Technology Plan Vision
District 200 believes that technology plays a significant role in the educational process and can be used by the District to help accomplish its mission. All learners will achieve meaningful literacy with technology, allowing them to develop the thinking and lifelong learning skills necessary to be a contributing member of an evolving society. Learners will be literate, adaptive, and transformative users of information, allowing them to use differing technologies and information, adapt them for their own uses, and transform the information into their own new knowledge.

Structure of District 200’s Technology Plan
District 200 Technology Plan was renewed in the spring of 2006 for three years. The plan was approved by the Board of Education in May 2006, and state approved in June 2006.  The state of Illinois made some changes to the plan    template from the 2003 renewal.  The Engaged Learning area of the plan is now designated as Curriculum and Instruction, and the overall plan is focused on student achievement.

The plan covers the key areas of:
Community Involvement
Curriculum and Instruction
Professional Development
Technology Deployment

The renewed District 200 Technology Plan has pulled from the 005-2006 District Improvement Plan to guide the areas of Curriculum and Instruction and Professional Development. The Community and Technology Deployment and Sustainability areas were developed by the data collected and subsequent analysis. 

District 200 data was analyzed by a variety of groups:  District Technology Steering Committee, DIP Team; Educational Services Directors and committees, Technology Department Curriculum Leaders, Building Principals, SIP Teams, and content area committees. The process of analysis from the various collection tools used and the collaborative groupings allowed the district to determine gaps between the district current reality and its preferred future, and most importantly, the District needs for the next three years.

The state required the district to follow sequential steps of:  1) Assessing the Needs; 2) Determining the Goals and Strategies; 3) Defining the Expected Results; and 4) Projecting the Funding to create this plan.  Each key area has goals and key strategies for attaining the goal, with predicted outcomes and ways in which to evaluate the success of the strategy.

The three year District 200 Technology Plan in PDF format
2006-07 summary of the District 200 Technology Plan in PDF format