As we make a shift to instruction and how we expect this to work, we have spent the past couple years spending a lot of time increasing the bandwidth of our infrastructure, but there are many single points of failure in the network we built. A story that i experienced this year is that we spent a physical therapy amount of money of donor funds to put wireless access to our middle schools. And the Parent Teacher conference in the fall, one of the schools wireless access went down so the school was frustrated with me and said we cant have Parent Teacher conference without access so i was confused because they didnt have wireless access the previous year. That shows how quickly this become an expectation this works so the resilience in infrastructure is not going to be cheap, but it will be critical in terms of ensuring the resources are there when they need them. So the next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schoo
The productivity tools that we shouldnt delineate between what the adults and students use. All students should be using office suites, all students should be using google apps. Those are things we should make traction on quickly. The next piece, the deep and expand, thats the idea that where we need to go, where students have not only the curricula available to them, but they have a box of tool, Digital Tools and they make the decisions on how they use the tools to solve the problems that are presented in front of them. And those and that is how we get to full integration of devices, that those devices are simply transparent or seemless to what we see in the classroom and to what we see learning. Part of that is we need to develop internal tools. District wide tools like learning Management Systems and professional Development Systems that allow teachers and students to have access to what they need immediately, but also teachers to get that just in time help. I have students showing
Our current state. Mr. Ryans commented that teachers dont have a common place they can go for the curriculum. They dont have a place of materials embedded by the district that aligns to our curricula goals to access videos and documents and other artifacts that are used. Our employee system is over ten years old and it barely supports really the basic transactions of managing an employee. When i was a new hire i had 12 different forms and filled out the exact same information on moegs of those forms with a slight change here and there because there were so many Different Things on how to do that and some never made it into the system. I commented that our [inaudible] system is not in the worlds best shape and we had a Couple School sites fail where we managed to keep ahead of the curb, but that wont last very long. Fortunately mr. Goldman [inaudible] weve been scraping together money where we can find it to upgrade our high risk sites, but this is a big risk. What is needed for all thi
The next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schools have which devices, which software is on there. So its critical we implement a comprehensive Management System. Our finance department has already started that work to roll out the system for next year and his teams already going to auditing to see whats out there. The other thing i want to do is that pretty much every School District has this history of they get one time funds, go out and biotech knowledge, and the Technology Gets really old and people dont know what to do with it. If this is to be embedded, we need to refresh that technology on a frequent basis so we need to change that shift from the one time funding to really making it part of our baseline budget and lease the equipment so we spend about the same amount of money every year and make sure we get refreshes over a period of time. One of the first things we need to focus on is providing our educa
Were only at 7 percent right now. Devices need to be current and reliable. If theyre more than 4 years old, that the time devices start having issues and become unusable. We need to get one to one device ratio, right now were 1 to [inaudible] device ratio. At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have high end mobile labs available to them to address the more specific requirements of some of the higher end, particularly our english language lerner software and others that require a fully powered desktop machine to do specific work. So the second component is to develop critical tool systems so what does this mean . Realtime technology and curricular support, collaboration, knowledge and learning