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WAS USING TECHNOLOGY TO LEARN.
AND NOW AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, IT'S REALLY HOW ARE WE USING TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSFORM LEARNING? SO I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A GREAT GRAPHIC, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, IN OUR WORLD IN CAREER AND TECH ED, WE'RE ALWAYS ABOUT, WELL, WHAT ARE OUR CUSTOMERS ASKING? WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE WORKFORCE NEEDING? WHAT ARE THEY REQUIRING OF OUR GRADUATES TO OPERATE IN A DIGITAL WORLD? AND IT IS JUST, UM, IT, WHEN YOU START TO READ AND HE TALKED TO OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS, WHETHER IT'S COLLEGE UNIVERSITIES, MILITARY EMPLOYERS, IT IS JUST TECHNOLOGY IS DRIVING A LOT OF, OF CURRENT JOBS AND EMERGING JOBS.
AND THEN OF COURSE, WITH THE PANDEMIC, HOW HAS THAT IMPACTED AND WHERE DOES TECHNOLOGY FIT IN WITH THAT? UH, HEALTHCARE, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, IS JUST PHENOMENAL AT THE WARP SPEED THAT'S OCCURRING.
FOR EXAMPLE, LITTLE NANO CHIPS THAT ARE DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED THAT GO UNDER THE SKIN TO BE ABLE TO TICK DISEASES ON, INTO, UM, OUR AUTOMOTIVE, UH, WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, UH, THAT'S REALLY IMPACTED OUR MOBILITY INDUSTRY.
AND THEN, UH, COMING FROM A MILITARY FAMILY, MYSELF, JUST, UH, UM, MILITARY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
SO WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT FOR FOLKS WHO, WHO WANT TO SERVE THE COUNTRY AND HAVE THOSE SKILL SETS FOR THERE? SO AS, AS WE LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY EXISTING IN CAREER IN TICKET, BUT ALSO IN WORKING ON THAT FIVE TO 10 YEAR PLAN, WHAT IS THAT GOING TO LOOK LIKE? NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
SO IF YOU WERE TO WALK INTO OUR CURRENT CAREER IN TICKET CLASSROOMS LABS, UM, WHAT SHOULD TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION LOOK LIKE? UH, DO YOU SEE TRADITIONAL COMPUTER LABS? WILL YOU SEE STEM SPACES WHERE THEY'RE DOING ENGINEERING WORK AND PROJECTS, WILL YOU SEE GAMING? AND I DON'T MEAN E-SPORTS, I MEAN, GAMING WHERE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO PROGRAM AND TO CREATE ANIMATION AND THE BACKGROUNDS FOR A GAMING SOFTWARE.
UM, WE SEE TECHNOLOGY BEING USED FOR PROBLEM SOLVING.
YOU KNOW, THAT THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE WANT TO ASK WHEN WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, HOW IS TECHNOLOGY BEING USED EFFECTIVELY TO, TO MOVE THE NEEDLE? NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
SO WE THOUGHT THAT NOT JUST IN THE CAREER AND TECH ED WORLD, THAT REALLY K-12, THIS WOULD BE SOME COMMON LANGUAGE THAT WE FELT LIKE WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, THIS IS TAKEN FROM A NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE THAT WE'LL REFERENCE IN A FEW LATER SLIDES, BUT JUST TO QUICKLY GO THROUGH SOME OF THESE OBVIOUSLY COMPUTER LITERACY, GENERAL USE OF COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE, UH, THE BOARD MEMBERS, YOU ALL HAVE GOTTEN VERY AT USING A BOARD DOCS AND THE VARIOUS SOFTWARE FOR THAT.
AND THEN YOU TAKE IT INTO MS. WORLD OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
UM, HOW ARE WE TAKING THOSE APPLICATIONS AND APPLYING IT? AND I THOUGHT THERE WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE THERE POUNDING THIS CLASS TAKES A WEB BASE APP TO, TO WORK TOGETHER, TO CREATE AN ESSAY AND POST IT ONLINE.
AND THEN DIGITAL LITERACY IS SO IMPORTANT.
IT'S THE ABILITY TO USE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO FIND, EVALUATE AND CREATE.
UM, WE USE A SOFTWARE CALLED ALL DATA IN OUR AUTOMOTIVE PROGRAM.
IT IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED OR USED UTILIZED IN AUTOMOTIVE DEALERSHIPS.
AND I ALWAYS ENJOY OBSERVING THE STUDENTS, HAVE THE TEACHER, GIVES THEM A TASK LOCATE XYZ PART WITH CERTAIN SPECIFICATIONS THAT NEEDS TO GO INTO A 52 CHEVROLET FORD.
IT IS A LOT OF HIRING SKILLSETS THAT THEY'RE USING TO RESEARCH AND NARROW IT DOWN TO THE EXACT INFORMATION.
AND AS WE KNOW, A LOT OF TECHNICAL MANUALS NOW ARE ONLINE WITH MANY OF OUR, OF OUR OCCUPATIONS, DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP.
DO WE, AS K-12 DO WE MAKE THAT A PRIORITY TO HELP OUR STUDENTS, THAT WE'RE GIVING THEM THE TOOLS TO UTILIZE? UH, DO WE ALSO TEACH THEM THAT, HEY, THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY THAT COMES WITH THAT.
AND THEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GETS INTO MARKS, UH, MR. JOHANSSON AND OUR WORLD, UM, WHERE YOU WERE FOCUSING ON INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, UH, WHAT TRAINING ARE WE PROVIDING TO HELP SOMEONE LEARN HOW TO MANAGE NETWORKS, UM, RATHER THAN THE SOFTWARE TO CREATE THEM.
AND THEN LASTLY, REALLY THE, THE CREME DE LA CREME AS THE COMPUTER SCIENCE ASPECT.
AND IT'S, IT'S MORE, IT'S ON THE ACADEMIC SIDE OF THE DISCIPLINE WITH A SET OF SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES TO HELP STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO SOLVE COMPLEX REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS, PROMOTE THAT HIGHER ORDER THINKING.
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SO ALL OF THESE WORK TOGETHER AS TO HOW ARE WE THEN, UM, HARNESSING THIS TO HAVE SYSTEMATIC USAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES TO HELP OUR STUDENTS TO LEARN, UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.SO THE, UM, AND THIS IS MAYBE SOMETHING THAT THE TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY IS AWARE OF, BUT AS WE'RE PLANNING THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, UH, RECOGNIZE THE NEED TO, TO START ADDRESSING SOME OF THIS.
AND SO THEY CREATED COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS, THEY RELEASED THE FIRST DOCUMENT FOR K EIGHT IN 2016.
AND THEN THE NEXT DOCUMENT I BELIEVE WAS RELEASED, UH, IN 2017.
AND BASICALLY IT WAS START TO ADDRESS, UM, HOW ARE WE HELPING OUR STUDENTS TO THINK IN TERMS OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING? UH, SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY, BUT HOW ARE THEY USING IT? SO THESE WERE THE FIVE KEY AREAS, COMPUTING SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, INTERNET DATA, NOW, ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING, AND THE IMPACT OF COMPUTING.
SO I JUST INCLUDED A LITTLE SNIPPET OF WHAT ONE OF THOSE WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, AND THEN GO, IF YOU WILL PLEASE GO ONTO THE NEXT SLIDE.
AND THERE'S AN EXAMPLE FOR THE K EIGHT, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THIS ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ED WEBSITE, UH, BOTH OF THE MANUALS OR OUT, I'LL BE GLAD TO, TO SEND THOSE LINKS, UM, TO MRS. CROSBY TO SHARE AS WELL.
SO IN DOING THAT, YES, MA'AM GO, GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO WHEN THEY RELEASED THE STANDARDS, NOTHING WAS MANDATED THAT, UH, WE HAD TO, UH, IMPLEMENT THOSE IN SOME FASHION OR FORM BASED ON ACCOUNTABILITY.
WHAT WAS MANDATED WAS A CHANGE IN THE TYPES OF COURSES THAT WOULD COUNT AS A COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATION CREDIT.
SO YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU THAT LIST, UM, IT, IT HAS TO BE ON THE APPROVED LIST IN ORDER FOR IT TO COUNT.
