Information Update: Follow up on Council Topics of Interest

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1 Superintendent s Advisry Cuncil n Instructin Final Minutes Nvember 8, :02 Welcme: Vanessa Olsn, Secretary Please excuse ur chair, Karen Martin, she was unable t attend this evening. Apprval f minutes frm prir meetings May minutes apprved as written Octber minutes apprved as amended Discussin n the Cuncil webpage and where t find resurces. Infrmatin Update: Fllw up n Cuncil Tpics f Interest Recess and Mvement- Emily Utter, Supervisr f Health, Physical, and Drivers Educatin Spring the general Assembly passed a bill that allwed unstructured time t cunt twards instructinal time. PWCS was at 20 minutes, nw at 30 minutes fr Elementary Schls. Schls have 3 ptins t chse frm A: 10 min mrning r afternn break and 20 minutes paired with lunch B: 15 minute mrning and 15 paired with lunch C: 30 Minutes befre r after lunch This gives schls flexibility t adjust t the needs f their students. Intrductin f Cmmunicatins and Technlgy Staff: Matthew Guilfyle, Assciate Superintendent fr Cmmunicatin and Technlgy Services Infrmatin Technlgy Upgrades- A.J. Phillips, Directr f Infrmatin Technlgy

2 Majr Accmplishments: Increasing capacity frm 2 Gb t 10 Gb Integrated new technlgy and instructinal strategies int classrms Integrate the use f Divisinwide sftware applicatins fr instructin Implemented Micrsft Office 365 in grades 3-12 and fr staff Divisinwide, alng with student lgins in grade k-12 Installed 9136 new cmputers giving us ver 68,000 n the netwrk Upgrades t 63 Lcal Area Netwrk, 59 Wireless Lcal Area Netwrk, and 65 Vice ver Internet Prtcl (VIP) ver the last 3 years. Installed 700 interactive whitebards, almst 95% f classrms nw have access PWCS Technlgy in the schl year Next 5 years The new student infrmatin system will g live July 2019 Prgram is called Synergy and will be referred t as The Hub Better system with an new gradebk fr teachers Clud based. Upgrading the LAN and WLAN in 23 schls Refreshing 2100 cmputers Explring supprt fr Chrmebks and Macintsh devices Upgrades t WLAN, LAN, and VIP Schl servers Divsinwide VIP IT security Increase bandwidth frm 10Gb t 20Gb Revise ur Disaster Recvery Prtcls. Questins 1. Will there be a delay in seeing the grades that are put in the gradebk a. N. Grades will update right away 2. Will mre be textbks e available digitally a. Depends n the subject and the textbks that are available based n the needs within the subject. 3. If there are 68,000 cmputers n the netwrk and we are nly refreshing 2100 each year, that des nt seem t be making a dent a. N. We are nly funded fr 2.3 millin t refresh cmputers. There is a need but nt the funding. Per pupil allcatin is lwer than ther districts and that impacts what we can d.

3 Cmmunicatin- Diana Gultta, Directr f Cmmunicatin Services PWCS.EDU On the Website ( there is a lt f infrmatin including: emergency and nn-emergency messages, annuncements, psitive stries, the calendar, prgram infrmatin, menus, the cde f behavir, bus rutes, and parent prtal. In Octber there were 3,366,535 hme page views 108,598 average daily views There will be sme minr changes cming t the hme page sn (clr changes, taking buttns dwn) with a redesign within the next year. Watch the hmepage fr a survey. MyPWCS APP Dwnlad the free app frm Ggle Play r the Apple App Stre. PWCS TV Cmcast Channel 18, Verizn Channel 36, r pwcstv.cm Televises schl bard meetings as well as shws such as Schl Fcus Schl Messenger- Ntificatin system There are abut 150,000 subscribers Messages include: crisis messaging, attendance and fd service messages. Ntificatin ptins include- website, text, app, , and phne calls. Teachers are encuraged t use schl messenger t message parents. Facebk and Twitter Psts ccur each day. Twitter is the first place yu will hear abut Cde Red (schl clsing) days Cde Red Days Ntificatin will g ut via Twitter, , Facebk, Website, Tet, App, PWCS TV, and Lcal media. Because f the extra steps invlved lcal media will be the last place t get this infrmatin. There are standard messages that will g ut because they are pre-translated int Vietnamese, Spanish, Arabic, Krean, and Urdu. Psitively PWCS Trying t make an effrt t put ut gd news abut the kids, schls and the Divisin Gals- 30 practive news stries per mnth, 5 minute presentatins at schl bard meetings, twice a mnth there will be an electrnic newsletter ging ut t 150,000 subscribers.

4 Questins 1. Is there a way t suggest Psitively PWCS stries a. Can Diana Gultta and there will be an link n the website t turn in a stry when it is updated. 2. Sme parents dn t want their children s pictures psted a. There is an pt ut list 3. With multiple children can receive multiple calls abut the same thing. a. It is linked t the SMS system and this will be wrked n with the new system 4. With text messages the system des nt identify wh is sending the message specifically s parents may nt knw which teacher sent a message abut a test. a. We will wrk n that in the training with teachers t identify themselves in the bdy f the text. Cuncil Training Infrmatin was prvided t the Cuncil that included an verview f the Cuncil, sign-in prcedures, attendance, the calendar fr the year, cmmunicatin methds, duties f the representatives, and the annual reprt. Training was als prvided n the prcesses fr the wrk sessins. During break ut wrk sessins representative will identify things that are ging well within the Divisin n a given tpic and areas f imprvement n that tpic. Representatives will write dwn their persnal ideas n a sticky nte and then it will be placed n a larger pster fr their table. The individual ideas are then gruped tgether based n similarity. Each representative will be given the pprtunity t vte with dts n the pririty f the ideas suggested (Red is 5 pints fr highest pririty, yellw 3 pints, and green 1 pint) Wrk Sessin #1: Budget and Overcrwding

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