Experts offer advice, resources for managing school technology.
Otherwise, technology vendors will urge you to adopt goals that fit what they have to sell, says Gerald Malitz, a project director at the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education. You don't want to buy a technology solution. Make the technology plan a part of the overall improvement plan for the school or district. Connect instruction and management. Improving instruction may be paramount, but technology that improves management can raise the capacity of schools to provide instruction, says Lewis A. Rhodes, a consultant to the American Association of School Administrators.