TARGET
I, Cycle 3 (Laredo ISD and Plano ISD)
Laredo
ISD
Plano ISD
Year 1
- $631,337
Year 2 - $473,502
Summary:
The TARGET grant will provide training to middle school teachers to
acquire the skills, knowledge and strategies necessary to integrate
technology into the curricula and instruction. Teachers will develop
an individualized Technology Growth Plan (TGP) to assist in targeting
professional development activities to their specific needs. Teachers
will access technology-rich curriculum for use specifically with at-risk
students and increase parental involvement. The TARGET grant will provide
additional funds to continue to provide state-of-the-art technologies
(e.g. computers, Internet access and software) and professional development,
technology trainers and technicians for teachers and students to ensure
student success.
Technology
Immersion Pilot (TIP) Grant Program - Round 2
The Technology
Immersion Pilot (TIP) project was founded by the Texas Education Agency
in 2004. TIP is pioneering a new concept in education technology called
“technology immersion”. Technology immersion involves bundling
together into one package all of the technology goods and services necessary
to allow teachers to teach and students to learn anytime, anywhere,
and then funding schools to implement the immersion package. Twenty
three school districts in Texas are being funded with grants from the
Texas Education Agency’s TIP project to implement a technology
immersion package on one or more of their campuses.
What
is Technology Immersion?
“Technology
immersion” involves providing teachers and students with all of
the tools they need to put teaching and technology on equal footings.
Technology immersion is not just giving laptop computers to teachers
and students—many schools have that. Instead, technology immersion
is giving all of the hardware, software, online content, training and
follow-up support necessary to make a campus completely technology-enabled,
giving all of those tools to both teachers and students simultaneously,
and then allowing them to take that technology with them wherever they
go.
What
is In a Technology Immersion Package?
The blueprint
for a technology immersion package contains six vital components:
1. A wireless
notebook computer
2. Online learning resources across the curriculum including in the
four core subject areas of science, math, social studies and English
Language Arts
3. Online diagnostic assessment tools that pinpoint student strengths
and weaknesses in various subject areas
4. Word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail, Internet browsing and other
productivity software
5. Significant amounts of professional development in how to use and
teach with all of the package’s resources, and
6. Technical support for all of the package components
Leading
hardware, software, education content, assessment and service providers
have teamed up to offer five different technology immersion packages
to TIP project schools.
**visit http://www.txtip.info/images/TIP_Briefing_Paper.doc
to see full document**
TARGET
I, Cycle 3 Region I
Region
01 ESC
Donna ISD
Edcouch-Elsa ISD
Edinburg ISD
Hidalgo ISD
La Feria ISD
La Joya ISD
La Villa ISD
Laredo ISD
Lasara ISD
Mercedes ISD
Mission ISD
Point Isabel ISD
Raymondville ISD
Rio Grande City CISD
Roma ISD
San Benito ISD
Santa Maria ISD
Sharyland ISD
United ISD
Valley View ISD
Weslaco ISD
Zapata CISD
I.D.E.A. Academy
Diocese of Brownsville
Diocese of Laredo
St. Paul Lutheran
Valley Grande Academy
Year 1
- $900,000
Year 2 - $675,000
Summary:
Maximizing Achievement Through Technology (MaXtech) primary purpose
is to improve academic achievement of economically disadvantaged students
in grades 3, 4 and 5 by fully integrating technology into the curriculum
to lay a foundation for ensuring that all students will be technologically
literate by the time they finish the eighth grade. Strategies include
online curriculum resources that support the Technology Applications
TEKS, professional development for teachers with access to online resources
that support the integration of technology into content learning, and
hardware and software that support technology-infused learning in the
classroom.
Dell
Tech Know
Currently
not available.
Title
II Part D
Currently
not available.
TARGET
I Cycle 3, ESC Region XI
ESC
Region XI
Birdville ISD
Austin ISD
Brownwood ISD
Colorado ISD
Corpus Christi ISD
Dallas ISD
Eagle Pass ISD
Harlingen CISD
Laredo ISD
Little Cypress-Mauriceville ISD
Northside ISD
Palacios ISD
Pflugerville ISD
Presidio ISD
San Felipe-Del Rio Cons ISD
Shamrock ISD
Van Vleck ISD
Year 1
- $849,086
Year 2 - $636,814
Summary:
Making the Connections (MC) is an innovative language arts program designed
to connect teachers, traditionally grounded in Chaucer, Shakespeare
and Milton, with today's multimedia, digital world. MC will integrate
technology into education by means of a dynamic TARGET program with
special focus on Language Arts in grades 6-12. Strategies include the
creation of new and integration of existing content areas (film, short
story, poetry, art, media/public relations) through the use of teaching
strategies that effectively integrate technology into curricula and
instruction.
TARGET
I Cycle 3, ESC Region XV
ESC
Region XV
San Felipe Del Rio CISD
Austin ISD
Brazosport ISD
Brownwood ISD
Colorado ISD
Corpus Christi ISD
Dallas ISD
Eagle Pass ISD
Harlingen CISD
Laredo ISD
Little Cypress-Mauriceville ISD
Northside ISD
Palacios ISD
Pflugerville ISD
Presidio ISD
Shamrock ISD
Van Vleck ISD
Year 1
- $850,000
Year 2 - $637,500
Summary:
Empowering Science Education through Technology (E-SET) envisions a
virtual science community based on an innovative online and field study
learning program that seamlessly integrates technology into science
education by means of an interdisciplinary curriculum centered on Texas’
rivers, creeks, coastlines and the world oceans. E-SET gives teachers
the knowledge and skills to fully integrate technology into the classroom,
facilitate student achievement and allow students to develop real world,
marketable technology and job skills as they explore fully science,
math and the capabilities of the Internet and World Wide Web.
