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Updating and Integrating Our Learning and Business Systems

<Your School Name Here>

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Executive Summary

• Through board leadership, our schools have made major strides toward:– Empowering the education community through detailed student

performance tracking for parents, students, teachers, administrators– Empowering business management through system integration to

improve financial tracking and decrease redundancy– Empowering the education community by facilitating communication– Empowering teachers to help each other through anytime

anywhere access that helps to facilitate instructional support and staff development

• The board continues to strive for easier access and more analytics to assist in:– Providing expedient student academic information to parents

and students– Projecting fiscal stability with confidence– Building our schools so that they become more of a resource to the

educational community as a whole– Empowering our teachers to become world class educators who contribute

to the creation of an educational communication center that serves our school and the broader educational community

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Agenda

• School challenges• School board requirements• Planned solutions• Implementation timeline• Costs• Questions

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School Challenges

• Raising academic standards and tracking student progress

• Inefficiencies in operations and lack of insight into where money is spent

• Communicating with parents and students

• Curriculum and lesson sharing among educators

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• An infrastructure that facilitates the gathering and dissemination of detailed information about student progress for teachers, parents, principals, and the students themselves

• Fiscal controls, and sufficient information to make informed, data-driven planning decisions

• Better communication between schools, parents, and the community

• Teacher collaboration within the district and around the world

School Board Requirements

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Planned Solutions

• Empowering the education community through detailed student performance tracking

• Empowering business management through system integration

• Empowering the education community by facilitating communications

• Empowering teachers to participate in the international teaching community

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Empowering the Education CommunityThrough Detailed Student Performance Tracking

SOLUTIONS

EMPOWERING PARENTS AND STUDENTS• Parents and students will have greater ability to link student performance to

specific educational objectives

EMPOWERING TEACHERS• Teachers will be able to run analytic reports that link curriculum, instructional

objectives, and individual or classroom student results

EMPOWERING ADMINISTRATORS• Principals can analyze detailed reports across classrooms to determine how best to

support classroom instruction. These reports can also be tied to curriculum frameworks, standardized test objectives.

• District administrators can use cross-school data as feedback for the curriculum and district-wide academic programs (tutorial, special education, extra-curricular activities etc.)

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Empowering Business Management Through System Integration

SOLUTIONS

ESTABLISH TRACKING • Allows our business managers to increase analysis of business data

including trend and risk analysis reports

MODELING• Allows our business managers to model budgets according to priority

scenarios and fiscal assumptions

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Empowering the Education Community by Facilitating Communications

SOLUTIONS

EMPOWERING PARENTS AND STUDENTS• Parents and students will have increased capabilities that allow them to

customize their school communications, such as parents receiving e-mail or text messages when the student is absent or tardy

EMPOWERING TEACHERS• Templates and integrated tools provide greater flexibility and assist

teachers in more easily updating their classroom Web sites and drafting e-mail notifications for parents

EMPOWERING ADMINISTRATORS• Administrators can use templates to update their Web sites, including

policy updates, health/emergency announcements, and links to internal and external support services. Parents, students, teachers, and administrators can securely self-register on the school Web site

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Empowering Teachers to Participate in the International Teaching Community

SOLUTIONS

BEST PRACTICE SHARING• Teachers can share best practices not only within their own learning environment,

but nationally and internationally

EMPOWERING SKILL DEVELOPMENT• Teachers can participate in distance learning and international

teleconferences

ACCESS WHEN AND WHERE NEEDED• Teachers can connect to the online community at any time, from any location that

has internet access• Smart search capabilities facilitate teacher participation in peer discussions

and training• Enables schools to host internal and external teleconferences

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ImplementationTimeline

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How Do We Make It Happen?

