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ObesityEpidemicObesityEpidemic36 States and the Army Initiate Their Plan of Attack36 States and the Army Initiate Their Plan of Attack
The 5 FoundationsThe 5 Foundationsof College Successof College Success
America’s Vanishing Potential America’s Vanishing Potential Re-thinking PreK-3rd EducationRe-thinking PreK-3rd Education
Florida’s Kennedy Florida’s Kennedy Space Center IgnitesSpace Center IgnitesSchool TripsSchool Trips
Annual Educational Travel Issue
Security 101: Who’s in Charge?Security 101: Who’s in Charge?
INSIDEINSIDESpring 2009 11.1
ProductsProductsand Servicesand Services
Pages 109-128Covering campus security,
education software, technology and products to improve
the classroom.
Education Choices Education Choices
Pages 70-108
Covering Online EducationColleges and Universities
Military EducationCommunity Colleges
Boarding Schools Developmental Choices
Social EmotionalPublic Schools
Early Childhood • Camps
Next IssueNext IssuePublishes August 2009
With special emphasis on technologyproducts, services, software and
security for the education arena.
Cover Cover Florida’s Kennedy Space
Center Ignites School Trips
Obesity Epidemic36 States and the Army
Initiate Their Plan of Attack
The 5 Foundationsof College Success
America’s Vanishing PotentialRe-thinking PreK-3rd Education
Security 101: Who’s in Charge
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10 Conferences 11 Alabama 14 Arkansas 17 Florida 21 Georgia 27 Kentucky 29 Louisiana
33 Mississippi37 North Carolina40 South Carolina45 Tennessee48 Virginia62 West Virginia64 Travel USA
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The Front:The Front: Pictured on our cover is the massive 363-foot long Saturn V moon rocket located at the Apol-lo/Saturn V Center, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Com-plex in Florida. More information on page 18.
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SPRING 2009 EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL CHOICES
Explore The History of Our Southeastern StatesThe staff at SEEN wants to thank everyone that
took the time to send in the most beautiful pictures for the cover of our educational travel issue. After many arguments and heated debates, we chose one. If we had space we would have chosen more. It’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words. It is also true that a picture evokes emotions and memories and creates a desire to visit that destination and ex-plore its history and culture.
Take a minute to explore the pages of SEEN and read about the interesting destinations our south-eastern states have to off er in educational travel. Our country’s past can be relived in every state. Visit the fi rst White House of the Confederacy, Helen Keller’s home in Tuscumbia, the winding roads and scenic vistas of State Highway 7, wildlife refuges, muse-ums, natural beauty and historical riches.
Of special interest in this issue is the article by Derrick Crandall. June is Great Outdoors Month in many states. Mr. Crandall tracks the path to
childhood obesity and challenges us to help fi ght this epidemic by connecting kids to the outdoors. Going camping, fi shing, biking and kayaking are just a few of his suggestions.
At this writing, the President’s stimulus bill has not been passed, but I know we’re all hopeful about the emphasis put on education. Our country is behind much of the world in science, technology, engineering and math education. The language of the bill stresses the need for technology and sets the tone for a new direction in education — “to help our students compete with any worker in the world.”
We look forward to investments that will mod-ernize our schools, prevent cuts to critical education programs and services, award grants to help disad-vantaged kids and money to the states to prevent cuts to special education programs.
Proposed investments in Pell Grants, college work-study programs, student loans and student aid would boost our nation’s future economic
strength.With this economic package forthcoming,
SEEN magazine is committed to introducing our readers to the products, services and
software needed to bring technol-ogy into the classroom. This will
be our emphasis for our next issue. Please send us your
thoughts, ideas and sug-gestions.
Sherry BrooksEditor
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PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Education Software Solutions Improving School Effi ciency and Saving ResourcesBy Sarah Day
Tyler Technologies
asy access to comprehen-
sive school in-formation isn’t
simply a conve-nience in today’s
fast-paced world — it’s a requirement. In fact, recent studies show that 100 percent of schools are connected to the Internet and 87 percent of youths between the ages of 12 and 17 use it. (iNACOL, 2008)1 The ability to gather, analyze, and use student, fi nancial, and transporta-tion data in an effi cient and organized manner can make the difference between whether school offi ces meet their budget, employees accomplish their jobs, school districts meet mandatory No Child Left Behind and state and federal reporting require-ments — and whether students reach their full potential.
Technology Makes theDiff erence
Today, resources are scarce and school dis-tricts are asked to do more with less money and fewer employees — without compromising their students’ education. Increasingly, technology has become the defi ning factor in whether school departments accomplish their goals on time and on budget. In fact, according to a 2004 survey, 74 per-cent of school leaders say
technology provides timely data for decision making; 71 percent say it improves staff effi ciency; and 70 percent say it improves communications among parents, teachers, and the community. (Digital Leader-ship Divide, 2004)2
With a few mouse clicks, school employees access comprehensive electronic student information, fi nan-cial, and transportation management programs — programs that make it easier and faster to do their jobs. Online gradebooks and attendance records also mean teachers — and parents — have easy ac-cess to student informa-tion, improving the lines of communication between the home and school, and improving a child’s chance of achievement. Addition-ally, some schools even draw their content from such educational-rich me-dia as PBS, thereby supple-menting lesson plans. (Computers, Networks & Com-munications, 2008)3 Through integrated reporting the superintendent maps a district’s account structure to each course; the cost center data, to each school or building; and the grant or project to each special service or program. And au-tomatic, one-touch routing generates bus routes based on selected criteria.
