Our Title III proposal indicates that monies are used for staffing. This position serves to educate those in the best position to effect change, design professional development opportunities, and integrate technology within the classroom, benefiting all students. By supervising the technology staff developers, they provide an arm into the classroom by setting the direction of professional development. Technology Staff Developers ensure that teachers have access to needed training in the use of new hardware and software and instruction as to effective ways to integrate them into curriculum. The services provided through this staffing option reaches directly into the classroom by upgrading teacher technology and instruction skills, ultimately effecting change for our students.
Technicians are the people who keep the hardware working and the networks up and running.
Without this support network of people, teachers would be extremely reticent in using new technology and learning how to integrate it into curriculum areas, thus becoming simply another tool for effective instruction. The technicians also provide maintenance and problem solving instruction to teachers for simple to resolve problems encountered regularly, thus preventing teacher frustration in using new technology. The non-public schools participating in the Title III award all fall into the high needs category. This is why they were selected to participate. All of the funds and programs address the requirements of high need schools.