Appendix 1

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

The Highland Park Elementary School Technology Program

• May, 1989 - Need and desire for technology expressed by teachers, parents, and students. Principal appoints a Task Force of parents, teachers, local business and administrator to make a plan

• May-Nov, 1989 - Task Force develops goal: establish a new, state-of-the computer laboratory. presents to parents (P.T.A.) and begins search for funding partners.

• January, 1990 - Parent-Teacher-Association formally. adopts Technology Plan and votes to add a specific fundraiser for this purpose to the year's activities

• Feb-July, 1990 - Fundraiser: "Chocolate for Computers" nets $13,000

• August, 1990 - Highland Park is selected by Apple Computer, Inc. to participate in the Christopher Columbus Consortium, a partnership of university colleges of education, K-12 schools, and Apple Computer, Inc.

• August, 1990 - Parents and Adopt-A-School partners respond to need for additional money and provide approximately $8,000 in donations to meet matching grant/discounts from Apple Computer to quality for program.

• September, 1990 - Kick-off Luncheon given by Dr. Warlick for consortium participants from the University of Texas, Apple Computer, Inc. Valley View Elementary School (Eanes ISD), and Highland Park Elementary School (Austin ISD)

• September, 1990 - Visit to Apple consortium site (Valley View Elementary School) by Principal and selected teachers

• October 1990 - Communications Council Meeting of local Christopher Columbus Consortium members at Valley View Elementary School

• October, 1990 - Apple Education Solutions Workshop, Thompson Conference Center, U.T. attended by C. Tousek, G. Gaston, and M. Rodriguez

• November 1990 - Work begins with U.T. College of Education to develop an evaluation design for Highland Park's Technology initiative

• January, 1991 - Communications Council Meeting of local Christopher Columbus Consortium members at U.T.

• January, 1991 - HyperCard presentation to all faculty by Dr. George H. Culp, UT

• January-May, 1991 - Christopher Columbus Consortium Activity: work begins with Dr. G. Culp, U.T., College of Education and 3 research assistants to work directly with 3 teachers from Highland Park to design and develop Hypercard stacks that meet specific needs defined by the teachers.

  Curriculum products produced: Trumpet/Swan by Janet Sawyer, 5th grade; Renaissance Inventions by Merlinda Rodriguez, 3rd grade; Fiddlesticks! by Gayle Gaston, music.

  Teacher productivity - self-initiated: products: seating charts, student assignments, parent communications, schedules,etc. - samples on file at Highland Park; grade reporting to incorporate special area teachers.

• January-May,1991 - Develop surveys: work with U.T.College of Education to develop Computer Usage Surveys for parents, teachers, and students

• January-May, 1991 - U.T. College of Education (Dr. Gayle Davidson's students) work with Highland Park. teachers to develop computer assisted instruction techniques and products.

• February, 1991 - K-12 Apple Computer Solutions Forum, Tampa, FLA

• March, 1991 - Brochure about Highland Park computer laboratory developed

• March, 1991 - New, state-of-the-art computer laboratory becomes fully operational with 24 workstations, teacher workstation, overhead projection panel, printers, and variety of software. (Phase I complete)

• April, 1991 - Organization of Parents for Educational Technology, a volunteer committee of the P.T.A., to organize and manage after school Computer Camp

• April, 1991 - Development of school brochure by students: Morton Printing/AIM High/LCRA School Brochure Contest Copy and Visual Appeal Recognition

• April, 1991 - K-12 Apple Computer Solutions Forum in Austin, Texas

  May, 1991 - State-of-the-art 24-station computer laboratory officially opened and dedicated during Highland Park Volunteer Appreciation Ceremony

• May, 1991 - Highland Park receives Austin ISD/Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Adopt-A-School Teamwork Award for establishment of new computer laboratory (one of 12 city-wide awards)

• May, 1991 - First Annual Hypercard Stackware Challenge entered by Gayle Gaston and Chi-hui Lin-Fieeldsticks! - winner

• May, 1991 - Christopher Columbus Consortium meeting at Highland Park Elementary

  Ongoing Student writing and teacher productivity samples on display through the school.

