School Evaluation Summary

St. Steve's Survey
St. Steve's School Evaluation Summary

This was, by far, the most important assignment in the course to me, and I feel I have gained considerable skill in being able to more effectively evaluate an edtech program's strengths and weaknesses.  I have used the data, and corresponding  analysis, to revise my school's edtech plans (I'm responsible for it,  so the buck stops with me). I will be sharing results with both the administrative team and the staff overall. I was very surprised by how accurately the Evaluation Summary identified both our strengths (several of them) and areas of growth (mainly teacher training and engagement!), at a specific level. This process has reinvigorated me to help solve the problem of teacher training, and better support their efforts to roll technology into their day to day classroom. They earnestly want to integrate more tech (with one or two exceptions),  but they simply do not know how. While easy to say, it is a much harder problem to fix, but I am determined to help my teachers achieve their next level of competence, and more.

I have also shared, via another administrator, this tool to the Diocese of San Jose principals (about 27 of them). I know one school may want me to perform this evaluation of their school, and I suspect more will follow.

In summary, this was an excellent process, and I am very excited to continue my plans to help my teachers better integrate technology into their curriculum. I'm also excited to share this process with other schools, and help them become "Intelligent" in their tech use. Many of our schools are quite backward in this regard, so there are many gains to be had (there is also a fair amount of "low hanging fruit" to help right away).

I'm hopeful that, through the rest of my edtech program, there are many more opportunities just like this, to assist both my school and others. This process certainly raised my edtech analytic skill, and that is a great way to end this intro class.