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Saint Bonaventure School Technology Plan

Date: March 2007

Developed by: SBS Technology Committee

School Principal: Sister Carmel Lynch

School Information: 16390 Springdale Street Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Phone: (714) 846-2472 e-mail: sschool1@socal.rr.com Website: [|http://www.sbs.dnsalias.org]

Table of Contents

I. Site Information 3 A. Accreditation Information: 3 B. Physical Location: 3 C. School-Parish Relationship: 3 D. School Population (as of September 2006): 3 II. Technology Committee 4 A. Role of Committee 4 B. Tech Committee Role Descriptions 5 III. Vision Statement 6 IV. Mission Statement 6 V. Curriculum and School Administration Component 7 VI. Professional Development 7 A. Needs and Resource Assessment 7 B. Goals and Implementation 7 1. Goals 7 2. Implementation 8 C. Monitoring and Evaluation 8 VII. Infrastructure: Network, Hardware, Software 9 A. Network 9 B. Hardware 9 1. Evaluation 9 2. Procurement 9 3. Maintenance – Is standard maintenance being done on equipment now? 9 4. Disposal 9 5. Yearly review by committee for overall process. 9 C. Software 10 1. Evaluation 10 2. Procurement 10 3. Maintenance 11 4. Disposal 11 5. Yearly review by committee for overall process. 11 VIII. Website Direction 12 A. Maintenance 12 B. Web Applications 12

I. Site Information

Need brief overview of technology at our school.

A. Accreditation Information:

St. Bonaventure School was founded in 1967 and has been in continuous operation for more than 30 years. The School has extensive experience in educating children and in child development, and can draw on the additional experience of the Catholic Diocese of Orange, Department of Catholic Schools.

Since its establishment over 30 years ago, the School has completed four self-studies, and, in each case, SBS received the six year accreditation that is granted by WCEA / WASC (Western Catholic Education Association / Western Association of Schools and Colleges). The most recent accreditation was granted in spring 2002. SBS will go through the accreditation process again in the spring of 2008.

B. Physical Location:

St. Bonaventure School, a Catholic parochial school, is located at 16390 Springdale Street in the city of Huntington Beach. The site comprises 8.7 acres of residential land and improvements, including 29,528 square feet of classrooms; 12,055 square feet of school offices and working spaces; 1255 square feet of office space for the Religious Education; and 2463 square feet of walkways. The St. Bonaventure School site is gated on all sides. It is bounded by Orlando Street to the north, Bradbury Lane to the east, Heil Avenue to the south, and Springdale Avenue to the west. These are all residential streets in the city of Huntington Beach.

C. School-Parish Relationship:

St. Bonaventure School is part of the St. Bonaventure Parish community, which is part of the Diocese of Orange. The Schools’ rooms and grounds are shared by other Parish groups (such as Religious Education, Scouts, Vietnamese community, Literacy Program and Adult Education). Some non-school uses of classrooms and school facilities occur (with approval of School and Parish personnel) on weekends and weeknights.

D. School Population (as of September 2007):

The St. Bonaventure School population is 428 families, with a total of 637 students in 20 classes of Kindergarten through grade 8. Four kindergarten classes average 18 students; grades 1 through 8 average 36 students per classroom, with two classrooms per grade.

Kindergarten through grade 6 are self-contained; that is, one primary teacher gives instruction in all major subject areas. Grades 7 and 8 are departmentalized; that is, students move from one class to another and are taught different subjects by teachers who specialize in those areas.

The total number of students in the School for the past eight school years has been very stable, as follows:

School Year Total Students

2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 637

Because of physical limitations in classroom-size and School property, the School’s population is not expected to vary greatly from that of the current year or the past several years.

II. Technology Committee

A. Role of Committee

The charter of the SBS Technology Committee is to infuse the talents of parent, community, and business/industry volunteers with expertise in technology toward improving student learning and enhancing the School’s effective use of technology.

The Technology Committee is not a fund-raising arm of the School, nor does it expect to direct allocation of funds. However, it does direct the pursuit of grants, corporate technology incentive programs, and other means to stretch the available financial resources to further move the School toward its vision for technology.

In its advisory role, the Technology Committee should make recommendations to the School Administration regarding priorities in achievement of the School’s technology vision. The Committee should be composed of specific individuals who are designated as responsible for monitoring the implementation of technology plan components and for disseminating periodic progress reports to the School staff and School Board.

In May of each year, nominations for the various Technology Committee positions will be accepted. Members may nominate themselves or others. A nominating committee, consisting of the SBS computer teacher, SBS Vice Principal, and two other Technology Committee members who do not wish to hold a position will present a slate to the School Principal and Parish Pastor for consideration. Installation of these individuals in the various positions will take place each June for the following year. Each person holding a position on the Technology Committee will serve one-year renewable terms.

