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March 2009- All seven of the regional chair people, regional service center and state personnel will meet to review project guidelines, schedule upcoming training and plan to insure the success of the project. This meeting will be facilitated and lead by the fiscal agent’s technology coordinator.
March 2009-All district technical support staff will complete an on-line survey to determine training and support needs. All technology directors will complete the pre-evaluation of the skills and knowledge of their technical staff and to determine the needed support and training for the coming year. Each region will develop a list of the most needed support.
April 2009-The project’s fiscal agent’s technology coordinator will facilitate the development of a complete list of technical content experts in the State that would be willing to provide the support, training, coaching and mentoring. This list will be published on the CUTS web site.
March 2009-July 2009-The CUTS web site will be developed by the fiscal agent’s technology team, including tools to document technical issues and their resolve, training evaluation surveys, lists of trainers and consultants and funding request forms for requesting funding for training and support.
July 2009-July 2010-Each region will implement the CUTS technical training, coaching and support, which will include hands-on training with a specific district(s) issue or needs. All training will be posted on the CUTS web site to advertise so others throughout the state can attend. Those participating in the training will take an on-line evaluation after the training to document the quality of the trainer, what was learned, knowledge gained and if the technical issue was resolved. All training and support will include a follow-up (coaching) component based on the evaluation. The technical specialists throughout the State will create and publish technical how-to documents on the CUTS web site on those items that were addressed in the trainings.
Here’s a hypothetical example of how the CUTS training is implemented:
The Southeast region of the State, which includes Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan School Districts in the region meet on a monthly basis to discuss technical issues. In one of these meetings, the Technology Director of Grand District discusses with the group a technical wireless issue that he is having in his district. The district technical team has just implementing a new wireless network in their high school; things seem to be working pretty well except when more than 20 students at the same time access the network. At this point, the network slows to a crawl and it becomes useless to the students and teachers. As well, the Technology Director would like to find a solution for guest authentication. As a region, they decide that this a valid technical issue and something that could be addressed through hiring a technical expert in wireless implementation. The group makes a request to the CUTS project fiscal agent for $1000.00 to implement a hands-on two-day training. The request is approved within one working day. The Technology Director locates a wireless expert from Granite School District who is willing to provide the training from the list on the CUTS web site, schedules the event and publishes on the web site for others in the State to register to attend (of course, the number of attendees allowed is determined by the Grand Technology Director and the others from the region). The two days of training is implemented and the wireless expert is paid $25.00 an hour for 26 hours of work (16 hours for on-site, hands-on training and support, 8 hours of drive time and 2 hours of prep time) for a total of $650.00. The remaining funding ($350.00) will go towards travel (hotel and mileage) for the technical expert, lunches for those attending the training as well as needed follow-up technical phone support after the training is completed. After the training has been completed, each attendee will submit an evaluation on the effectiveness of the training, what was accomplished and what they learned. The documentation that the wireless expert created from this training will be published on the CUTS web site and will be available to anyone in the State. Once the evaluation has been completed and the documentation has been published, the CUTS fiscal agent will send the $1000.00 check to Grand District Office. If needed, anytime during the year, the Southeast Region can request additional funding for follow-up training, coaching and support on this subject.
July 2009-July 2010-Regions will request and will receive funding from the project fiscal agent for training, coaching and support that has been implemented as well as the development and publishing of the technical how-to by district or regional staff. Each region has up to $16,000.00 to request and use for this purpose.
This funding can be used for:
• Hiring consultants/trainers (it is highly recommended, when possible, that we hire other district technical experts, this will help to develop a sustainable model).
• Purchasing food, lodging, and other travel expenses for the technical expert providing the training.
• Purchasing books, tools and other materials needed for the training.
• Travel expenses for those attending the training.
This funding cannot be used for:
• Providing stipends to pay those attending the training or receiving the support.
• Reimbursing expenses for attending technical conferences (the training needs to be for a specific district or region technical implementation or issue).
January 2010-All seven of the regional chair people, regional service center and state personnel will meet to discuss who the project working, review budgets for each region, schedule upcoming training and plan to insure the success of the project. The fiscal agent’s technology coordinator will facilitate this meeting.
May 2010-All district technical support staff will re-complete the on-line survey to determine training and support needs. All Technology directors will complete the post-evaluation of the skills and knowledge of their technical staff and determine the needed support and training for the coming year. Each region will develop a list of the most needed support for the coming year.
June 2010-Data analysis will be completed, by the fiscal agent’s technology team, on the data collected to determine growth, this analysis will be reported to the EETT committee.
For the second year these action items will be repeated.
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