Theme 1: Utilize all technology, don't shut down creativity by denying students. When evaluating technology and change in the school system, it is important to think about what is needed, but also remember that free is good and allows for student creativity. There has to be a balance.
Theme 2: Distance learning is and will be an essential part of the education system. Utilizing Google classroom allows for learning at a distance and collaborating across distance. Even in evlauation, the team can communicate at a distance and work together.
Theme 3: Professional development for teachers needs to be continuous and offered in variety to allow for teachers to find comfort with technology and also learn it is okay to not know everything. Professional development has to be included when planning change. We have to bring the team along with us as we continually advance technology.
Theme 2: Distance learning is and will be an essential part of the education system. Utilizing Google classroom allows for learning at a distance and collaborating across distance. Even in evlauation, the team can communicate at a distance and work together.
Theme 3: Professional development for teachers needs to be continuous and offered in variety to allow for teachers to find comfort with technology and also learn it is okay to not know everything. Professional development has to be included when planning change. We have to bring the team along with us as we continually advance technology.
CET 720 Leading Evaluation Change in
Educational Technology Environment
This was my last required class for my masters. I found this class interesting as it utilized a little D2L, but also utilized Google Community for all of the discussion and postings. We also utilized Google drive and docs to share our projects and work together. I felt this class was the best at actually getting us all to work together and bringing us together as a class. It felt comfortable and natural, though it could be that I had practice by now. I found this class very useful and beneficial to myself and our district. The process of evaluation when it comes to looking at the technology in the district is essential. With and evaluation we have reasoning behind new purchases and understandings if whether things are working as intended.
Screencasting Video
Google Community
Evaluation Plan - Tina Boldt, Janelle Gregg, Andrew Gross
Focusing and Planning:
The purpose of the evaluation is to determine if students and teachers are receiving the needed training to utilize the technology given to them. The evaluation will assess the professional development sessions to see if the appropriate sessions are being offered and if those sessions are successful. Assessments and surveys results will be utilized to determine if technology is being implemented well and if it has an impact on student achievement.
Finally, the evaluation will determine if teachers are trained in the safety measures of implementing technology into their curriculum and if students and teachers feel safe in the learning environment.
The audience for this evaluation will be the Ipswich Technology Committee.
Technology committee includes the following:
Committee Member Title
Trent Osborne HS Principal
Matt Pollock Elementary Principal
Tina Belden Technology Director
Lynette Heitz HS Computers Teacher
Bobbie Kilber Colony Principal
Courtney Davis Elementary Representative
Janice Perrion Pembrook Colony Representative
Cheryl Malsom Plainview Rosette Colony Representative
Sarah Sanborn Deerfield Colony Representative
The district school board, staff members, students, and stakeholders will also receive feedback from the evaluation to help aide in the planning process for the next cycle of the technology plan.
The Ipswich School District is located 25 miles West of Aberdeen, SD. Ipswich is located in Edmunds County, SD which also includes one other small school 15 miles West, Edmunds County School District. Ipswich is the county seat of Edmunds County spans over 1,151 square miles and is surrounded by McPherson, Brown, Faulk, and Walworth counties.
According to the 2013 census, the town of Ipswich is currently 960 people. The population is split fairly evenly as 51% of people are males and 49% of people are females. The mean age of residents is 44.6 years old and mean income is $43,266. The ethnicity of the population is: 97.3% Caucasian, 0.9% two more races, 0.8% American Indian, 0.7% Hispanic, 0.1% Black, and 0.1% Asian. There are currently the following businesses located in Ipswich: North Central Farmers Elevator Corporate Headquarters, Ken’s Gas Station and Grocery Store, Subway, Ipswich State Bank, and Heier’s Auto Body Repair.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Ipswich-South-Dakota.html
There are currently 179 K-12 students and 62 educators and staff members, which includes paraprofessionals, custodians, kitchen staff, and coaches. 32% of our students receive free or reduced lunch.
The technology infrastructure includes: 1 main building with an elementary school, middle school, and high school connected. There are also 3 colonies schools that are located within 5-10 miles away from the main building. There is one lab that has 30 All-in-One Desktops. The administration staff has desktops and laptops (HS Principal, MS/Elem Principal, Business Manager). There are various laptops around for paraprofessionals to use and secretaries have their own desktops. All teachers have their own laptops, smartboards, ipad and Apple TV’s in their classroom.
