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Meeting Date:
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7/12/2018 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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SCHOOL DIVISION BUSINESS
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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FY 2018/19 K-2 Technology Project (9:10 to 9:25)
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ACPS Division Objective :
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Objective 3 We will improve opportunity and achievement.
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Enclosure:
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File Attachment:
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Summary:
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The ACPS departments of Student Learning and Learning Engineering, Access, and Design have collaborated on a design effort with learning space modernization. Beginning with kindergarten in fiscal year 2018-2019, as the Division’s K-2 classrooms are refurnished to maximize student choice and learner agency, new age-appropriate technologies will be introduced to support Universal Design for Learning and increase student voice. A combined professional learning program is underway to support these changes in a fully integrated manner. ACPS has never had a Division level funding stream for K-2 technology, and what technology is currently in these classrooms is typically older and less reliable, or was funded by PTOs in a manner which challenges our mission of equity and opportunity. This plan would put 10 touchscreen tablets, with teacher management, a full warranty, and a highly protective case, into every K-2 classroom – along with 5 laptop computers – beginning with kindergarten this year. The full cost of this program, annually, is approximately $300,000 to $320,000, with a first year cost of $320,000. This sum will supply these devices to the classrooms with a 3-year warranty, and will replace them on a 3-year cycle. This will form the basis of a new budget initiative for FY 2019/20 to obtain recurring funding to bring equitable and systemic equipment to all classrooms in the division, including the K-2 levels. For this first year, LEAD has pulled $100,000 from other operations to support this, a cost we can absorb on a one-time basis. LEAD is requesting the Board approve a transfer of up to $220,000 from fund balance to kick start this initiative to bring such equipment into our K-2 classrooms.
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Funding:
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Initial funding would be utilizing one time monies from fund balance.
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Recommendation:
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Receive for information and direction for adoption on August 9.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Jackson Zimmermann - School Finance Officer
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Signed By:
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Rosalyn Schmitt - Chief Operating Officer
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Signed By:
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Ira Socol - Executive Director Education Technology and Innovation
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Signed By:
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Dr. Matt Haas - Superintendent
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