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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.



District Instructional Technology Director-
Provide support and direction to enable staff, students, and the
community to successfully address the educational challenges of an
evolving technological society

Provide the most appropriate, cost effective, and innovative
technology solutions

Ensure that individual campuses have the most current technology
and the know how to use it

Provide campus trainings in the effective use of technology

Technology Department Campus Administration-
Head, Peer Facilitator,
& Tech Liaison- Principal-provides for
technology spending in the
budget, ensures that teachers
Provides assistance in using
are utilizing technology in their
technology to teachers and
students classrooms, and provides
training for staff.
Ensures all technology equipment
is functioning Counselors-ensures students
are taking the needed courses in
Submits work orders for technology and works with the
technology that is not functioning high school CTE program for
correctly recruitment purposes.
Upkeeps the school website

Teachers- Students- Community-
Require the use Take advantage Require a
of technology of the technology knowledge of
that is available technology from
by students
to them the school system
Model the use Explore the Support the
of technology technology school


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.
During week 3, I interviewed several stakeholders and discovered that our campus is pretty
efficient at using technology equipment during instruction (i.e. Curriculum on Wheels, document
cameras, promethean boards, Unitedstreaming). Teachers are becoming more and more open
to its use in the classroom; especially after seeing the impact using technology has on student
motivation and performance. However, one thing that I did realize that many teachers were
unaware of is how to use a new program called AWARE that our district has adopted. Being
able to fully utilize AWARE puts a plethora of information at our teacher’s fingertips. Teachers
can pull up information on student demographics, current and historical TAKS scores,
Curriculum Based Assessment scores, intervention information, and student specific information
(i.e. at-risk, GT, Sped, etc.). Therefore, I believe a teacher training in AWARE would be very
beneficial to all teachers. The following is my idea for staff development in using AWARE:

Session Purpose: Help teachers become familiar with AWARE program and it’s uses.

Learning Objectives to Be Addressed: Teachers will be able to use AWARE to: research
current and historical TAKS scores, Curriculum Based Assessment scores, demographic
information, student specific information (i.e. At-risk, GT, Sped, etc.), and intervention
information.

Grade Level: Facilitator: Location: Start Time: 3:30 End-Time: 4:30
6-8 Colencia Reed Library

Learner-Centered Purpose Description Steps Estimated Time
Activity

Introduction To familiarize Brief video 1.Facilitator will 5 minutes
staff with the about AWARE show a brief
AWARE video provided
program by the district of
what other pilot
schools have
said about
aware



Personal stories Motivate other Teachers who 1.Facilitator 5 minutes
teachers to use currently are asks volunteers
the program using the to share their
program experience
volunteer to
share their
2.Brief Q & A
thoughts session

AWARE Allow teachers Quickly go over 1.Facilitator 10 minutes
PowerPoint to see all of the highlights of goes over
benefits of using AWARE on PowerPoint
the program PowerPoint
presentation 2.Brief Q & A
session

Hands on period Allows teachers Teachers go to 1.Teachers 20 minutes
to explore the computers and allowed to go to
functions of research computers to
AWARE student explore the
information functions
2.Facilitator
asks teachers to
find specific
information
about a student
3.Teachers
record findings



Sharing Teachers gain Teachers share 1.Teachers 15 minutes
insight for each their thoughts report to small
other and ideas with a group to share
small group their findings
2.Facilitator
leads group
discussion on
how information
found in
AWARE can
assist teachers
in preparing,
adjusting, and
re-teaching
lessons
3.Ideas are
written on a
large post-it
note and hung
in the library for
display

Evaluation Get feedback Teachers 1. Facilitator 5 minutes
about the staff complete a distributes
development survey about the surveys to
and whether it presentation teachers
was useful

2. Teachers
complete the
surveys and
return them



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:

• Uses data and other analysis from 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.

Goal: All teachers and students will use technology effectively to engage in teaching,
learning, and communicating.

Objective: Motivate teachers to use technology in instruction and provide students with
access to increase student performance in all areas.

Target Group(s): Teachers, students, & parents

Activity/ Strategy Person(s) Timeline Resources/Estimated Formative
(Include 3) Responsible Cost Evaluation

Provide each Principal- March Provided that 95% of All teachers and
teacher with a Paula Sword 2011- teachers already have students should
promethean board, March access to all have equal
document camera, 2012 technology equipment, access to
and projector for the cost should be technology to
use in their approximately $6,000 ensure that all
classroom. to ensure all teachers students receive
have the equipment in every opportunity
their personal rooms. to be successful.
Giving the
necessary
Our Technology liaison technology to
would have to write a every teacher
grant for the needed allows them to
technology due to fully take
budget cuts. advantage of
using that
technology during
instruction to
prepare our
students for a



technology savvy
society. Students
are already using
technology at
home to download
music, play
games, and
communicate with
each other. Using
technology for
educational
purposes is the
next step. Student
motivation will
increase if they
have access to
technology.

Provide trainings Peer Weekly Computer lab Providing weekly
during Teacher Facilitators beginning Promethean board trainings in
University weekly Technology in August technology
in using and Copies of handouts benefits all
liaison
technology (i.e. continuing Cost = $ 0 teachers.
AWARE, throughout Teachers will
Eduphoria, the school learn how to use
Chancery, Mizuni, year different
promethean board programs, enter
use, how to use intervention
Unitedstreaming, information on
PowerPoints, their students,
Excel, Publisher, enter
etc.). documentation
like tutoring and
parent phone calls
into Mizuni, gather
reports, analyze
data, and many
more things.
Having the
trainings in a
computer lab
allows teachers to
watch the
presentation and
then log on and
learn through
exploration. If
they need help,
help is there.
Feedback in the



past has been
very positive on
Teacher
University.

Teachers create a All teachers August Computer lab By requiring each
website for and 2012 Teacher computers teacher and
students and administrators administrator to
parents to utilize create and
maintain a
website, students
and parents have
24 hour access to
things like: course
information,
contact
information, how
to schedule
teacher
conferences, etc.
Parents tend to
feel more in the
loop when they
can log on to the
internet and see
what their
students are doing
in class. Then, it
opens dialog
between the
parent and
student about
education.
Parents will be
more involved in
their child’s
education.

Offer monthly Peer Monthly Computer lab Offering the
training to parents Facilitators beginning Handouts opportunity for
in how to use Technology in August parents to keep
Parent Connect to liaison and ending up with their
keep up with their in June student’s grades
student’s grades at any time
increases their
involvement in the
education of their
child. Knowing
their parents have
access to their
grades, students



will feel more
responsible for
keeping their
grades up and
work harder in the
process. Parent
Connect opens up
another form of
communication
between the
school and the
parents.

Create a Technology August Access to a classroom Students need to
Technology Club Teacher 2011-June Supplies for building be involved in
for interested 2012 robots, rockets, something in
students to join Weekly or rollercoasters, and order to be
biweekly other projects motivated to come
meetings to school.
Cost-$ 2,000 (grant for Offering a
club) technology club
gives interested
student the
chance to be a
part of something
special. Sparking
their interest in
technology in
middle school may
lead them to
choosing a career
in technology in
the future.



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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