Chambers High School Technology Plan 2010-2013

1. Chambers High School Technology Plan 2010-2013 Quiana Chambers E7801 Instructional Technology Dr. Merriwether

2. "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event." Heidi Hayes- Jacobs

3. Chambers High School • Chambers High School will open its doors in August 2010. This school will begin with grade 9 and a grade will be added each year until the school is a comprehensive high school serving grades 9-12. In the first year, Chambers High School will have approximately 200 students. There will be approximately 20 staff members, a principal and an assistant principal. Although the school is just beginning, the technology budget is moderate.

4. Mission • Chambers High School seeks to facilitate the integration of effective, existing, and emerging technologies, throughout all aspects of our educational community. We aim to enhance learning opportunities for all students, promote global competitive, technologically savvy life-long learners.

5. Vision • Chambers High School recognizes that a seamless integration of technology plays an important role in improving the quality of instruction and is a tool for the entire learning community. All scholars graduating from Chambers High School must possess the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to succeed in an increasingly complex, global, information-based society.

6. It is our vision that technology will enable learners to: Master rigorous content and develop creative problem solving and communication skills by connecting them to real world experiences. Participate in their own academic growth by allowing students to take ownership of their work. Increase willingness to learn. It is our vision that technology will enable instructors to: Provide innovative methods to utilize higher thinking and problem solving skills. Explore innovative ways to facilitate assessment of student learning. Improving the quality, flexibility and delivery of instruction. Technology Expectations for students and staff

7. Technology Goals and Objectives Goal 1-Student learning: Students will enrich their educational experience by using technology as a tool for effective communication, personal productivity, and lifelong learning. • Objective: Students will appropriately use technology in all courses to communicate with peers, teachers, and community partners. Goal 2-Powerful teaching: Utilize technology for teaching and learning through out the entire learning community, to build awareness and understanding of varied teaching methodologies, and to publish best practices and student and staff accomplishments. • Objective: Staff will appropriately use technology to improve the quality, flexibility and delivery of instruction. Therefore enhancing the presentation of curriculum to the entire learning community

8. Technology Committee

9. Technology Goals and Objectives Continued Goal 3-School-to-Community connections: The learning community will utilize technology to increase the connection between school and community through the sending and receiving of information. • Objective: Students will communicate and collaborate with distance partners, not limited to email, blogs, and discussion boards. Goal 4-Technology Training for the Learning Community: Develop and implement opportunities for technology-training for the entire learning community to increase productivity, efficiency and communication. • Objective: Staff will attend regularly scheduled technology driven professional development based on needs, concerns and interest expressed by the entire learning community.

10. Current Technology Inventory

11. Needs Assessment • As this is the first year of operation, Chambers High School has provided each staff member with access to a variety of technology resources. During several professional development sessions, staff members where introduced to the basic functions of the technology afforded to them. Throughout the school year and going forward, staff members will become experts in various technologies via internal and external professional development. • In order to stay abreast of the technology needs for Chambers High School, the technology committee will periodically evaluate this technology plan and examine how it coincides with conditions in the school via a survey. This survey will help to determine the current and incoming staff’s computer literacy, technology level of use, lesson integration, and computer accessibility. • The survey will be conducted during a faculty meeting. All surveys will be collected and the results will be used to improve the technology plan for the school.

12. Data disaggregationfrom needs assessment Disaggregation of the Needs assessment (survey) will be divided into 5 main categories: Computer Proficiency Technology Usage Technology Integration Technology Resource Accessibility Staff Development Necessity

14. Network and Infrastructure • Chambers High School’s very fast, high capacity (100Mbps workgroup/1Gbps backbone) digital network infrastructure supports a high-bandwidth distributed Windows computing environment across the three-building campus. Currently, students, faculty, and staff enjoy easy access to the benefits of an excellent networking infrastructure and fast connections to global internets via the following configuration:

15. Network and Infrastructure cont’d • • 100% switched Ethernet connections (at least 5 drops) in all classrooms, labs, and • offices. • • 100% CAT 5 wiring (100/1000 Base T) • • Fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet connecting both main buildings to the backbone • • Access via switches (5) 48-port, (3) 24-port using (3) resilient 1xGigE links • • 6 Mbps down and 6 Mbps up primary internet bandwidth; 6 Mbps down and 512 • Kbps up secondary/redundant bandwidth. • • Wireless LAN 802.11(g)-54Mbps • • In-house web hosting • • 2 SONY AIT-2 Backup Tape Libraries • • SONICWALL 3060 Firewall with redundant WAN connection • • SONICWALL SSLVPN-2000 Appliance • • SONICWALL ES-400 Anti-Spam Appliance • • A phone system with voicemail capability and outside line accessibility at every • teacher/staff workstation. (NEC, 2003).

