Agenda+for+First+Interactive+Meeting

6/28 Remember BLUE will be our draft agenda. Be sure to cut out the rest of your section when you place your draft on it. Ruth - I left our section so you could read my response. After you read the response, could you then delete the red and green sections? If you agree with a draft please put your initials next to it. Any changes you want to make please make in RED.

Thanks! Sara

__Agenda for Interactive Meeting__

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***) PURPOSE:**  ======

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**The purpose of this committee is to plan the implementation, integration, and expansion of Technology accross the content areas and beyond the classroom considering:** ======


 Integration of Technology in Content Areas - Develop cross-content collaboration through the use of technology by modeling, professional development, and alignment of TEKS. ** - Super! R.A. /M.L. ** ***)Grade Level** **:** Middle School/ High School
 * Research on educational technology and funding sources.
 * Establishing a campus wide Technology infrastructure.
 * Integrating technology into the everyday curriculum taking into consideration NCLB, TLRPT, and Technology Application TEKS.
 * The buildinging of technology-enhanced classrooms that enable and promote collaboration and team learning among students, educators, school administrators and campus leaders.
 * Collaboration with district technology integration specialist to make on-going instructional development available to learners, educators, and staff.
 * Establishing an on-going 21st Century learner-centered community that collaborates on a regional, state, country and word-wide level to establish partnerships and be able to share resources, ideas, etc… (Miguel L.) 
 * ) Objective - Ruth and Sara** 
 * *) ** **Facilitator's name: ** Sara Baragona

** *) Community members:** David Silar - Middle School Teacher/ Technologist Ruth Adame - 6th Grade Reading/English Inclusion and Reading Lab Teacher Miguel Leija- Elementary Teacher Sara Baragona - Auditory Impairment Teacher Rosylyn West - Elementary Computer Technology Applications Teacher  ** *) Activities:** The Commitee will perform several activities to successfully lead the campus. Included in our Agenda will be the following:

- **Prepare a "Vision**" **Statement** from our group concerning how technology use and integration can be improved on our campus. This vision will keep the commitee focused and serve as our **resolve.** The statement should be the first order of business and should be completed within the first month of the new school year.

- **Completion of a Campus Technology Plan** with the purpose of providing forward direction and attaining goals.The campus plan should be adopted by the end of the second month of school.

- **Professional Development:** for the purpose of **maintaining** a qualified **and current** staff. **Completion** of a certain number of hours of professional development during one school year **should be mandatory in the teacher's core subject area. (RA)** Campus training should be required and tied to incentive. Within grade levels, target tech teachers should pair with early tech teachers to team teach with the goal of developing the early tech teacher while accomplishing technology integration (RW)

- **Technology Integration in the Curriculum:** for the purpose of proposing strategies and tools for instruction. Educators should create and execute a certain number of lessons integrating technology. Each teacher will be required to integrate technology at least twice a month for the first half of the school year. During the second half of the school year, the focus will progress to integrating technology and collarborating with teachers outside your content area. (SB)

- **Staff Support:** for the purpose of having a well -maintained and **effective** infrastructure. **District leaders shall** provide support for technology integration by modeling **daily** **use of technology and digital tools and offering** staff opportunities ** in order to be 21st Century educators **. **(RA)**

- **Budget:** for the purpose of regulating and managing the community assets. A yearly budget should adopted by the committee.

- **Evaluation and Assessment:** for the purpose of monitoring progress and mistakes. A beginning and ending assessment should be adopted for staff. **Staff** needs should be evaluated and campus workshops and training **provided with follow-up by technology department. Campus staff will be provided time to implement acquired training. (RA)** The beginning assessment will be given during the first month of school. The ending assessment will be given during the last month of school. The committee will meet during the summer to make improvements based on the assessments. (SB)

Thanks SB, where is everybody? DS We are waiting for Miguel. I know he had a family emergency. If he does not have anything posted by 5pm, let's chose one of the suggested purposes above. Sara (SB) I'm here, guys. I'm still finishing up some work for the week so I'll be on the computer probably all day. I'll keep the wiki minimized and will keep checking in. (RA) Great, I have been on since this morning completing the 3 part discussion question in week 4 assignment part 2. Let me know If I can do any more to help. DS I just finished with the purpose... I agree with the rest of the other portions of the agenda. (ML)
 * **So guys, are we done with this part of the assignment? We all seem to agree on our purpose, objective, and activities. Do we have to select just one activity, or more than one? Also, how do we insert the assignment into our own wikis? Suggestions? Thanks. Ruth Adame**
 * **We need to post the timeline agenda (who was assigned to do what and when) on the first part of our week 4 assignment and the actualy agenda on the second part of the assignment. It would be a good idea to copy both pages and put them on your wiki too. Att. Miguel Leija**
 * ** Thanks Miguel. Ruth **

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