Updates on 1:1 Chromebook rollout

Q1. What’s the status of the 1:1 Chromebook rollout?  Do all schools have the devices ready to go?
A1. We’re close –  we have a few schools to go, but we will be ready by Aug 4th, as many of the secondary schools will begin distributing to students during the second week of August.

 

Q2. What communications will be sent to parents/families/students related to the upcoming deployment?
A2. We are working on an faq list that will be broken down by audience –  and we’ll be sending it on at the start of August to each specific audience.

Q3. What about training for classroom teachers?  What’s already been done and what else needs to be done?

A3.  Already done:

• Initial introductory training provided at each school this past spring.
• Optional 15hr courses offered to staff this summer
• Optional 1/2 day courses offered to staff this summer

Coming up:

• 1/2 day training planned in October
• Additional training planned during PD days in Jan (Elementary) and Feb (Secondary)

Planned Network Outage: Friday July 21st, 4pm

Planned Network Outage:  Friday, July 21st,  4pm to 5pm

We’re replacing the district’s core switches and during this time the network will be completely down –  no internet, no computers, no phones, while we physically unplug and replace the switch.