tkt8763-01: Calgary Video

["Amy Johnson" <amybjohnson@hotmail.com>]

I really liked the way Jim Langley and Cindy Lee Martin of the Calgary Board 
of Education described their process of developing a technology plans for 
one of the largest school districts in Canada.

The process included 6 steps:
1. Understanding the external forces relevant to education.
   Investigate other plans
   Use Eric to search for journals with articles discussing planning
   Apple's Teach Technology Plan
   Using scanning documents that had been developed

2. Doing an Internal Scan
   Accessing the school's capacity for change
   Surveying the schools for technology in the classrooms
   Then they wrote goals and visions and had parents, principals, and others 
evaluate it

3. Developed visions and goals from the draft
   made sure it included:
   -meaningful opportunities for students
   -required a plan for each school
   -teachers will have access to technology

4. Set goals and action plans

5. Implementation of action plans

6. Reviewed the progress of the plan

They are now in the process of developing a budget for 70 schools and help 
those schools develop technology plans.

I feel they are have done a well job of deciding what to do and are doing a 
good job implementing their plans

Amy Johnson


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