This professional development plan has three main goals: 1) Improve technology implementation in the classroom by increasing technology coaches and training teachers on technology integration. 2) Improve the amount and quality of campus technology resources for students and teachers by providing more engaging multimedia, hardware, and online instructional resources. 3) Improve use of technology for student assessment by analyzing benchmark testing data using new software to identify struggling students and objectives needing improvement.

1. Professional Development Plan:
Goal: Improvement in Professional Development in the area of implementation of technology in the
classroom.
Objective: Examine and assess procedures for gathering, analyzing, and using data from a variety of
sources for informed decision making regarding the integration of technology, instructional and
organizational leadership.
Persons
Strategies/Activities Timeline
Responsible
 Increase the number of Ongoing Principal
instructional technology
coaches/mentors at Leal
Elementary.
 Hire or train employees who Ongoing District Technology Department
perform or will perform at a high
quality. Use training, require Principal
certification and provide with
continuing education opportunities.
 Provide training to teachers, Ongoing District Technology Department
paraprofessionals, and campus
technicians’ continuous classes at
the PDC throughout the school
year.
Goal: Improve amount and quality of campus Technology resources that students and teachers will
have access to in and out of the classroom.
Objective: Design and apply skills for monitoring and evaluating change and making needed
adjustments to achieve the campus vision and goals, including the integration of technology as described
above
Persons
Strategies/Activities Timeline
Responsible
 Provide solutions for engaging Fall 2009 Technology department
students more actively in Evaluate/Monitor
interactive multimedia at Leal
Elementary. Fall 2010
Implement
 Provide additional hardware and Spring 2009 – SBDM, Principal, Campus technician
classroom technology in learning 2010 school yearDistrict technology department
areas identified as low performing
(science/math) to facilitate
adequate student access to
technology.
 Continued use of online Ongoing Content area teachers
instructional resources for TAKS
tutorials and preparation such as
(Study Island, I station, and
Integrated Learning Systems such
as Success Maker and CEI).
 Provide technological learning Status: Planning Principal
opportunities using Internet, video, Campus technicians
distance learning, teleconferencing
and other electronic media.
Goal: Technology used to improve Student assessment. All student benchmark data will be compiled
and analyzed.
Objective: Assessment using technology: AEIS and Campus STaR chart data

2. Strategies/Activities Timeline Persons Responsible
 Provide teachers, principals, and Once every six Testing strategist
SBDM with local and state test weeks – local
data to document student’s needs benchmarks
and plans for RTI. End of year –
state assessment
 Use of newly purchased School Immediately once District Information Systems
city software system to analyze fully implemented
and assess student benchmark by the district– Administration
testing data across the district and possible date
on our specific campus. Use in February 2010 Testing strategist
grade levels to identify struggling
students, TEKS objectives not Teachers
being met and areas of needed
improvement.