Technology will be used throughout the district to help every student meet or exceed the standards.  These uses include instructional (both teacher-directed and student utilization), administrative (teacher-level to district-level), and support services applications of technology.

1. Goals and Strategies for Using Technology to Improve Education -- Dave Brown and Sandy Shalk
   

   • Sandy Shalk presented the goals and strategies.
   • Sandy is revising wording and ordering of goals.
   • Other ideas:
     • District #2 -- Smyrna could schedule one of the district-wide inservice days to coincide with DCET conference. Wendy commented that DCET was thinking of moving to day of statewide inservice
       
       Another possibility for 2002 and beyond use the DCET conference as the Smyrna Tech Day. On Day 1 of DCET Conference, anyone in district could go to DCET but there will also be small workshops at Smyrna. Anyone who teaches a seminar at Smyrna gets to go to DCET on the 2nd day of the conference.
       
       
2. Integrate is taking on the project of creating a single sheet Technology Skills Growth Chart.
   
   
3. Smyrna District, School and Teacher Websites
   
   
• Dave - All teachers in the district can now create web pages in Word and publish them by saving in the "W:" shared drive on the network.
  
  
• Discussion -- what should be included at each level
  



District	School	Teacher
Calendar – Days Off – Inservice Mission & Goals Superintendent – State of the District School Board Data Technology – Goals & Strategies Food Services Lunches Meal Tickets Procedures Registration Employment Student Services Special Ed Disabilities Bus Schedules TIPS such as Working with Student Messenger – Newsletter	Standard Opening Page Newsletter Calendar with district link Homework hotline – links to teacher pages Teacher Listings – Links webpages and e-mail Summer Reading Grade Level Standards Administrators School Handbook Extra curricular Activities Links to district profiles Directions & location Lunch Menu   Report Cards – Days Off	Required Elements email address schedule (availability)  and specials phone number and best time to call discipline program grading policy supply list Recommended Elements homework assignments syllabus (7-12) or yearly topics (K-6) Newsletter/ Current Topics Handouts Requirements for long term projects Spelling/Vocabulary words Links to URL’s of other helpful sites




• Discussion -- web publishing policies for students (tabled)
  
  
4. Discussion of Accelerated Reader rollout
   
   
• Status -- http://www.smyrna.k12.de.us/techweb/AReader.htm
  
• Dave and others will meet to work on rollout
• Carrie is already training teachers on Star
  
  
5. Planning for TechDay 2001
   

• Question 1: How do we honor commitment to teachers that we'd offer seminars at least 2 more times so they could meet the plan that they set forth on their commitment sheets and hold presenters to their commitment to offer their sessions twice more in 2000-2001 school year.
  
  Possibilities
  • offer sessions during ½ days
  • offer after school and pay presenter

• Question 2: can we move Tech Day to 3/ 9 and use 2/5 for rubric training? Enables us to take care of commitment re re-presentation of 6/2000 seminars prior to launching the 2001-2002 initiatives.
  
  
• Proposal for 3/9 -- WEB DAY
  • Big session: What is the point of the Web? communications, support
  • Discussion -- School webmasters
  • Discussion & training --- teacher mentors/peer reviewers
  • Teacher training -- 3 levels -- beginning (do a page and publish), middle (tables, images, etc.) and advanced (scanning images and editing, sound?, embedded tables)