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TEA Update TecSig
  • October 2005

2
National Picture
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National Leadership Summits
  • The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
  • Jobs going overseas are no longer just the
    low-wage positions
  • Many are high-end research jobs, scientists,
    engineers
  • The number of U S college graduates has remained
    relatively stable
  • The number of college graduates in Asian
    countries outpace the US by 25 to 1

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  • Friedmans list of flatteners includes
  • the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • the rise of Netscape and the dotcom boom that led
    to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic
    cable
  • the emergence of common software platforms and
    open source code enabling global collaboration
    and
  • the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply
    chaining and insourcing.
  • Friedman says these flatteners converged around
    the year 2000, and created a flat world a
    global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms
    of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of
    time, distance, geography and increasingly,
    language.
  • At the very moment this platform emerged, three
    huge economies materialized -- those of India,
    China and the former Soviet Union --and three
    billion people who were out of the game, walked
    onto the playing field.

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National Leadership Summits
  • Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
    2004
  • 65,000 American students
  • 6 million from China
  • American students average 36 minutes per day
    learning math
  • Chinese students average 3 hours per day
  • If you are one in a million, in China, there are
    1,300 others just like you!

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National Leadership Summits
  • 50 of US scientists and engineers will retire
    within the next 10 years
  • Health care is the fastest growing industry in
    the US
  • 50 of US educators will retire or leave the
    profession within the next 10 years
  • 30 of new teachers leave after 3 years
  • Another 10 leave after five years

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National Leadership Summits
  • The globalization of our society requires a new
    skill set communication, collaboration,
    multitasking, problem identification, problem
    solving, information and communications
    technology (ICT) literacy.
  • We need to examine how well our school system is
    prepared to meet this challenge

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Federal Update
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Federal Update
  • Tom Luce
  • Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy
    Development
  • Budget Service 
  • Policy and Program Studies Service 
  • Strategic Accountability Service 
  • Office of Educational Technology

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Using Technology to Enable Accountability Systems
  • State agencies and school districts are required
    to develop robust accountability systems using
    data warehousing and business intelligence tools.
    The goal is to equip policy makers and school
    leaders with the tools needed to analyze real
    time student performance metrics along with other
    demographic, achievement and budgetary
    indicators.
  • States are encouraged to use online assessment
    systems so results can be delivered to students
    and teacher instantaneously instead of the weeks
    traditional assessments take.

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Federal Update
  • Budget Battle for Educational Technology
  • FY 06
  • 300M in House version
  • 425M in Senate version
  • FY07 budget in development this fall
  • EDEN Educational Data Exchange Network
  • Performance Measures
  • Audit

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Federal Update
  • Bill to Exempt E-Rate from Federal Accounting
    Rules
  • Concern about waste, fraud, abuse
  • Congress to reauthorize the Telecom Reform Act in
    2006
  • Cost of Katrina and Rita relief efforts will
    impact the budget

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John Bailey Department of Commerce
Talent Education Job Training
Business Climate Economic Development Trade Paten
t Reform Tort Reform
Infrastructure Research and Development Wireless B
roadband Energy
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Presidents Goal quality, affordable, universal
broadband by 2007
  • Make moratorium on internet tax permanent
  • Eliminate legacy regulatory barriers
  • Expand wireless
  • Focus on next-generation technologies
  • Broadband over power lines
  • WI-Max
  • IP enabled services VoIP, IPTV
  • Telecom reform act

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GetTech.org
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getsmarter.org
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Legislative Update
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Common Themes
  • Change textbook to instructional materials
  • Expand definition of instructional materials
  • Review based on TEKS coverage
  • Factual errors defined
  • Districts may purchase from DIR or publisher
  • Subscription-based online materials
  • Publishers may provide updates
  • SBOE to provide expedited review
  • Provide Braille and large-type teacher editions
  • Require Section 508 compliance

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Common Themes
  • Define targeted technology programs
  • Expand the Technology Immersion Pilot
  • Study cost of targeted technology programs,
    including cost of expanding statewide
  • Conduct performance review of targeted technology
    programs
  • Review state and federal grants for effective use
    of technology
  • Advisory committee of business, industry and
    educators to advise on technology and monitor
    district implementation

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House and Senate Options
  • Continue current adoption process and add
    off-cycle review
  • Eliminate current adoption process but provide an
    approval process where publishers can submit
    anything at anytime
  • SBOE to establish rules for review and approval
  • SBOE to meet biannually to approve or reject
    materials
  • Districts are not required to purchase from
    approved list

