By Lisa Capobianco Staff Writer Over the past six to seven months, a group of educators and administrators of the Technology Long Term Planning Committee banded together to revolutionize the way Southington Public Schools addresses and provides professional development for technology. During a Board of Education meeting last week, Chris Richter, an eighth grade teacher at Kennedy Middle School and Karen Veilleux, the technology director of the Southington school district, shared an update the committee’s long-term plan to board members. Before creating a plan, the committee administered a district-wide survey to teachers to assess where they stood in the area of technology. From their level of computer skills to how often they use technology in the classroom to the availability of assistance in technological problems, the questions of the survey provided a wide range of data for the committee. “We wanted to see as a whole where the district was at,” said Richter during the presentation. “We as a committee looked at each school and how they were doing, what we could do to try and address the issues.” Richter said the results of the survey brought up three key issues for the committee to address: communication between teachers of [...]
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