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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

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Addressing Essential and Immediate Technology Needs

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North Star Vision

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

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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

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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

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Why do RUSD students need access to technology?

Curriculum and instruction:

Compass Learning Odyssey
First in Math
Reading A-Z
Virtual Learning
IB Exhibition and Passion Projects
Credit recovery
Online textbook resources

Process

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Intervention

ST Mind Math
Earobics
Dreambox
iXL
iStation (pending)

Process

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Online assessments:

Local and state – New this year:

state assessments are online

Classroom based

Process

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Stakeholders

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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