Administration & Instructional Support in theTexas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020

Administration and Instructional Support is an area where the campus plan for the students success is supported and backed by the districts board as well as each school administrator/administrators. Locally, our district has held a very stable "Advanced" classification for the past 3 years. At the state level, only 3.6% of schools have met the "Targeted Tech" classification. I am unsure how to get the national progress of this criteria. Trends in this area locally are that of gradually increasing over the years. We are inching our way toward the "Targeted Tech" classification. State progress looks very grim. And again nationally, I could not find percentages. My recommendations for improvement in this area is to not only get more training for teachers but also for administrators. Administrators must be the driving force behind advancing in technology and to keep up-to-date on information. We also need extensive training for teachers and wireless internet connectivity in each classroom in order for teachers to make their own strives in getting to the next classification area.