The names and job descriptions of some of the key roles and positions on the SBS Technology Committee are described in this section of the plan.

B. Tech Committee Role Descriptions

President: Ensures that Technology Committee activities, concerns, and desires are adequately communicated to the School Board. Works with PFA as needed. Chairs Technology Committee’s meetings. Provides input to Secretary on meeting agendas. Leads Technology Committee in determining what updates need to be made to the Technology Plan on an annual basis.

Vice President: Acts as President at general Technology Committee meetings when the President is absent. Focuses on Community Education and corporate support (that is, grants, corporate technology incentive programs, corporate training programs, etc.). Assists the President with various tasks as needed.

Secretary: Creates agendas for Technology Committee meetings, with input from the President, SBS Computer Lab Coordinator, and School administration. Takes minutes at Technology Committee meetings. Distributes minutes to Technology Committee members (faculty, administration, and parents). Revises the Technology Plan on a regular basis, based on input from the President and other Technology Committee members.

Technology Administrator: Reports to the Technology Committee about ongoing School technology successes and problems. Gives input on School needs to the President for purposes of giving direction to Committee activities. Leads student technology specialist team to minimize maintenance costs and to educate students. Reports on Technology Committee activities at Faculty meetings. Documents minimum requirements for donated equipment and informs School secretary of these requirements for her use in receiving calls from potential donors. Evaluates donated equipment for adequacy for School use. Runs antivirus software on donated equipment. Arranges for storage of equipment that cannot be immediately deployed. Loads software on donated equipment so that it can be put to use. Investigates any matching donation programs.

Grant Coordinator: Investigates leads regarding grant opportunities that could help fund SBS technology improvements. Communicates with School administration and the Technology Committee as necessary to apply for various grants.

School Webmaster: Develops and delivers new material for School Web site and maintains existing material on the site. Works with School computer teacher, administrators, and other teachers to identify new opportunities for information to include on the Web site. Advises Technology Committee on Web site status and issues.

III. Vision Statement

The implications of technology go far beyond educational use as a teaching tool or set of curriculum criteria; we envision technology as a core value, intrinsic to the way of life in the future. As such, technology will foster intellectual curiosity, improve student achievement, and create patterns of life-long learning.

IV. Mission Statement

To achieve this vision, we commit ourselves to the ongoing mission of:

 Integrating technology into the SBS curriculum, which will continue to be rooted in gospel values and Catholic tradition, while meeting the intellectual, social, and ethical challenges of living in a technological and global society.

 Training educators in the use of technology. Their expertise, which will be grounded in well-formed ethical philosophy, will enable them to be learning facilitators who can successfully take advantage of technological advances in education.

 Providing our students with many diverse opportunities to retrieve, understand, produce, and manipulate information.

V. Curriculum and School Administration Component

Need a breakdown by grade of how technology is used in lab/classroom to instruct students. The following is a sample one… http://www.troy.k12.mi.us/technology/2005techplan.pdf

To be included in Appendix:

 Parent Survey Data  Acceptable Use Policy

VI. Professional Development

Professional development for administrators, instructional and non-instructional staff is imperative for ongoing growth in technology integration. Technology changes faster than any other component of education, and only through ongoing, consistent professional development can a school maintain its technological relevance.

A. Needs and Resource Assessment

Teacher surveys that were completed in January of 2007 indicate an interest in technology training on a variety of software programs. By increasing our faculty’s overall skills in technology it will lead to easier integration of technology use in the classroom.

B. Goals and Implementation

1. Goals

To achieve our mission of training educators in the use of technology SBS will commit to:

 Develop and distribute list of all available software to teachers prior to the start of the new school year.  Provide a minimum of monthly technology workshops either after school or on Saturdays for faculty/staff  Develop course list based on Teacher survey requests and new software that faculty is asked to use (Gradelink, Smartboard)  Provide training course at start of every school year on website updates and maintaining classroom web pages.  Future efforts for professional development will focus on basic skills with technology, integration of technology with the curriculum and implementation of new technology tools.  Increase overall technology skills of each individual staff/faculty member

2. Implementation

1-2 years

Offer courses in basic computer skills and implementation of technology tools over the course of the next two years These courses will be offered on a minimum of a monthly basis. New course offerings will be developed on a continual basis.