• June, 1991 - Technology Action Lab at Highland Park Elementary School for Texas Elementary Principals and Superintendents Association summer Conference

• July, 1991 - Christopher Columbus Consortium Conference, San Jose

  Presentation given by Principal on Collaborative Management Structure of Highland Park Technology Program.

  AWARD: First Place, Gayle Gaston, Software Design Contest

• July, 1991 - Education Service Center, Region XIII Administrators Workshop,

  Presentation: Community Involvement in a Successful Technology Program given by Adopt-A-School Coordinator, S. Warlick.

• July, 1991 - Texas Computer Educators Association Meeting, Corpus Christi, Presentation by two Highland Park teachers.

  Apple PIE Program

• July, 1991 - Creation of a technical advisory group of experts from local business and education community to counsel Highland Park on technological matters and future plans.

• July, 1991 - Needs assessment and long range planning for expansion of program begins.

• August, 1991 - HyperCard Training for teachers (20 hours) by Dr. George H. Culp, U.T. (all time donated by Dr. Culp and teachers) Training done in Highland Park computer laboratory.

• August, 1991 - Advanced Macintosh Training for teachers (12 hours.) by Lucy Hart Cochrane, ComputerLand (all time donated)

  1990-91 - One of 10 elementary schools to partpcipate in the Austin I.S.D.'s Science Academy Innovative Tech Grant from the Texas Education Agency

  1990-91 - Teacher, Administrator, and./or Parent Visitors/Phone Calls to Highland Park seeking information about starting technology programs from the following schools: Blanton Elem, Joslin Elem, Lee Elem, Pease Elem, Sunset Valley Elem, Brentwood Elem, Kocurek Elem, Pleasant Hill Elem, Williams Elem, Casis Elem, Patton Elem, Read Elem, Odom ISD, Odom, Texas

• August, 1991 - Desktop Publication training at Highland Park for teachers, given by Mildred Joseph, University of Texas Computation Center (all time donated by Ms. Joseph and the teachers)

• September, 1991 - Training activities in use of Bank Street Writer, SuperPaint, Paws, T.C.E.T. stacks, and uses of laser disc technology

• September, 1991 - Austin I.S.D. Administrators Breakfast, Presentation by Claudia Tousek on Successful Partnering Efforts

• October, 1991 - Release time given for Multi-media training in Project T.I.M.E.

  Review of districtwide state-of-the-art equipment by Highland Park Technology Committee (standing teacher and parent committee)

• October, 1991 - Telecommunications activities with Williams Elementary (across grade level math exchange)

• December, 1991 - Motorola, DEC, Highland Park begin design plans for establishing a schoolwide backbone network.

• January, 1992 - Highland Park technology program and its related activities with The University of Texas featured in UT's Alcalde magazine.

• January, 1992 - Network design development meeting: DEC, AISD electrician, Highland Park staff to review building blueprints and electricity. NOT ENOUGH ELECTRICITY! Add electrical upgrade to schoolwide network plans.

• February, 1992 - Backbone Network Design completed and presented to Technical Advisory Group. Adopted.

• February, 1992 - TENET Overview and Training for All Teachers by Dr. Charles H. Warlick, The University of Texas.

• March, 1992 - Proposals submitted to local foundations and business for funding of Phase II: Establishing a Schoolwide Backbone Network for Highland Park Technology Program.

• April, 1992 - Presentation to Governor's Conference on Science, Technology, and Math. Highland Park was one of only 3 elementary schools on the Conference program.

• April, 1992 - Gayle Gaston, Highland Park teacher and technology leader, received the Christa McAuliffe national award and funding for Project T.I.M.E. (Technology in Mentoring Environments)

• April, 1992 - Highland Park parents, staff, adopters, and friends mounted a successful "drive" for a Macintosh LC computer in the Apple/Chevrolet sponsored program. (April, 1992)

• Spring, 1992 - Special Education teachers Lynn Hoover, Lisa Bachman, Pam Gonzales and Kindergarten/First Grade teacher Ave Wahrmund were awarded incentive grants from Austin I.S.D. for technology proposals.

