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Eanes ISD believes educational technology is the intentional, purposeful integration of developmentally appropriate digital tools, materials, and knowledge used to enhance student engagement and learning for everyone in our learning community. We believe technology enhances opportunities for differentiation, creation, collaboration, critical thinking, and digital citizenship.

Visit the Educational Technology Support Page for more resources on using technology to support and enhance your instructional approach.

Thoughtful use of technology begins with lesson design. As teachers design lessons, we ask them to utilize our EISD planning framework to ensure technology integration is purposeful, enhances the learning experience and aligns to our Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Dr. Ruben Puentedura developed the SAMR model as a way for teachers to evaluate how they are incorporating technology into their instructional practice. The SAMR model lays out four tiers of online learning, presented roughly in order of their transformative power: substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition.

When you reflect upon how you are integrating technology into your classroom it's tempting to think of SAMR as a mountain to be summited. But good technology integration isn't about living at the top of the SAMR model; it's about being aware of the range of options and picking the right strategy for the lesson at hand.

Eanes ISD selected SAMR as the instructional framework during the original 1:1 implementation in 2013. This model best aligns with the beliefs and instructional practices in the district. Referring to the SAMR model, teachers can evaluate the technology use by responding to these questions:

Where does my lesson fit within the SAMR framework?

How am I going to teach this and see evidence of student learning?

Can technology help to get all students equitable access to meaningful learning?

SAMR

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. The research basis for the general principles of UDL is also grounded in modern neuroscience. The three basic principles are built upon the knowledge that our learning brains are composed of three different networks, recognition, strategic, and affective.

The UDL Guidelines align these three networks with the three principles (recognition to representation, strategic to action and expression, and affective to engagement). This empirical base in neuroscience provides a solid foundation for understanding how the learning brain intersects with effective instruction. This alignment is further extended and clarified by the guidelines and checkpoints.

UDL

Students are online more than ever before, so teaching them how to use technology thoughtfully and responsibly is an essential part of their social and emotional development and academic success.
K-5 Digital Citizenship Activities
6-12 Digital Citizenship Activities
Family Engagement Toolkit

Eanes ISD rosters over twenty digital resources including software and textbooks. The district currently utilizes two different systems (Clever and ID Auto) for rostering purposes. Instructional materials rostered by Technology Services is included below. *Items rostered may change yearly.

CLEVER

Resource Grade Level Content Scope

ID AUTO

Resource Grade Level Content Scope

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Educational Technology - Eanes ISD: A K-12 independent school district in Austin, Texas.

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SC Department of Education Technology Plan

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SC Department of Education Technology Plan

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About the National Educational Technology Plan

The U.S. Department of Education released the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP): A Call to Action for Closing the Digital Access, Design and Use Divides. First released in fulfillment of Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, NETP has been updated multiple times since its original release, most recently in 2016. While past NETPs have largely served as surveys of the state of the field, the Department of Education's 2024 NETP frames three key divides limiting the transformational potential of educational technology to support teaching and learning, including:

The Digital Use Divide, addressing opportunities to improve how students use technology to enhance their learning, including dynamic applications of technology to explore, create, and engage in critical analysis of academic content and knowledge;

The Digital Design Divide, addressing opportunities for educators to expand their professional learning and build the capacities necessary to design learning experiences enabled by technology; and

The Digital Access Divide, addressing opportunities for students and educators to gain equitable access to educational technology, including connectivity, devices, and digital content. This also includes accessibility and digital health, safety, and citizenship as key elements of digital access.

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National Educational Technology Plan - Office of Educational Technology

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The 2024 NETP frames key divides limiting the potential of educational technology, including: Digital Use, Digital Design, and Digital Access.

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Vision State

Technologically proficient administrators and educators empower students to develop skills to become self-motivated leaders in the global community.

Wilkes County Schools envision a culture of learning where:

All users understand the capabilities and capacity of available technology hardware, software, infrastructure, and personnel resources.

