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| District Technology Plan |
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| Fife School District |
| 2007 - 2010 |
| Technology Vision Statement: |
In a society increasingly dependent on information and knowledge, equitable and universal access to technology, media and information resources are essential to the learning process. With access to and proficiency in the use of these tools, and with the guidance of skilled educators and community members, all students have the opportunity to become actively engaged and take responsible roles in their learning as they think, create, conduct inquires, solve problems, and communicate in individual, collaborative and interdisciplinary settings.
Fife District and community have a common understanding of the transformation nature of changes in digital technologies and how today digital natives use technology is far better than digital immigrants (anyone over 32). The district provides all students and adults who work in the schools the tools required for quality work. Therefore:
All students and faculty be provided wit the latest technology tools and training so that they can function in society and be competitive in the global market.
We envision that students will develop the necessary skills to be productive members of society. Technology will support this development by refining their critical thinking skills, enabling effective communication, and fostering creativity.
Fife School District is committed to providing ongoing and continuous training to all of its teachers in the use of integration of technology tools.
To ensure equity of learning, these tools will be made available to all students in support of their varied learning styles and needs by providing faculty access to state of the art digital resources.
To achieve our vision, the Fife School District will enlist the active engagement of our parents and community and offer the technological resources of the schools. |
| Action Plan: |
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| Goal: |
Technology Literacy for Students |
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| SMART Goal: |
By Spring 2010, all students will meet Tier 2 in 9th grade Technology Literacy Standards for Washington State. At least 40-50% will meet Tier 3 Technology Literacy Standards for Washington State. |
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| Strategy: |
More access through wireless connectivity; |
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| Rationale: |
No barriers |
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Professional Development |
Timeline |
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Amount / Type / Description / Funding Source |
Who is Responsible? |
Monitoring Effectiveness |
| Continue to Work on Infrastructure from IT Department Point of View |
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8/10/2007 -
3/17/2008 |
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Brent and HP |
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| Procedures for evaluating success in reaching this goal Ongoing |
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| Strategy: |
Discovery Primary: Each primary grade has 2-3 PCs; continue to deploy appropriate software for Pre-K-1; Work with Principal and PTA to purchase appropriate software for students; basic for Tech Literacy for grade level; research based (Metiri Group analysis) Hedden & Endeavour: Continue to incorporate EETC Model of Peer Coaching using Kris Haines and Lisa Woods as Mentors; Incorporate more instructional technology into teaching for all elementary teachers; continue to focus on keyboarding in grades 4-5; focus on ISTE standards and grade level tech skills as written in tech plan for district; SLMS 6-7 grade: Focus on 18 week course with ISTE standards; 9th grade Tech Literacy test for State standards and high school tech literach standards through CTE. |
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| Rationale: |
ISTE standards for Students are the minimum requirements and each year, every grade level has certain standards that must be followed in order to meet the next year's requirements. These are posted in the district tech plan and are available online on the district technology portal site. |
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Who is Responsible? |
Monitoring Effectiveness |
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| Procedures for evaluating success in reaching this goal Work with principal, Director of Instructional Technology, parents, and teachers to design appropriate software for grade level; continuous design for improvement. |
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| Goal: |
Instructional Technology Training for Teachers |
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| SMART Goal: |
Train staff on software and integrating equipment into curriculum. By 2010, all staff will be trained on using the Intranet and Internet for communicating with parents and students. |
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| Strategy: |
Office 7 and Sharepoint 7 Training in Tandem; After Training Offer Software for Home Computer |
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| Rationale: |
Easy transition if able to use with home computer |
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Who is Responsible? |
Monitoring Effectiveness |
| Design Office 2007 Training in July 2007 (John Garrett and Cindy Agnew) |
Administrator Training will occur at Admin Retreat August 12-13; 45 Minutes with ongoing building level training; John Garrett will hold building level training at SLMS with SLMS staff; Andy McClure will hold CJH training during CJH Staff Inservice Day in August; Andy McClure will hold Training at FHS during FHS Staff Inservice Day; John & Cindy will work with 3 elementaries to train their staffs during their staff inservice dates (late August); John will coordinate trainings throughout year; Christiann Thomas will continue to train FHS; Andy CJH. |
7/16/2007 -
9/19/2008 |
