Parental Involvement students, digital cameras for student use, Online tutorials for the SchoolPads will graphing calculators for advanced math classes. be utilized to enable teachers to Budget/Purchases We encourage the use of technology by offering maximize their uses. High Hopes Budget/Purchases distance learning classes in both video and Consideration will be to appealing Teacher Survey online format which has benefited students in to the professional development many ways, including, allowing more flexibility in coordinator at the district level to secure their schedule to allow them to meet their additional sources of funding to allow requirements and enjoy electives. Distance teachers to attend high quality, education students also benefit by being able to research-based, job-embedded, participate in courses that are not offered on technology professional development campus. opportunities at the local, state, and Faculty and staff are made aware of and national level. A suggestion will be encouraged to participate in professional considered that the district looks at development to foster the use of technology in other systems who regularly participate their curriculum. in these types of PD (i.e. Blount County) Our school maintains a school website to to glean information about funding communicate with the community and sources and procedures. subscribes to STI Home to allow parents to monitor student attendance and progress in Instructional Strategies: classes. Faculty will continue to integrate Data shows that 87% of our educators feel that technology into the learning the school as a whole fosters and nurtures an environment. Project-based environment that supports innovative uses of assignments will be strongly technology and feel that technology resources encouraged. Faculty will apply are provided to support their needs, but 68% do strategies learned in Professional not feel that technology access is equitable Development to integrate Technology among students. COS into all curriculum areas. Distance Education: Continue to offer classes in both video and online format and expand selection to include electives of student interest. Improve selection process for students eligible to take classes to decrease student drop rate. Purchases: We will continue to purchase new computers as are available. Our goal is to add to and/or replace 10 per year. As new computers are
students, digital cameras for student use, graphing calculators for advanced math classes. We encourage the use of technology by offering distance learning classes in both video and online format which has benefited students in many ways, including, allowing more flexibility in their schedule to allow them to meet their requirements and enjoy electives. Distance education students also benefit by being able to participate in courses that are not offered on campus. Faculty and staff are made aware of and encouraged to participate in professional development to foster the use of technology in their curriculum. Our school maintains a school website to communicate with the community and subscribes to STI Home to allow parents to monitor student attendance and progress in classes. Data shows that 87% of our educators feel that the school as a whole fosters and nurtures an environment that supports innovative uses of technology and feel that technology resources are provided to support their needs, but 68% do not feel that technology access is equitable among students. Parental Involvement Budget/Purchases High Hopes Budget/Purchases Teacher Survey Online tutorials for the SchoolPads will be utilized to enable teachers to maximize their uses. Consideration will be to appealing to the professional development coordinator at the district level to secure additional sources of funding to allow teachers to attend high quality, research-based, job-embedded, technology professional development opportunities at the local, state, and national level. A suggestion will be considered that the district looks at other systems who regularly participate in these types of PD (i.e. Blount County) to glean information about funding sources and procedures. Instructional Strategies: Faculty will continue to integrate technology into the learning environment. Project-based assignments will be strongly encouraged. Faculty will apply strategies learned in Professional Development to integrate Technology COS into all curriculum areas. Distance Education: Continue to offer classes in both video and online format and expand selection to include electives of student interest. Improve selection process for students eligible to take classes to decrease student drop rate. Purchases: We will continue to purchase new computers as are available. Our goal is to add to and/or replace 10 per year. As new computers are
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