grammar, grammar, spelling, grammar, spelling, or and/or include multiple
spelling, or punctuation. or punctuation, punctuation including errors in grammar,
including APA APA writing spelling, and
(Maximum 10 points) mechanics Needs
writing mechanics. punctuation, including
(8 points) (6 APA errors.
point)Improvement (0 points)



The following four parts to the Week 4 assignments should help you complete an
action plan that incorporates all four elements of the assignment, including
posting your action plan and commenting and reflecting on the action plans
shared by fellow students.



Week 4 Assignment, Part 1: Development of an organization chart integrating
technology
Using the campus and district improvement plans, and any suggested technology
improvements, develop an organization chart that includes the following:

• Identify by title or job description all personnel/stakeholders responsible for integrating
technology and instructional and organization leadership from the district office to the
campus and classroom;
• Provide a brief description of the role and responsibilities of all identified personnel in
your organizational chart;
• Discuss the role of the principal in making sure the organizational chart is implemented
and monitored.

Personnel Necessary to implement technology in an educational setting
Within a school district , it requires several key technology personnel to incorporate technology
in an educational setting.

Executive Director The Executive Director for Technology and Information Management
Services oversees and manages the operation of the Technology Department which includes
Instructional Technology, Network Support Services, Technical Support Services,
Telecommunications and Operations, PEIMS, Records Retention and Information
Management Systems. (Birdville Independent School District, 2010)
Information Management Systems The Information Management Services group is
responsible for all information systems, including Skyward and PeopleSoft (Birdville
Independent School District, 2010)

Instructio
nal Technology Facilitating engaged teaching and learning every day, preparing our
students for a future of infinite possibilities. (Birdville Independent School District, 2010)
Network / Server Support Network Support is responsible for the installation, maintenance
and upkeep of the district's network and server systems, including routers and switches.
(Birdville Independent School District, 2010)

PEIMS/Recor
ds The PEIMS supervisor and assistant provide coordination, support and training to each
campus and all central office staff requiring access to student record information such as
grades, transcripts, attendance, discipline, scheduling and enrollment/withdrawals. it is also
responsible for coordinating the coding for state (PEIMS) reporting and assisting with
federal (CRDC) reporting with various departments such as Special Education,
Bilingual/ESL, Gifted/Talented, Career and Technology, Title I and all campuses. Student
Records serves the district by tracking all student records from enrollment through
graduation, as well as the disposal of those records that are not retained. The staff is also
responsible for document archiving functions as well as performing searches and retrievals



as requested by departments, schools and the public. (Birdville Independent School District,
2010)

Campus Technicians Campus technicians are responsible for most all technology in the
schools. (Birdville Independent School District, 2010)
Campus Principal As the Instructional Leader, Campus Leader will oversee all Technology
Applications on their campus. The campus principal is responsible for their campus
technology budget as well as providing professional development to enhance technology
application on his/her campus. The principal is also responsible for reviewing the AEIS to
ensure the Campus Improvement Plan is aligned properly with campus technology goals.
Campus Technology Teacher Designs engaging lessons in the core curricular subjects,
that focus on the use of technology. (Birdville Independent School District, 2010)
Classroom Teacher Implements technology into the design of their lessons. A classroom
teacher also aligns the core subject TEKS with Technology TEKS. A classroom teacher is
responsible for modeling technology within the classroom.
Students utilizes technology provided by the campus And actively engage in technology
application in order to enhance curriculum delivery. (Birdville Independent School District,
2010)

Role of Campus Principal:
As the Instructional Leader, the principal must lead their staff in the use of integrating
technology into the designs of their lessons. He/she must be committed to
providing the best possible support to assist with campus technology needs as well as align
with state technology accountability. An Instructional Leaders role is to take a well executed
approach to continual improvement towards technology that engages faculty, staff and
students as full participants in learning and as contributors to improvement towards
technology. He or she should use data results to implement changes and improvements in
technology for their campus. The Instructional Leader will also provide support to teachers
through Professional Learning classes on technology and Web 2.0 tools. The district I teach
in is very technology focused and upholds their technology mission of striving to enhance
all learning by providing outstanding Technology services to all stakeholders involved.



Organizational Chart

Action/Step Responsible Start/End Role/ Evaluation

Step 1: Principal and Beginning of the year Teachers will get a better understanding of how
all teachers Staff Meeting to read and utilize our campus data. Teachers
The staff on staff 3:15-4:00 will gain an understanding of how the campus
will read
the district
and district rating is broken down by
AEIS demographics. By doing this, teacher's will
report have an understanding of subgroups, and the
accessed difference one subgroup can make in your
through our campus's rating.
district
website. Evaluation:
The strategy is that teachers will gain
http://www. knowledge on the importance of data
birdvillesch particularly AEIS Data. I as the administrator,
ools.net/acc should see evidence in teacher's lesson plans as
ountability/
well as district Benchmark Assessments, that
teachers are taking the initiative to read the
AEIS data on their own, and implementing the
necessary changes within their classroom to
address the areas of concern.
Step 2: Principal and Professional Through a power point presentation, I will
all teachers Development Day introduce STaR to my teachers. I will give
Introduce on staff them a background knowledge of what STaR is
STaR
Agenda:
and their accountability in utilizing technology
Power within their classrooms.
Point Evaluation:
Prsentation As the Instructional Leader, I will require
teachers to attend Technology Professional
Development of their choice to help them
utilize Technology within their classroom. I



will evaluate this by seeing technology lessons
implemented into their weekly lesson plans. I
will also be able to observe the use of
technology in my classroom walk through as
well as PDAS.
Principal Professional Learning Many teachers on campus do not know how to
Committees grades 3-5 access and utilize our online Data System,
David
Eduphoria, to track student scores and
Holland
(Testing and
assessment data like subgroup testing results
Accountability) and student weakness in specific TAKS
Step 3: objectives tested.
3-5 Teachers
Review Evaluation:
how to use At each grade level meeting, the teachers will
online meet with both the principal and David Holland
based from Central Administration to report what
program, subgroups and objectives the students are
Eduphoria showing weakness in according to Eduphoria.
Teachers will report their plan of action to help
the students recover and show growth in this
area before the middle of the year Benchmark
tests.

