A Moment with David aka da boss

We will be getting $150 twice a year for our DSL line. It will show up as curriculum pay.

We will continue to get the $150 for cell twice a year.

Thanks to Keli for bringing this up.

 

 

Time with Ben (please note that it was difficult to get all the info down and also to be 100% accurate.... if editing/ revision is needed... please feel free to do so)

 

Keli opened the session..... share further thinking about "Rethinking Technology"

When hired Monte asked him to

• want a single lease platform- efficiency (like he had at his previous position)
• want schools to be involved in this process

The last Fall----- woa...... slow down on those item until we see what happens with the bond

The time was good to think through

Not sure that a single platform is really where we want to go especially when our clients are rbinging in their own.

Mary Chesley agrees that a single platform is not the way to go.

 

Some itiatives were mentioned in the bond

• fiber optic network was part of that

 

Bad news:

    We don't have control over many area, we have over budgeted and we have no money left from the mill levy

How do we provide a "digital foundation" for kids?

Met with Guy B. to see how we can fund fiber optic network-Ben and Guy see things differently.

CDE is cutting funding - CCSD funding will be impacted big time.

 

Ben rpesented this info to the Board.

 

Mary acknowledges that we have made promises in the budget election and we need to carry out our plans.

Ben is at a tough point....... we are in a financial preservation mode.

Looking at possibly looking at Capitol Reserve funding with Guy.

 

 

What was shared with Board

cost and options re fiber optic

cost and options re platfom issues

data warehouse information

wireless infrastructure - no dead spots and will be able to carry the load

 

Plan hasn't changed that much....

Mary says time frame may be unclear

 

This will definitly challenge our abilty to adjust

may look at open sources, cloud computing even more closely

 

Amy brought up the parental permission issues

Ben brought up to the board that there needs to be revision of board policies regarding this- first reading will be in Feb and vote in March

    acceptable use, media waiver, FERPA revision (as CCSD views it), who is in charge of purchase recommendations....... (needs to be streamlined)

    need to educate parents better

     perhaps 1% fall in this category....(no permission)

 

Paul brought up the challenge of support of web 2.0 apps i.e. cloud computing.

    human resource side will be at higher cost

    hopefully handle it better by limiting the options

    give up some control

   more cost effective

 

Ben has seen examples where it works, the difference is that the district where it works is centralized, unlike CCSD

    examples: Plano Texas- uses "Open Office"

 

There is a committment to:

fiber optic network

VDI- some north area schools are looking to pilot Thunder Ridge, Polton, Creekside, Highline.....

    small batches of computers and key software bundles are being looked at

    leadership is key  

    "not about the tool set, it's about the mind set"

 

 

Tech Plan

   $30 per student from Capitol Reserve Monies

    the choice of computers will be funeled

    building requests will be reviewed by a committee:  Instructional Strategic Planning Team

          for efficiency and to buy in bulk

          monitor purchases that are "on the edge"

   Updating hardware- hard issue

  Software is still fuzzy as far as using cap reserve money....will need to continue to work with Guy B. to clarify this.

 

 

What scares us---- Amy

   that there isn't a balance between IS and IT on the Strategic Planning Team

 

The original planning team has been disbanded

The new team (Instructional Planning Team)  will be chosen by Ben, Dave, Shawn, (not sure who else.....)

   principals, coordinators,  directors, teachers

   decisions would be all or none- or by feeder group or if it is exclusive- not paid for by district or supported by district

   committee makes the decision and then it is the IS job to make it work

  Cindy expressed concern again over the wisdom of purchases and will there be system to check this more closely

   software needs to be targeted at instruction

  how do we manage the time frames for these purchases.... scary

  Keli asked regarding PTOs purchsing on their own items that have not been supported by the Team- no support   THE POWER OF NO

  If SPT promotes a software or curricular focus then the PD has to speak to that

 

Greg asked- "what excites you that we can take out of this meeting"

• We will have fiber optics- the foundatuion is set for providing kids with a digital experience.

• If we can flsuh out virtual desktops, we will be one of the few districts in the country that will be able to provide students with a 24/7 environment for learning.
  • Chapel Hill NC does this
  • this would kill the equity issue
• can we change the mind set around the "old tools" -CSU just announced that Google apps is the tool, can we prepare our students for this?
  • 25% of our HS students are already on Google Apps
• Downside is it's foundational, once foundation is in place, we can run---- it's a mindset

 

Joel asked- what's the desired state for "next year"

Hard to answer becasue of the funding issues that are in the legislature process.... could run late... into May.

   Hopefully will know more within 45 days

Next year-

• middle of fiber optics implementation
• Instructional Strategic Planning Team will be in place
• schools will look about the same
• huge transitional year

 

We are in the process of centralizing Power School

 

2010 is the goal for technology equity

 

Working with WebMasters to have a communication portal to provide 1 track of information

     hopefully this will be up in 30 days

 

 

 

Discussion about C4T Expectations/Action Plans

      What conversations are we having with our C4Ts around the Action Plan?

                a lot of time it's "I'll get to that"

                the Action Plan can frame the end multimedia plan

                a teacher can use it to document her journey this year- so she can use it for next year

                plan a time to compose the "Action Plan"

      How are we (the coaches) handling our responses?

             We shared how we are talking to the teachers about what they are doing.

             We talked about ways that we can help the teachers add to the plan. 

 

Karen---wondering should you focus on the Action Plan for your next round meetings

 

 

Questions about Sharing night Expectations?

 

 

Carrie Rigney-February 4th @ 8:15-10:15

She will be working with us to clear up SENTEO questions--- please post questions on the WIKI by Friday for her.

Why are the preferences grayed out in the menu items?

How can we change the default font?

 

NSDC idea- Amy

Recalled a positive "note" activity she was incolved in at Antelope to build morale.

Attended the Dennis Sparks session which talked about this type of activity.

He said that notes need to be specific about a situation or activity.

Questions to ponder while reading them:

• were you surprised by what you read
• was there something missing you thought would be there?
• what would you say if you wrote notes to everyone

 

 

Jan. 30th - Coaching/Facilitation at Willow Logistics....Keli

We will be observing in Molly Toussant's Class (5th Grade) at Willow Creek

Molly is involved in PEBC

Yosemite and Dry Creek first right on Yosemite @ Willow Way

Observation starts @ 9:00 be there @ 8:45 by the office.

Big Picture- Following PEBC has an observation model what we will be following. We will be tweaking it to make it fit our SMART Board observations. It's hopefully a combination on CARE model and PEBC.

Lori Conrad is a senior PEBC staff member and will be showing us her protocol. She's a master.

We need to watch for facilitation skills

We will be coming back to SARC for lunch at 12:15 to do the debiefing until 2:00.

 

Here is the schedule that Molly and Lori decided on

• 9:00-10:15 pre-brief (a bit longer than typical because folks will be coming with 2 jobs . . . Participant and future facilitator)
• 10:15-11:15 observation
• 11:15-12:15 (or 30) debrief with Molly
• ???Travel to SARC for lunch???
• 12:15-2:00 debrief the process with the group