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School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA 4.0). NCLTI Winter Leadership Institute Friday Institute for Educational Innovation NC State University. Jeni Corn, jocorn@ncsu.edu Elizabeth Halstead, elizabeth_halstead@ncsu.edu Ruchi Patel, tulsi81@gmail.com
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School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA 4.0) NCLTI Winter Leadership Institute Friday Institute for Educational Innovation NC State University Jeni Corn, jocorn@ncsu.edu Elizabeth Halstead, elizabeth_halstead@ncsu.edu Ruchi Patel, tulsi81@gmail.com Danny Stanhope, daniel.s.stanhope@gmail.com
What is STNA? STNA provides a free, user-friendly online tool that meets the need for planning and formative evaluation of technology projects in educational settings Teacher self-report survey instrument Targets teachers’ perceptions about technology-related phenomena
Measures/Data Sources: STNA • Use STNA if you want to know what staff members think and feel about… • Leadership, planning, and budgeting • Infrastructure and resources • Professional development • Their classroom practices with technology • The impact of technology on students
Measures/Data Sources: STNA • Currently free, thanks to Friday Institute support • Convene your team, decide if you need STNA data and how it will be used • Communicate with staff for buy-in • Contact Danny: daniel.s.stanhope@gmail.com • Names of schools • Opening and closing dates • An accurate count of expected respondents
How Can Findings be Used? • Report your STNA findings to stakeholders • Increase buy-in • Improve project implementation • Encourage participation in project evaluation
How Can Findings be Used? • Plan your technology program implementation • Incorporate into School Improvement Plan, Technology Plan • Define your priorities • Plan professional development • Allocate resources – funding, staffing, infrastructure • Clarify your technology program implementation steps • Provide rationale for your goals and objectives • Connect to your strategies • Make your case with needs data • Repeated uses track changes in the school STNA “profile”
Example Open STNA Report (WLI)…
Session Activities • Guiding Questions: 15 min. • What are the results? How would you summarize the data? • What do the results mean for your school or district? • What are you going to do now? What decisions would you make about things like PD, infrastructure, tools/resources, staffing, School Improvement Plans, submitting a grant, or partnerships? • Share Out