UM, IN THE PAST THEY WOULD USE, UM, LIKE MICROSOFT WORD AS A COMPUTER SCIENCE CREDIT, AND THEY REALIZED THAT THAT WAS NOT NECESSARILY MEETING THOSE HIGHER THINKING STANDARDS.
AND WHAT YOU SEE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW IS WHAT WE CURRENTLY OFFER HERE IN B FOR COUNTING THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
SO WITH THAT LITTLE BACKDROP, UM, MORE MEMBERS, THIS, THIS IS WHERE WE SEE CAREER TICKET, AS FAR AS UTILIZATION IN OUR SERVICES TO HELP OUR STUDENTS MEET SOME OF THESE REQUIREMENTS.
FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE OFFERING IT RELATED COURSES AND WE HAVE THE EXACT, UH, THE, THE NUMBERS AS WELL AS ENROLLMENTS, UH, AS A RESULT OF THAT, MANY OF THESE COURSES REQUIRE ADOBE, UH, RELATED PRODUCTS, AS WELL AS AUTODESK AUTOCAD.
THOSE DO NOT RUN WELL ON THE ONE-TO-ONE DEVICES.
UM, SO THROUGH PERKINS FUNDING, I BUDGET EACH YEAR FOR HIGHER END LAPTOPS OR COMPUTERS THAT WILL WORK WITH THOSE APPLICATIONS.
AND THEN, UH, AS A RESULT, WE'RE ABLE TO POSITIVELY IMPACT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE EARNING THAT GRADUATION.
COMPUTER CREDIT, UH, GAVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE THIS YEAR 2,235 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ONE OR MORE OF THOSE CTE COURSES THAT COUNT FOR THEIR GRADUATION CREDIT.
WE HAVE OVER 3,400 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE VARIOUS, UM, IT RELATED COURSES, ANOTHER WAY THAT WE ARE HELPING, I THINK TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE HIGHER THINKING WITH TECHNOLOGY IS THROUGH OUR IT PATHWAYS AND STUDENT CERTIFICATIONS.
CAN WE BE BETTER THERE AND GROW MOST DEFINITELY.
UM, BUT WE DO HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE EARNING A TEST OUT, UH, SIMILAR TO A-PLUS NETWORK PLUS.
UM, SO ALSO PROJECT LEAD THE WAY IT'S A NATIONAL CURRICULUM.
THAT'S VERY STRONG IN, UH, HIGHER ORDER THINKING ALONG THE LINES OF MATH AND SCIENCE FOR, FOR PROJECT LEAD THE WAY AS WELL AS AT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE HAVE A GREAT COURSE.
THAT'S OFFERED AT MOST OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS CALLED COMPUTER SCIENCE, INNOVATORS AND MAKERS, GREAT LITTLE EXPLORATORY COURSE FOR STUDENTS TO START GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF CODING AND PROGRAMMING.
WE ALSO OFFER AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND OPTION IS THE DIGITAL LITERACY COURSES.
AND THOSE STANDARDS HIT ON SOME OF THAT DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP.
STUDENTS CAN ACTUALLY EARN A LITTLE CERTIFICATE BEFORE THEY, THEY LEAVE THE CLASS.
ANOTHER AREA THAT SUPPORTS, UH, THE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IS VEX ROBOTICS.
WE HAVE THAT AVAILABLE FOR ALL GRADES SIX THROUGH 12, AND WE SUPPORT THAT THROUGH CTE FUNDING.
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AGAIN, JUST A GREAT ENGAGING ACTIVITY THAT THEY'RE LEARNING, AND THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE PROGRAMMING SO ON WITH THE USE OF ROBOTICS.AND THEN LASTLY, SHOUT OUT DR.
STRATUS, MR. FLOWERS, AND, UH, UH, MS. APPLEBEE, THERE'S TWO MAJOR GRANTS THAT A HUGE PART OF THAT INCORPORATES COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATH, AND, UM, UH, ENGINEERING, UH, TECHNOLOGY TO, UH, HELP WITH THESE DIFFERENT STANDARDS TO INCREASE OUR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
ANOTHER AREA I WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE OF IS THAT FOR OUR TEACHERS TO INSTRUCT IT AND COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES, THEY HAVE TO HAVE EITHER THE IT CERTIFICATION LICENSURE AND OR FOR CERTAIN COURSES, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT ENDORSEMENT.
SO IF I'M TEACHING A FULL BLOWN IT COURSES, OBVIOUSLY I HAVE TO HAVE THAT BACKGROUND AND YOU SEE THAT BY COURSEWORK, IF I'M A MATH CERTIFIED TEACHER OR A SCIENCE, AND I, AND I WANT TO TAKE THE PRACTICE, I CAN ADD THESE COMPUTER SCIENCE ENDORSEMENT, WHICH IS ALWAYS ENCOURAGED.
AND THEN LASTLY, FOR THOSE TEACHERS, TEACHING THOSE THREE INTRODUCTORY COURSES, THEY HAVE TO HAVE, THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEIR FULL IT CERTIFICATION OR THE PRAXIS, BUT THEY DO HAVE TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE A 30 HOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT IS APPROVED BY THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
SO IN LOOKING AT ALL THAT, YES, ME GONNA GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
THERE ARE TWO TO THREE HUGE AREAS THAT, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THAT I KNOW IT'S ALREADY BEEN SOME DISCUSSION.
FOR EXAMPLE, MAKERSPACES, MAKERSPACES, AND STEM INNOVATION LABS.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT ARE THEY? AND THEN IN THEIR PURPOSES, IF WE LOOK AT PLANNING, SO MAKER-SPACE WAS BASICALLY A GREAT DEDICATED SPACE FOR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO CREATE, INVENT AND LEARN, UH, USUALLY AROUND A PARTICULAR PROJECT, UH, STEM LABS, UM, PROMOTE COLLABORATION.
UH, IF YOU WALKED INTO SOME OF OURS WITH THE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY YOU SHOULD SEE PROBLEM-BASED PROJECTS ONGOING, UH, AROUND THE, THE STEM CONCEPTS AND THEN INNOVATION HUBS.
WE DON'T HAVE THAT HERE IN BUFORD.
IT'S BEEN, UH, MORE OF AN ADULT UNIVERSITY, UM, CONCEPT, BUT, UH, I THINK WOULD BE WORTH A CONSIDERATION ON DOWN THE ROAD BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY, IF SOMEONE HAS A IDEA, A BUSINESS IDEA THAT, UH, IS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH TECHNOLOGY, THEY CAN USE IT AS AN INCUBATOR AND ACCELERATOR TO FURTHER DEVELOP THAT IDEA.
WE'RE FORTUNATE IN OUR OWN COUNTY TO HAVE THE DIGITAL B FOR DIGITAL CORRIDOR, AS WELL AS THE DON RYAN CENTER THAT, UH, VERY MUCH, UM, UH, HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR, FOR PEOPLE TO TRY OUT THEIR NEW IDEAS WITH SUPPORT.
AND I, WE WOULD JUST, AS, AS WE LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL FOR THESE, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE PURPOSE OF THEM.
UM, WHAT DOES THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT LOOK LIKE? UM, WE NEED TO EVALUATE TO WHAT EXTENT THESE SPACES WOULD BE USED TO ACHIEVE.
BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING ON ARE MOVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
UM, AND THEN AL OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO HAVE TEACHER AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP BUY-IN AS TO HOW AND WHY THESE TYPES OF SPACES WORK AND FOR WHOM.
AND IF WE DO ALL THAT, THEN I BELIEVE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR SUSTAINABILITY FOR WHATEVER.
UM, THOSE CREATIVE SPACES WOULD LOOK LIKE.
ANOTHER HUGE AREA THAT WE DEFINITELY IS ON THE CAREER AND TECH ED RADAR IS FOR CYBERSECURITY, UM, PARTICULARLY HERE IN THE LOW COUNTRY.
UM, THERE'S, UH, WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE A CYBER SUMMIT COMING UP THAT SEVERAL OF US WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN.
AND, UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL COMMUNITY LEADERS, UH, THAT ARE REALLY WANTING, BE FOR IT TO BECOME A HUB FOR ALL THINGS CYBERSECURITY.
