September 21, 2016

Ms. Jennifer Lane

Principal
5110 Allan Terrace
Bethesda, MD 20816

Dear Ms. Lane,

As part of my Masters in Educational Technology program with Loyola University Maryland, I

am writing a proposal for an implementation of professional development opportunities for our
school staff. Successful completion of my program requires me to engage in a comprehensive
internship which focuses on helping to educate and support staff in their development towards
increasing the facilitation of learning through educational technology integration. This directly
relates to our school since upper grade levels have consistent access to Chromebook usage within
their classrooms.

Through informal conversations, I have identified that there are several staff members who
would be interested in participating in professional development opportunities that will help
increase their knowledge about using various tech tools (e.g. Google Classroom, Google Apps
for Education, formative response tools, etc.) for effectively within their classroom. This will
enable teachers to move beyond the Substitution level of the SAMR (Substitution,
Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) Model in order to better facilitate and support
meaningful student learning through the incorporation of technology; in other words, it will aid
in going beyond using Chromebooks as a word processing and basic research tool.

In order for my internship to be effective and useful, I will be considering several of Elys
Conditions of Change, which outlines eight different conditions that must be met in order for the
successful implementation and adoption of a technological innovation. First, I will be focusing
on the dissatisfaction with the status quo, making sure that my professional development
opportunities will be tailored to fit the needs of the staff (pre- and post-surveys will be given in
order to assess the needs). I will bring my knowledge and skills to ensure that it gets sufficiently
passed on to the staff who participate in these opportunities. I will also be ensuring that all
participants will have a voice within this process so that the professional development
experiences will be relevant and applicable to their needs, regardless of where they are in their
comfort and level of technology integration. I am hoping that I will also have your continued
support and commitment, in addition to other leaders within the school, to help encourage and
motivate participants through this process with me.
For my internship, I am planning on providing a few different types professional development
opportunities and resources for the staff at our school. The rationale behind this is to ensure that
there are multiple ways for our staff to engage in these learning opportunities, especially taking
into consideration their level of need and also their availability of time. The opportunities are as
follows:

1. Google Drive - A shared folder will be set up for all staff to access and contribute to
containing all relevant reference documents, videos, tutorials, samples lessons, etc.
2. (Roughly) Monthly Face-To-Face Sessions - Each session will focus on one tech tool that
is identified as a need based off surveys that will be sent out to the staff prior to each
session.
3. Follow-up/Additional Sessions - These will be made available upon request for
individual/small groups of teachers who express a need for additional support for a tech
tool we have covered in a monthly face-to-face session.

Throughout this entire process, I will be engaging in quite a bit of reflection using the survey
results participants will be responding to at the end of each face-to-face session, as well as the
follow-up surveys. These survey results will help me to measure the effectiveness of each
professional development opportunity I provide, as well as inform me of how I should proceed
(e.g. continue with originally planned PD or modify). The results will finally also provide
insights on how much the newly introduced technology tools are being used within the
classroom, whether or not teachers are finding them useful, and how teachers are using them
(e.g. Are they going beyond the Substitution level in SAMR?).

I hope that you will agree to support me in my implementation of my internship and the
professional development opportunities it entails. My goal is to better equip teachers with
knowledge of technology integration and increase their comfort level with using various
technology tools within their classrooms in order to increase meaningful student learning.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Chen

Enclosure: Proposed/Tentative Timeline

Proposed/Tentative Timeline:
 Westbrook Elementary Technology Integration Action Plan

Action Person/Group Date to be Completed Assessment

Responsible By

Meet with my Myself and my principal September 30 Letter of intent for

administration; share the principal to sign
ideas and goals of to agree to begin my
technology plan and get technology internship
approval at our school

Share information about Myself October 14 Meeting sign-in sheet

the goals of my to document those in
internship at a staff attendance that
meeting or leadership received the
meeting information. (If
presented at an ILT
meeting: email
confirmation from
team leaders that they
informed their
teammates)

Google Forms survey Myself October 21 Google Forms survey

sent to staff to elicit results about
suggestions and needs suggestions and
regarding technology needs regarding
integration technology
integration

Determine monthly face- Myself and October 28 Email with meeting

to-face session dates administration dates for the 2016-
2017 school year sent
to staff

Create Google Drive Myself October 2016 (with Google Drive folder
folder to house future ongoing updates
meeting notes, tutorial following meetings and
videos, etc. from PD PD sessions)
sessions

November face-to-face Myself Third or fourth week of Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Google Apps November 2016 regarding PD
for Education (GAFE) -
Google Classroom and
Google Docs

Google Forms survey Myself Second week of Google Forms survey

sent out to members December 2016 results
present at the November
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Google Classroom and
Google Docs and
whether there is a need
for additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

January face-to-face Myself Second week of Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Google Apps January 2017 regarding PD
for Education (GAFE) -
Google Slides

Google Forms survey Myself Last week of January Google Forms survey
sent out to members 2017 results
present at the January
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Google Slides and
whether there is a need
for additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

February face-to-face Myself Second week of Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Google Apps February 2017 regarding PD
for Education (GAFE) -
Google Sheets, Google
Forms, and Flubaroo

Google Forms survey Myself Last week of February Google Forms survey
sent out to members 2017 results
present at the February
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Google Sheets, Google
Forms, and Flubaroo and
whether there is a need
for additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

March face-to-face Myself Second week of March Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Class formative 2017 regarding PD
response tools - Kahoot!

Google Forms survey Myself Last week of March Google Forms survey
sent out to members 2017 results
present at the March
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Kahoot! and whether
there is a need for
additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

February committee Myself Second week of April Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Class formative 2017 regarding PD
response tools - Socrative

Google Forms survey Myself Last week of April Google Forms survey
sent out to members 2017 results
present at the April
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Socrative and whether
there is a need for
additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

May face-to-face Myself Second week of May Plus/Delta exit survey

meeting: Blendspace 2017 regarding PD

Google Forms survey Myself Last week in May 2017 Google Forms survey
sent out to members results
present at the May
meeting regarding
feedback on the
implementation of
Blendspace and whether
there is a need for
additional, voluntary
follow-up PD

Grade level to grade level Myself and grade level June 2017 Meeting notes;
articulation about tech teams informal discussions
integration (What will
the upcoming kids be
familiar with? What will
they need to learn?)

Google Forms survey Myself June 2017 Google Forms survey

sent to staff about overall results about overall
feedback about tech feedback and
integration, PD, and the suggestions and
tech committee for how it needs regarding
went that year, and to technology
also to elicit suggestions integration for the
and needs regarding following year
technology integration
moving forward to the
next school year.