Current Inventory:
Elementary Middle School High School IT Department
Computers 10 79 115 4
Ipads 30 4 11
Printers 2 1 3 1
Projectors 3 1 1
SmartBoard 15 4 7
Apple TV 15 4 7
Administration Colony Carts & Labs
Computers 15 21 30
Ipads 4 6
Projector 1
SmartBoard 6
Apple TV 6
Printer 2 6 1
The Ipswich School District currently provides staff development in the areas of computer integration and online programs, safety in the classroom, and continuing education.
Some PD opportunities include: South Dakota State TIE Conference (technology integration in the classroom); SDSTE Mini Conferences, in house speakers, and other conferences relating to instructional leadership and innovation.
Ipswich has goals that range from 3 year goals to 5 year goals as listed below along with one annual goal that should be implemented yearly.
Foster Innovation and Learning: What professional development is offered to help teachers implement technology and raise student achievement?
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access: Have teachers had adequate training on technology safety measures? What safety measures are in place?
This formative evaluation will be done externally of the school district. The evaluation will be coordinated by Tina Belden, Technology Director, and two up and coming professionals in the field (Janelle Gregg and Andrew Gross). Once the evaluation is completed, Tina Belden will coordinate and communicate the results of the evaluation with the Ipswich Technology Committee and the administration of the school (Elem, MS, HS, and Colony Principals). After this, the Ipswich Technology Committee and the administration of the school will communicate the results of the evaluation to the people of their choosing. The data that is collected from the evaluation will help the Ipswich Public School District advance towards meeting the goals outlined within the technology plan.
Identifying and Collecting the Data:
Goals
Indicators
Benchmarks
Measures
Foster Innovation and Learning
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access
Evaluation Questions
Why the question is important?
Information needed to answer the question
When and How the information will be collected?
Analysis and Interpretation
Foster Innovation and Learning:
How are Professional development sessions decided on?
Is training appropriate and successful?
Has student achievement increased?
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access:
Are teachers prepared to use technology safely in the classroom?
Analyzing and Reporting Results:
We will report the results of the evaluation to the technology committee and the administration. We will then analyze the results and use it to budget appropriately for the following years for any hardware or software that needs to be upgraded. We will also use the results to assess any current needs of teachers and students. Some of those needs may include - but are not limited to - professional development for staff, trainings for students, and simple troubleshooting for staff and students.
The results of the evaluation will also show which technologies may be outdated and in need of surplusing. Based on the needs of teachers and students and the speed at which technology advances, we will use the results of the evaluation to judge surplusing and budgeting.
First and foremost, the results will be reported to the Technology committee, which include each respective principal and a representative teacher from each school (elementary, middle, high, and colony).
Committee Member Title
Trent Osborne HS Principal
Matt Pollock Elementary Principal
Tina Belden Technology Director
Lynette Heitz HS Computers Teacher
Bobbie Kilber Colony Principal
Courtney Davis Elementary Representative
Janice Perrion Pembrook Colony Representative
Cheryl Malsom Plainview Rosette Colony Representative
Sarah Sanborn Deerfield Colony Representative
The technology committee will receive the first reporting and have a chance for feedback. With review of the feedback, data may be reviewed again by the evaluators and changes made to the results if it is found that a piece was missing or interpreted incorrectly. Once the technology committee has discussed the results of the evaluation, and the evaluators have revised the findings, school board members and staff members will be addressed with the results of the evaluation.
School Board Members include Heidi Sylte, Justin Davis, Carol Pond, Camille Geditz, & Jerome Schaffner. They will be the second group to review the findings of the evaluation. They will have a chance for comments and feedback to the evaluators. This may again affect the reporting of data, but it may also be used to change further evaluations and budgeting/surplusing. No changes will be made to the findings at this time.
The third group to review the findings will be the staff members. They will have a chance to provide comments and feedback. These will also be taken into consideration by the evaluators and technology committee for needed changes, further evaluations, and budgeting/surplusing. After listening to the school board and teachers, the technology committee and evaluators will agree to review anything, if it needs to be reviewed, and this review will be done immediately following all prior steps.
Finally, the parents, students, and any community members will be able to see the results of the evaluation to be knowledgeable of the workings of the district when it comes to technology.
The technology committee will be brought together for a meeting to share the report findings. A presentation will be made; then there will be time for discussion. The findings will be sent out without names, just the results on a pdf via email to all staff members and school board members. The board will hold a special meeting to review the results of the report and comment on them. A professional development inservice will also be held and the results of the evaluation will also be discussed among staff members and any school board members that would like to attend a second meeting. Any changes or suggestions will be noted and/or added to the evaluation and the finalized copy will be available through the teacher section on the school website and on the teacher common drive at the school.
