To live in a technology and media-driven environment, students, teachers, and administrators must master the 21^st Century skills of collaboration, communication, problem solving, and critical thinking through the effective use of technology.

• Provide technology integration leadership to schools and offices to support the implementation of school improvement plans, differentiated instruction, and best practices in integrating technology into 21^st Century teaching and learning.
• Provide on-site support to school administrators, technology integration teachers, and instructional technology liaisons as they utilize technology resources to support instruction with a focus on increased student achievement.
• Provide a variety of system-wide and school-based high quality professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators in technology integration that support research-based instructional practice and meet the Maryland Technology Literacy Standards for Students, Maryland Teacher Technology Standards, the Maryland Technology Standards for School Administrators, and the Maryland Teacher Professional Development Standards.
• Facilitate procedures for schools to provide online courses for students, with an emphasis on Advanced Placement Courses.
• Expand the use of online tools to support collaboration and communication by BCPS curriculum offices and schools.
• Facilitate the Instructional Software and Web Based Resources Evaluation Process to identify software and web based resources that meet instructional goals.

Office of Instructional Technology Baltimore County Public Schools Loch Raven Technical Academy 8101 La Salle Road Baltimore, Maryland 21286 Phone: 410-887-8918 Fax: 410-828-3938

Thea Jones Supervisor tjones@bcps.org   Nadine Noon Administrative Secretary nnoon@bcps.org Michael Fort Specialist mfort@bcps.org David Robb Specialist drobb@bcps.org Sharon Gallagher Specialist sgallagher4@bcps.org Veronica Henry Resource Teacher vhenry@bcps.org Nancy Reed Resource Teacher nreed@bcps.org Ben Wagner Resource Teacher bwagner@bcps.org   Jennifer Weaver Resource Teacher jweaver@bcps.org

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