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Comparing Educational Technology Plans: Crowley ISD vs. Caddo Parish

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Comparing Educational Technology Plans: Crowley ISD vs. Caddo Parish

ED789 Emily Finch

start

Comparing Educational Technology Plans

Index

Mission Statements

Plan Outlines

Plan Outlines

Final Observations

References

Comparing Educational Technology Plans

Caddo

Technology Plan Outlines

Crowley

Caddo Parish does not have an officially published educational technology plan. All information in this presentation is pulled from one specific page on the Caddo Parish website. Caddo's unoffical plan includes a few statements, how-to guides, and contact information for stakeholders and staff specifically to access. Crowley ISD does have an official plan published with similar content, additional content, and extesnive data driven details. This can be seen even by looking at the outlines of both plans.

Plan Introduction

Greetings

Purpose, Profile, Committee, Background, Parameters, Vision Statement, Mission Statement.

Welcome statement

Contact Information

Needs Assessment

The names, positions, and phone nubers of IT Management

Process, Inventory, Infrastructure and Security.

Computer Support

Tech Advisory Disaggregated Data

Cyber Crime Awareness

Teacher/faculty survey results and student/parent survey results.

Setting up Computers

Directions on setting up a network

Professional Development

IT Tech Support

A letter form the Technical Manager, submitting repair requests, Reporting network problems, wirless network, and support contact information

Summary

Historical, Reccommendation, and Budget.

Network Services

Evaluation

A letter from the network manager, instructions on submitting wiring requests, and Phising Scam Awareness

Process and Method.

Support Services

Appendix

Links to resources describing various tech related topics and contact information

Comparing Educational Technology Plans

Mission Statements

Both states share the mission of preparing every student for success as a productive citizen either through college, a career, or the military.

Crowley

Caddo

We hope to create a technology atmosphere that will inspire all students. PLEASE NOTE: This is a greeting from the Caddo IT page, the closest thing I could find to a mission statement.
In support of the Crowley ISD mission: “Crowley ISD provides our students with excellence in education so that all students achieve their full potential.” “The technology mission is to equip teachers, administrators, and students with the technical skills and secure resources needed to meet and exceed our students’ academic goals."

Comparing Educational Technology Plans

Outlines

Each outlines some form of an educational technology plans. Click on each number to learn more about what each section of both plans are about. You can also click the names of the school districts to access each Ed Tech Plan.

Crowley

Summary

05

Evaluation

06

Appendix

07

NeedsAssessment

Tech Advisory Disaggregated Data

Professional Development

02

03

04

PlanIntroduction

01

Caddo

IT Tech Support

05

Network Services

06

Support Services

07

Greetings

01

Contact Information

Computer Support

Setting Up Computers

02

03

04

Learning sessions

Final Observations

Overall, I would say that Crowley ISD has a decent plan that is laid out well. The plan is clearly detailed, data driven, and well supported by the IT Department. The Crowley ISD Plan lists all committe and IT Department members involved in the creation of this plan and their roles. I love that the process of data collection is laid out in detail, showing thier process on how they are able to make informaed decisions that are backed up by TEA's Long Range Plan and standards they must meet for the state of Texas. Unsimilarly, Caddo Parish essentialy has no technology plan. The information presented today was not infact a published plan, but a single, underdeveloped web page lacking in any kind of detail or data driven plan. I have also talked and worked with various Cadodo Parish Ed Tech leaders who work in the Professional Training Department of IT for the Parish. They too, have revealed that there is no official Ed Tech Plan for Caddo Parish. My impression is that each member of the Ed Tech team plan, manage, purchase, implement, and train to some degree. There is not much of a hierarchy or definition of roles within the department as far as I can tell, and there certainly isn't any publication of data driven decisions from past, present, or future decisions. It is well known that many school dsitricts suffer from being understaffed in the IT departments, I beleive that this may be true for Caddo Parish due to the lack of a published plan.

This does not mean that Caddo Parish schools is technologically unsupported. From what I understand and experience for myself, we, in Caddo Parish, are ahead the rest of our state when it comes to successfully implementing effective technology. Supposedly surveys and assessments have been conducted and compared at the state level. That data simply has not been publically published or integrated in to an offical plan of the future for Caddo Parish Public Schools.

Index

References

  • Crowley ISD Ed Tech Plan

Crowley ISD Technology Plan – 2019-2023. (2019). CISD. Retrieved June 11, 2023, from https://www.crowleyisdtx.org/cms/lib5/TX01917780/Centricity/Domain/118/Technology%20Plan%202019-23.pdf

  • Caddo Parish Ed Tech Plan

Caddo Parish Public Schools. (n.d.). https://www.caddoschools.org/page/information-technology