Action Items - FY12 

The district Instructional Technology equipment budget for 2011-2012 was funded for $50,000.  The district is in the process of preparing a bid for an interactive LCD projector to be installed in middle school classrooms, beginning with the math classrooms.

Title 1 ARRA funded the following projects that are currently being installed in the Title 1 elementary schools:

Plympton Elementary School - ENO boards with ShortThrow LCD projectors with new computers in 15 classrooms.  ELMO document cameras in 3 classrooms.

Stanley Elementary School - ENO boards with ShortThrow LCD projectors and ELMO document cameras with new computers in 17 classrooms.

Whittemore Elementary School - ENO boards and ELMO document cameras in 21 classrooms.

A Proposal ARRA IDEA Funds, submitted to and approved by the school committee, funded the following projects.  Purchases were made in June, 2010 and projects are being implemented in Fall 2011:

Stanley Elementary School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook to support students using technology within the curriculum
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 48
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school

Kennedy Middle School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 40
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school (Aruba access points and licenses and HP Switches)

McDevitt Middle School

• Replace a lab of 25 computers
• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 40
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Install wireless access throughout the school (Aruba access points and licenses and HP Switches)

Waltham High School

• Add netbook carts to support students using Kurzweil
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 60
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Home for home use - quantity 3
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 3
• Add netbook carts to support students in ELL and World Language classes
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 50
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 2
• Replace an English computer lab with a netbook cart.
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 25
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 1
  • Complete the installation of wireless access throughout the school.
• Add a History Social Sciences "computer lab" with a netbook cart.
  • Asus eee PC with Windows 7 Professional, Sophos, Deepfreeze and CALS - quantity 25
  • Earthwalk Min-Max 24 base model cart with high efficiency charging - quantity 1
  • Complete the installation of wireless access throughout the school.

The district Instructional Technology equipment budget for 2010-2011 was partially funded ($22,656).  The following purchases are underway (Fall 2010).

• 12 LCD projectors  (with carts and extension cables) for high school (to complete all classrooms)
• 5 LCD projectors (with carts and extension cables)  for Kennedy (to be shared by classroom teachers)
• 5 LCD projectors (with carts and extension cables) for McDevitt (to be shared by classroom teachers)

note: the lack of funding necessary to support LCD projectors installed in classrooms in the middle schools has altered the district objective.  Instead we will provide 5 LCD projectors to middle schools to share throughout the building.

Technology in Massachusetts Schools

An annual report based on data submitted by districts in 2011