In regard to professional development opportunities in the school, the school
embraced the integration of technology, an important element in the facilitation of a 21 st
century educational program, by participating in the Classrooms for the Future grant. The
grant provided hours of professional development in the form of on-line coursework for
the staff. But the course work only introduced teachers to integrating technology into
their lesson plans. However, the observations of the classrooms showed that although the
teachers are finding more technology access convenient, there still needs to be more
training on not only using digital tools but how to design more constructive deliberate
educational experience for the students. The teachers discussed that the professional
development and administrative support were not assisting them in understanding the
goals and expectations or reaching them.