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ETOTE Survey 2004 - A Measure of Technology Proficiencies
Cleveland City Schools is showing improvement in their implementation of technology into the instructional process.  News regarding these improvements will be presented to the Board at the March meeting.  Local results will be posted to this web site after the March meeting.   The ETOTE survey is based on the technology proficiencies of the ISTE (International Society for Technology Education).  You can find the ISTE technology proficiencies several places. The teacher standards are available on the web at http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_stands.html
The student standards are at http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_profiles.html

Virus attacks wasting school resources!   It is extremely costly to 'clean up' after a virus attack.  In the past three days following the Sasser worm, the technology department has used 27 supervisor hours, 18 tech specialist hours, 28 contractor hours, 30 tech coach hours.  Translated into money that equals around $2,250.00 and we are still on the uphill side of this battle.  This figure does not include the time and money invested by the high school vocational techs trying to clean their machines.
Unfortunately this latest virus attacks any machine on the network, not just those that receive email.   With over 2000 machines currently in our system, cleaning up after these attacks becomes very costly. 

Technology Mentors finish training
The technology mentors from each school have just complete 27 hours of technology integration training.  They are now charged with the responsibility of passing that training on to their faculties.  By the time school starts for the 2004-2005 year, these tech mentors will have laptops, personal amplifing devices, projectors, an Activboard and a syllabus of materials to use in helping with the training of each school's staff.
 

School Board expresses desire to 'stay the course'
Updates regarding the state's rollout of the student information system and our Chancery WinSchool system were presented at the March meeting by the Supervisor of Technology.  The Board was also made aware of the impact the use of our parent portal, K12Planet, has had on communication between home and school.  The Board weighed the matter carefully and suggested that we stay on our course until the success of the state's system was determined.

At the February 2nd meeting of the Cleveland Board of Education, Joan Bradburn, Supervisor of Technology for Cleveland City Schools, brought an update to the Board on the new Student Information System chosen by the State.  The full text of Ms. Bradburn's presentation is available below.

Update to Board of Education regarding
New State Student Management System.