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team will look at and evaluate the 1:1 process and make plans for a post 1:1 middle school. Our teachers have been provided a series of professional development opportunities over the last 3 years. They will continue to implement many technology resources with the use of the Mac Book. Wikki’s, iMovies and I-life projects, internet research, video streaming etc. are all examples of how the 1:1 is being utilized and supported to raise student achievement. The Elementary School will also have the opportunity to incorporate more technology into the grade levels K – 6. A new computer lab, with 33 computers, will be created to provide more support for the implementation of technology across the curriculum. We will focus on providing more opportunities to enhance students keyboarding skills at the 3 rd , 4 th and 5 th grade levels. As a district, we also plan to expand our technology support by adding a technology aid for the elementary building and expand the duties of the technology aid at the middle school. It will be our objective to provide as much professional development as possible to help train these aides to help with much of the troubleshooting procedures at each building. Across all grade levels METS teacher developed lesson plans will be integrated and created. The Michigan Department of Education will be a resource for technology lesson plans. When curriculum adoptions are considered a review will be done for technology integration. 2010 – 2011 The focus for our entire district during the 2010/2011 school year, will be the expanding of the smart board initiative. We will purchase 3 more smart boards that will support the curriculum in the English and Social Studies field. The elementary will also add 3 smart boards to incorporate the 3 rd grade team. Adequate professional development will be provided and many new innovative teaching methods will be introduced in these core areas. At the Middle and High School, the Education 2020 program will be expanded to provide more opportunities for credit recovery and remediation. The E 2020 computer lab will be open after school for those students who are behind in credit and need the available time outside of class to take an extra course. Students will also be given the opportunity to receive and work on certain lesson material at home or at the local library. This will provide extra support outside of the 10
school day for those students who qualify for the program and will ultimately lead to an increase in our student achievement scores and graduation rates. Also, with the implementation of E 2020, we hope to incorporate an enrichment program that will provide students extra opportunities for our gifted students. We will plan to add 5 computers at the high school and 5 at the middle school. During this year, the Middle School will be transforming its laptop initiative into a post 1:1 laptop world. Our district will plan to purchase the entire Apple system, including 360 laptops, a server, and all of the wireless access points for $1 from Apple as stated by the contract. We will implement a new strategy to incorporate the laptops into the daily instruction for grades 6 th through 8 th . Teachers in grades 7 and 8 will each be provided with a class set of laptops. This will allow our teachers to continue to incorporate their technology strategies into their daily lessons. We also will develop a maintenance plan for these computers and will provide more technical training for our technology coordinator, assistants, and media specialists. We will also plan to create a lab of 31 computers that would allow us to be more versatile with our technology instruction at the middle school. Investments will be made that will allow our computer labs to be monitored and become more secure. Software will be purchased in order to allow teachers and aides to monitor more closely what students are doing in the computer labs. Teachers will have the capability to see every students computer screen from their desktop. We will start this program at the high school and move it down to the middle school. Blackbaud, a data processing package, will be purchased to help develop and organize an alumni database. This will help improve communication between the school and its alumni for ideas like fundraising. 2011 – 2012 By the third year of this technology plan, the high school and elementary will add 3 more smart boards to help with instruction. The high school will implement these resources into the English and social studies classes and the elementary will give the 2 nd grade teachers access to this 11
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