Long Range Plan Analysis

For my Week 1 Instructional Leadership assignment, I wrote summaries for the different sections of the Texas Long-Range Technology Plan. In looking at my own potential future as a principal, I see the Long-Range Plan as a great guidepost to show what we're supposed to be doing at our campuses technologically. I like the way the work and tasks are delegated to a variety of stakeholders; technology is not just the school's responsibility. It's up to parents, service centers and TEA to respond to campus' technology needs.

One thing that I'll be sure to do is inform parents of their role in our technology plans. I bet if I asked my students' parents, few or none of them would have heard of the Long-Range Plan. Of those few that may have heard it existed, I doubt that anyone would know that they are supposed to play a role in its execution. I would make sure to include parents in conversations about technology so that they can play a role in their students' technology education.

As a school that receives most of its funding through grants, I wondered how my school would fund all of this. I can promise that we don't have enough money to go 1:1 on computers (although teachers are 1:1, so I guess that's a start). To make this plan work, it's going to take more than principals. TEA would have to shift the way that it allocates funds if we're ever going to get the kind access to technology that the Long-Term Plan suggests.