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All Staff |
100% of all staff will be using Office 2007 for Outlook (Exchange) at beginning of 2007 school year. |
| Integrate Office 2007 Word into Daily World of Teacher Life |
Begin Professional Development of Office 2007 Ribbon Bar During Staff Training in August |
8/27/2007 -
9/26/2008 |
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All Staff |
Learn how to Save, Print, Save As, Open, Close, Exit |
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| Procedures for evaluating success in reaching this goal Able to work on portal from home using Office 7 |
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| Strategy: |
Learn how to use Office 2007 |
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| Rationale: |
Teachers need to use Outlook 2007 so they can receive e-mail and answer e-mail at the beginning of the 2007 school year. |
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Monitoring Effectiveness |
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| Procedures for evaluating success in reaching this goal 100% of teachers and staff will be able to use their e-mail by end of August. |
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| Strategy: |
2007-08: Train the Trainer Model: John Garrett is the District Trainer for Office 2007 roll-out. He is in charge of the District Technology Calendar. Each building has a building trainer. They work with John Garrett to set up their trainings and can either use Surprise Lake Middle School as their training site or another secondary building. Each building needs training on One Note, Word, Exchange, Powerpoint, and possibly, Excel. Later in 2008, Sharepoint 2007 will be available. Teachers will need to be trained on this throughout the 2008-09 school year. Finally, the ongoing training of how to integrate instructional technology into instructional will be an ongoing training opportunity for the entire three years. We have an opportunity to use Kris Haines and Lisa Woods as our first two EETC Peer Coaches for Training Teachers on how to integrate technology into their teaching during the 2007-08 year. This training will continue throughout 2010. |
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| Rationale: |
We have the equipment in all of our classrooms (new PCs). We are currently working to get additional document cameras and projectors into our classrooms over the next five-eight years. With this technology coming into our buildings, the art of teaching with technology will enhance the experience of learning. The idea is to motivate students to want to learn. Finally, the idea of using technology with students by having a wireless network or a wireless device in their hands is just around the corner. |
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Professional Development |
Timeline |
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Who is Responsible? |
Monitoring Effectiveness |
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| Procedures for evaluating success in reaching this goal Can we assess if instructional technology improves student achievement? Use WOW (professional development time) to design instructional technology lessons. (professional learning communities) |
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| Inventory: |
Yes The district has completed the current online technology inventory and will continue to do so annually. |
| CIPA Compliance: |
Yes The district has completed the current Form 479 and will continue to do so annually. |
District-Level Network and Telecommunications Plan - Part 1 |
| District Technology Standards: |
During 2007-10: Fife will continue to retire out all 7+ year old servers and replace with HP Class C Blades; continue to work with K20 and Qwest or other vendor to get 1Gb Fiber between 4 campuses (ultimately all 6 buildings) to relax bandwidth restrictions; For desktops-we will stay with HP SFF with at least 1-2GB RAM, 80GB HD, DVD/CD and stay with HP brand.
Purchase rotation is focused on teacher PCs will continue to follow same rotation (06:FHS, 07:CJH, 08:END, 09:DIS, 10:SLMS, 11:HEDDEN); Main focus is to get teacher presentation stations (laptops, document cameras & projectors into all classrooms) by end of tech levy--2011. No student labs or student laptops are scheduled to be replaced with the second round of first tech levy dollars so it is imperative that we take good care of every lab until we can get a second tech levy passed.
Computer Labs: the tech levy has redesigned three computer labs at SLMS; and two labs at Fife High. All computers will run Vista, Office 2007 and staff will be moved over to Exchange 2007 sometime during the school year of 2007-08.
Wiring: All of Milton's campus will be wireless by 2009. Endeavour and Discovery's routers will be at updated starting in 2008. Fife High and CJH's wireless will be updated in 2009.
During 2007, Fife District intends to update its voice messaging system to a 1-800 system (off site)
During 2008-10, district will continue to monitor/evaluate the Mitel system to ensure that we are ok on the 2000 series or move on up to the 3300 series.
K20 Network Infrastructure: 2007-As we wait for K20 to help us out on the bandwidth issue between buildings, we will continue to look for options for easing our bandwidth restrictions between campuses. By 2010, our goal is to have all campuses connected to district office at 1 GB with minimal expense (less than $5,000 per month) as quoted in Feb. 07 by Qwest).
The district technology team is committed to the highest standard of customer support and care. We have set up a system where we can respond quickly to an urgent issue. We will continue this practice in 2007-10. |
| Budget Summary: |
Fife District voters passed a $3.7 million 4 year tech levy in February, 2003. We intend to budget the levy over six years (Jan. 2004-2010). For the next three years, (2007-2010), the average yearly budget is approximately $400,000-$500,000 out of technology levy for all regular maintenance/yearly contracts, some salaries, and new equipment for teachers and infrastructure.