Stakeholders: parents, students, and community members can access the findings through a community meeting for interested persons. Administrators can share findings with people if requested.
The technology committee and the school board will get the results of the entire evaluation. This includes any professional development, student development, or software and/or hardware upgrades that will need to be added into the budget for the following year/s. It also includes any desires for surplusing older technologies.
Staff members will get a copy of the entire results of the evaluation. However, in the professional development inservice, staff members will receive an abbreviated version. This includes any professional development and student development opportunities.
Parents, students, community members that attend a meeting or ask for information will receive abbreviated findings. Shared information will include the areas of development needed and technologies that will be budgeted for. They will not receive the percentages or actual answers to each of the surveys, etc. They will have the results of the find as per professional and student development and technology needs.
First, a management plan for evaluation will need to be created, which shows the amount of responsibilities and time that will be required from the coordinator and for the stakeholders involved. Once the plan is established, it will need to be reviewed by the committee and the stakeholders. Both parties will need to understand what is required of them. Then a timeline will need to be established. A Gantt Chart will need to be created to show the important points that will need to be discussed, who will work on them, and when they will be done. It is important to make a realistic timeline that can be followed without falter. Any decisions or changes to the timeline will need to be discussed with the committee and the stakeholders and communication is key to make sure everything is done within the allotted amount of time.
Once a timeline and important points are developed, the evaluation can take place. It is the job of the committee and the evaluation coordinator to make sure all responsibilities are doled out equally or somewhat equally to make sure everyone has a voice and is doing their part of the evaluation.
During the initial phase of the evaluation. The technology committee and evaluators will need to decide how the instruments for data collection are created and utilized. Surveys will be created by the evaluators and the technology director. They will be reviewed by the administration to check completeness. The pre- and post-assessments will be created by teachers and reviewed by the committee. Lists will be compiled by the technology director and administrative observations will be compiled during the year. The data will be tabulated by the respective parties, with the aid of the evaluators, and the technology committee will create the presentation formats.
Professional development sessions are set by the administration on PD days built into the calendar by the school board. Meetings between the technology team and the administration would decide how presentations can be delivered and the topics needed. Surveys will follow up the PD days.
At the end of the evaluation, the committee and stakeholders will need to be addressed on the results of the evaluation. A workbook will need to be compiled that is easily read by staff members and by the school board. How information is dispersed to the different stakeholder groups will also need to be decided. All information will be available for all parties, but the information that is pertinent to each group will be easily accessible and presented to the group.
The committee will then have to decide how to address each group with the information. The school board will be addressed at a special meeting. The staff members can be addressed at professional development inservice; school board members may attend also. Once both meetings have transpired, any feedback from the staff members and board members will be taken into consideration and added to the evaluation if needed. A meeting will be held for other stakeholders who would like to hear the results of the evaluation.
Using recommendations of the evaluation committee, staff members, and school board members; the process of implementing different parts of the evaluation can take place. A professional development committee will review the evaluation recommendations and propose steps for implementation in professional development sessions. A sub committee of the technology committee will oversee safe implementation into classroom curriculum. Communication is key when implementing new concepts and new ideas, and keeping all stakeholders informed is very important of the changes that will be taking place.
Focusing and Planning:
- Evaluation Purpose
The purpose of the evaluation is to determine if students and teachers are receiving the needed training to utilize the technology given to them. The evaluation will assess the professional development sessions to see if the appropriate sessions are being offered and if those sessions are successful. Assessments and surveys results will be utilized to determine if technology is being implemented well and if it has an impact on student achievement.
Finally, the evaluation will determine if teachers are trained in the safety measures of implementing technology into their curriculum and if students and teachers feel safe in the learning environment.
- Evaluation Audience
The audience for this evaluation will be the Ipswich Technology Committee.
Technology committee includes the following:
Committee Member Title
Trent Osborne HS Principal
Matt Pollock Elementary Principal
Tina Belden Technology Director
Lynette Heitz HS Computers Teacher
Bobbie Kilber Colony Principal
Courtney Davis Elementary Representative
Janice Perrion Pembrook Colony Representative
Cheryl Malsom Plainview Rosette Colony Representative
Sarah Sanborn Deerfield Colony Representative
The district school board, staff members, students, and stakeholders will also receive feedback from the evaluation to help aide in the planning process for the next cycle of the technology plan.
