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An State Education Agency (SEA) seeking Ed Tech
funds through an individual program application must submit a new or
updated statewide long-range strategic educational technology plan
that considers the educational technology needs of Local Education
Agency (LEAs) in the State. The application must contain –
- Strategies for improving academic
achievement – an outline of the SEA’s long-term strategies
for improving student academic achievement, including technology
literacy, through the effective use of technology in classrooms
throughout the State, including through improving the capacity
of teachers to integrate technology effectively into curricula
and instruction.
- Goals – a description of the SEA’s
goals for using advanced technology to improve student academic
achievement, aligned with challenging State academic content and
student academic achievement standards.
- Steps to increase accessibility – a
description of the steps the SEA will take to ensure increased
access to technology for all students and teachers, particularly
those in high-need LEAs.
- Accountability measures – a
description of the process and accountability measures that the
SEA will use to evaluate the extent to which activities funded
under the program are effective in integrating technology into
curricula and instruction.
- Innovative delivery strategies – a
description of how the SEA will encourage the development and
use of innovative strategies for the delivery of specialized or
rigorous courses and curricula through the use of technology,
including distance learning technologies, particularly in
locations that would not otherwise have access to such courses
or curricula due to geographical distances or insufficient
resources.
- Non-supplant assurance – an
assurance that financial resources provided under the Ed Tech
program will supplement, and not supplant, State and local
funds.
- Professional and curricular development
– a description of how the plan incorporates teacher education,
professional development, and curriculum development, and how
the SEA will work to ensure that teachers and principals are
technologically literate.
- Technical assistance – a
description of how the SEA will provide technical assistance to
applicants seeking Ed Tech funds, especially to those applicants
serving the highest numbers or percentages of children in
poverty or with the greatest need for technical assistance; and
a description of the SEA’s capacity to provide technical
assistance.
- Technology resources and systems –
a description of technology resources and systems that the State
will provide for the purpose of establishing best practices that
can be widely implemented by SEAs and LEAs.
- Strategies for financing technology
– a description of the State’s long-term strategies for
financing technology to ensure that all students, teachers, and
classrooms will have access to technology.
- Strategies for parental involvement
– a description of the State’s strategies for using technology
to increase parental involvement.
- Competitive grant description – a
description of how the SEA will ensure that Ed Tech competitive
grants are of sufficient size and duration, and that the
projects funded by the grants are of sufficient scope and
quality, to carry out the purposes of the program effectively.
- Integration of technology with
curricula and instruction – a description of how the SEA
will ensure ongoing integration of technology into school
curricula and instructional strategies in all schools, so that
technology will be fully integrated into curricula and
instruction by December 31, 2006.
- Incentives – a description of how
LEAs in the State will provide incentives to teachers who are
technologically literate and teaching in rural or urban areas to
remain in those areas.
- Support – a description of how
public and private entities will participate in the
implementation and support of the plan.
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