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House and Senate Options
  • Provide an Instructional Materials Allotment to
    districts or provide a combined instructional
    materials and technology allotment to districts
    amounts ranged from 70 to 150 per student per
    year
  • Require a portion of the allotment be used for
    targeted technology programs amounts varied
    from 50 - 60 per student per year

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Targeted technology program
  • Allows each student and teacher assigned to a
    targeted campus or specific educational program
    to benefit from a targeted technology program
    must provide each student and teacher on a
    targeted campus or grade level on a targeted
    campus the provision of
  • Wireless electronic mobile computing devices or
    other technology devices that convey instruction
  • Productivity hardware or software, including
    writing, computation, presentation, printing and
    communication tools
  • Electronic learning software aligned with the
    TEKS and adopted by the SBOE
  • Library and other research tools

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  • Targeted technology program continued
  • Electronic assessment tools
  • Electronic learning tools to improve
    communication
  • Classroom and school management systems
  • Professional development for teachers to
    integrate the tools and solutions described in
    subdivision 1
  • Provision of other infrastructure components and
    technologies to support and enhance student
    performance through individual instruction
    programs
  • Also included
  • Online diagnostic assessments
  • Computer-adaptive assessments

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  • After regular and two special sessions, none of
    these bills passed
  • Technology allotment remains at 30 per student
  • Current adoption process to proceed
  • Proclamation 2004 secondary math
  • Proclamation 2005 elementary math and
    Kindergarten Systems

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EMAT
  • Proclamation 2001 deferred materials
  • Proclamation 2002 adopted materials
  • Continuing contracts
  • Katrina orders for displaced students
  • Rita orders for displaced students
  • Rita orders for damaged materials
  • Over 6000 requisitions processed to date

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BCIS
  • Materials submitted based on Microsoft Office XP
  • Districts may have upgraded to Microsoft Office
    2003
  • SBOE authorized unique waiver for districts who
    want 2003 version
  • Some publishers offer 2003 version
  • QA on texbook website
  • November 30th deadline

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TEA Reorganization
  • State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) now
    part of TEA
  • SBEC board remains in place
  • Educator Quality and P-16 Initiatives
  • Associate Commissioner Patricia Hayes

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Instructional Materials and Educational
Technology Organizational Chart
September 2005
Anita Givens Senior Director
Nancy Little
Tammy Torres Linda Janney
Chuck Mayo Manager, Distribution and Special
Materials
Manager IV Vacant
Tiffanay Waller
Jesse Brown
Distribution Deanna Marotz
Technology Applications Karen Kahan
Special Projects John Lopez
Review of Instructional Materials Gene Rios
Distance Learning Kate Loughrey
Special Instructional Materials Vacant
Publisher Contracts
Financial Support
Kelly Griffin
Richard LaGow
Vacant
Pat Pinkston
Vacant
Penny Creed
Pat Hatcher
Rosemary Castillo
Terry Wyatt
Vacant
Jim Van Vlerah
Robert Lopez
Lorraine Blackerby
Lynne Krajevski
Scott Vanya
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Technology Immersion Pilot
  • The TIP project is pioneering an entirely new
    concept in educational technologytotal immersion
    of faculty and students in technology. TIP steps
    far beyond simple 11 computing experiments where
    computers are merely adjunct to the educational
    process and instead completely envelops
    participants in technology. Teachers still
    facilitate learning, but they now have the
    technology to carry the act of learning beyond
    the classroom walls and beyond the school day.

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Traditional Education Technology Implementation
Cycle
The traditional technology implementation cycle
in schools involves implementing only 1 or 2
pieces of the critical 6 piece whole at a
time. By the time a schools completes all 6
steps of the cycle, its time to start all over
with step 1. As a result, the school is
perpetually behind and teachers perpetually lack
the tools they need to properly harness
technology to the learning process.
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Technology Immersion Implementation
With the Technology Immersion model, schools
implement all 6 critical technology resources at
the same time as part of a technology immersion
package. Now teachers have the tools they need
to assess student proficiency and develop
multimedia lesson plans targeted at student skill
strength and weakness areas. Equally as
important, students are given the same tools as
teachers, including wireless notebook computers
to use at school and at home.
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TIP Goals
  • Increase parental involvement in the education of
    the parents child
  • Increase community involvement and support for
    the district and/or school, and
  • Increase student proficiency in technologies that
    will help prepare the student for becoming a
    member of the workforce.

