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TITLE: Strategic Planning and Electronic Technologies Create Global Schoolhouses (sub-theme items 5 6)
By 1991, the Oswego City School District had to admit it: Despite well-intentioned expenditures to improve its educational technology, it was difficult to claim that the investment was paying off. Our teachers had little access puter labs, received virtually no training on using technology in the classroom, and reported little or no use puters for instruction. Our students seconded that opinion, citing a lack of technological relevance. Employers and college admissions officers alike regarded our graduates as suffering from a lack of technology preparation. The Aelectronic doorway,@ if it indeed existed, certainly did not open into our classrooms.
What caused our district, like so many others, to go so wrong? Simply put, we had no strategic plan. Our investments in technology were little more than spontaneous reactions to a fear that our schools and students were Afalling behind.@ No sustained, systematic efforts provided continuity for any technology programs; the district focused more on puters into the classrooms than on using them effectively once they were there. In fact, despite annual technology Aimprovement@ expenditures of hundreds of thousands of dollars, we had failed to create resource-rich classrooms.
The arrival of a new Superintendent of Schools in 1991 initiated a critical review of our technology efforts and pushed for a strategic plan for improving our schools from a technologic perspective. Drawing upon the expertise of Dr. Frank Betts of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the district began a process to forge a dynamic plan that looked at today’s instructional needs and anticipated those of the future.
By the start of the 1994-95 school year, we had begun a process equivalent to turning