Meeting+1+-+December+13

=Prescott School District – Technology Work Stream=

__**Meeting Date & Time:**__
Monday, December 13th, 2010; 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

__Attendees:__
Mike Matzek, Dan Smaida, Joan Simon, Erica Keeza, Jan Wescott, Kathy Sommer, Chris Russell, Dave Bunn, Bart Matzek, Dallas Eggers, and Courtney Lamb

__Prescott School District Technology – Key Areas of Focus:__

 * Cutting edge technology coursework – courses to learn about technology
 * Access to technology – using technology to learn; having enough computers
 * Managing technology – how are teachers using technology to teach and manage the administration.
 * Embracing new technologies, not being afraid to go with away from the old
 * Allowing them to apply technology – using high school students as interns

__**Issues/Risks:**__

 * Funding for technology
 * Staff development – continuous training, getting beyond the fear
 * Firewalls
 * Technical Support – staff resources

__**Action Items**__ (**__ owner in red bold, underlined text __**):

 * Look to leverage external teachers - Tabled
 * Current technology curriculum by school – __** Mike Matzek **__
 * High School -
 * Middle School -
 * Elementary School -
 * Scan in teacher surveys in and send to team – __** Chris Russell **__
 * Inventory of what technology is there – __** Dallas Eggers, Courtney Lamb, & Kathy Sommer **__
 * High School
 * Middle School
 * Elementary School
 * Inventory teacher skills emailed to the team – __** Dallas Eggers **__
 * What is in already in plan for next year (‘11-‘12); this is an ongoing effort as it continuously changes –
 * Dallas Eggers
 * Middle school student assessment emailed to the team – __** Dallas Eggers **__
 * Benchmark other competitive schools; how did they get there - Offline – __** Courtney Lamb **__ will work with __** Mike Matzek **__ to schedule
 * 5-10 schools
 * What questions are we going to ask?
 * Who takes what schools?
 * Have Jason Brazzale come tell the team about New Richmond
 * Identify current best practices and look to improve upon those – __** Mike Matzek **__
 * What technology could we already leverage? – Need the technology inventory as an input.
 * Look what we can leverage from CESA11? - __** Mike Matzek **__
 * Research on cost effective/free technology – on hold
 * Interview Dallas – brain dump – __** Courtney Lamb & Kathy Sommer **__

__Next Steps:__

 * Who does what? See above
 * How to we leverage technology? Communication information?
 * Communication Wiki? (something that could be leveraged by all teams)
 * Google Docs?
 * Others?