Vertical Team Immersion
In Irving ISD, the Technology Immersion Project has immersed a vertical team of campuses in order to assess the effects of ubiquitous technology on students as they progress from elementary grades to middle school grades to high school grades. A vertical team of campuses is a cluster of campuses of various types (elementary, middle school, high school) whose enrollment is linked so that students graduating from one level of campus are enrolled in the next successive campus in the pattern. Irving ISD is a large urban school district located in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The TIP project in this district is serving approximately 3,900 students and 315 teachers at Lively Elementary School (Grades K-5), De Zavala Middle School (Grades 6-8), and Irving High School (Grades 9-12). The project is aimed at all K-12 students within this vertical team. Irving ISD has been steadily moving toward technology immersion across the district for the past four years. The goal of Irving ISD’s TIP project, Learning for the 21st Century (L21), is expansion of technology immersion to a vertical team of campuses within a feeder pattern.
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