Students are engaged in inquiry-based, problem-based, hands-on learning.

Students are technologically adept.

Students accept responsibility for their own learning.

Teachers use technology to facilitate learning.

Teachers accept responsibility for acquiring the knowledge and skills to integrate technology.

Administrators support and advocate the use of technology.

Wilkes County Schools' Technology Plan

Wilkes County Schools strive to provide access to digital resources and content for instruction. We believe technology can be used to extend the classroom beyond the school to state, national, and global levels. Technology provides a mechanism to create relevant meaningful content for project based, student centered learning. To provide these educational opportunities, Wilkes County Schools will continue our 1:1 program in grades K - 12. Digital learning facilitators and instructional specialists will continue to work together to provide professional development opportunities at the school level to support digital teaching and learning.

Strategic Priority 1: A Statewide Shared Services Model

Currently, Wilkes County Schools' infrastructure includes on-site storage, management tools, printing, and application, file sharing, and other services. Wireless network hardware is available at all locations to support mobile computing devices. Voice over IP telephones are installed at all schools and administrative facilities. Firewalls and filters are maintained at the district level. Google G Suite for Education is used for teachers and student email and document sharing. Wilkes County Schools connects to the internet over the North Carolina Research in Education Network. Wilkes County Schools will utilize the resources in Homebase provided by NCDPI to leverage statewide cost savings.

Strategic Priority 2: Universal Access to Personal Teaching and Learning Devices

Wilkes County Schools provide a teacher laptop for all regular education, Pre-K, media coordinators, and EC teachers. All students in grades K-12 have a 1:1 access to a laptop or Chromebook. High school students utilize laptops or Chromebooks for online courses through the NC Virtual Public High School, Edmentum, and online courses provided by Wilkes Community College.

Wilkes County Schools will maintain the 1:1 laptop/Chromebook program in grades K-12. Online assessments will be conducted as available from NCDPI.

Strategic Priority 3: Statewide Access to Digital Teaching and Learning Resources

WCS utilizes Homebase, NC WiseOwl, online digital textbooks, NCVPS, and other digital resources for online course content and curriculum. We currently subscribe to Edmentum, Canvas Gaggle, G Suite for Education, MobyMax, Discovery Education, BrainPop, etc. to enhance, customize, and create digital content for student learning.

Wilkes County Schools will utilize digital content provided through Homebase to provide additional digital resources for all K-12 students as resources become available.

Strategic Priority 4: A Statewide Model of Technology-Enabled Professional Development

All teachers have completed PowerTeacher Pro training. All teachers have received professional development conducted by Digital Learning Facilitators to assist with integrating the 1:1 initiative. Instructional Specialists are used as data coaches during Data Team meetings to assist teachers in data-driven decision making for instruction.

We currently use formative assessment tools such as MobyMax, SchoolNet, mClass, STAR, Google Forms etc., along with county and school level professional development activities to support data-driven decision making for instructional Data Teams.

Continue to utilize Data Teams to make decisions to inform instruction

Administrators, Instructional Specialists, Teachers

Strategic Priority 5: Digital Leadership for All Schools and Districts

Principals participate in monthly principals' meetings at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. These meetings provide opportunities for professional development, planning, leadership discussions and collaboration to guide our schools.

Students in grades K -12 are provided a Chromebook or laptop. Wireless functionality is available in all of our schools to provide diverse learning experiences to students using these devices. Teachers use Google Apps for Education, Canvas, and other online tools to collaborate with students within their class, the school, the district, and in the global community. Students use this technology for project based learning.

Teachers use SchoolNet and other online resources to create formative assessments to measure student learning.

Teachers participate in Data Team meetings at the school level. District K-5 grade level meetings as well as grade 6 -12 subject area meetings are conducted throughout the school year. Technology professional development is conducted based on teacher needs and requests.

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Wilkes County Schools serves students in PreK-13 and is located in North Wilkesboro, NC.