TECHNOLOGY PLAN

North American University

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

Name: Selman Onel

Date: November 27, 2016

Texas Education Agency

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

Start Date: 8/1/2017

End Date: 7/31/2020
LEA Title: Harmony School of Excellence
Grade: K-8
Contact: Harmony School of Excellence
Address: 7340 N Gessner Dr. Houston TX 77040
Phone: 713- 983-8668
This educational technology plan has been created to provide best education toward K8 grade students supported with technology in order to guide students for improving
their skills, gaining beneficial and comprehensive knowledge, analyzing and finding
solutions for the real worlds problems.
The principal and computer manager and parents and community members and
assistant principals have helped to develop this plan.
District might include high expectation for student and teacher using technologies that
aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Here are the stakeholders in LEA;

The Principal: Alex B.
Assistant Principal: Bob J.
IT Manager: Jack B.
Computer Science Teacher: Helen B.
Community: Parents, parent teachers, team leaders, department heads, Instructional
coaches, business managers.
Our Mission In Harmony Public Schools: Harmonys mission is to prepare each
student for higher education by providing a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere
featuring a quality, student-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).*
Note: Names and other information are subject to change. These stakeholders meet
every other month or each quarter.
*harmonytx.org
http://harmonytx.org/WebShare/download_center/pdf/HPS_Strategic_Plan_2020_Sum
mary.pdf

Everyone in 21st century interacts with technology. The smartphones became a part of
our life and internet helps people to reach out everything in a few minutes. People can
access to hundred-thousand of information and resources. However, there may be so
many people doesnt have a computer, nor internet even more smartphone. By making
the right technology plan we can change this issue and can guide every single student.
They can collaborate, share ideas, and support each other with endless motivation.
The challenge for our education system is to leverage the learning sciences and
modern technology to create engaging, relevant, and personalized learning experiences
for all learners that mirror students daily lives and the reality of their futures. In
contrast to traditional classroom instruction, this requires that we put students at the
center and empower them to take control of their own learning by providing flexibility
on several dimensions.(Transforming American Education. U.S. department of
Education 2010) retrieved from
https://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
This plans goals and research meet on the same point which is technology gives more
opportunity finding more resource than traditional classroom.

The technology not only gives more opportunity but also equal opportunity to each
student. Students could improve their skills such as critical thinking, problem solving,
leadership, communication.
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)

1. What is the current availability of technology for all teachers?

The school has enough number of Chromebook, computers printers, projector for each
classroom, smart boards, IPad, digital camera. These materials can be used at any time.
2. Are teachers trained by professional person?
Teachers have been attending professional development workshops and district office
provides strong support to help teacher for effective technology use.

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 educational computer programs in order for students to study?
The school has different websites and computer programs for each grade level. For
instance, k-3 students use reading eggs, 4th 7 5th grade students use study island, I
station, middle school students use Aleks, etc.
2. Is technology available to all students?
Yes. Each class has a set of Chromebook and each grade level has computer science
class instructed by certified teacher.

1. What replacement cycle has been built into the plan; and what funding is needed to
support the replacement policy?

Softwares need to be upgraded yearly due to its agreement, computers are to be

updated every 3 years. Projectors are to be upgraded to wall mounted projectors.
2. What LEA adopted curriculum supports the acquisition of technology and
information literacy skills?
Harmony School of Excellence prefers to use Learning.com curriculum as suggested
by the central office.
Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, to address Internet
Safety and the appropriate and ethical use of technology in the classroom.
1. What LEA board policies will be or have been developed to implement Internet
safety instruction?
Harmony school of excellence will download new firewall and update it every 6
months. Since there many different computers such as teacher laptops, lab computers
and Chromebook, we have different networks for each of those.
2. How will students access to the social websites?
Harmony School of Excellence will provide an e-mail address for student. They will
be able to google programs like google slide, google doc, etc. The filtering will protect
those getting unsafe websites. The school will improve filtered and unfiltered
webpages.

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.
1. All teachers have attended to the Chromebook workshop and district support team is
making sure new teachers are getting same trainings. The campuses may determine an
experience teacher for more and convenient support.
2. School IT manager and district IT manager are working to set up all necessary
software to teachers laptops. They will assist any teacher whoever needs help during
school year.

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.
1. The Eduphoira database will be used to keep students assessments, test and score.
This database allows us to see students progress in last 10 years. So we are able to set
individual goal for student as well as teachers grade level goal.
2. Student will be tested 3 times with MAP tests. This is the needs assessment. Teacher
will have training during professional development time. The test score will give us
how ready students are before school year starts and give us mid-year and end year
feedback. So teachers will be assisting each individual student accordingly.

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.
1. Our district already has great learning resources such as Aleks, Study Island,
Learning.com, reading eggs, I station...District curriculum and support coaches will
guide teachers. IT managers will help the teachers.
2. Parents can access to the school website to check students learning progress. They can
also download smartphone application to be notified about their child. Harmony
School of Excellence has already set up a Lets Talk system which allows any
stakeholder to reach out admins asking any question and give feedback.

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.

1. The school will start using I-station which allows combining all resources under one
umbrella. So all teachers and students can find all resources. We will replace the
projector and upgrade teachers laptops. The new windows version will let us use the
technology interactively as google does.
2. We will provide classroom printers for the k-5 ELA, Math and Science teachers. All
teachers will have upgraded laptop with last version of windows and Microsoft Office.
They will have quick support from IT department to install any specific software or
program. Physical Education teachers will have mp3 players and gym size speaker.
Character Education teachers will have second step interactive classroom set.

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.
1. The most accurate data to check if the plan is working well and technology is being
used properly is students test score and their feedback. Also we will ask parents fill
out a survey. Teachers will evaluate the system in the campuses if technology plan has
been implemented properly by filling a survey too.
2. Teachers may also give feedback to their department heads, district coaches and
support coordinators. They will have meetings quarterly so we can evaluate the plan
more frequently.

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.
1. Assistant principal of academics will be main person to collect the data and district
dean of academics will gather all scores and data. They will have quarterly meeting for
the check up on plan and discuss the data.
2. We will semesterly report the status of the plan to the district superintendent even
though we have planned to implement these technologies within three years.
Superintendent will be immediately informed if we will have any major changes in this
technology plan.