16. Network Security Chambers High School network security system includes both hardware and software components. In addition, network documentation, other IT documents, and network management hardware are physically secured behind locked doors at all times. All RCHS electronic data is considered sensitive and is thus secured at a very high level. Network security at Chambers High School is maintained via state-of-the-art internal and external controls. These controls include the following: • • Firewall Hardware with deep packet inspection, intrusion protection, gateway • anti-virus, gateway anti-spyware, and content filtering. • • Symantec Corporate Antivirus, Sonicwall Anti-Spam/Antivirus email security • Appliance and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory for user logon security. • • Real-time network monitoring tools (Network Instruments/Observer) and Web • Analytic tools (Google/Urchin) with alerts and tracking capabilities. • The above systems all support the ability of RCHS systems administrators to monitor and • detect suspicious activity.

17. Network Security Cont’d Chambers High School IT staff has a plan of response and recovery in the event of cyber attacks and incidents. The plan calls for isolating the troubled network segment and resolving the issue using information provided by our network monitoring tools. System backups are conducted nightly and a full system restore could be achieved at the cost of at most one day’s loss of data. Now that the school’s basic network and hardware infrastructure is established, the next focus will be building out and optimizing the utilization of this system. These efforts will include: • • Securely enhancing staff access • • Securely enhancing student access • • Scheduled maintenance and upgrades • • Developing networked curricular and administrative support applications including: • o Interactive data-driven student/faculty portals. • o Administrative Database • o Online Forms Database • o SIMS to NC WISE conversion • o School-wide broadcasts/audio/video feeds • o Bandwidth in support of distance learning

18. • 8 Network servers (File (Staff), Terminal (Staff), Web, Mail (Staff and Students), DC (Staff), DC (Student), File (Student), Monitoring with minimum specs: Intel Dual Xeon 2.0 GHz, 2GB RAM, Ultra320 SCSI RAID 10 • 170 workstations (minimum specs: AMD AthlonXP2400 Processor, 40GB hd, 512MB DDR RAM, 56xCDROM) • 9 networked laser printers (3 color) • 3 copy machines • 3 LCD projectors • 3 Digital Cameras • 1 Digital Video Camera • 6 DVD players • 3 DVD Burners Network: • Microsoft Server 2003 R2 • SQL Server 2000 • Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition • MS Exchange Server 2007 • Microsoft Terminal Server • Solarwinds Network Monitoring • Network Instruments Observer Packet Analysis Workstations: • MS Office XP/2003 • Grade Machine • Adobe Acrobat Reader • Adobe Design Suite CS2/CS3 • Macromedia Studio 8 • Flash/Shockwave • Java • Real Player • QuickTime • Curricular Software Hardware, Software & Facility Requirements

19. Staff Development Plan • In order to insure the rapid integration of technology into regular classroom instruction, staff development must be provided on a planned basis for all staff members. The technology committee has identified several problems that undermines efforts to provide professional development. They include: 1. Older hardware cannot effectively run new software and cannot efficiently be upgraded to newer operating systems. 2. No protocol for presenting new ideas; no specified funding to implement new ideas. 3. No follow-up or evaluation for the development and implementation of technology.

20. All staff members will become knowledgeable and skilled at optimizing instruction through technology by infusing it into learning activities that meet or surpass State Curriculum Standards. Provide ongoing education for staff on how to use and integrate technology as an effective tool. Provide staff with "hands-on" practice time for what they learn in their lab sessions. Relate staff development to their immediate job responsibilities. Include all staff in the school in technology education. Help staff overcome any resistance to the use of technology. Provide staff with ability to perform document processing applications such as publishing, forms management and data base to promote record keeping and information sharing. Staff Development Goals and Objectives

21. Staff Development Plan cont’d • TIME: Professional development will take place throughout the school year on early release days and in-service days. Members of the technology committee and other experienced users have participated in extensive training throughout the year as well as after school and summer programs to become facilitative trainers for staff.FUNDS: Funding from School Improvement, Title I and district technology funds will be used. • EVALUATION: Training effectiveness will be based upon measurement of knowledge and attitudes gained through initial assessment instrument (survey), post-training inventory, surveys, teacher use in classroom, projects prepared by students, use of technology throughout the school in such areas as SAC, Open House, Orientation, etc.

22. Chambers High SchoolItemized BudgetTechnology Plan Budget 2010-2013

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