Page 75 - Technology Plan for School Years 2017 to 2021

Executive Overview

Effective communications and community outreach among District stakeholders, including
students, parents, guardians, teachers, and administrators is key to achieving academic
success. Online and virtual technology presents a variety of options to stay connected. Our
stakeholders use digital media, virtual environments and mobile devices on a 24/7 basis to
learn, communicate, and work. To support personalized learning, IT understands that our
stakeholders’ expectations are to use technology so they may:

 Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others.
 Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
 Develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of
other cultures.
 Contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

School and Classroom Websites
Parents and guardians expect quick access to information about their child’s learning,
classroom, and school. The District will continue to provide website services to all schools
and departments and to every classroom teacher. The current system of classroom websites
provides each school, and individual teachers, the ability to post news items, maintain a
calendar of events and assignments, provide links to instructional resources, and post
documents of interest to students and parents/guardians. It also allows for push
notifications to student and parent/guardian mobile devices as well as customized reports.

During the life of this plan, all school, classroom, District, and department websites will be
migrated under one web content management system. That system will provide all
functionality currently available as well as new functionality including the ability for school,
region and/or District leaders to push information to any or all websites simultaneously and
the ability to implement a standardized branding model and templates for web page design.
This will assure critical District content such as bell times, transportation information, code
of conduct information and important information about food services are consistent and up
to date on all District online locations.

Parents and guardians should experience consistency between school sites and the District
site, for ease of use and ability to find information quickly and with as few clicks as possible
in a mobile-browser friendly format.

District Mobile App

Some of our schools offer a native mobile app that students and parents/guardians can
download to remain up-to-date on school events and announcements. During the life of this
plan, a District mobile app will be available in the App Store for students, parents/guardians,

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