• Spring, 1992 - Highland Park teachers began using Texas Education Network (tenet) for communication and instruction. A TEA training tape segment was videotaped at Highland Park with Steve Banks and four Highland Park students.

• May, 1992 - Teaching Award: Third grade teachers Sally Martin, Steve Banks, Merlinda Rodriguez, and Sally Hunter won the Austin Heritage Society award with "On The Avenue" HyperCard tour of historic Austin.

• May, 1992 - A Training Institute was hosted by Highland Park in collaboration with Southwest Texas State University. This one-day mini-institute given by Highland Park teachers served approximately 20 teachers rom elementary schools in San Marcos.

• May, 1992 - Since, January, 1990, Highland Park received visits and calls from approximately 50 schools in the central Texas area for information and or assistance in effectively implementing technology into education.

• May, 1992 - Weekly Ongoing in-house staff training in the form of teachers training teachers

• June, 1992 - Teachers win First Place and Third Place in Software Design Contest. Lisa Marques, second grade teacher, won first place and Janet Sawyer, fifth grade teacher, won third place in the Christopher Columbus Consortium software design contest using HyperCard. The "Stack It Up" contest included the 39 Christopher Columbus Consortium sites. Ms. Marques won a Macintosh LCII computer and Ms. Sawyer won a Macintosh Classic computer.

• June, 1992 - Highland Park parents turned in $389,000 in grocery receipts to Tom Thumb Grocery for redemption of a Macintosh LC computer and a printer.

• July, 1992 - Principal meets with Austin I.S.D. Director of Construction Management, AISD, to work on plans for schoolwide Electrical Upgrade.

• July, 1992 - PROPOSAL FUNDED. The Highland Park Elementary School Technology Program: A Paradigm For The Nineties proposal for ethernet backbone network received $50,000 funding from a local foundation and $15,000 from an Adopt-A-School partner. These amounts, along with equipment earned by parents and staff, and other adopter contributions towards the proposal totals approximately $109,000 and will enable full implementation of this phase of our technology program.

• August, 1992 - Meeting with Austin I.S.D. electrician to provide drawings and information for electricity upgrade (40 amps/classroom as recommended by both computer and electrical advisors)

• September, 1992 -

  PROPOSAL FUNDED.

  Highland Park's newly formed partnership with Southwest Texas State University paid off with the funding of the SWT Center for Professional Development and Technology. This Center is one of 8 funded in Texas by the Texas Education Agency as part of the statewide effort to integrate technology into the K-12 environment. Highland Park is a partner with Southwest Texas State University and Bowie Elementary in San Marcos. Both schools will work with the SWT School of Education to provide leadership in training teachers to successfully incorporate technology into the classroom.

• September, 1992 - Project T.I.M.E. becomes operational with two multi-media stations (Gaston, Christa McAuliffe Fellowship)

• October, 1992 - Visitors to Highland Park to gain information about schoolwide infusion of technology were two representatives of the New York office of Scholastics Publishing, Inc. (referred by the Texas Education Agency)

• October, 1992 - Meetings with Austin I.S.D. Construction Management and Electrical personnel to finalize electrical needs. An electrical design must be made and bids acquired for the work. Process will take up to 6 weeks.

• November, 1992 - Visitors to Highland Park to learn of technology work included Ray Ramirez from U.S. Senator Bingaman's Office and Dave Foster, SEDL. Topic of discussion: national support of model technology programs such as Highland Park's.

• November, 1992 - Principal Claudia Tousek was one of only 3 educators in the nation named to receive the McKee Corporation Award for Individual Achievement from National Association of Partners in Education based on her efforts with the Highland Park technology program. The award was presented during 1992 Symposium of the National Association of Partners in Education in Washington, D.C.

