Sustaining+Your+Program

=How do you sustain your program?=

How can you convince the decision makers in your district that your position is a necessity?

 * ===Show your impact by having students and teachers present examples of 21st century lessons at school board meetings.===
 * ===Network with the decision makers in your district, specifically principals, curriuculum directors, department chairs and lead teachers and keep intergration of technology as a focal point of instructional reform.===
 * ===Publicize the technology successes in your district through school papers, newsletters, local papers, web sites, and other outlets.===
 * ====**Invite board members and the superintendent to see live class examples of 21st century teaching and learning**====
 * ====**Use research that shows why your position is essential to the technology reform that is taking place in your district.**====

How can you fight for and win the financial resources ($$$$$) to sustain the hardware and software tools that students and teachers have made a part of the successful 21st century classroom?

 * ===**Look for creative ways to save money in other areas (paperless classrooms, printing and printers, ebooks...) that will free up money for equipment support.**===
 * ===**Consider a technology fee to district families**===
 * ===**Look at leasing options**===
 * ===**Seek out businesses in your communtiy to underwrite some of the cost in a school/business partnership**===