TECHNOLOGY PLAN TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership
EDUC 5321: TECHNOLOGY FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

Name: Ismail Ardahanli_____________

Date:12/6/2014______________________

This template is adapted from

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/documents/et14techplan.doc
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
The plan should guide the LEAs use of education technology for the next three
years.
List specific start and end dates (7/1/15 to 6/30/18). Provide a brief overview of the
Harmony Science Academy, its location and demographics and/or share a link to
the HAS-Houstons website.

Harmony Science Academy was established in 2000.

It is located on 5435 South Braeswood Blvd in Houston, TX

77096.

Its website is http://www.hsahouston.org/

It serves K-8 grade level students.

Total enrollment is 340 students.

85% of the students are economically disadvantageous.

Technology plan is between 7/1/15 and 6/30/18 dates.

Describe how a variety of stakeholders from within the HSA and the community-atlarge participated in the planning process.
Campus Technology Advisors
HSA has 41 staff which makes contribution to campus technology plan by
embedding technological tools to the content area.
District Technology Committee
District`s curriculum instructional coaches from each subject department
collaborate with campus teachers to plan how beneficial technological tools will
be implemented in the campus.
Central Office Technology Plan Development Group
Department chairs and finance department managers in central office. They
contribute to planning process of the school about what kind of technological
tools will be ordered in terms of academic and financial.
Summarize the relevant research and describe how it supports the plan's curricular
and professional development goals.
Harmony Science Academy`s mission is to prepare for higher learning in a safe,
caring , and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered
educational program with a strong emphasis on Math, Science, Engineering, and
Technology. That`s why HSA-Houston has a goal to expand technology use in
the campus to increase instructional quality in effective. Moreover, it assists to

reach many students with helping hands of teachers in a short time and has
students earned new skills being useful. As Ronnie Custer says Indeed,
educational technological inputs have changed the face and contours of modern
21stCentury teaching and learning and improved and modernized it from dreary,
monologue lecture sessions to exciting, interactive and compelling education
enhanced by the use of modern learning aids. Indeed modern day state-of-thescience and art of education does help students learn faster, better and more
effectively though learning aids. Technology switches monologue classes to
more engaged classes and helps students learn better as a learning aid.
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)
Describe teachers' current access to instructional technology and current use of
digital tools.
-HSA-Houston uses Eduphoria software being available to entire teachers

in

the school. Every week teachers upload lesson plans to the software .Formative
and summative assessments are created and results uploaded to the system as
well.
-HSA-Houston provides that K-4 grade students utilizes ipads and 5th graders
uses desktop computers for Mathematics and ELA Labs everyday one period.6-8
grade students utilizes chromebooks for Math Lab and ELA Lab classes. ALEKS

is run for 5-8 students during Math Lab and Accelerated Reader is run for 5-8
students during ELA Lab everyday one period.
Describe students' current access to instructional technology and current use of
digital tools. Include a description about the HSA-Houston policy, practices, and/or
replacement policy that ensures equitable technology access for all students.
-HSA-Houston makes technology available to whole students at least one period
in a day.
-HSA-Houston policy enables that entire student groups have different level
access to the technology. In accordance with their curriculum their technology
access changes. Like 5-8 graders use two periods in a day and K-4 graders utilize
one period in a day.
Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for using
technology to improve teaching and learning. Describe how these goals align to the
HSA-Houston 's curricular goals that are supported by other plans. Describe how
the HSA-Houston 's budget (LCAP) supports these goals, and whether future
funding proposals or partnerships may be needed for successful implementation.
-HSA-Houston `s curriculum goals and plans are to purchase and to provide
software which helps to meet state standards and to prepare students to colleges.
-HSA-Houston`s targets are being met to improve student success by following
their improvement track via help of software(s).
Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, to address
Internet Safety and the appropriate and ethical use of technology in the classroom.
-HSA-Houston plans to arrange trainings and to schedule computer classes in

order to meet the students` technology literacy needs and information literacy
skills in the computer classes.
-HSA-Houston schedules that students take Lab classes related to core courses
which contain the literacy skills.
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.
-HSA-Houston assesses teachers` and administrators` technology skills by
checking their work submitted as online and observes whether they use
technology in the school work or not.
-HSA-Houston considers workshops, webinar meetings are the professional
development opportunities in order to improve detected needs.

Describe goals and an implementation plan, with annual activities, for providing
professional development opportunities based on your HSA-Houston needs
assessment data and the Curriculum Component of the plan.
-HSA-Houston uses data-driven instructions are available for teachers and
administrators to fill out students` educational background gaps.
-HSA-Houston provides instructional videos that explain details and steps in

regards to use technology which will be implemented in the campus.

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 HSA-Houston that will be
used to support the Curriculum and Professional Development Components of the
plan.
-HSA-Houston counts that student school emails will be set up to notify students
and parents regarding school events, incidents and school websites will be used
for general announcements about school. Voice mail will be established to inform
parents about upcoming events.
-HSA-Houston considers that home phone, cell phone , internet might be had by
parents , so they would rather having email, voice mail options for school/home
communication
Describe the technology hardware, electronic learning resources, networking and
telecommunications infrastructure, physical plant modifications, technical support,
and asset management needed by the HSA-Houston 's teachers, students, and
administrators to support the activities in the Curriculum and Professional

Development components of the plan.

-HSA-Houston regards that computer and internet are the core components for
staff and students in order to implement the Professional Development and
curriculum items.
-HSA-Houston takes into consideration that curriculum improvement software
helps students fill out their own gaps and question bank software to assist
benchmark needs to do kill-drill practices

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.
-HSA-Houston uses assessment results as significant indicators to make a
decision whether plan effects to students affirmatively or not.
-HSA-Houston will check the assessment results and compare the scores of the
previous test and current one to know whether implementation is successful or
not.
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.

-HSA-Houston plans to collect six weeks data. Department chairs and teachers are
in charge of doing that for collaboration.
- HSA-Houston plans to schedule Benchmark test dates to collect and aggregate
data in order for teachers to analyze results to take an action.