($250,000 yearly for budgeted items; $150,000-200,000 for capital projects). |
District-Level Network and Telecommunications Plan - Part 2 |
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| E-Rate – Priority One Requests Voice, Data, Video
and Other Priority One Capabilities |
Purchase / Budget /
Potential Funding Source(s) |
| Fife District started its Form 470 window for T1 connectivity in December and also filed a Form 470 for possible broadband between 4 campuses in December 06. The window will close in late December. Integra will start a 36 month contract in February 2007 for PRIs and voice, which has already been approved for e-rate last year. |
If approved for erate funding for year 2007-08, Fife District School Board will approve at the January 30, 2007 board meeting. Form 471 will be completed prior to the February 7, 2007 deadline. Funding for Priority 1 will be paid for out of erate funds and district funds. |
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| How will these services support your district's learning goals? |
Currently, our Milton campus has two T1s that support over 400 PCs to three buildings. The total bandwidth is 2.8 MBs. We lack bandwidth for supporting additional curriculum bandwidth purchages (Discovery, media, or any type of video, streaming, etc.) Our goal is to have every building up to 1GB fast ethermet and all of our data centralized at the ESC. We may still have to download videos the night before like most large districts if the demand overloads the bandwidth in the future. However, at this point, we have very limited capacity to show streaming video on the Milton campus or Hedden. The dream is to have Internet2 available to all classrooms in the Fife School District. This is where we want to take our students. |
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E-Rate – Priority Two Requests Hardware/Software/Support
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Poverty % too low. |
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| Maintenance, Upgrade, and Support Strategies |
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Timeline |
| We maintain yearly maintenance agreement on all new equipment for three years. (desktops, projectors, and document cameras). After the intial three years, we do not purchase additional maintenance agreements due to the high cost). Every five years, our plan is to rotate teacher computers and run a new tech levy in 2010 for new student computers (including student laptops and student labs)which will be replaced every 5 years. Each school will all student computers replaced during next levy. All servers are in replacement cycle now and will continue to be replaced every five years; also server farm is being downsized from 31 to 15 while centralized of services is occurring on each of the campuses (more applications are being run off 1 server versus many servers). 12 Servers Located on Milton/Hedden Campus Two (2) Schoolmaster servers (Milton and Hedden) Three (3)Accelerated Reader Servers (Hedden, SLMS, Endeavour) One (1) Follett Library (shared by all schools) One (1) Anti-virus server One (1) domain controller & print server One (1) student server One (1) Exchange e-mail server (for all schools) One (1) Shared Student server for (all schools) One (1) Shared Server (for all staff) |
Tech levy will be used to update all equipment, including teacher equipment, server equipment, telephone equipment, fiber ethernet upgrade to buildings. |
This will be over a three-five year period. |
| Central Office Servers are being switched to blades; currently at 8 blades and moving off all old servers (next will be Exchange 07 to blades; Doshuare off; Children Count off; 7 servers offline and off warranty; move to Virtual servers. Turn off half servers and clean out half of server room. All software updates (district purchased--Microsoft Office suite, Encarta, anti-virus, Sharepoint, Follett, Schoolmaster, etc.) is purchased on a yearly license. |
Tech levy will be used to update all district related software and equipment, including teacher equipment, server equipment, telephone equipment, fiber ethernet upgrade to buildings. |
Plans are to continue over next three years with current tech levy. |
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| How will these strategies support your district's learning goals? |
These services are in complete alignment with the district learning goals. The number one goal of the disrict tech department is to support student learning and the teachers of the Fife district. |
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| Process to Review and Update Your Entire Technology Plan |
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| The district instructional technology director will updated the district technology plan monthly. She will updated the team by e-mail on all progress activities. District technology team will meet four times a year. |
Cindy Agnew, Nancy Morton, Ladd Wolfe, Drew Ritzen, Karen McClurley, Andy McClure, Chris O'Mara, Karen Slavens, John Garrett, David Stockman, Elaine Smith, Christiann Thomas, Mark Knight,Kevin Johnson |
September, 2007 through June 2010 WOW Day Discussion Time for Techs (will be scheduled) Live Meeting last Monday of September, November, March, May 4:00 @ ESC |
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