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Home | Leadership, Planning & Grants | Links & Resources CEO Forum on Education and Technology

The CEO Forum on Education and Technology is a partnership between business and education leaders who are committed to assessing and monitoring progress toward integrating technology in America's schools.

The CEO Forum has developed two STaR (School Technology & Readiness) Charts, one for the K-12 community and one for colleges of education. The Star Charts are designed to serve as a benchmark against which a K-12 school or a college of education can assess and track its own progress and chart a new course to better integrate technology into the educational process. Both online surveys contain a series of questions that, when completed, provide feedback on the institution's level of readiness in using technology. The CEO Forum Star Charts provide an institutional assessment to assist in guiding the integration of technology into the educational process.

Milken Family Foundation's Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress

The Milken Family Foundation's education technology report, Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress, provides a framework of change parameters and progress indicators that identify the essential conditions necessary for schools to bring technology enriched learning opportunities to students. This planning tool is comprised of seven interdependent dimensions -- learners, learning environment, professional competency, system capacity, community connections, technology capacity, and accountability -- that encourage asking the right questions and measuring the right indicators. By using this framework, schools can identify the essential conditions related to the value that technology can bring to student learning, analyze how their school or district is progressing through each dimension, communicate that progress back to the school community, and progress to the next step.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's enGauge - A Framework for Effective Technology Use in Schools

The enGauge website helps schools and districts use technology effectively for learning, teaching, and managing. This site provides tools and resources for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating school and system-wide technology initiatives that focus on improving student learning.

The six essential conditions for effective use of technology in learning proposed by enGauge include:

  • Forward-thinking shared vision
  • Educator proficiency with effective teaching and learning practices
  • Digital age equity
  • Effective teaching and learning practice
  • Robust access anywhere, anytime
  • Systems and leadership

Asking the right questions and tracking progress over time assists schools and districts in the areas of technology leadership, planning, and grants. These are some key questions supported by enGauge:

  • What value does technology bring to schools?
  • Will we know it when we see it?
  • Why does technology "work" in some schools and not others?
  • How do we report progress back to decision makers?
South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCRTEC)'s Profiler

The South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCRTEC) provides at no cost an online collaboration tool called Profiler. This tool allows teachers and students to collaborate, to cooperate, and to share expertise on a topic they choose. You may build your own survey for specific class projects that encourage student/teacher collaboration based on knowledge and skill levels indicated from the survey results, or you may choose an existing survey from the Survey Library.

The driving force behind SCRTEC's development of Profiler was the need to come up with better models for providing technical assistance and professional development opportunities to K-12 educators. Through this survey process that identifies strengths and weaknesses, Profiler presents a visual representation of the knowledge on a specific subject or topic that exists within the classroom, school, or district. As a survey instrument that can be tailored to any area or subject, Profiler begins building a community of learners within a school setting.

More Links for Leadership, Planning & Grants

  • The Big Deal Book Free resource with information on grants, contest opportunities, materials and lesson plans, equipment, technology training, and special offers from education companies.
  • Building the 21st Century School Now NCSA, NCRTEC, ITEG, and University of Illinois. For the novice; definitions not highly technical; forms for duplication and flow charts to explain the planning process.
  • CEE Center for Excellence in Education. Resources for technology planning. Plan samples, planning models, and other resources.
  • The Consortium for School Networking promotes the use of telecommunications to improve K-12 learning. On this site you will find resources for schools on budgeting for technology.
  • eLearning: Putting a World Class Education at the Fingertips of All Children This is the national educational technology plan that was released in December 2000.
  • eSchool News publishes a monthly newspaper that is available on their website and is a good source of current news, leadership, trends, and grant information.
  • An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms This 1998 publication contains survey instruments and other tools that will help guide you through the planning process.
  • ERIC Bibliography of Technology Planning Articles Articles that examine the technology planning process.
  • ISTE International Society for Technology in Education; resources on professional development, standards, teacher resources and educational technologies research.
  • Leadership for Integrating Technology Training modules to help educational administrators implement and manage the productive use of educational technology in their schools.
  • Learning Through Technology: A Planning and Implementation Guide Process-oriented framework for planning a technology program.
  • Microsoft Anytime Anywhere Learning Guide to Getting Started Compilation of models, challenges, best practices, and benefits. It will help you through the planning process by identifying key questions and answers adopted by schools around the country. Downloadable for free from the Internet, or can be ordered for a handling fee.
  • The National School Board Association Toolkit walks educators through the process of technology planning. Emphasis on the people’s roles in coordinating the effort.
  • NCTP National Center for Technology Planning, Mississippi State University; clearinghouse information related to technology planning.
  • Resource Guide to Federal Funding For Technology in Education U.S. Department of Education.
  • School District Technology Planning Handbook Mississippi Department of Education. Guide to planning process, organizing and managing teams, and finding the skills necessary within a community.
  • SEIR*TEC is the regional United States Department of Education technology office that serves the southeastern states. SEIR*TEC's mission is to encourage and support placement of technology in all classrooms for all learners across grade levels and to ensure that technology is an effective tool for successful learning. The website contains information about grants and funding and a new technology planning guide, Planning into Practice: Resources for Planning, Implementing, and Integrating Instructional Technology.
  • The Software and Information Industry Association's Executive Summary of their report, The Effectiveness of Technology in Schools, provides good research information that can be used to evaluate the impact of using technology tools and resources.
  • The Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Educational Technology Cooperative has two publications, Educational Technology: Are School Administrators Ready for It? and Guidelines for Technology Equipment Selection and Use: An SREB Model for Schools and Campuses that are helpful in the planning process.
  • STAR Center (Support for Texas Academic Renewal) Technology plan template, technology success stories, online resources, strategies, grant opportunities, online guidebook.
  • Switched-On Classroom Massachusetts Software Council. Provides instruction in building a technology plan, practical uses of technology in schools, and links to case studies.
  • Thornburg Center for Professional Development Source of presenters and staff developers in the field of emerging technologies and their impact on learning at all ages.
  • The Technology Coordinators Web Page Clearinghouse of technology planning resources, links, materials, professional organizations, literature review, plan samples, human resource and technical aspects of planning.
  • WestEd Technology in Education Toolkit Rubrics, checklists, and guides for planning technology implementation. Also contains links to other sites that offer models of best practice, example plans, and additional tools and resources to support a more informed technology planning program.

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