When looking at the Long Range Plan, one area is of interest to me. Educator preperation and develpoment sets the standards of what our teachers will need to master and be educated on before they should be able to teach our future leaders of the world. All teacehers who are starting out now, have to master SBEC standards before they can becomes teachers. However, technology is changing at such a rapid pace that all techers will need to have continued traning to keep up to date. As for vertern teacehers, who have not had the training in the first place need to partipate in training as often as possible in order to still meet the SBEC standards.

The state and the district as moving at a rapid pace to change the enhance the use of technolgy in the classrooms, but in this area the state and district as budgeting money to help support the training of teachers to be able to excute the new technology. The state is looking at all districts on the same playing field. Texas has a high percent of teachers already using technology, however then you look at the districts, you can find bigger budget cost and funding to help support the support local trainings.

To help with this process, the district should be setting standards and requirments for training for all teachers. Visions and goals should be set and all professtional develpoment iniatives should be directed towards the visions.