Planning

Strategic Planning is the natural consequence of a Technology Program Review.  A strategic plan is essentially the roadmap a district develops for moving ahead of its current status (as established by the Program Review findings) by implementing its vision for teaching and learning.   An effective Strategic Technology Plan is about teaching and learning and the role that technology can play in supporting teaching and learning.

This page contains a sample technology plan and resources for developing a plan of your own.

Sun Associates works with school districts and other educational organizations to create strategic technology plans centered around a vision that emphasizes creating and implementing a 21st century learning environment for teaching and learning. While every plan is unique, all of the plans we facilitate have the following characteristics:

• The plan is based on a vision that emphasizes student learning outcomes and the role that technology can play in helping students and teachers reach that vision.
• The plan builds upon detailed data about the current status of technology efforts within the district.
• The plan is focused on the achievement of instructional objectives and the support of transformed pedagogies, with technology playing a supporting role in meeting those objectives.
• The plan provides rich detail on the staffing, professional development, and technology infrastructure supports necessary to achieve the plan's overarching vision.

We believe the plans we help produce are but interim products of a process that brings together educational communities in a highly collaborative, reflective, process. Ultimately, it is the process of planning that is as significant to the district as the actual plan document. A properly executed planning process is one that allows district communities to come to consensus around important issues of teaching and learning...and the technology necessary to address those issues.

The following resources have been helpful in the planning process for a number of our district clients. Please contact us for more information.

Resources

• Sample Vision
• Sample Goals
• Sample Strategic Technology Plan
• Another Sample Technology Plan

• Best Practices in Technology Integration Research Summary
• Background Reading on Some Issues Related to Using Technology to Support 21st Century Learning
• ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
  • NETS "Essential Conditions"
• Resources for Teachers, Principals, Coordinators and Superintendents

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Last updated, April 14, 2019