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TIP Goals
  • Provide a wireless mobile computing device to
    each student in a participating school
  • Implement the use of software, online courses,
    and other appropriate learning technologies that
    have been shown to improve academic student
    achievement
  • Improve student performance on assessment
    instruments

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TIP Goals
  • Reduce student dropout and increase student
    attendance rates
  • Increase student enrollment in higher education
  • Enhance teacher performance and increase teacher
    retention rates
  • Increase communication among students, teachers,
    parents, and administrators

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TIP Goals
  • Increase parental involvement in the education of
    the parents child
  • Increase community involvement and support for
    the district and/or school, and
  • Increase student proficiency in technologies that
    will help prepare the student for becoming a
    member of the workforce.

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What Does Total Immersion Look Like?
Technology and TEKS are fused together in a
learning experience
improves student enthusiasm toward learning
Professional Development (Technology Literate)
Galena Park ISD June 2005
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Kaleidoscope MS Houston ISD
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www.txtip.info
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Research Questions
  • What are the characteristics of participating
    schools and their contexts?
  • What is the nature of technology immersion, and
    how is it implemented?
  • What is the effect of technology immersion on
    schools, teachers and teaching, and students and
    learning?
  • Does technology immersion impact student
    achievement?

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School Context
  • Technology Immersion
  • Access to wireless computing
  • Professional development to support
    implementation
  • Software/resources
  • Technical support
  • School Culture
  • Leadership
  • Infrastructure
  • Collaboration
  • Educator development
  • Support services

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Teachers
  • Technology access use
  • Technology proficiency
  • Knowledge of integration
  • Attitude
  • Collaboration
  • Instructional practice

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Students
  • Technology access and use
  • Technology proficiency
  • Self-direction
  • Peer collaboration
  • Motivation engagement
  • Intellectual work

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TIP Success
  • Increased parent involvement
  • Improved student attendance
  • Increased collaboration and communication among
    staff, students, and parents
  • Increased community support
  • Increased engagement and enthusiasm
  • Fewer discipline problems

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www.etxtip.info
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  • TIP received a lot of attention in the recent
    legislative session
  • Interest in expanding TIP
  • Scenarios presented
  • Expand current TIP projects to high school or at
    least 9th grade
  • Expand TIP to additional middle schools
    throughout the state
  • Expand TIP to additional high schools throughout
    the state
  • All of the above

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Educational Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC)
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Creating the Vision
  • Not a long-range plan for technology but a
    long-range plan for learning that is supported by
    technology
  • Review current plan and recommend additions,
    deletions or revisions
  • Expand plan to 2020

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ETAC Planning Calendar2006
  • January draft sections of plan
  • February convene focus groups at TCEA to gather
    input
  • March review input and prepare draft of plan
  • April post on the web for public comment
    begin revisions of STaR Charts and ePlan system
  • May sort and organize comments, discuss draft
    plan at TecSig
  • June ETAC to review comments and finalize
    plan

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ETAC Planning Calendar2006
  • July discussion item for SBOE
  • finalize changes to STaR Charts and ePlan
  • August prepare final draft of plan
  • Print and distribute STaR Charts
  • September present final draft to SBOE
  • STaR Charts and ePlan system open
  • October ETAC meeting update plan per SBOE
    feedback
  • November SBOE adopts plan
  • December submit plan to legislature

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ETAC Planning Calendar2007
  • January Showcase plan at Midwinter Conference,
    submit to USDOE
  • February Present plan at TCEA
  • March district technology plan updates due in
    ePlan by March 31
  • April monitor proposed legislation for impact
    on plan
  • May discuss implementation strategies and
    planning tools at TecSig
  • June present plan at NECC

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  • Questions
  • Concerns
  • Kudos
  • Recommendations
  • etac_at_tea.state.tx.us

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STaR Chart Statewide Report
2004-2005 7422 of 7813 campuses completed chart
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TARGET Update
  • TARGET Cycle 1, Year 3
  • TARGET Cycle 2, Year 2

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Reports
  • Progress and Evaluation Reports
  • End of Cycle Data Collection
  • Instructions from the listserv
  • Professional
  • Development
  • Number of Hours and Teachers
  • Accuracy of Data
  • Collection of Data

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Teacher STaR Chart
  • - Fall and Spring Data
  • - Instructions to Collect and Send
  • - Deadlines and Timelines

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TETN
  • - November 2, 2005 1000 AM
  • - Detailed TARGET Information
  • Question and Answer
  • Questions
  • Program Area
  • target_at_tea.state.tx.us
  • -Discretionary Grants
  • (512) 463-9269

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Technology Applications
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