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

The Progress Report on the Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020, was released in December of 2008 by the Texas Education Agency. Overall the plan is realizing improvements in all mandated areas. The largest advancements were seen in leadership, administration, and instructional support and infrastructure for technology.

Leadership, administration, and instructional support jumped seven percent in the advanced and target technology progress levels with infrastructure for technology moving up six percent in the same levels. The area of leadership, administration, and instructional support is just shy of having half of Texas campuses falling in the advanced and target technology levels with four percent of those in target technology. A vast sixty-four percent of the state’s schools are in the upper technology progress levels for infrastructure in technology with seven percent in the highest target technology level. These two areas are very critical in seeing improvements in the two weakest achieving areas.

The two poorest performing areas are educator preparation and development and teaching and learning. Teaching and learning has twenty-five percent of the schools falling in the advanced and target technology progress levels. Although, teaching and learning did see a five percent improvement in the highest progress levels, there still remains much room for achievement. Educator and preparation and development only saw a three percent improvement with a total of twenty-one percent of the schools falling into the advanced and target technology progress levels. These areas are not where they need to be for Texas to meet its Long Range Plan goals. Increases were seen so progress is being made but not at the level we need to meet those goals.