UM, AND THERE'S DEFINITELY A FEDERAL ECONOMIC AND POLICY INITIATIVES THAT ARE COMING DOWN FOR ADDED SUPPORT, UH, TO HELP MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
UM, SO AS, AS WE WANT TO SUPPORT THOSE INITIATIVES, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO KEEP IN MIND, WE STILL NEED THOSE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE COMPUTER SCIENCE WAY OF THINKING WITH OUR EARLY GRADES, AS WELL AS MAKING SURE WE HAVE SUPPORT FOR THE CTE IT PATHWAYS, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO JUST, WE CAN'T JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, NINTH GRADER, YOU TAKE A HIGHER IN CYBERSECURITY COURSE WE'D WANT TO HAVE THEM TAKE AN IT FUNDAMENTALS, UH, PERHAPS AN INTRO TO NETWORKING.
SO THAT THEN WHEN THEY TOOK THE, UM, CYBER SECURITY COURSE, THEY WOULD HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, OKAY, HERE'S HOW I PROTECT THESE NETWORKS.
AND THEN THAT THIRD BULLET IS VERY IMPORTANT.
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AND AGAIN, WE'RE SO APPRECIATIVE AND WORKING WITH OUR IT FOLKS, WE WANT TO HAVE AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MAINTAIN SAFE OPERATING PARAMETERS.WE DON'T WANT STUDENTS TO INADVERTENTLY, I'M NOT MALICIOUSLY TO TAKE DOWN OUR, OUR SCHOOL NETWORKS OR EVEN, UH, OTHER NETWORKS.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, HAVE INTENTIONAL DESIGN AND PLANNING AS TO WHAT THAT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LOOKS LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO THESE CYBERSPACE, PATRIOT COMPETITIONS OR CYBER COURSES OR, OR CAMPS.
UM, WE ARE WELL ON OUR WAY, I BELIEVE AT WELL BRANCH EARLY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, BUFORD HIGH SCHOOL AND HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL IN THE EARLY, UH, WORKINGS OF LEADING TOWARD A CYBERSECURITY FOCUS.
BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE A WORK TO DO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
AND THEN JUST IN WRAPPING, UH, MOVING FORWARD, THESE ARE SOME CONSIDERATIONS FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS.
WELL, IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY, EXISTING TECHNOLOGY, UH, WE NEED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS WHO HAVE A COMPUTER SCIENCE, LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION.
THESE WOULD BE OUR, OUR EXISTING TEACHERS WHO WOULD WANT TO ADD ON THAT ENDORSEMENT.
AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? WE WANT TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN HIGHLY QUALIFIED IT SPECIFIC CERTIFIED INSTRUCTORS.
AND WE KNOW THE CHALLENGE THERE, UM, THAT OCCURS BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE MORE OUT IN, UH, INDUSTRY.
WE WANT TO BUILD CAPACITY AND INCENTIVES FOR TEACHER AWARENESS TO EFFECTIVELY INTEGRATE COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THEIR CONTENT AREAS.
AND THEN OF IN, FOR THE CTE SIDE, UM, HOW DO WE GO ABOUT PROVIDING INTENTIONAL SCHEDULING FOR THE PROGRESSION OF IT RELATED COURSES? FOR EXAMPLE, YES, WE ARE DEFINITELY SERVING THE NEED FOR THOSE ENTRY-LEVEL COURSES TO COUNT AS A COMPUTER SCIENCE CREDIT.
BUT IF WE'RE USING ALL OF OUR TEACHERS TO TEACH THOSE LEVEL ONE, TWO COURSES, AND WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SECTIONS TO ADD ON THOSE ADVANCED IT CLASSES, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW CAN WE HELP TO ADDRESS THAT? AND THEN AS I MENTIONED, JUST DEVELOPING A SYSTEM SO THAT WE START PRIORITIZING COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS WITHIN K-12 SUBJECT AREAS, BECAUSE THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA WE FOUND OUT IS NOW THEY HAVE THE STANDARDS OUT THERE OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
THEY WILL NOW BE DEVELOPING SOUTH CAROLINA FRAMEWORK.
AND ALONG WITH IT, WE FEEL LIKE THERE'LL BE ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY THAT WILL COME WITH THAT.
SO, UH, AGAIN, I JUST, I APPRECIATE THE WORK OF THIS COMMITTEE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE EVALUATED HARDWARE, SOFTWARE RESOURCES, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT MOVING TARGETS AND POINTS TO THAT.
AND AS I MENTIONED, JUST BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT THAT, THAT FRAMEWORK.
IT SAYS IN OUR DIGITAL AGE, COMPUTERS ARE BOTH THE PAINT AND THE PAINTBRUSH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION CREATES THE ARTISTS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY LIKED THAT THOUGHT.
AND THEN THERE'S SOME ON THE LAST SLIDE, THANK YOU.
UM, AND WE HAVE GREAT SUPPORT.
WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUPPORT FROM THE BOARD DOWN.
WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO INTEGRATE CAREER TICKET PATHWAYS WITH SKILLS THAT ARE TRANSFERABLE.
UH, WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS, SOFT SKILLS ASPECT ACROSS ALL OF OUR PATHWAYS, BUT WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE FOR OVERALL TECHNOLOGY, PARTICULARLY WITH BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE ACROSS ALL PATHWAYS? AND WE WANT TO INTRODUCE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO OUR EMERGING OCCUPATIONS, AS WE TALK ABOUT HOW DO WE GET MORE CYBERSECURITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION, THOSE TYPES OF EXCITING THINGS.
HOW DO WE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WILL K-12 LEVEL EXPAND ON TECHNOLOGY? TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS WITHIN EXISTING WORKFORCE NEEDS WERE, UH, INDUSTRY.
THE VOICE OF INDUSTRY IS CRITICAL SUCH AS OUR HEALTHCARE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY IT WILL, CAN CONTINUE TO ENSURE STUDENTS ARE COLLEGE AND CAREER READY, BUT PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WANT TO PURSUE AN IT PATHWAY, I WANT TO CONTINUE TO PUT THOSE FUNDING TOWARD INDUSTRY CREDENTIALING.
UM, SO THEY WALK OUT WITH STACKABLE CREDENTIALS OF THE A-PLUS NETWORK, CYBER, AND THEN ALSO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH, UH, TCL AND UCB FOR DUAL ENROLLMENT OPPORTUNITIES SO THAT THEY CAN WORK TOWARD THOSE CERTIFICATE PATHWAYS.
AND, UM, UH, LIKE I SAID, SEVERAL OF US WERE BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE BEFORE WE GO TO THE FIRST QUESTION.
I JUST WANT TO SAY IT WAS AN EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT PRESENTATION AS ALWAYS
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ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.I AGREE WITH, UM, MR. STRINGER, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WITH TECHNOLOGY IS YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK AT EVERY, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENT IT'S GOT, YOU'VE GOT INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, YOU'VE GOT HR, YOU'VE GOT FINANCE, YOU'VE GOT KATE, YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS, BRING THEM TOGETHER AND THEN SET GOALS FOR THE, FOR THESE PROGRAMS, RIGHT.
WHICH YOU DID, WHAT SHOULD TECHNOLOGY LOOK LIKE IN, IN THE CLASSROOM? UM, AND THEN LAY OUT SORT OF HOW THINGS TO OBSTACLES.
SO I JUST THINK THIS WAS EXCELLENT.
I THINK THIS IS A MODEL FOR WHERE A LOT OF STUFF IN TECHNOLOGY COULD GO MY FIRST AND I HAVE SEVERAL DAVID, BUT I'LL DO THEM ONE AT A TIME AND THEN YOU CAN INTERRUPT.
UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS TECHNOLOGY CONUNDRUM AND I HAVE A NINTH GRADER HE'S IN THE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY COMPUTER PROGRAMS. I SEE WHERE THE JOBS ARE, WHERE THE COLLEGE DEGREES ARE.
AND I WANT HIM TO GET MORE COMPUTER EDUCATION.
SO ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, IS IT A CATE PROGRAM? IS IT CAUSE WE HAVE LIKE AP COMPUTER SCIENCES AND TRADITIONALLY KATE SORT OF HAS BEEN ONE MODE.
