Implement an Instructional Technology Leadership Team at Your School

School-based staff have a unique opportunity to help others on their school team more fully integrate technology into instruction. In addition, this effort will support school teams to incorporate principles for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into instructional practices throughout the school to support learners who are struggling to access the curriculum.

Specific Project Tasks

This project requires a staff person to start or provide leadership for a school team that meets at least monthly for a minimum of 6 months to:

Obtain documented support from school administration for the development of the Instructional Technology Leadership Team (ITLT) and desired outcomes. An effort to incorporate the ITLT outcomes into school improvement plan should be made and documented.
Identify a plan for how to measure changes in the use of accessible instructional practices, materials and tools within the school.
Measure current staff use of instructional technology with their school staff.
Identify a plan to increase use of technology-supported instructional practices, materials and tools, including available technology tools to support struggling learners
Implement at least two methods for meeting identified training needs within the school.
Measure changes in staff’s reported use of technology-supported instructional practices, materials and tools with students throughout the school.

Who is a good candidate for this project?

School-based staff who have at least two other instructional staff at their school interested in increasing the use of accessible instructional practices, materials and tools to support all learners throughout the school building. HIAT can provide the support to this effort noted below. However, project participants are required to take on the leadership role within their school to implement this project in order to be recognized with the indicated E-TIPS hours.

What support will HIAT provide for this project?

HIAT staff and resources are available to:

assist project participants to communicate the benefits of this team to school administrators/teams
provide an online Technology Needs Assessment (preview)
develop tools for measuring change
help to plan/implement training initiatives

E-TIPS Hours Earned:

10 hours – Participant demonstrates lead role is facilitating all steps of this project.
Documentation required:

all minutes from the ITLT meetings with participant chairing or co-chairing the meeting
example communications to staff/administration from participant regarding efforts of the ITLT [see sample memo to administration (26K doc)]
example training materials (e.g. training plans, presentations, handouts) documenting the participant’s lead role in the trainings
example communications to school administration and or school leadership on ITLT efforts (
summary document (e.g. summary memo) to administration/school leadership documenting outcomes of ITLT efforts, challenges, unmet needs, and ongoing plan to address needs –contribution of participant in development of document must be noted

5 hours – Participant demonstrates active participation in all steps of this project.
Documentation required:

all minutes from the ITLT meetings documenting participant attendance and active participation (e.g. listed with some tasks to complete, participating in the discussion)
example training materials (e.g. training plans, presentations, handouts) documenting the participant’s active role in the trainings or providing individual technology consultation to staff
summary document (e.g. summary memo) to administration/school leadership documenting outcomes of ITLT efforts, challenges, unmet needs, and ongoing plan to address needs –contribution of participant in development of document must be noted

This can be demonstrated through documentation of participation in all team meetings, facilitating trainings on accessible technology topics, or other documentation to show a consistent and active commitment to the outcomes of the accessible technology leadership team.