One of the four areas addressed in the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology is Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support. This area grades or rates the school on: leadership and vision, communication and collaboration, budget and support for online learning. The ratings are: Early Tech, Developing Tech, Advanced Tech and Target Tech. Our ultimate goal is to eventually reach the Target Tech, but Advanced Tech and Developing Tech are acceptable, as long as progress is being made in the needed areas.
Our progress in these areas is Developing Tech, as we have scored in the past 3 years two 13's and one 14. We are aware that this area needs more attention.
On the state level, 49.0% of the campuses are Developing Tech. These campuses have a campus plan aligned with the Long Range Plan for Technology. The staff, teachers and administrators have a vision for technology.
To fall under the guidelines of Target Tech the campus must have one technical support staff to support 350 computers. To me, that is an enormous amount of computers for one person to maintain. I think that each school should have at least one dedicated employee working with an office at each school to support the staff. That way, when a server goes down, or the printers don't work or you can not log on because the computer has a mind of its own, you don't have to put in a work order request on another computer. You can call down to the computer lab and it can be taken care on the spot.
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