A Healing Wound

Two years ago my grandmother hurt her leg, since then she has had an open wound. The healing process has taken a very long time and was finally achieved in baby steps, but not without a lot of heartache and back steps.
This long healing process feels a lot like the battle with technology in my district. For a long time, things have not changed. Everyone has done their own thing with budgeting, purchasing and inventory. We now have a new dynamic tech leader who sees the big picture. He is not concerned with the politics as much as he is the learning in the classroom and the differences the appropriate tech could make in our classes.
We have had many "band-aid" solutions through out the years but every time we think things may be "healing" more "blood"seeps through the bandage, just like my Gram's leg wound.
I just want to jump ahead in our tech plan and heal everything already, but I am starting to realize that it will take many baby steps and lots of setbacks before things will be good. The speed at which technology changes adds so many challenges. This month we have been dealing with a virus that attacks Symantec (sp?) which was our AVS of choice. We have been cleaning up for 3 weeks solid. Just this week our district's network was attacked by an outside source, and our admin team had to make the decision to cut off the network to try and protect our information. This meant no internet, no servers, no email, no printers, no electronic IEP. In a special ed district especially this was simply a disaster. We are still in the process of cleaning up the mess. The only good thing to come out of this, is that the admin team is now considering the option of Macs across the board when we do updates next year.
We are taking small baby steps and as frustrating as this is to me as the tech integration specialist at least we are moving in the right direction. Three steps forward and two steps back, it doesn't feel like we are getting anywhere at all, but I must be patient. We will get there just like my Gram did.

~Anne