Following are course ideas…  Windows XP – file management  Email 101  Basics of Excel for Instructors  Word Basics  Creating a Mail Merge Using Word  Smartboard How To’s  Gradelink  How to Post to School Website  Quick and Easy Newsletter Tips in Publisher  Basic Computer Maintenance

3-5 Years

 Provide workshops on project based lesson plans that integrate technology – case of faculty teaching the faculty.  Highlight those faculty members that are willing to be mentors to others re: technology skills.  Determine need for providing workshops to parish families to increase parent’s technical skills.

C. Monitoring and Evaluation

 Survey teachers to get an individual evaluation of current technical skills. Survey can be created similar to one used at Ed Tech Profile. After 3 years survey again to see if there is an increase in technical skills.  Maintain record of all technology training taken by faculty/staff  Yearly review of all courses offered and results of teacher surveys

To be included in Appendix:

 Teacher Survey Results  List of tech courses being developed for faculty/staff  Sample excel file showing courses taken by teachers

VII. Infrastructure: Network, Hardware, Software

A. Network Need input here

B. Hardware

Committee should be doing a yearly evaluation of hardware inventory and considering suggestions on how if any equipment could be better purchased/replaced/maintained and disposed. Subcommittee could be setup to evaluate each step of the line to ensure that every year we have reviewed our process and whether it is working or not.

1. Evaluation • Need to ensure current inventory list is up-to-date • Inventory list should be earmarked to show which items are due for replacement according to the 10 year renewal plan in the budget. (Example, highlight which teachers/classroom are getting the newest 10 pcs and where their old pcs will be moved to) • This would ensure that if a teacher asks they can be told they are up this year for renewal or not.

2. Procurement • Who are we buying from, is this the most cost effective? • What are current guidelines for accepting donated items • Purchases based off approved budget only • Approval from committee before purchasing

3. Maintenance • What is standard maintenance that is being done on equipment now? • Breakdown of equipment and what maintenance should be done/how often • Committee can perform this as part of its monthly meetings if necessary

4. Disposal • What is current process now/ • Can they be donated if no longer useful for us, stripped for parts? • Does current tech people have knowledge for stripping for parts or not feasible?

5. Yearly review by committee for overall process.

C. Software

Committee should be revaluating on a yearly basis how we are purchasing software, value of license if it is worth the renewal cost. Updated list of all software and review of all processes.

1. Evaluation • Need current listing of all software licenses broken down by what month renewal is due • Current listing of all software programs used at school and available  Print and give to teachers at end of school year so they can choose what software they want access to for next year. • Teacher survey indicates request for MS Office on teacher computers – who has – who doesn’t.  This should be a standard for teachers computers in classroom and for any teacher’s laptops. If we have it on all the lab PCs then teachers should be given on their teacher designated computer.  If we want to increase teacher tech knowledge we need to be willing to give them some software to use. • Administration Support  Tech committee should be meeting on a yearly basis with front office staff and faculty to see how their current tech needs are being met.  Subcommittee could put together a survey or meet individually with staff to see how their daily tasks could be improved or any issues they have with current software they are using.  The software our committee recommends impacts them on a daily basis, so we need to ensure their wants/needs are being met. • Emerging Educational Software  As new educational technology and software becomes developed we will need to research and review as a committee to see if it meets our goals for our school.  Subcommittees can research and present at meetings then as a committee we can make a decision which software or technology fits with our overall vision and budget.

2. Procurement • 2 Months prior to renewal date bring up to committee to decide if continue or research better software. • Operating System purchase – Stay with Windows XP or move to Vista? Would suggest purchase with OS XP as long as it is available. • Who are we buying from, is this the most cost effective? • Purchases based off approved budget only • Approval from committee before purchasing

3. Maintenance • What is the standard maintenance that is being done on software now? • Should this include network maintenance or can that be under the network section only. • All software should be up and running prior to the first day of school – something maybe committee can help with, maybe more an issue of unavailable programs not due to our staffing issue.

4. Disposal • What type of disposal is necessary here – at some point do we give away actual old cds? • Are we doing a cleanup of any computers that are disposed of?

5. Yearly review by committee for overall process.

To be included in Appendix:  Equipment Inventory List  Software Inventory List  Vendor List  Network map and growth plan  Printing and reproduction  Library circulation applications  Site Licenses  Warranty Information

VIII. Website Direction

Yearly review of how website is updated and maintained. Always discussion of moving to professional website vs. keeping low cost version at great savings to school. Only need to move would be if it is funded by outside source or would generate income for development thru donations.

A. Maintenance • Review current process of updating, meet with office to see if this information can be streamlined • Userids need to be established so database can be created  Userids can be distributed 1st week of schoo with family envelope packet • Review of safety rules per the district for all website info to be added (included as part of training) B. Web Applications • Under tech classes – develop seminars on how to add to website for teachers/faculty/staff • Review of web content and see what areas might need to be added to web