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NCLB Technology Report

Because of NCLB requirements every district is to now complete a report each November that as a part will identify the number of 8th grade students that met the TEKS for "Technology Applications" the previous school year. Since we didn't know of this requirement until this past May we "as well as many other districts" had to gathered this information by administering a assessment to our current 9th grade students. This assessment was completed a couple of weeks ago. We will soon begin the process of pre-assessing our current 8th grade students and then be ready in May to administer a final assessment that will go into next years report.

In Miguel Guhlin's "Around the Corner"-MGuhlin.net blog he's conducting a survey to gather informal information about this "Technology Assessment" report that districts are in the process of completing. This informatin will give us (coordinators, directors, anyone) a peek into how other districts are doing in meeting this goal and an informal way for us to measure how we're doing in our district. I encourage you to take a look at the results gathered so far. We obviously have some work to do.

I consider the information being gathered to be timely and invaluable. The best part is Miguel is doing it all brilliantly at no cost with free Google tools. Someting that anyone of us could have done - He just seems to be fearlessly a step ahead.