- Description of the Evaluand
- location of the school/district:
The Ipswich School District is located 25 miles West of Aberdeen, SD. Ipswich is located in Edmunds County, SD which also includes one other small school 15 miles West, Edmunds County School District. Ipswich is the county seat of Edmunds County spans over 1,151 square miles and is surrounded by McPherson, Brown, Faulk, and Walworth counties.
According to the 2013 census, the town of Ipswich is currently 960 people. The population is split fairly evenly as 51% of people are males and 49% of people are females. The mean age of residents is 44.6 years old and mean income is $43,266. The ethnicity of the population is: 97.3% Caucasian, 0.9% two more races, 0.8% American Indian, 0.7% Hispanic, 0.1% Black, and 0.1% Asian. There are currently the following businesses located in Ipswich: North Central Farmers Elevator Corporate Headquarters, Ken’s Gas Station and Grocery Store, Subway, Ipswich State Bank, and Heier’s Auto Body Repair.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Ipswich-South-Dakota.html
- type/age of students:
There are currently 179 K-12 students and 62 educators and staff members, which includes paraprofessionals, custodians, kitchen staff, and coaches. 32% of our students receive free or reduced lunch.
- technology infrastructure:
The technology infrastructure includes: 1 main building with an elementary school, middle school, and high school connected. There are also 3 colonies schools that are located within 5-10 miles away from the main building. There is one lab that has 30 All-in-One Desktops. The administration staff has desktops and laptops (HS Principal, MS/Elem Principal, Business Manager). There are various laptops around for paraprofessionals to use and secretaries have their own desktops. All teachers have their own laptops, smartboards, ipad and Apple TV’s in their classroom.
Current Inventory:
Elementary Middle School High School IT Department
Computers 10 79 115 4
Ipads 30 4 11
Printers 2 1 3 1
Projectors 3 1 1
SmartBoard 15 4 7
Apple TV 15 4 7
Administration Colony Carts & Labs
Computers 15 21 30
Ipads 4 6
Projector 1
SmartBoard 6
Apple TV 6
Printer 2 6 1
- professional development activities:
The Ipswich School District currently provides staff development in the areas of computer integration and online programs, safety in the classroom, and continuing education.
Some PD opportunities include: South Dakota State TIE Conference (technology integration in the classroom); SDSTE Mini Conferences, in house speakers, and other conferences relating to instructional leadership and innovation.
- technology goals:
Ipswich has goals that range from 3 year goals to 5 year goals as listed below along with one annual goal that should be implemented yearly.
- Expand global access for students and staff (3 year)
- Foster innovation and learning (3-5 years)
- Establish and maintain effective and efficient operations (5year)
- Develop and foster engaging communications (5 year)
- Create a safe environment while allowing for access (Annual)
- Guiding Evaluation Questions
Foster Innovation and Learning: What professional development is offered to help teachers implement technology and raise student achievement?
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access: Have teachers had adequate training on technology safety measures? What safety measures are in place?
- Description of Evaluation Approach
This formative evaluation will be done externally of the school district. The evaluation will be coordinated by Tina Belden, Technology Director, and two up and coming professionals in the field (Janelle Gregg and Andrew Gross). Once the evaluation is completed, Tina Belden will coordinate and communicate the results of the evaluation with the Ipswich Technology Committee and the administration of the school (Elem, MS, HS, and Colony Principals). After this, the Ipswich Technology Committee and the administration of the school will communicate the results of the evaluation to the people of their choosing. The data that is collected from the evaluation will help the Ipswich Public School District advance towards meeting the goals outlined within the technology plan.
Identifying and Collecting the Data:
Goals
Indicators
Benchmarks
Measures
Foster Innovation and Learning
- Professional development to integrate technology
- Facilitate STEM experience and utilize the SAMR model
- All teachers will devise three examples of integration.
- Students in grades 9-12 will have at least 1 STEM experience during the year.
- Lesson plans will include technology
- Teacher survey from training.
- Percent of students who have participated in a STEM experience.
- Level of SAMR in the STEM experience
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access
- Utilize web filtering software
- Professional development on safety with integration
- Within a year, the web filter will be in place and used by the tech director.
- Students are taught about online safety
- A checklist of web filtering can be reviewed.
- Survey of students
Evaluation Questions
Why the question is important?
Information needed to answer the question
When and How the information will be collected?
Analysis and Interpretation
Foster Innovation and Learning:
How are Professional development sessions decided on?
- It is important to know how and why PD sessions are being set forth.
- It is important to select PD that will help implement technology in a way that raises student achievement.
- Information from administrative meetings where PD is decided will need to be collected.
