Thursday, February 6, 2014

Tech Cabinet Minutes 1/9/14

1/9/14 Tech Cabinet Minutes

Carlsbad Unified School District Technology Cabinet
District Office, Conference Room, 8:00 - 10:00 am


Attendees: Bryan Brockett, Margie Giordani, Kimberly Huesing, Rick Lewis, Chad Lund, Cesar Morales, Aaron Nelson, Rob Nye, Sharon St. Clair, Maggie Stanchi, Jan Tokorcheck, Richard Tubbs


Old Business
  • Basic Classroom Configuration Standards - a minimum standard should be set in regards to what equipment a teacher should have at his/her disposal in any classroom in the district. The general consensus was that a teacher should have:
    • Teacher computer (less than 5 years old)
    • Ceiling mounted projection system with working projectors
      • include provisions for replacing bulbs
    • Document camera
    • Further discussion regarding the necessity of smartboards should occur. Rob will take this to the Facilities Master Plan committee meetings.
  • January 22 from 7:45 - 3:45, we will have presentations from data management systems.  Please plan to attend for the entire day so you have a complete picture of all the products. We will select some to take to a larger committee of admin/teachers/staff.
  • Speak Up Survey results:
School
Teachers
Parents
Administrators
Students
AOE
22
26
1
2
AOM
19
115
0
94
BV
11
7
1
0
CHE
6
8
0
3
CHM
1
0
1 (Sharon St. Clair)
1
CHS
7
27
3
356
CSA
0
0
0
0
CVA
0
0
1
1
HOPE
25
34
1
101
JEF
12
12
1
193
KELLY
5
14
1
25
MAG
0
12
0
1
PAC RIM
3
7
0
0
POI
1
19
0
0
SCHS
15
44
3
285
VMS
33
45
2
36


  • The Parent Survey for School Loop was brought up at the TAC meeting, but it has not yet been started. Is there a deadline for completion of this task?  Sharon will look for the notes and get the survey completed by January 13th.


New Business
  • 8:00 am - Achieve 3000 presentation by Mark Wojciechowski
    • Magnolia and Pacific Rim are interested in the program. Other sites may want to pilot, but it is undetermined if they will be able to, and if so, in what scope.
    • $25-50 per student depending upon how many students the sites/district enroll
  • New labs - how are they going?
    • There have been no issues reported
  • Maggie Stanchi/Kimberly Huesing and Rick Lewis SBAC roadshow to schools
    • Smarter Balanced field test discussions with principals
    • How are schools going to implement the test using the existing tech at the site?
    • CVA testing is mandatory for juniors
    • Secure browser - which computers will it be loaded on?  Matt Taylor and Rick Lewis will discuss how to push it to the computers
  • Wireless authentication at sites
    • Issues at SCHS
    • Guest access on chromebooks? Do we want to do this or require each student to authenticate?  Still under discussion.
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