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Digital Conversion
COLCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
MISSION:
Plan for how technology can support and enhance learning in our schools.
Everyone Gets the Right Technology!
Digital Conversion Team Goals: Students:
Use technology to share work, access
enriched content, collaborate, create
and build knowledge.
Staff:
Instructional Use technology to engage students,
Technology access enriched content, monitor
progress, facilitate learning, and
collaborate.
Student and staff
access to reliable and DCT reviews and
appropriate recommends policy
Resources Policies
technology backed by and regulation that
a safe and secure support DCT goals.
network
Professional
Family and Empower faculty
Use technology to
Development
Community to confidently
connect parents and infuse
keep the community technology into
informed curriculum and
instruction
Areas of Progress
- The DCT perform a needs assessment and evaluate technology to make sure
curriculum is driving the decision making
- Created a 5 year, sustainable District device refresh plan budget
- Creating a secure and robust infrastructure backbone to support the diverse education
technology and devices throughout the district.
- Support for instructional strategies using technology
- The DCT team review technology related policies to keep up with the changes to the
law and the changes in the online platforms as we move technology forward to support
teaching and learning. Examples: Student data Privacy, Google 1 to 1
- Faster more secure infrastructure to support teaching and learning
- Ecollect- Online student registration system
- New Library Media curriculum with Digital Citizenship
- Equitable access to technology throughout district
- Implemented software procurement procedure for student data privacy
- Copier and Printer revisions to save money
2019-20 Completed Technology Projects
● Moving from Projectors to Digital Displays - CES/JJIS
● New Web Filtering System - more robust and secure way to monitor web
access by students/staff
● Roll-out of 1 to 1 chromebooks at Bacon Academy in grades 9 and 10
● Completed a 3 year project of organizing the central data processing center -
to increase speed for a efficient and robust network
● Went to a fully-qualified domain - allows the IT department to manage and
update devices remotely.Added Macs devices on domain. Simplified user
accounts and single sign on.
● Removed XP and Vista machines from network
● PowerSchool online registration through Ecollect
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Technology: In
A Vision for
Student Use
The Impact on Students…
2018-19
2019-20
The Impact on Learning…
2018-19 2019-20
The Impact on Teaching…
2018-19 2019-20
The Impact on Safety,
Security, and Speed…
2018-19 2019-20
Next Steps
● Support teachers to create rigorous tasks that infuse student use of
technology
● Empower faculty to confidently infuse technology into curriculum and
instruction
● Continue support for instructional strategies using technology
■ Hire 1.0 FTE Technology Integration Specialist
● Student-centered instruction
● Support for content areas use of technology to extend learning
● Connect student technology skills and curriculum maps
● Create a robust, interactive, and personalized professional development Learning
Platform
● Continue to grow 1 to 1 chromebook program to all of Bacon Academy
● Adopt an online payment system for families
● Continue to build infrastructure to support teaching and learning
2020-2021 Proposed Budget
Estimated Cost of Device Refresh Plan
Devices and Infrastructure
$274,000
Capital Reserve
$79,288
Total
$353,228
We will review this number in preparation for 2023/2024
Capital Improvement Plans
Replacing
District Wireless
equipment during Technology within
infrastructure
refresh year from Computer Labs Public Spaces
replacement in
WJJMS Building
2023/24
Project
Need for funds in Capital Reserve Account