- Teachers will need to give input on what they believe is needed.
- Survey completion by administration: Data will need to be collected from administration on what they feel the needs of the staff are.
- Survey completion from staff members: Data from staff will be collected to show what they feel they need.
- Surveys will be given at the end of the current year to decide the professional development sessions offered for the next school year.
- Results of the administrator surveys will be compiled into the top 5 needs.
- Teacher surveys will have listings of options in predefined categories.
- Results of the teacher surveys will be compiled into the top 5 needs.
- The administration and technology coordinator will decide the sessions based off the choices from both sets of surveys.
Is training appropriate and successful?
- It is important to know if teacher feel the trainings have covered the information needed to make implementation into the curriculum happen and happen with increased student achievement.
- Teacher feedback from the PD will be needed.
- Teacher input on implementation will be needed.
- Surveys will be given with options for PD sessions.
- Staff members will rank the options from most desired to least desired.
- Sessions will be offered based on this information.
- Surveys will be given after PD sessions to collect data on the successfulness of implementation.
- The administration and the technology director will review the answers in the surveys to determine if the trainings were appropriate and if implementation was successful.
- The questions will use a likert scale and the mean of the scale for each PD will be used to determine if the PD was successful.
- Comments will also be compiled to give input into what was successful or unsuccessful; to make changes.
Has student achievement increased?
- It is important to know if the implementation of technology is positively affecting the students.
- Assessments will be given to the students.
- Also students will be surveyed on the technology implementation.
- Student achievement will be defined as positive growth of content knowledge.
- Both formative and summative assessments will be given.
- Students will be surveyed on their opinions of technology implementation
- scores and survey results will be analyzed by the technology director and administration.
- The results will show if technology has been implemented and raised student achievement.
- A pre-assessment and a post-assessment will be compared to each other to show growth.
- The students surveys will use likert scales for opinion questions.
- The mean of the likert scales will be used to assess student opinion on implementation.
- Comments will be compiled to give reason behind the scaled answers.
- Tests scores and survey answers will be used to adjust curriculum in future years.
Create a Safe Environment while allowing Access:
Are teachers prepared to use technology safely in the classroom?
- It is important to know that teachers are trained to see safety issues and monitor a safe environment when using technology.
- A list of the safety measures that are in place.
- Teacher feedback from PD sessions and meetings on safety will be needed.
- Student feedback from daily use of technology.
- List of safety measures from the technology director.
- Survey of teachers from PD Sessions and meetings will be collected.
- Surveys from students will also be collected.
- Administration opinion from observations will be recorded.
- The list of safety measures will be reviewed by the administration and the technology director.
- They will rate the measures on a 3 point scale of not working to excellent.
- They will then decide which measures stay, leave, or if more need to be added.
- Teacher and student surveys will be summed into areas of concern.
- The questions are short answer questions which will be sorted and then summed.
- Administration observation notes will be reviewed to see if there are areas that will need to be addressed.
- Areas of concern will be compiled into a list for review by the technology committee.
Analyzing and Reporting Results:
- Vision for use of results
We will report the results of the evaluation to the technology committee and the administration. We will then analyze the results and use it to budget appropriately for the following years for any hardware or software that needs to be upgraded. We will also use the results to assess any current needs of teachers and students. Some of those needs may include - but are not limited to - professional development for staff, trainings for students, and simple troubleshooting for staff and students.
The results of the evaluation will also show which technologies may be outdated and in need of surplusing. Based on the needs of teachers and students and the speed at which technology advances, we will use the results of the evaluation to judge surplusing and budgeting.
- Who will see the results
First and foremost, the results will be reported to the Technology committee, which include each respective principal and a representative teacher from each school (elementary, middle, high, and colony).
Committee Member Title
Trent Osborne HS Principal
Matt Pollock Elementary Principal
Tina Belden Technology Director
Lynette Heitz HS Computers Teacher
Bobbie Kilber Colony Principal
Courtney Davis Elementary Representative
Janice Perrion Pembrook Colony Representative
Cheryl Malsom Plainview Rosette Colony Representative
Sarah Sanborn Deerfield Colony Representative
The technology committee will receive the first reporting and have a chance for feedback. With review of the feedback, data may be reviewed again by the evaluators and changes made to the results if it is found that a piece was missing or interpreted incorrectly. Once the technology committee has discussed the results of the evaluation, and the evaluators have revised the findings, school board members and staff members will be addressed with the results of the evaluation.
