Week 2 Long Range Plan

According to the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, one of the key areas is Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support. This area needs to maximize the involvement of the teaching and learning. This area discusses expanding opportunities to students which they would not have otherwise had. Having the students grow with society around them so that they can be productive in the 21st century. This appeared to be a direction East Central High School was headed towards in the past few years.
Upon entering my campus this year I learned about the different schools within the schools. One of the schools was called Digital Campus. This group of selected students was each given an imac notebook, and in all their classes they had access to wireless internet. This also allowed the school to purchase ipods that could be checked out for students who were studying for TAKS tests, where the students could find podcasts created by teachers. This appeared to work for a few years, but after seeing that is was taking a lot of time and energy to maintain, the program has began to come apart and is being phased out. Though there was the full support, the funding and the time necessary to keep teachers educated about new practices has become a problem.
This school allowed certain students to be successful where they would not have been. They were able to apply the skills that came naturally to them and allowed them to feel involved in their own schooling. These students will have a leg up in society because they interacted with technology throughout high school and will easily be able to adapt to the changes that society is continuing to facing the 21st century.