Byron CUSD No. 226 May 13, 2010
Strategic Action #1: Perform a needs analysis at the district, building, and classroom levels. 1.1 IT Department performs needs analysis and documents results. Strategic Action #2: Use best practice to establish technology staffing needs to implement, maintain, and sustain district technology policy. 2.1 Hire a Chief Technology Officer to oversee all technology initiatives. 2.2 Hire four full-time educational technology interventionists (certified teachers). 2.3 Establish training budget and opportunities to enable tech staff to stay current with technology and/or tech skills. Strategic Action #3: Establish policy and funding to equip each classroom with 21st Century baseline teaching and learning tools: interactive whiteboard/surface, document camera, projector, student responders, sound and video capability. 3.1 Research and establish policy. 3.2 Define equipment list. 3.3 Replace, rotate, and recycle district computers and servers as needed on an annual basis. 3.4 Explore 2-3 year lease for electronic equipment purchased through levy and to never purchase at end of lease. 3.5 Equip MMES with 21st Century teaching and learning tools. 3.6 Equip BHS with 21st Century teaching and learning tools. Strategic Action #4: Establish guidelines that will support the use of and provide students with wireless, cloud-based, stand-alone connectivity devices. 4.1 Benchmark the work of other districts. 4.2 Review our district's current policies in this regard. 4.3 Draft changes and get board approval. 4.4 Develop and implement a community communication strategy. Strategic Action #5: Radically increase bandwidth (especially between the hours of 7:00 am - 5:00 pm) to an acceptable quality of service level. (Today's target would be 1 Gig.) 5.1 Benchmark to find what is available and what the costs are. 5.2 Purchase as close to 1 Gig. of bandwidth as can be afforded Strategic Action #6: Connect fiber to best regional broadband projects. 6.1 Find available broadband projects. 6.2 Find costs for broadband projects. 6.3 Connect to chosen broadband projects. Strategic Action #7: Provide redundant internet connectivity with multiple vendors. 7.1 Locate available vendors and their pricing. 7.2 Subscribe to service from additional vendors. Strategic Action #8: Improve and maintain robust WAN and LAN to support all types of communication, both wireless and wired. 8.1 Determine the level of access that would be useable. 8.2 1 Gig. to wired desktops. 8.3 High-speed wireless to as many devices as needed (100 megabit per device). 8.4 Update fiber backbone and equipment to allow 10 gigabit speed through entire district backbone. Strategic Action #9: Continue to investigate the feasibility of the migration of service infrastructure to virtual and/or cloud options. 9.1 Investigate Illini Cloud Initiative. 9.2 Ongoing investigation of all cloud options. Strategic Action #10: Provide training opportunities for teachers and administrators to meet or exceed National Educational Standards (NETS-T & NETS-A ). 10.1 Determine teacher and administrator needs. 10.2 Provide training opportunities. 10.3 Assess teacher and administrator ability to meet or exceed NETS-T & NETS-A. Strategic Action #11: Implement technology curriculum for Byron students to meet or exceed NETS-S and 21st Century Skills. 11.1 Purchase and implement EasyTech Curriculum for grades K-5 with 21st Century Skills Assessment. 11.2 Assess grades 6-8 current NETS-S competency level. 11.3 Develop or purchase curriculum. 11.4 Develop or purchase assessment. 11.5 Embed NETS-S and 21st Century Skills into all curriculum grades 9 -12. |
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