Step 4: Principal Send out in an Teachers will be reminded Via email the
email accountability of technology use in their
Access my
campus's classrooms. I will make available our campus
current STaR current STaR rating and require teachers
Chart Rating choose at least one professional development
and compile training that will align with the objective on our
a list of Campus Improvement Plan.
available
technology
Evaluation:
professional
development This is in effort to increase our STaR scores as
trainings well as make a conscious effort to work
offered by towards the goals in our Campus Improvement
the district Plan. As the Instructional Leader of my
and Region campus, I will track my campus STaR scores
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to determine if the required Professional
Development was effective.



Week 4 Assignment, Part 2: Professional Development Planning
Using the campus and district improvement plans, and any suggested technology
improvements, develop professional development activities that include the following:

• Reference analysis and lessons learned about the technology needs from the Week 3
report;
• Addresses professional development designed to improve the gathering, analysis and use
of data from a variety of sources;
• Includes professional development to improve decision making in the integration of
technology with instructional and organizational leadership.

Technology
Responsible
Timeline Needs/Strategies Professional Development/Implementation
Staff Members

Needs Assessment- Survey- all staff members will participate in Principal
Data Collection – a needs assessment survey created by the Assistant
Analysis principal on polleverywhere.com Teachers Principal
will provide answers to questions according Technology
August to their experience with technology. Specialist

Beginning STaR Chart- all staff members will All remaining
staff members
of Year participate in participation in surveys and
Day 1 analyzing needs from the
polleverywhere.com and STaR Chart.
The campus Principal, Assistant Principal,
and all staff members will analyze
technology survey

Staff Members will complete analyzing data Principal
August and create by grade level goals and
Technology Goals and Assistant
Beginning Objectives to achieve objectives for student and teacher needs. Principal
of Year quality student Staff members will also choose area of Technology
performance
Day 2 technology professional development Specialist
All remaining
staff members

September Area of Needs and The technologist Specialist along with Instructional
Improvement teachers will use first six weeks curriculum Leader-
Week 1
Technology
Grades Teaching and guides to collaborate and design lessons by Specialist
Prek-2nd Learning grade level integrating technology in the



Group Planning content areas using the following:
Staff Members
• Glogster
• Wordle
Week 2 • Wall Wisher
Grades 3-5
• You Tube
• Teacher Tube
• Blogger
Individual/Self directed Direct Instruction training provided by District
training District to utilize Ipads and slate Technologist
October Specialist
Instruction Training - boards/white boards to create and utilize
Day 1 All teachers
21st Century Skills lessons-
Web 2.0 Training

Individual/Self directed As determined by surveys teacher requested Teachers
October training more time to search on web sites and time
Day 2 to plan for implementation of technology
lessons



Week 4 Assignment, Part 3: Evaluation Planning for Action Plan
The technology action plan integrating instructional an organizational leadership must include
evaluation components that provide measurable outcomes designed to address the following:

A number of components will be used to evaluate the success and implementation of the
Technology Application TEKS as well as STaR Chart requirements. These criteria will assist the
campus administrator in determining the success and progress towards meeting the goals of the
Long Range Plan for Technology as well as meeting district and campus goals outlined in the
CIP (Campus Improvement Plan). Birdville ISD has a district initiative for the 2010-2011 school
year to ensure all students are receiving a 21st Century education and acquiring needed
technology skills for a revolutionizing society. The following criteria will be used to monitor and
evaluate technology application and implementation on my campus.

• Campus STaR Chart- Provide campus specific data for needed areas of Professional
Development, determine needs based on technology profile as well as determine funding.

• AEIS Data

• CIP (Campus Improvement Plan) outline targeted goals and objectives based on
Technology Applications.

• Campus Teacher Technology Surveys

• Completion of the STaR survey online to use the profile annually and gauge progress in
integrating technology into teaching and learning

• Professional Development opportunities based on technology surveys to determine needs
and assessments for grade level and content specific area.

• Evidence of technology integrated lessons in “walk-throughs”

• PDAS Evaluations- Domain II –Learner Centered Instruction (Use of Technology)

• Six Week Student Technology Surveys (determine student interest and engagement)

• Teachers must maintain 6 update hours of Technology Based Professional Development
annually



Week 4 Assignment, Part 4: Posting your Action Report and Responding to Other
Students’ action plans
Using the discussion board and the blog that you have developed, please write and post
your action plan, and be sure to:

• Read and review at least two other action plans

• Respond to other action plans by posting your comments and reflections

The purpose of the action report is to provide you with recommended procedures for
gathering, analyzing, and using data from a variety of sources for informed campus decision
making focusing on the effective integration of technology in curriculum, instruction,
assessment and professional development. Students may wish to use this action plan as
one of your school improvement projects for your Electronic Portfolio. You may also use the
Week 3 and Week 4 assignments as campus supervised hours for your internship logs. As
indicated these two weeks fall under Domain II, Instructional Leadership, and address
elements of Competencies 4, 5 and 7.


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