AND THEN YOU HAVE SORT OF THESE OTHER PATHWAYS, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S AP OR IB OR ARTS OR, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT MODES IS CAKE AND TO TAKE THE LEAD IN TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM, OR IS IT GOING TO BE MORE OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES? UH, AND CERTAINLY DR.
CAN TRY ME IN AS WELL AS RALPH.
SO FIRST OF ALL, THE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY AT HILTON HEAD.
WELL, WE HAVE IT AT SEVERAL HILTON HEAD BERRY CREEK BUFORD, REALLY AT ALL.
NOW MOST OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, UH, THAT IS JUST, UH, ONE RESOURCE.
THAT'S A FAIRLY RECOGNIZED CURRICULUM.
UM, THAT'S I THINK SPOT ON TO TRY AND MEET THOSE COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS OF HELPING STUDENTS TO START LEARNING THROUGH PROJECT-BASED, UH, APPLICATIONS, SIMILAR TO WHAT THE PROJECT LEAD, THE WAY ENGINEERING, UM, PATHWAYS HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
THEY JUST TWO YEARS AGO ADDED ON THE FOURTH LEVEL OF PROJECT LEAD THE WAY CYBER SECURITY.
AND THAT'S WHERE, UH, I APPRECIATE THE PRINCIPAL AT HILTON HEAD THAT THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE WANTING TO GO WITH THAT TO ADD EACH YEAR, UH, ANOTHER COURSE AND HOPEFULLY ANOTHER TEACHER TO, TO HELP MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
I WOULD SAY MS. BOATWRIGHT, IT'S A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
I THINK IF STUDENTS, IF YOU GO BACK, UM, PLEASE MRS. CUSHION BARRY TO THE SLIDE THAT HAS A LIST OF COURSES.
IF AP COMPUTER SCIENCE WERE OFFERED, THEN IT ALSO COULD MEET THAT.
KEEP ON GOING BACK TO, UH, WHERE WE HAD THAT ONE.
UM, I B COMPUTER SCIENCE, IB HAS A, UH, A, A COURSE ALONG THAT PATHWAY, IT COMES DOWN TO WHAT TEACHERS DO.
YOU HAVE TO INSTRUCT THIS AND WHERE IT'S ENGAGING AND FUN AND, AND, AND HELPING THE STUDENTS, BUT DR.
STRATEGY, WOULD YOU AGREE THIS A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH? NOT JUST WITH CTE? I WOULD.
UM, I WANTED TO REFRAME THE QUESTION.
SO NOW HOW DOES, HOW WILL CTE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ACCELERATED COURSES INTEGRATE? AND IT IS A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH AND KAREN, YOU LANDED RIGHT ON THE POINT.
IT IS A STAFFING APPROACH IN ORDER TO HAVE, IF I HAVE TO CTE EDUCATOR, WHO'S TAKEN A SERIES OF COURSES PROVIDING THAT FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO WE HAVE THE PARALLEL COMPUTER SCIENCE PERSON IN THE ACCELERATED COURSES ON THAT SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
WE DO HAVE TO HAVE A INTEGRATED MODEL.
I GET AN APPLIER SCHOOL, BUT THE LARGER SCHOOL, THE LARGER OPPORTUNITY AND MORE STAFFING, RIGHT.
UM, AS WELL AS A LARGER OF STUDENTS, AMOUNT OF STUDENTS WHO POPULATE THOSE COURSES.
SO THEY'RE NOT IN ISOLATION, THEY CAN BE INTEGRATED AND YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
MRS. GILBERT, CAN I JUST FOLLOW UP WITH THAT AND REFRAME MY QUESTION A THIRD TIME A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SO I GOT A MASTER'S DEGREE IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT RECENTLY, RIGHT? THAT'S ONE APPROACH.
I'M ALSO DOING A GOOGLE CERTIFICATION.
LOTS OF TECH FIRMS ARE HIRING RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL BASED ON CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS. SO TO ME, LIKE THERE ARE ALL THESE PROGRAMS THAT ARE JUST CERTIFICATION BASED, CYBER SECURITY, GOOGLE DATA ANALYST, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'RE INEXPENSIVE.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE RELATIVELY EASY TO, UM, TO RUN IN MORE OF A, UH, CATE TYPE FORMAT, I GUESS, VERSUS SOMEONE LEARNING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING WHO WANTS TO GO DO COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT CLEMSON? I DON'T KNOW.
I'M NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT THEY'RE DIFFERENT.
WHAT'S THE, I JUST TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT'S THE EMPHASIS.
I, I THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT.
AND FIRST OF ALL, CAN YOU COME TEACH TOO? CAUSE NOW, LIKE YOU GOT AN AWESOME BACKGROUND.
WE NEED YOU THE, UM, WE'RE FOR BOTH.
UH, IF, IF OUR STUDENTS, WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS IN PROJECT LEAD THE WAY ENGINEERING, THEY GO ON TO THE FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITIES, A LOT OF OUR STUDENTS
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ARE TAKING OUR SPORTS MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE THEY'RE GOING ONTO THE THOR UNIVERSITY.SO IT'S NOT JUST FOR THAT, UM, TECHNICAL COLLEGE BOUND KID.
SO IN THAT SENSE, WE'RE TRYING TO MEET THE NEEDS FOR BOTH POPULATIONS.
UM, MAY I ASK CLARIFICATION TO MRS. GILBERT, MRS. DRIVEN.
KAREN AND THE PERKINS FUNDING.
DO THEY INCLUDE GOOGLE CERTIFICATION AS A QUALIFIER FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL? WE WILL.
WE, FOR PERSONNEL, FOR STUDENTS, FOR PERSONNEL WILL WILL.
YEAH, BECAUSE MRS. BOATWRIGHT TRIGGERED THAT QUESTION FROM MY SIDE.
UH, I'M INTERESTED IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO, UH, MICROSOFT AND, UH, A LOT, UH, VISITING THEIR HEADQUARTERS AND, UH, GOING INTO, INTO THEIR ROOMS FOR CODERS AND SEEING HOW A, THE CODERS ARE SET UP MULTIPLE.
UM, THEY HAVE, UH, DESKS CONFIGURED IN CERTAIN WAYS TO LIKE HAVE PAPER DOCUMENTS AND, AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT ONE SCREEN, THAT'S GOT THE CODE STREAM.
ONE STREAM HAS GOT THE APPLICATION.
THE OTHER SCREEN, IF IT'S, IF IT'S, ESPECIALLY, IF THERE'S A LOT OF GRAPHICS, WE'LL HAVE THE GRAPHICS, THREE SEPARATE COMPUTERS, AS MANY AS THREE, AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT COMPUTERS SET UP.
AND WHAT MICROSOFT DOES IS MICROSOFT SPONSORS CODING COMPETITIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND THEY GO TO PROGRAMS AND MICROSOFT WILL SEND SOME ENGINEERS AND SOME OBSERVERS DOWN, GIVE A PRIZE, AND THEN THEY WILL CHERRY PICK THE KIDS THAT DO REALLY WELL.
WE'LL SAY, COME MORE AND GIVE THEM THIS WAS 2002, 2004, STARTING AT A THOUSAND DOLLARS, GIVE THEM AN APARTMENT AND WORK THEIR TAILS OFF UNTIL THEY'RE 26 AND ARE NO LONGER INNOVATIVE.
I'VE BEEN TO A CODING OR TO A GAMING COMPANY AND THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA SAW THE SAME TYPE OF SETUP.
SO IF WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THIS AS A CATE PROGRAM, WE NEED TO SET UP INDUSTRY STANDARD CONFIGURATIONS BECAUSE WE'RE PUTTING KIDS IN A REAL DISADVANTAGE.
IF THEY HAVE A SINGLE PC OR SINGLE DESKTOP OR A DESKTOP AND A LAPTOP, THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WHEN YOU GO INTO THE INDUSTRY, WE'VE GOT TO SHOW THEM THAT THERE'S FUNDAMENTALLY, AND THAT'S JUST FOR THE CODING AND THE GAMING PART.
THERE'S ALSO THE ENGINEERING PART.
THERE'S ALSO THE CYBER SECURITY PART.
IT SEEMS TO ME, WE NEED TO GO TO, UH, WHERE THEY'RE DOING CYBERSECURITY, HOW ARE THEY CONFIGURED? WE'RE PAID PROGRAM, MAY RIVER.
