Long Range Plan For Technology
Resource Center
What is the LRPT?
The Long Range Plan for Technology identifies 6 strategic technology goals for education and guides local education agencies (LEAs) as they develop individual technology plans.
Purpose & Use
The Long-Range Plan for Technology (LRPT), and its accompanying web-based Resource Center, are intended to support a wide range of campus-based and district-wide professionals.
Administrators
The LRPT and web-based Resource Center is intended to be used by LEA Administrators as a toolkit to help ensure that each district has the guidance and informational resources it needs to develop long range technology plans that meet their unique needs.
Teachers
The LRPT provides teachers and educators with guidance and training tools on how to support the ever-changing role that technology can play in the classroom and in learning.
Technology Leaders
It is up to the LEA Technology Leaders to be at the forefront, often leading the district’s work on managing data, reliable and safe infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
Curriculum & Instructional Technology Leaders
Curriculum and Instructional Technology Leaders are the guides within the LEA that teachers, students, and staff look to for daily implementation support, interpretation of program data, and leadership in digital citizenship.
"Technology can be used inside and outside the classroom to improve education and help meet the strategic goals of education statewide."
Strategic Technology Goals
The LRPT Advisory Committee has developed six strategic goals and 18 focus areas that they believe represent the technology trends and priorities in education. Each LEA should carefully consider how the six strategic goals outlined in this plan align with their own objectives and should strive to achieve positive progress in each focus area.
Personalized,
Flexible, Empowered Learning
Adaptive & individualized learning based on student needs & abilities.
Equitable
Access
Fair & equal opportunities for all students to take full advantage of their education.
Digital
Citizenship
Responsible, safe, respectful, & legal use of technology.
Safety
& Security
Environment free of physical, emotional, & digital harm or risk.
Collaborative
Leadership
Consensus-oriented decision making by multiple stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
Reliable
Infrastructure
Available, trusted technology components to support organizational goals.
"An effective education system is key to equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and integrity to contribute to our state in positive ways. Technology is a driving force for transforming education as we know it, creating stronger, better-educated students, and ultimately building a stronger Texas."
Training & Resource Library
Personalized, Flexible,
Empowered Learning
Equitable
Access
Digital
Citizenship
Safety
& Security
Collaborative
Leadership
Reliable
Infrastructure
Strategic Goal 1:
Personalized, Flexible, Empowered Learning
Student-Centered & Adaptive
Strategic Goal 1, Focus 1
Adaptive technology may be one of the largest innovations of digital learning in the...
Student-Centered
& Adaptive Workbook
Additional Resources
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Reimagined Learning Spaces
Strategic Goal 1, Focus 2
The design of a classroom fundamentally impacts and sets the tone of the learning...
Reimagined Learning
Spaces Workbook
Additional Resources
- (TXVSN) provides Texas students and schools with equitable access to quality online courses and instructors. It is a valuable resource for interactive, collaborative, instructor-led online courses taught by state-certified and appropriately credentialed teachers trained in effective online instruction.
Data-Driven Decisions
Strategic Goal 1, Focus 3
Vast amounts of structure and unstructured data have transformed the way organization...
Data-Driven
Decisions Workbook
Additional Resources
Strategic Goal 2:
Equitable Access
One-to-One (1:1) Initiative
Strategic Goal 2, Focus 1
Educators are constantly seeking to find new opportunities and methods to improve the...
One-to-One (1:1)
Initiative Workbook
Additional Resources
Connectivity
Strategic Goal 2, Focus 2
Preparing students for success requires an environment capable of supporting new wa...
Additional Resources
Usability
Strategic Goal 2, Focus 3
Many diverse devices and technologies are available to enhance learning opportunities...
Additional Resources
Strategic Goal 3:
Digital Citizenship
Program Development
Strategic Goal 3, Focus 1
Technology is prevalent throughout students' lives, and with those digital resources come...
Additional Resources
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Content Development
Strategic Goal 3, Focus 2
Students use computers or devices every day in their personal lives or in school. It is...
Additional Resources
Rights & Responsibilities
Strategic Goal 3, Focus 3
As students master the educational curriculum in the quest to become successful...
Rights & Responsibilities
Workbook
Additional Resources
Strategic Goal 4:
Safety & Security
Campus & Cyber Safety
Strategic Goal 4, Focus 1
School safety, both physical and cyber, is a more important concern for educators than...
Campus & Cyber
Safety Workbook
Additional Resources
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- TEA Safety Grant
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Cyber Security
Strategic Goal 4, Focus 2
LEAs are trusted with the most sensitive and confidential student and staff data and are...
Additional Resources
Data Management & Governance
Strategic Goal 4, Focus 3
Data can be one of an organization's most valuable assets, or a major hindrance if not...
Data Management
& Governance Workbook
Additional Resources
Strategic Goal 5:
Collaborative Leadership
Strategic Planning
Strategic Goal 5, Focus 1
Effective use of technology requires collaboration between teams to ensure that...
Additional Resources
Shares Services
Strategic Goal 5, Focus 2
Shared services allow for LEAs to focus limited resources on IT applications and...
Additional Resources
State Collaboration
Strategic Goal 5, Focus 3
State education leadership have the same goal for education in Texas — that every chil...
Additional Resources
Strategic Goal 6:
Reliable Infrastructure
Technology Support
Strategic Goal 6, Focus 1
Technology can be one of a LEA's most valuable assets, but it presents many...
Additional Resources
Legacy Modernization
Strategic Goal 6, Focus 2
A legacy system operates with old, obsolete, insecure, or inefficient hardware or software...
Additional Resources
Continuity of Operations
Strategic Goal 6, Focus 3
LEAs should prepare to restore critical instructional and administrative resources...
Continuity of
Operations Workbook
Additional Resources
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