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

The 2010 progress report on the Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020 entails the simultaneous implementation of all four areas in technology: Teaching and Learning, Educator Preparation & Development, Leadership, Administration & Development, and Infrastructure for Technology. This report demonstrates how educational technology resources and funding are assisting Texas public school districts and other educational entities as they equip students with the instruction and tools to be successful as "lifetime learners, world class communicators, and competitive members of the 21st century society" (2010 Progress Report on the Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, Texas Education Agency, 2010). As I now know, the Long Range Plan has been updated several times since it first was introduced in 1988. By reading this report, I learned that Texas has led the nation with the first Long-Range Plan for Technology, 1988-2000, adopted by the State Board of Education in November 1988. By reading this report, I also learned that the Long-Range Plan for Technology's guiding principal is to direct the state on how technology in education should continue being applied as an effective tool to make positive changes possible, and that it can contribute crucially to the vi son of excellence and equity in education. This report provides the data related to the growth in the key areas of Teaching and Learning, Educator Preparation and Development, Leadership, Administration and Instructional Support, and Infrastructure for Technology. The Texas Campus STaR Chart produces a profile of the campus' status toward reading the goals of the Long Range Plan for Technology and No Child Left Behind. The profile indicators place a campus at one of the four levels of progress in each key area of the Long Range Plan for Technology: Early Tech, Developing Tech, Advanced Tech, or Target Tech. Most campuses in Texas show continued improvement and are moving from lower levels on the campus chart towards the Target Tech level.