• December 10, 1992 - Final walk through by Technical Advisory Group experts for revising backbone network from thin net to 10BaseT.

• December 16, 1992 - Revised networking plan adopted by Technical Advisory Group.

• January 4, 1993 - Meeting with Leslie Cohen of Austin I.S.D. for assistance with AISD purchasing formats for network acquisition. No samples available from Ms. Cohen. Local campus charged with responsibility for stating and formatting networking requirements.

• January 20, 1993 - Networking Specifications completed by Highland Park (with help of Technical Advisory Group and Glenn Smith, Austin I.S.D. Telecommunications) and delivered to Austin I.S.D. for procurement.

• February, 1993 - Bidders conference at Highland Park for vendors interested in bidding on equipment and installation of backbone network.

• April, 1993 - Bid for acquisition of Highland Park Backbone Network awarded to NetServ, Inc. of Austin by t he Austin Independent School District.

• April, 1993 - Technology Incentive Grant Funded. The 3rd grade techers, Sally Hunter, Kalene Jones, Sally Martin,a nd Marlinda Rodriguez, were awarded an AISD Technology Incentive Grant for $2,842.0-0 for their innovative project Tools to Achieve.

• Spring, 1993 - DTEACH Fellowhips: Sally Martin, Merlinda Rodriguez, 3rd grade teachers; Steve Banks, 4th grade teacher, selected to participate in a new design technology and engineering curriculum training course at U.T.

• May, 1993 - Principal Claudia Tousek and the Highland Park Adopt-A-School Partners are one of ten inductees in the Adopt-A-School Hall of Fame for their long term commitment to the program, especially in the area of technology.

• May, 1993 - Highland Park Times newsletter produced by students using color graphics and scanning techniques.

• May, 1993 - Backbone Network installed. (Phase II item complete)

• May, 1993 - Mail (Post Office Protocol)/File server acquired through award to UT/Highland Park by Sun Microsystems of SPARCstation to be used at Highland Park Elementary School

• June, 1993 - Highland Park teacher, Gayle Gaston, presents Southwest Texas Center for Professional Development and Technology two week training institute for local educators.

• June, 1993 - Texas Computer Educators Association Conference, Austin. Technology presentations by Gayle Gaston and Lynn Hoover.

• October, 1993 - Sun SPARC System configured for Highland Park Ethernet network.

• Oct.-Nov., 1993 - Funding for 56KB telephone line installation secured.

• December, 1993 - Three Highland Park teachers receive training in Sun and Unix systems from U.T. Computation Center staff.

• Dec. 1993-Jan. 1994 - Elements of Mail Host System for Highland Park Ethernet Backbone Network acquired and placed: Sun SPARC System PX, Cisco Systems Router, and IPT, Inc. Software. (Phase III of Long Range Plan now complete.)

• January, 1994 - Installation of IPT, Inc. software U-Share for mail and file service.

• February 1994 - Application for internet address for Highland Park mail host system (Sun SPARC System PX).

• February, 1994 - Seminars at Highland Park for al faculty given by Dr. Judi Harris, U.T. College of Education in the use of Internet Resources in the curriculum.

• March, 1994 - Training for all faculty on electronic mail and file service using the new Sun SPARC Station PX.

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• b>April, 1994 - Highland Park Principal converts in-house communication to electronic mail.

• August, 1994 - Staff development for Highland Park teachers in the use of the Internet provided by Highland Park teachers.

• August, 1994 - Technical Advisory Group advises re-thinking goals of Phase IV plan for adding workstations to each classroom to bring minimum to four each. Advancements during the past year indicate (1) the need for upgrading laboratory workstations for more advanced Internet activity; and (2) that greater educational benefit will come from teacher proposals for individual classroom configurations based on teaching materials and styles.

• September, 1994 - Every regular classroom, special area classroom, and administrative area now has a minimum of one Macintosh computer on the network.