• Software• Hardware• Staff Time• Consultant(s)• Support

• Training– School Administration– Teachers– Parents– Students– Community

• Phased Deployment– Specification

development– Pilot testing– Solution testing – Full deployment

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Student Performance Tracking System Five-Year Development Plan

Demonstrate that information integration issues and feedback on customizing tools for the schools have been addressed

Deploy pilot solution

to 10 schools

Integrate state assessment data

Deploy fully developed solution to all schools

Integrateclass-based assessment data

YearOne

YearTwo

YearThree

YearFour

YearFive

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Business Integration Systems Three-Year Plan

YearOne

YearTwo

YearThree

• IntegrateDisparate Systems– Student data

management systems– Business

management systems– Instructional management– Technology services

• Develop Standard Integrated Reports

• Use Reports inBudget Planning

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Education Community Communication Portal Three-Year Development Plan

YearOne

YearTwo

YearThree

• Static Site– Establish district and

school static sites– Develop classroom sites– Provide teacher and

staff training– Ensure no personally

identifiable student information is available from the Web site

• Provide Parent and Student Access– Provide access to

student attendance and grading information

– Train parents and students

• Produce CustomizableReports

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Teachers Sharing System Two-Year Development Plan

YearOne

YearTwo

• Internal Portal– Develop and launch

district and school portal– Provide teacher and

staff training

• External Portal– Provide external access

to parents and students– Manage content on portal

for parents and students

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Costs

• Fixed Costs– Hardware– Software

• Variable Costs– Hardware support– Software licenses– Training

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Questions

• Feedback

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Appendix

• Other school experiences• Infrastructure details

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Other School Experiences - Performance

• School District of Philadelphia: Philadelphia Schools Tie Curriculum to Standards, Gain Timely Student Remediation.

• Jefferson County Public Schools Close “Achievement Gaps” in Student Performance

• Wilkes-Barre Area School District: Wilkes-Barre Schools Meet NCLB Challenges, Enhance Learning and Classroom Productivity

• Lake Washington School District: Collaborative Learning Portal Promotes Student Success at Lake Washington School District

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Infrastructure Details - Performance

• Key Desktop Device and Server Management Areas– Automated application compatibility testing– Zero touch provisioning

• Hardware– Pentium 4 servers

• Partner(s)– BearingPoint

• Software and Services– Active Server Pages– Component Object Model– Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2002– Microsoft Internet Explorer®– Microsoft Internet Information Server– Microsoft Office 2000 Professional– Microsoft Office XP Professional– Microsoft SQL Server™ 7.0– Microsoft Visual Basic®– Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0– Microsoft Visual Basic technologies– Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0

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Communications - Other School Experiences

• Northern Lights Public School Builds an Award-Winning Learning Environment

• UK Schools: Parents Help Cut Truancies and Improve Pupil Performance

• The School District of Philadelphia: Messaging Solution Boosts Communication Among Students, Educators, and Parents

• Elementary School of National Hero Maks Pečar: Slovenian School Improves Communication with Parents

• Anoka-Hennepin School District: Identity Management Solution Keeps Parents in Large Minnesota School District Informed

• Edmonton Catholic Schools Provide Parents with a Window into the Classroom

• Greenhill School: Making the Grade with Microsoft FrontPage 2000• Ninestiles School: Anytime Anywhere Learning• Tracy Unified School District: School District Learns E-Mail Security

Can Do More, Cost Less, and be Easier to Use

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Communications – Infrastructure Details

• Hardware– Tablet PCs

• Software and Services– Microsoft Office OneNote® 2003– Microsoft Software Update Services– Microsoft Windows SharePoint® Services– Microsoft Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition

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Other School Experiences

• Delaware Department of Education (DDOE): Delaware Schools Meet NCLB Requirements, Cut Costs by U.S. $740,000

• Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation Implements Powerful Financial System

• Nebraska Department of Education:Web-Based School Assessment SystemWins Political Points

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Sharing Other School Experiences

• The Department of Education for Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Chalks Up Educational Excellence with Microsoft Innovative Teachers Programme

• Miami Dade County Public Schools: Collaborative Portal Improves Education for Fourth-Largest U.S. School District

• Carson-Dellosa Publishing: Educational Publisher Speeds Time-to-Market with Information Sharing Solution

• Sandwell Borough Council: Portal Solution Brings the Whole Community Together to Raise Educational Standards

• Perm Municipal Education and Science Committee Increases Staff Productivity Thanks To Collaborative Solution

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Sharing Infrastructure Details

• Software and Services– Microsoft Exchange Server 2003– Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000– Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003– Microsoft SQL Server 2000– Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 Standard Edition– Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services– Microsoft Windows Vista™

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