School Board Members include Heidi Sylte, Justin Davis, Carol Pond, Camille Geditz, & Jerome Schaffner. They will be the second group to review the findings of the evaluation. They will have a chance for comments and feedback to the evaluators. This may again affect the reporting of data, but it may also be used to change further evaluations and budgeting/surplusing. No changes will be made to the findings at this time.
The third group to review the findings will be the staff members. They will have a chance to provide comments and feedback. These will also be taken into consideration by the evaluators and technology committee for needed changes, further evaluations, and budgeting/surplusing. After listening to the school board and teachers, the technology committee and evaluators will agree to review anything, if it needs to be reviewed, and this review will be done immediately following all prior steps.
Finally, the parents, students, and any community members will be able to see the results of the evaluation to be knowledgeable of the workings of the district when it comes to technology.
- Presentation of the Results
The technology committee will be brought together for a meeting to share the report findings. A presentation will be made; then there will be time for discussion. The findings will be sent out without names, just the results on a pdf via email to all staff members and school board members. The board will hold a special meeting to review the results of the report and comment on them. A professional development inservice will also be held and the results of the evaluation will also be discussed among staff members and any school board members that would like to attend a second meeting. Any changes or suggestions will be noted and/or added to the evaluation and the finalized copy will be available through the teacher section on the school website and on the teacher common drive at the school.
Stakeholders: parents, students, and community members can access the findings through a community meeting for interested persons. Administrators can share findings with people if requested.
- What Stakeholder Presentations Include
The technology committee and the school board will get the results of the entire evaluation. This includes any professional development, student development, or software and/or hardware upgrades that will need to be added into the budget for the following year/s. It also includes any desires for surplusing older technologies.
Staff members will get a copy of the entire results of the evaluation. However, in the professional development inservice, staff members will receive an abbreviated version. This includes any professional development and student development opportunities.
Parents, students, community members that attend a meeting or ask for information will receive abbreviated findings. Shared information will include the areas of development needed and technologies that will be budgeted for. They will not receive the percentages or actual answers to each of the surveys, etc. They will have the results of the find as per professional and student development and technology needs.
- Plan of Action
First, a management plan for evaluation will need to be created, which shows the amount of responsibilities and time that will be required from the coordinator and for the stakeholders involved. Once the plan is established, it will need to be reviewed by the committee and the stakeholders. Both parties will need to understand what is required of them. Then a timeline will need to be established. A Gantt Chart will need to be created to show the important points that will need to be discussed, who will work on them, and when they will be done. It is important to make a realistic timeline that can be followed without falter. Any decisions or changes to the timeline will need to be discussed with the committee and the stakeholders and communication is key to make sure everything is done within the allotted amount of time.
Once a timeline and important points are developed, the evaluation can take place. It is the job of the committee and the evaluation coordinator to make sure all responsibilities are doled out equally or somewhat equally to make sure everyone has a voice and is doing their part of the evaluation.
During the initial phase of the evaluation. The technology committee and evaluators will need to decide how the instruments for data collection are created and utilized. Surveys will be created by the evaluators and the technology director. They will be reviewed by the administration to check completeness. The pre- and post-assessments will be created by teachers and reviewed by the committee. Lists will be compiled by the technology director and administrative observations will be compiled during the year. The data will be tabulated by the respective parties, with the aid of the evaluators, and the technology committee will create the presentation formats.
Professional development sessions are set by the administration on PD days built into the calendar by the school board. Meetings between the technology team and the administration would decide how presentations can be delivered and the topics needed. Surveys will follow up the PD days.
At the end of the evaluation, the committee and stakeholders will need to be addressed on the results of the evaluation. A workbook will need to be compiled that is easily read by staff members and by the school board. How information is dispersed to the different stakeholder groups will also need to be decided. All information will be available for all parties, but the information that is pertinent to each group will be easily accessible and presented to the group.
The committee will then have to decide how to address each group with the information. The school board will be addressed at a special meeting. The staff members can be addressed at professional development inservice; school board members may attend also. Once both meetings have transpired, any feedback from the staff members and board members will be taken into consideration and added to the evaluation if needed. A meeting will be held for other stakeholders who would like to hear the results of the evaluation.
Using recommendations of the evaluation committee, staff members, and school board members; the process of implementing different parts of the evaluation can take place. A professional development committee will review the evaluation recommendations and propose steps for implementation in professional development sessions. A sub committee of the technology committee will oversee safe implementation into classroom curriculum. Communication is key when implementing new concepts and new ideas, and keeping all stakeholders informed is very important of the changes that will be taking place.