The principal is responsible for ensuring the campus follows the organizational chart and district vision of preparing students for the 21st century workforce. This includes overseeing personnel, funding technology, and providing professional development. The campus aims to improve technology quality and access. Student interviews showed a desire for more classroom technology. To meet student needs, the professional development plan will provide more opportunities and model technology use. Evaluations will gauge the success of professional development sessions. Short-term evaluations provide immediate feedback, while long-term evaluations determine if sessions' information is integrated into classrooms. This helps answer what staff technology needs are and how well they are being addressed.

1. EDLD 5452 Instructional Leadership: The Technology LinkChristi VanWassenhovePart I: Organizational ChartThe Principal’s Role in Implementation of the Organizational ChartThe principal is responsible for ensuring that the district vision is passed on to his or her campus and for ensuring that everyone on the campus understands and follows the organizational chart. The principal must oversee the roles of the Site-Based Decision Making Committee, all campus personnel, and sutdents to make sure technology is being used appropriately. They are also responsible for answering to and reporting back to the Area Superintendent as described in the chart. Because our vision is to prepare students for the 21st Century workforce, the principal must fund technology and provide appropriate professional development that will aide in achieving the district’s and the campus’ vision.Part II: Professional Development PlanningOur campus improvement plan continues to make it a mission to improve the quality of technology and to increase the number of technological tools available to our teachers and students. Through the addition of Smart Boards, Elmos, digital cameras, In Focus projectors, educational software, Purple Cows, Laptops, etc., our students have had more access to technology, but there is still a long way to go. After conducting last week’s student interviews, the students’ desire for technology in the classroom became very clear. In order to properly meet the students’ needs, we are going to have to step up our plan by providing multiple opportunities for professional development. According to the Campus STaR Chart, we are in the developmental stage in Educator Preparation and Development; therefore, our professional development plan must not only be aimed at providing more professional development opportunities, but also at modeling the use of technology.Part III: Evaluation Planning for Action Plan The goal in creating the professional development evaluations is to answer the following questions: What are our staff’s technology needs? How well did we/are we addressing the staff’s technology needs? What can we do to improve our professional development sessions? In order to properly gauge the success of the sessions, we will need to develop a short range and long range evaluation plan. The short range will garner immediate feedback and will help us in planning future sessions. The long range plan will help to determine whether or not the information presented at the session is being integrated into the classroom. The long term evaluation entitled “Integrating Blogs” will be available on line and must be completed by the end of the 4th 6 Week period. EvaluationTechnology Training SessionsPlease rate the level of your computer skills:beginnersome experiencevery experiencedWhat did you expect to accomplish in this workshop? How well were your expectations met?Overall EvaluationWhich aspects of the workshop were most beneficial for you? Which aspects of the workshop do you feed need to be changed? Please explain. Which experience(s) during this workshop stood out as memorable? Would you recommend this workshop to others with similar interests and experience? Why or why not?Evaluation Integrating BlogsDirections: Please read each of the following questions and chose the most appropriate response. 1. The training I received on integrating blogs into the curriculum properly prepared me to integrate the use of blogs in the classroom.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree2. I understand how blogs can be useful for my students.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree3. I am now capable of modeling the use of blogs with my students.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree4. I plan to use blogs in my classroom regularly.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree5. Blogs can be used to help prepare our students for life in the global community.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree6. I could benefit from additional training in the use of blogs.Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree7. I provide multiple opportunities for my students to blog in my classroom. Strongly Agree AgreeNeutralDisagreeStrongly Disagree