i. District Executive Summary
Vision
The East Side Union High School District’s vision is to create
an educational environment where access to technology is universal and
used as an integral tool for teaching, learning, conducting business, and
serving the community. Achieving that, all students and staff will succeed,
reaching their highest potential.
District Goals
Strategic Goal 1:
ß All students will demonstrate the ability to use
information sources and technology effectively in their lives.
Strategic Goal 2:
ß All students will demonstrate measurable progress
toward state academic content standards in core subjects with particular
attention to literacy, mathematics, science, and information literacy
skills.
The district provides leadership, coordination and evaluation that
promote the integration of technology into all educational settings and
facilitate effective communication to parents and the community at large.
These goals are further supported through other district plans: Digital
High School Plans (12), Immediate Intervention/Under performing Schools
Program (IIUSPs), Single School Plans for Student Achievement, and ESUHSD
Strategic Plans.
Introduction
The East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD) Technology
Plan 2003-2006 is a three-year plan, with reviews to be held annually
during May of each year. The plan is focused on Technology as a tool for
teaching and learning. Thus, the priorities of this district technology
plan are the Curriculum and Professional Development Components as ESUHSD
works toward the effective integration of technology into the classroom
to support increased student achievement.
The Plan provides documented research that supports strategies used
in teaching and learning that meet and promote standards-based instruction.
ESUHSD promotes the desire for technology to be an integral tool for all
staff, students, parents and community members.
ESUHSD has many stake holders who participated in the development
of this Technology Plan and their efforts are most appreciated. This plan
could not have been written without input from teachers, administrators,
staff, parents and community. This plan should guide the ESUHSD in the
use of technology in teaching, learning and all district operations.
ESUHSD must prepare our students to be successful in the society
of the future – an information-rich, dynamic and swiftly emerging future.
Technology plays an important role as a tool to enhance student learning.
Technology can assist students to gain necessary skills for the constantly
changing world in which they will live and work. The integration of appropriate
technology, its use, and impact on students is of vital interest to our
school community.
ESUHSD is located in the eastern foothills of San Jose, California.
San Jose is the eleventh largest city in the nation and in the heart of
Silicon Valley, the birthplace for technology in the United States. More
than one-third of the economy in the Valley is directly tied to the innovation,
development and production of technology-related products and services.
The technology industry has generated new forms of businesses, is a major
source of the nation’s exports, and demands (and rewards) a highly skilled
work force.
ESUHSD is the largest high school district in San Jose and one of
the largest in California. With an enrollment of almost 24,000 students
in grades 9-12, ESUHSD encompasses a 180 square mile area – including some
of the lowest income neighborhoods of the City. Over 434,000 people live within
its attendance borders.
There is a minimum of 56 languages spoken throughout the student
population. The ethnic distribution of the student population includes:
40.9% Hispanic, 27.4% Asian, 10.0% Filipino, 15.5% European American,
4.7% African American, 1.0% Pacific Islander, and 0.4% American Indian.
English Language Learners number approximately 5,000 or 20% of the student
population. ESUHSD students on the Free and Reduced Lunch Plan (FRLP)
are 47% of the student population as of October 2002.
ESUHSD has eleven comprehensive high schools, five alternative school
sites that provide access to technology for all students and two permanent
adult education campuses. Independence Adult Center campus buildings were
designed with a fiber optic backbone, complete Science Lab, assessment
center, book store and Teacher/Technology Resource Center. Overfelt Adult
Center has several state of the art computer labs and primarily services
the English as a Second Language department.
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