AND THAT PROGRAM, WE BUILD THAT GOOGLE, THAT KATE BUILDING THERE AT MAY RIVER, WE NEED TO BUILD IT.
IF WE'RE GOING TO DO AS A COMPUTER SCIENCE OR COMPUTER COURSE THERE, WE NEED TO BUILD THAT SO THAT WE CAN DUPLICATE STATE OF THE ART, WHERE THE KIDS GO.
AND THAT MEANS THAT WE'VE GOT TO SEND OUR ARCHITECTS, OUR ENGINEERS, OUR IT FOLKS OUT TO LOOK AT WHAT'S OUT THERE BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THIS WAS A 2002, 2004.
SO I THINK THIS IS AN EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, UH, BRIEFING.
AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT SEEING WHERE WE CAN GO.
RODRIGUEZ, THAT HE HAS, UH, INITIATING A PROGRAM WITH TCL AND USC CB IN THE ROBOTICS FIELD.
NOW THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT KIND
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OF MAKEUP OF READY KATE CAT ROOM AND HOW THAT'S SET UP.THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT THING.
THAT'S MORE HARDWARE, SOFTWARE OBSTACLE COURSE.
I WENT TO THE ROBOTICS COMPETITION, THE INTERNATIONAL ROBOTICS COMPETITION, AND, UH, LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY THREE YEARS AGO WHEN MY GRANDSON WAS A COMPETING AS PART OF THE LADY'S ISLAND, MIDDLE SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM, THAT'S WHERE I SAW WHAT THEY HAD VERSUS WHAT WE HAD AT EDDY'S ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, NOT ONLY THE HARDWARE, BUT THE, THE ENGINEER THAT WAS THERE WITH THEM, BE ADULT TEACHER THAT WAS THERE WITH THEM.
WE HAD AN ADULT TEACHER THERE, THE KIDS KNEW MORE ABOUT IT THAN HE DID.
AND THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE NOT EVEN IN THE BALLPARK AT IT.
IT WAS JUST DIFFERENCE IN WHAT THEY HAD HERE AT LADY'S ISLAND.
BASICALLY ALL THEY HAD WAS A CLASSROOM AND THEY BROUGHT IN STUFF THEN, BUT NOTHING ELSE.
I MEAN, IT WAS, IT WAS VERY, VERY BASIC.
THAT'S NOT WHAT INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS HAVE.
SO WE NEED TO GO OUT AND DO SOME BENCHMARKING AND VISIT SOME SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ALREADY FIGURED IT OUT AND LET'S COPY IT.
BUT, UH, KARA, AND THIS IS JUST DYNAMITE.
I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
AND THANK YOU, COLONEL GARNER FOR IS RECOGNIZING THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING OF THAT YOU'RE SPOT ON IS DEFINITELY IMPORTANT.
UM, COLONEL GOING BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, UM, IT, IT'S STILL BASICALLY ABOUT WHAT IT WAS WHEN YOU SAW IT.
UM, MY SON'S IN CYBERSECURITY, HE DID IT IN THE MILITARY ON THE NEW CYBER COMMANDS.
UM, AND EVEN IN HIS CURRENT WORKPLACE, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S THREE DIFFERENT SCREENS, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT'S HIS HUB WHERE HE CAN INTERACT BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO FLOP BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, UM, JUST TO PLANT THE PIN OR A SEED.
WHEN WE LOOK AT INFRASTRUCTURE AND WE LOOK AT BANDWIDTH AND WE LOOK AT THE WIRES COMING IN, UM, I TALKED IT ABOUT IT AND I BOUNCE IT OFF MY SON ALL THE TIME.
ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WE USE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY IS BECAUSE IT'S A, CLOUD-BASED AWS, AMAZON WEB SERVICES FOR THE CYBERSECURITY, IT'S SAFE, IT'S NOT HITTING OUR NETWORK, RIGHT? SO IN, IN TERMS OF, UM, PROTECTION FOR OUR NETWORK AND OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT FINANCE, ET CETERA, WE'RE NOT GETTING ATTACKED THROUGH THAT.
UM, IF WE GO OUTSIDE OF AMAZON WEB SERVICES, NOW YOU'LL LOOK AT IT RUNNING SEPARATE LINES TO THE SCHOOLS WITH A SEPARATE SERVER, JUST FOR THE TYPES OF COURSES THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED.
UM, SO JUST AS THE BOARD MEMBERS LOOK AT, UM, THE FUTURE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THAT'S A KEY PIECE.
UM, MS. KILOBIT, DO WE HAVE, UH, ROBOTICS AND ALL OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS? NO, SIR.
WE, WE NOW HAVE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY GATEWAY THE MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSES IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS, WHICH LENDS TO THAT PROJECT-BASED PROBLEM-BASED WE WERE PROUD THAT BUFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL JUST ADDED ON AND WE HAVE AN AWESOME NEW TEACHER AT WELL BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL AS WELL.
AND SHE IS VERY INTERESTED IN ADDING THAT COMPUTER SCIENCE, INNOVATORS AND MAKERS COURSE.
SO, UH, RALPH AND I WILL BE, UM, UH, PAYING FOR HER TRAINING TO, TO GET THAT THIS SUMMER, SINCE SHE'S A BRAND NEW TEACHER, WE DIDN'T WANT TO, SHE'S GOING THROUGH PACE OR DIRECT, AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO, UM, ADD TOO MUCH, BUT ONCE SHE GETS THAT TRAINING, THEN A YES, SIR.
THEN WE WILL HAVE A GATEWAY IN ALL STEM COURSES IN ALL OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT IS IN, I WANT TO SAY FOUR OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
AND DO THEY COMPETE AGAINST OTHER DISTRICTS? LIKE THEY USUALLY DO THE YES, SIR.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WELL, BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL USED TO DO VERY WELL YEARS AGO, RIGHT WHEN I FIRST CAME ON BOARD.
UM, SO IT IS OUR HOPE THAT ONCE WE GET TEACHERS,
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UH, CONSISTENCY WITH OUR TEACHERS, PARTICULARLY AT THE MIDDLE GRADES, THEN, UH, WE'LL DEFINITELY WANT TO BRING THAT BACK BEFORE I GO TO INGRID, HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS, BUT I'M ONLY GOING TO HAVE ONE, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S A HORIZONTAL ON A VERTICAL ASPECT TO THIS, AND I'M GOING TO KIND OF FOCUS ON THAT HORIZONTAL WHEN YOU TOUCHED ON IT IN YOUR THING ABOUT ALL OUR TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE THE FUNDAMENTALS, JUST LIKE IT'S JUST LIKE ENGLISH, ANYTHING ELSE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THOSE FUNDING AMOUNTS.SO THAT'S ONE, AND THEN THERE'S THE WORD WOODS OR THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO MY QUESTION IS WHAT, WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO TO HELP? Y'ALL GET BOTH OF THOSE.
I MEAN, WE CAN FOCUS ON THIS VERTICAL THING, BUT THE HORIZONTAL PART IS WHERE I'M, I'M REALLY FOCUSED ON HOW DO WE GET BROAD-BASED BASIC FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF COMPUTER PRINCIPLES AND SOFTWARE PRINCIPLES, UM, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT STUFF.
HOW, HOW CAN THE BOARD HELP YOU GET THAT DONE? AND IN FACT, ARE YOU THE LEAD ON THAT OR IS, OR IS DR.
STRATUS WHO IS THE LEAD ON MAKING SURE THAT ALL THOSE, ALL OUR TEACHERS, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE A CERTAIN BASIC UNDERSTANDING AND A WAY OF THINKING, BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, COMPUTER SCIENCE IS A WAY OF THINKING A WAY OF APPROACHING PROBLEMS. WE NEED TO GET THAT INTEGRATED EVERYWHERE.
THANK YOU, MR. FOR PICKING UP ON THAT AND MS. MS. CUSTOMARY, IF YOU'LL GO TO THAT SLIDE ON CONSIDERATIONS AND THEN MR. FLOWERS, IF YOU'RE STILL WITH US, UM, NICK, AND THEN, THEN DR.
STRATUS, UH, MR. FLOWERS HAS AN EXCELLENT PERSPECTIVE ON THAT.
WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IN, IN ADDRESSING MR. STRINGER, WHAT'S, YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT FOR OVERALL K-12.
WOULD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF OUR CONVERSATIONS, MR. FLOWERS ON THAT I'D BE HAPPY TO, SO YOU REALLY HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD THERE THAT COMPUTER SCIENCE IS MORE THAN JUST CODING.
SO I THINK AS A DISTRICT, WE NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW DOES THIS, WELL, WHAT'S OUR PLAN OF ACTION TO REALLY ADDRESS THAT COMPUTER SCIENCE ASPECT OF IT.
UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT ON A BROADER SCALE, I MEAN, COMPUTER SCIENCE REALLY ENCOMPASSES KIND OF FIVE CORE CONCEPTS.
AND SO BRINGING IN THOSE FIVE CORE CONCEPTS OF HOW THOSE STRANDS CAN TOUCH ON ALL THE DIFFERENT AREAS.
SO IF I'M DOING AN ENGLISH REPORT, THEN I MAY WANT TO PULL IN TO USING SOME FORMAL WAY TO COMMUNICATE THAT OUT WITHIN THE REPORT, UM, KIND OF LIKE A MULTIMEDIA APPROACH THERE TO IT.
UM, SO ON A NATIONAL SCALE, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE REALLY IDENTIFIED CORE, UM, FIVE CORE CONCEPTS AND THEY'VE IDENTIFIED SEVEN CORE PRACTICES.
AND SO NOW I THINK THAT THE NEXT STEP FOR US THEN IT'S REALLY IDENTIFYING WHAT OUR PLAN OF ACTION IS AND THEN CHECKING IT OUT.
SO THEN THAT WAY WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY, ITS ASPECT THAT CAN SUPPORT THE, UM, ACADEMICS ASPECT OF BRINGING IN THE COMPUTER SCIENCE CONCEPTS.
SO I THINK THAT I KNOW FOR ME, I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH, UM, COLLEEN, JUST BECAUSE SHE REALLY BRINGS THAT HEAVY TECH SIDE TO MY WORK AND THEN BRINGING THE COMPUTER SCIENCE SIDE, THE ACADEMICS PIECE TO IT TOO.
SO REALLY CONCEPTUALIZING WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE? AND THEN DEVELOPING AN ACTION PLAN OF HOW THIS REALLY ROLLS OUT.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING STANDARDS BASED INSTRUCTION TO OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, JUST THE THINKING, UM, ON THAT APPROACH IS HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOMS WITH THE HOPE THEN THAT, UM, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO GET THOSE INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS AND ALL OF THAT.
AND WHO IS THE LEAD ON THAT? WHO'S OUR, WHO'S OUR CHAMPION ON THAT, MAKE SURE IT GETS DONE.
SO, MRS. TREVON, DEAR, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A GRANT THROUGH THE THAT MR. FLOWERS IS THE LEAD POINT OF CONTACT ON IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, THAT CORE CONCEPT OF THAT GRANT IS THE INTEGRATION OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS INTO OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND BEING ABLE TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY IN OUR EDUCATORS.
SO WE HAVE SLICE OF THAT HAPPENING.
PART OF THAT ALSO BLEEDS INTO OUR MSRP OUTSIDE OF OUR DIVISION.
WE HAVEN'T BUILT PD BEYOND THOSE TWO GRANTS.
WE'RE JUST STARTING THAT PROCESS OF PROCESSES.
THAT'S GROWING MY GUT FEELING.
IT WILL BE AN EXTENSION OF WORKING FROM THE DODEA AND SRDB TO SUCH ITS SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD, SOME OF THEIR CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES, AND THEN BE ABLE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING MORE IN SAYS WHERE AND I MEAN MORE EXPERTS IN IT SAYS
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WE'RE ONBOARDING EDUCATORS AND CONDUCTING PD DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.WE'RE ABLE TO CAST A LARGER NET TO IMPACT MORE EDUCATORS.
SO GOING BACK TO, IS THAT ME? OKAY.
UM, THE HR ISSUE, I MEAN, WE CAN TALK ABOUT BENCHMARKS AND, AND SEEING WHAT OTHER SCHOOLS ARE DOING.
THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S WE DON'T HAVE IN THE DISTRICT, WE'RE SHORT ON TEACHERS AND NOW WITH REMOTE WORK, IF YOU'RE GOOD WITH YOUR, WITH COMPUTERS, YOU CAN MAKE SIX FIGURES, PRETTY EASY, UM, YOU KNOW, SIGN UP FOR SOME OF THESE COMPANIES THAT NO LONGER REQUIRE YOU TO BE IN CITY.
SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE.
UM, ONE QUESTION I HAVE, AS FAR AS THAT ASPECT, IS THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE ON THE ISLAND WHO MAY NOT, UH, BE CERTIFIED TEACHERS, BUT WOULD BE WILLING TO COMMIT TO TEACHING A CLASS.
SOME ARE WORKING, UM, IN IT AREAS.
AND THEY HAVE EITHER THE LATITUDE TO COME IN FOR ONE CLASS A DAY AND THEY WOULD SEE IT AS A GIVING BACK.
UM, AND THEY LIKE WORKING WITH, WITH, UH, THE YOUTH AND, AND LEADING THAT NEXT VANGUARD OF, UH, PEOPLE INTO THEIR PROFESSION.
SOME OF THEM ARE RETIRED, BUT STILL HAVE REALLY RELEVANT SKILLS AND CONTEXTS.
IS THERE SOME WAY THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO HELP GET SOME OF THESE PEOPLE INTO THE CLASSROOM? THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA OF MS. BURKE, RIGHT? AND I LIKED, I LIKED THE WAY YOU WERE DRIVING THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND GET INNOVATIVE AS TO HOW WE ARE RECRUITING.
IT REALLY GOES TO SEVERAL OF OUR SPECIALTY AREA CONTENT AREAS.
UH, WE COULD HAVE SOME PHENOMENAL NURSES THAT DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO COMMIT TO THE ENTIRE DAY THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO COME IN.
UM, AND THIS IS, THIS IS NOT JUST A PROBLEM OR CHALLENGE.
MY COLLEAGUES ARE REGIONALLY AND ABROAD ARE HAVING THE SAME CONCERNS, PARTICULARLY LIKE YOU SAID, SINCE COVID AND THEY CAN, THEY CAN WORK REMOTELY.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT THAT, UH, OBVIOUSLY WITH HR IS CONTRACT WORK.
UM, AND ALSO I THINK THE STATE IS RECOGNIZING THAT THEY'VE GOT TO CHANGE THE FUNDING FORMULAS.
FIRST OF ALL, FOR TEACHERS WHO COME IN WITH SPECIALTY AREAS AND START TO COUNT YEARS OF WORK, NOT JUST YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND THAT, THAT IS ON THE, THE, THEIR RADAR.
UM, BUT THEN AS I SAID, LOOKING AT JUST, UH, HOW, UH, DR.
WHITE AND SPED, THEY CONTRACT OUT PSYCHOLOGISTS, THEY CONTRACT OUT A LITTLE DIFFERENT SCENARIO, OF COURSE.
UM, BUT I LIKED THE WAY YOU THINKING OF TRYING TO GET INNOVATIVE AS TO HOW THAT WOULD, UM, UM, PERHAPS BRING IN SOME REALLY GOOD TALENT INTO OUR SCHOOLS, JUST NOT ON A FULL-TIME BASIS.
SO WE CAN DEFINITELY WE'LL PURSUE THAT.
AND DAVID, I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, BUT I'M WILLING TO GIVE TO THE END OF THE LINE, GO TO THE END OF THE LINE.
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO WRAP IT UP BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THIS ONE.
IT'LL BE, IT'LL BE KINDA QUICK.
WE JUST LOOKED IN OPERATIONS YESTERDAY, THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT.
NOW, THE BOOK WITH ENROLLMENT, ONE OF THE AREAS IS A CHOICE PROGRAM CHOICE, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, WHO HAS A DIFFERENT PROGRAM CHOICE? I THINK ONE THING THAT, UH, CONSTITUENTS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IS MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM AT EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL, BUT THAT EVERY SINGLE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL HAVE A RELATIVELY COMPARABLE NUMBER OF COMPUTER OFFERINGS.
IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN ADD A SECTION TO PROGRAMS OF CHOICE OR ADD IT IN THERE WHERE YOU SHOW WHAT COMPUTER PROGRAMS, BECAUSE LIKE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT VARIATIONS.
IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, PROJECT LEAD THE WAY IT COULD BE A GRANT BASED PROGRAM, SOMETHING, BUT WHERE EVERYONE CAN LOOK AT IT AND SAY, HILTON HEAD HIGH HAS THESE COMPUTER PROGRAMS. WELL, BRANCH HIGH HAS THESE COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND EVERYONE HAS THE SENSE THAT THE RESOURCES ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY.
STRIVES MAY WANT TO REFERENCE THIS AS WELL, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LONG-TERM AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU FOR OUR MIDDLE GRADES.
IT HAS BEEN OUR GOAL IN CAREER AND TECH ED.
UH, AGAIN, AS I SAID, EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE SOME TYPE OF STEM FOCUS IN CAREER AND TECH ED CAN UTILIZE LEVERAGE, LEVERAGE THOSE STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS WITH GREAT SIX THROUGH EIGHT TO WHERE, IN MY OPINION, ALL MIDDLE GRADES NEED TO HAVE STEM AS WELL AS SOME TYPE OF DIGITAL LITERACY.
AGAIN, GOING BACK TO SOME OF THOSE KEY AREAS THAT ARE PRIDE, A LITTLE BIT OF EXPLORATORY AND FOUNDATIONAL BEFORE THEY START TO REALLY BRANCH OUT IN HIGH SCHOOL FOR, FOR MORE OF WHAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN PURSUING.
SO, UH, WHETHER IT, IT ALL FALLS UNDER CAREER AND TICKET, UM, IT
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CAN, AS FAR AS, UM, EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL OFFERING INNOVATIVE INNOVATORS AND COMPUTERS, UH, THAT PARTICULAR COURSE IS A GREAT EXPLORATORY COURSE.UH, DESIGN AND MODELING IS A GREAT EXPLORATORY PROJECT LEAD THE WAY GATEWAY COURSE, RALPH SHAKING HIS HEAD.
AND IT'S BASICALLY SENDING THOSE TEACHERS TO TRAINING AND THEY CAN BE A MATH OR SCIENCE CERTIFIED TEACHER.
BUT AGAIN, IT'S HAVING THOSE, HAVING THE TEACHERS TO, TO BE ABLE TO ADD THOSE SECTIONS.
STRATAS, DID YOU WANT TO ADD, SORRY.
I THINK MRS. BOAT RIDE HAD ONE MORE FOLLOW-UP ON NO BROWN BROWN FENCE.
DOES HE END UP WITH, LET'S GO TO HIM, UH, TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT YOU SAID.
MA'AM, UM, EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE COST, IT HAS TO BE A K 12.
WE HAVE TO HOOK THEM YOUNG TO GAIN THE INTEREST WITH, WITH, WITH THE PROBLEM-BASED, UM, PROBLEM-BASED, UM, TEACHING WHERE THEN WHEN THEY GET TO MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH, TO LIKE, OH, I REMEMBER WHEN I DID THAT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
THAT'S WE CAN'T JUST START IN HIGH SCHOOL AND SAY, LET'S MAKE COMPUTER SCIENCE FOLKS.
WE HAVE TO LOOK THEM YOUNG AND GET THEIR INTERESTS.
UM, PROJECT LEAD THE WAY HAS A K FIVE LAUNCH PROGRAM, DR.
FLOWERS AND I SPOKE ABOUT IT YESTERDAY, UH, ALONG WITH DR.
APPLEBY BECAUSE MOSSY OAKS WOULD LIKE TO GO INTO IT.
UM, AS PART OF THE GRANT RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY IS THE ONLY STANDALONE SCHOOL THAT'S DONE IT WITHOUT A GRANT, BUT BASED ON OUR ONE-TO-ONE INITIATIVE AND WE WERE DISCUSSING IT YESTERDAY, UM, THEY HAVE TO HAVE IPADS OR, UM, UM, TABLETS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE.
I CALL THEM THE LITTLE PEOPLE, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS.
SO THAT PRESENTS A NEW FUNDING ISSUE THAT WE HADN'T PLANNED, BUT TO EXPAND IT AS FAR AS INFRASTRUCTURE, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THESE THINGS BECAUSE REALLY WHEN YOU CAN PUT IT IN EVERY SINGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SO EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT TOUCHES STEM THROUGH MODULES, YOU KNOW, MEDICAL, COMPUTER SCIENCE, IT'S, IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD.
FLOWERS, UM, AND MS. GILBERT, UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING AS WE LOOK AT, IF WE WANT TO EXPAND, I FIRMLY BELIEVE WE HAVE TO COME RIGHT FROM K RIGHT UP TO RIGHT UP TO MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT DEFICIENT.
WELL, I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS I THINK SOMETIMES WHAT HAPPENS IS PEOPLE SAY, OH, THERE IS ALL THESE PROGRAMS HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES, ALL THESE CLASSES, RIGHT.
AND DIFFERENT SORT OF EMPHASIS.
AND SO IT CAN'T, YOU CAN'T COMPARE APPLES TO APPLES.
AND LIKE, UM, MS. GILBERT SAID, I THINK THE CYBERSECURITY SAID, WHALE BRANCH, BUFORD HIGH AND HILTON HEAD HIGH.
HAVE WE HAVE THE PROJECT LEAD THE WAY FOR, UM, LEVEL CYBERSECURITY AND WHALE BRANCH HAS A CYBERSECURITY, YOU KNOW, GRANT BASED PROGRAM.
UM, AND SO BLUFFTON DOESN'T, SO WHAT I'M SAYING WAS WITH PROGRAMS OF CHOICE, WE HAVE A, BASICALLY A SPREADSHEET WITH A, AT THIS SCHOOL, THERE ARE THESE PROGRAMS AT THIS SCHOOL, AND THEY'RE NOT ALL THE SAME, BUT IT GIVES A PARENT IF THEY HAVE A CHILD WHO WANTS TO PURSUE AS A SIXTH GRADER AND IS REALLY INTERESTED IN COMPUTERS TO SAY, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT'S AVAILABLE AT YOUR SCHOOL HERE.
OUR CHOICE PROGRAMS, IF YOUR SCHOOL DOESN'T HAVE WHAT YOUR CHILD'S INTERESTED IN TYPE OF THING, CAUSE WE JUST DON'T HAVE, WE HAVE THAT FOR OUR ACADEMIC PROGRAMS. WE HAVE IT FOR ARTS AND FUSE.
WE HAVE IT FOR, YOU KNOW, ROTC DIFFERENT THINGS.
I THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE SOME SORT OF A, UM, WHAT PROGRAMS OFFERED TO SCHOOL AND SCHOOL CHOICE, UH, FOR FAMILIES AS WE HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT RESOURCES.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GOING TO THROW ONE LAST THING IN HERE SO WE CAN WRAP THIS ITEM UP.
UM, I'M TRYING TO SIFT THROUGH ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, LOOKING FOR ACTION ITEMS. UM, AND I, I'M NOT SURE.
I, I SEE HIM, I, WE ALL AGREE ON A LOT OF THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE, BUT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS WHO, YOU KNOW, AS I ASKED BEFORE, WHO IS WHO'S LEADING, WHAT, AND WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO TO HELP ACCELERATE THAT? UM, WE CAN'T RECRUIT TEACHERS, WHICH SEEMS TO BE, YOU KNOW, 50% OF THE PROBLEM AT LEAST, BUT WHAT, WHAT CAN WE DO IF I, IF I MAY, IF I MAY, MR. , UM, COLONEL GARNER HIT ON IT, UH, AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT SPACE LEARNING SPACES, UH, IN SUPPORT
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OF INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, WITH, WITH AN OBVIOUSLY MR. SHOW ON IF HE HAS THOUGHTS ON THAT, BUT, UM, TO BE ABLE TO, AS WE RECONFIGURE EXISTING SPACES, UH, WHAT, WHAT CAN THAT LOOK LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SPREAD OUT IF AND WHERE IN THE EXISTING BUILDINGS, IF, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT MEDIA CENTERS, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THINGS THAT, UM, TO MAXIMIZE SPACE, THAT'S GOING TO BE MORE FORWARD-THINKING WITH WHETHER IT'S A CAREER AND TICKET FOCUS WITHIN THAT SPACE OR A STEM MAKERSPACE TYPE OF APPROACH, BUT INFRASTRUCTURE ON, UM, BECAUSE IT'S NOT CHEAP.WE, THE, THE, UM, WE, WE VERY FORTUNATE.
