Progress Report on the Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020

The Progress report on the LRPT 2006-2020 was created to monitor the states progress from September 2006 to August 2008. There were two programs implemented between September 2006 to August 2008; Technology Immersion Pilot(TIP) and the Texas Virtual Schools Network (TxVSN). The Long Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020 was designed primarily because the education system in Texas was behind when it came to technology.

The TIP "provides teachers and students the opportunity to intergrate technology into all aspects of teching and learning" (TEA, 2008). The TIP program seems to be a very beneficial program, allowing the effects of campus technology immersion on student learning and teacher proficiency in Texas public schools to be measured. The TxVSN was created to give students more options in their course selection by allowing distance learning classes. Distance learning classes provide students with courses that otherwise would not have been available to them.

The progress report showed findings from the Texas StaR Charts that are mandated by the state to evaluate a campus; progress in meeting the goals of the Long-Range for Technology. It appears that there is a steady increase in the number of schools that are in the Advance Key Star Classification in all four Summary Areas of the shart. The area that has the biggest rise is the Infrastructure for Technology area. I believe this is because the resourses we need to grow with our current learners are becoming more readily available, we just need to find a way to make time and train to keep up in the other Summary Areas of the StaR Chart.

The findings of this progress report have shown us that while we are consistently moving ahead in this fast paced advancing world we still have a long way to go.

Texas Education Agency. (2008). Progress Report on the Long Range Plan for Technology 2006-2020. Austin: Texas Education Agency