The District has a Five Year Technology Plan -- FY 2004 through FY 2008. This document has been submitted and approved to be the Illinois ISBE Approved Technology Plan to cover the District through June 2007.

Below is the process that was used to produce the document.

Mount Prospect School District 57

Technology Advisory Committee

Technology Plan Revision

Jan. 2003

This document is meant to be used by the TAC during the revision project. It is publicly shared for community access. Comments are welcomed (email Bob Furst).

The TAC has been charged with the task of drafting a District Technology plan revision. The District's State approved 5 year plan is into its fourth year. The revision will again cover a 5 year period through 2008. The committee has a developed a task list for the revision project:

1. Meet with other School Districts' advisory committees to identify important issues and possible collaboration and resource sharing.
2. Staff survey(s)
3. Develop a document outlining current reality and future requirements in the categories of a)Community Involvement, b)Engaged Learning, c)Professional Development, d)Technology Deployment.

Technology Plan 2000 (The "whole thing")
Progress Report (The "Cliff Note" version with Efforts and Results)
Revision Process Time Line
 
 

Documents, data and resources used for the revision process

• Laptop Survey - As a result of a foundation grant, a small group teachers had been issued laptops as a pilot project. The teachers were asked to fill out a survey to assess the success of the pilot and the results collated.
• Teacher Technology Survey - District 59 to help us with this Web Based Survey for staff.

• Survey results

• Administrator Survey and Results
• Research documents
• Achievement for All Children
• Developing an Education Technology Agenda For Illinois
• Other(Directory list)
• Gap Analysis Development Templates
• Subcommittee communications

 
Scheduled whole committee meeting dates (Mondays) at 6:30 701 W Gregory Board Room):
1/27/03 - Meeting Notes
2/10/03 - Meeting Notes The goal for this meeting is to have the "Where we are and "where we would like to be" of the Gap worksheet completed along with any items to abandon.
2/24/03 - The goal for this meeting is to share each subcommittee's Gap Analysis results.
3/17/03 - Cancelled
4/7/03 -- Meeting Notes
4/21/03 -- Meeting Notes
4/30/03-5/9/03 -- Request for Comments from committee members posted -- Results
5/14/03 - Final Draft of Document accepted

Subcommittees

The subcommittees had met between whole committee meetings. Below is the subcommittee membership and their collected research.

Community Involvement - Karl Johnson, Ken Panczyk, Rich Benson
Research (a directory listing of the research documents)
 
Professional Development - Diane Goodman, Craig Nicholas, Cynthia Robey
Subcommittee developed a survey for staff to address topics not covered in the Technology Teacher Survey.
Research (a directory listing of the research documents)
 
Engaged Learning - Dan Walsh, Gayle Filantres, Robbie Gibson-Minor, Dave Kapuler
Meeting Notes
Research
 
Technology Sustainability - Greg Kurr, Bob Furst, Craig Nicholas
Meeting Notes
Research (a directory listing of the research documents)
Eric Digest research about classroom telephones
NAESP research on classroom telephones