Saving Resources to PutBack into the Classroom
Schools across the coun-
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the board. It means a concerted ef-fort to make sure that everyone un-derstands the goals and processes of the security mission of the cam-pus. Security fails when it’s not tak-en seriously by all involved because it is not implemented appropriately to the culture of the institution. The security team can’t be successful unless the whole campus buys into the program and the campus will not buy-in if ill-conceived processes are enacted.
Failure is measured differently for different assets.
So how do you go about defi n-ing failure? It speaks to basic risk-management planning. What is the risk if failure happens with a certain process or system to a certain, pri-oritized asset at a certain level and time? This is why the security and risk management plan is so impor-tant and that decisions to purchase and implement technologies not be taken in haste. A successful institu-tion cannot make a decision based on the fact that it is from a certain supplier, only on the initial cost, on “ease of use,” or on some other sin-gle variable.
“You have to know what you are protecting, what the value of it to the (campus) is and what level of failure can each thing handle. If you don’t know, then you are going to set yourself up for FOI and a new job search,” says Andy Willingham.
Failure costs real dollars, real money, real property, real peoples lives, real reputations. Jobs are lost, lawsuits are fi led, insurance rates in-crease, etc. Failure is expensive on a number of levels.
ROI and FOI are defi nable, but in many ways emotions come into play. It is about coming up with numbers, but those numbers are only useful in the context of the institution. ROI and FOI are risk economics that cre-ate a baseline of your institutions’ at-titude toward risk management and security. What level of risk is the ad-
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ministration comfortable with? How does the school prioritize its limited resources? Is technology or aware-ness more valuable as a tool? Now you are answering business questions based on the security realities.
Security and risk management is not just protecting against the school shooter, or the thief, or the cyber bul-ly or the hack attack. It is all of that and more.
Many vendors seem to have (and sell) “the answer,” but you have the answer because every institution and school is unique. Unique envi-ronments, missions, resources, assets, risks and fi nances are the norm in ed-ucation. The answer may or may not be contained in the products of the sales people who are knocking on your door. But with proper planning, you will have an understanding of the big picture, the assets, the goals and the issues.
Security is not one thing — it’s ev-erything in the context of your insti-tution.
Manage your risks and manage your resources — it can be done. It must be done. Get a physical and logical security risk assessment con-sultancy involved fi rst. Have them re-port directly to the President of the University or Principal/Headmaster
of the School. Ask for the truth. Get over your Prospect Theory thinking that everything will be okay. And start your converged security and risk management plan today.
As we have learned in these three articles, facing the threat and risk is the fi rst issue and it is diffi cult, but it is critical to a safe and success-ful campus environment. Who’s in charge? You are. It’s time to take re-sponsibility and action.
Jonathan Kendall is the President and Founder of the Kendall Design Group, a professional services and consulting fi rm specializing in the convergence of technol-ogy, security and management located in the Washington, DC area and Las Vegas, Nevada. Kendall has 20 plus years of expe-rience serving the educational community around the world on over 200 campuses from K-12 to the Ivy League. He has been a featured speaker at the Dartmouth Col-lege, the AIA and SCUP national conven-tions, and has written numerous articles. He is a registered private investigator and certifi ed security offi cer, and has fi ve years teaching experience to the US State Department and U.S. Special Forces. Please contact Mr. Kendall at 410-798-9003, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.KendallDesignGroup.com and SecureCampus.blogspot.com.
try face the possibility of cutting student programs, or having a shortfall of classroom materials. With technology, they have an opportunity to streamline opera-tions and work more effi ciently. For the University of Pennsylva-nia, simply switching to a reliable e-procurement software a decade ago has meant a signifi cant nine-to-one return on investment (ROI). According to Ralph Meier, director of purchasing services, their e-pro-curement solution allowed them to “have a cost savings of $88.7 mil-lion during that period, whereas our department operating budget
for the same 10-year period was $9.8 million.” (Ed Tech: Focus on Higher Educa-tion, 2006)4
It’s clear — technology streamlines education. And that means money saved that can be put back into the classroom.
For more information, contact [email protected] or visit www.tylertech.com.1 iNACOL. (2008). Fast Facts About Online Learning. www.inacol.org.
2 Consortium for School Networking. (2004). Digital Leadership Divide: Without Visionary Leadership, Dispari-ties in School Technology Budgets Increase. www.cosn.org/resources/grunwald/digital_leadership_divide.pdf.
3 Computers, Networks & Communications. (2008). Teachers’ Domain; Digital Media & Touch Screen Technol-ogy: An Increasing Trend in Education.
4 Bannan, Karen J. “Do the Math: E-Procurement Saves Time and Money.” Ed Tech: Focus on Higher Education. August/September 2006 http://www.edtechmag.com/higher/august-september-2006/focus.html.
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