Timeline of Events:

• March-May, 2003: Project orientation & planning (project overview, explanation of staff development model, planning for train-the-trainers and teacher workshops, principal orientation to support selection of workshop participants, scheduling of workshops, ...)

• April-May, 2003: orientation for selection of participants (usually 6 teachers, 1 administrator, and 1 technology support person like a tech specialists or librarian from each campus - twice that for larger HSs)

• Late May- June, 2003: train-the-trainers (TTT); there will be three TTT sessions which will include 3 days of intensive workshops related to delivery of integration workshops - also, an online community will be developed to support the group of trainers during the year and deliver ongoing TTT activities

• Summer, 2003: round 1 two day workshops (Technology & Curriculum Integration) - there will 69 workshops [43 delivered by Apple trainers, 5 delivered by ESC XII trainers, and 21 delivered by trainers from districts or other entities (Killeen 8, Waco 5, Baylor 3, Temple 2, Belton 1, Robinson 1, Rio Brazos Coop 1)]

• August-November, 2003: round 2 two day workshops (Internet & Curriculum Integration)

• December, 2003-April, 2004: round 3 two day workshops (Multimedia & Curriculum Integration)

Funding & Number of Series per District:

• Funding: most funds for this project will be used to pay for the most important factors relating to technology staff development - trainers to deliver workshops and teacher release time ($80 per day per workshop participant for teacher duty pay or sub teacher pay), some funds also for fiscal agent & evaluation

• Series per District: each series will involve 16 participants who will attend 3 two day workshops together (summer, fall, winter) - for example, a typical series would involve 8 participants from one campus working with 8 participants from another campus, for all three workshops in the series (note: some workshops will have 5-6 participants from 3 different campuses instead of 2)

updated 3/25/03
by Dan McCormack, Ph.D., Apple