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Addressing Essential and Immediate Technology Needs

North Star Vision All Racine Unified students will graduate career and/or college ready.

Racine Unified Schools MUST • Remember students are at the center of our work • Prepare them for college and/or career • Provide a vehicle to maximize access to curriculum resources and assessments • Address the urgent need to fill the technology gap that currently exists

As of January 9, 2015: • Internet users - 3,044,140,207 • Websites - 1,170,720,475 • Emails sent today - 176,058,503,979 • Google searches - 3,375,356,474 • Blog posts - 3,100,979 • Tweets sent today - 600,409,672

Why do RUSD students need access to technology? Curriculum and instruction: Process • Compass Learning Odyssey • First in Math • Reading A-Z • Virtual Learning • IB Exhibition and Passion Projects • Credit recovery • Online textbook resources

Intervention Process • ST Mind Math • Earobics • Dreambox • iXL • iStation (pending)

Online assessments: Process • Local and state – New this year: state assessments are online • Classroom based

Stakeholders • Highly trained teachers • Actively engaged students • Highly collaborative classrooms • Information Services • Chief Academic Office • Technology Advisory Council • Community businesses • Local colleges

Device Options Laptops (device cost ONLY) • Apple-$6,500,000 • Windows-$4,500,000 • Chromebooks-$2,200,000 Additional costs • Apple/Windows-approximately $1,575,000 for software and support • Chromebooks-$0

Chromebooks • Benefits include: • Cost effective Simple tool • Arrive ‘turn key’ • Safe They are the most cost effective tool to reaching the end result: accessing the cloud and maximum utilization of our curriculum resources and facilitation of online assessments.

Implementation Plan • Order Chromebooks (4:1 ratio) • Schedule professional development for each school • Student use begins immediately • Ongoing infrastructure monitoring • Begin using for online assessments in March

Measurement • Pre/post assessment of students’ ability to efficiently and effectively access the devices • Time on task comparisons (Compass Learning, First in Math) between semester 1 and semester 2