WE MAINTAIN OUR FEDERAL PARAMETERS TO HAVE PERKINS FUNDING, AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO A LOT FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS WITH THAT, UH, PERK AND PURCHASE WHAT WE NEED TO PURCHASE.
WE CAN'T ALLOW, WE CAN'T USE, UM, BANDWIDTH.
THAT'S A BIG NO-NO WITH, WITH FEDERAL FUNDS.
SO THINGS LIKE THAT TO CONTINUE TO, TO LOOK FORWARD AS TO WHAT WOULD AN IDEAL LEARNING SPACE LOOK LIKE? THE COLONEL GAR WAS REFERENCING, UH, SIMULATORS.
I DO, I DO THINK SIMULATORS CAN WORK WELL WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO DO CYBER SECURITY, CYBER PATRIOT, WHERE YOU HAVE THESE INTERNAL NETWORKS, IT'S OFF THE GRID.
UH, BUT AGAIN, UH, BUYING A SERVER THAT'S OFF THE, OFF THE, UM, OFF THE NETWORK, UM, AND WOULD BE SOME CONSIDERATION.
SO JUST LOOKING AT INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, AND, AND, AND HOW THAT WOULD WORK FOR OPTIMAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR, UM, TECHNOLOGY COURSES WOULD BE GREAT.
AND ONE LAST THING, MR. DISTRIBUTOR, MY APOLOGIES, THE DIS UH, UH, SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY FOR, AS MR. FLOWERS MENTIONED, UH, GETTING UNDERWAY WITH PRIORITIZING COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS AS A WHOLE FRAMEWORK, AS I SAID, SOUTH CAROLINA IS GOING TO BE RELEASING SOMETHING OVER THE NEXT YEAR.
AND IF WE'RE PROACTIVE ON THAT, AND FROM THE BOARD'S PERSPECTIVE IN THIS COMMITTEE'S PERSPECTIVE OF BEING PROACTIVE WITH THAT, TOO, UM, UH, AS FAR AS COMMUNICATIONS AND PROMOTION, AND THEN YOUR LAST QUESTION, UH, DR.
STRATOSE, UH, I'M ASSUMING IT'S, IT'S YOUR TEAM THAT WE'RE ALL COLLABORATING UNDER ISD ALONG WITH MS. CROSBY AND MR. TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN, CORRECT.
KAREN, IT'S A COLLABORATION AMONGST US AND RECOGNIZING, LISTENING TO BOARD, UM, PREFERENCES THAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE AS WELL FOR WHAT OUR STUDENTS ARE, THE ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL, BECAUSE IT IS ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO DEFINE THE VISION AND THEN PUT THOSE PIECES IN PLACE.
AND THAT'S WHAT A BOARD SUPPORT CONS CAUSE YOUR FUNDING ONLY GOES SO FAR.
WE CAN'T PUSH IT DOWN INTO THE ELEMENTARY.
WHAT I RECOMMEND IS THAT THIS REEFING BE GIVEN TO THE FULL BOARD AND PROBABLY HAD A WORK SESSION, BECAUSE IT COULD BE SOME DISCUSSION I WOULD ADD TO THIS, THE LAST CHART SAYING, THIS IS WHAT THE BOARD NEEDS TO DO TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT.
AND BULLETIZE IT, TELL US, TELL US WHAT YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, FROM A BOARD PERSPECTIVE, WE SHOULD GIVE FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY, UM, TO THE GOALS THAT YOU'RE LAYING OUT.
YOU KNOW, WHAT I, I LIKE YOUR SLIDE.
WHAT SHOULD TECHNOLOGY LOOK LIKE AND CTE CLASSROOMS. AND THEN FOR ME, IT SOUNDS LIKE WITH, YOU KNOW, BOARD FEEDBACK COMING UP WITH GOALS, AND THEN YOU GUYS, THIS IS JUST A THEORY AND SAY WHAT THAT, WHAT YOU WOULD NEED, YOU WOULD NEED, YOU KNOW, SIMULATOR, YOU WOULD NEED A SERVER, YOU WOULD NEED EXTRA TEACHERS, YOU WOULD NEED CONTRACT TEACHERS, YOU WOULD NEED ET CETERA.
AND THEN BASICALLY AS A BOARD, WE JUST KIND OF CHECK IN LIKE, HOW ARE WE DOING ON ACHIEVING THESE GOALS? WE TALKED ABOUT BACK IN JANUARY OF 20, 22, UM, YOU KNOW, AND LET THE, LET THE STAFF COME UP WITH ALL THEIR REQUIREMENTS AND WHAT THEY NEED, UM, IN TERMS OF MONEY AND RESOURCES.
UH, OBVIOUSLY A VERY, UH, VERY VALUABLE PRESENTATION, AGAIN, UH, A LOT, A LOT OF NEURONS FIRING HERE.
UM, BUT THIS IS A COMPLICATED, VERY, VERY COMPLICATED.
UM, IT'S NOT UNSOLVABLE, BUT IT HAS A LOT OF TENTACLES, UM, AND A LOT OF WAYS TO APPROACH IT.
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AGAIN, ALL OF YOU, THAT WAS, THAT WAS REALLY GOOD.LET'S MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS AN UPDATE ON THE EXTERNAL EVALUATION.
I THINK HE'S BACK IN ALL, ALL BETTER.
SO I'M GONNA, UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REPORT THAT THE RFP FOR THE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT SERVICES WAS, UH, FINALIZED, UH, YESTERDAY AT 4:00 PM.
UM, MANY VENDORS HAVE SHOWED INTEREST IN THIS ASSESSMENT AND AT THIS TIME I'M CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL MEET OUR MINIMUM PREFERENCE OF THREE SUBMITTED PROPOSALS.
UM, OUR VENDORS HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN SENDING IN QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ASSESSMENTS AND ALL OF THOSE CAN BE VIEWED ON THE VENDOR REGISTRY WEBSITE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UM, WE'RE HOPING THAT WE WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO EVALUATE, UM, THOSE PROPOSALS, UM, WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS TO, UH, FINALIZE IT AND GET THE BALL ROLLING ON THIS PROJECT.
UM, STUDENT BROADBAND ACCESS INITIATIVES, UM, WE ARE STILL CONTINUING TO MEET WITH, UM, OUR LOCAL ISP AND PROVIDERS, UH, NEXT WEEK.
UM, WE WILL BE MEETING WITH A T-MOBILE ON ONE OF THEIR NEW BROADBAND INITIATIVES CALLED THE PROJECT 10 MILLION.
UM, THEY ARE WORKING WITH THE MANY COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO TRY TO, UH, GET BETTER BROADBAND ACCESS.
UM, WE'RE A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT IT COULD BE MORE FOCUSED ON THE , WHERE WE ALREADY HAVE MY FYS.
AND WE KNOW THAT IS NOT THE ULTIMATE GOAL THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOR OUR STUDENTS IN THE LONG TERM.
UM, BUT WE CONTINUE TO MEET WITH OUR PARTNERS AND SEE HOW THEY CAN EXPAND OUR VISION ON THIS TOPIC.
YOU'RE MUTED, INGRID, SORRY, MY SCREEN WITH GLANCING AROUND, UM, ON THE THING, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ARCO FUNDING OR, YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S 120 OR IF THAT'S 25 3 OR WHAT, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE MY FIVE, SO I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO FOLD INTO THE SCHOOL'S BROADBAND INITIATIVES, BUT I DO THINK THAT ONE THING THAT THE SCHOOL SHOULD BE DOING IS FIGURING OUT WHAT OUR BROADBAND PROBLEM IS, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE EXACT, BUT A GOOD ESTIMATE OF WHAT PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO BROADBAND AND WHERE THOSE STUDENTS ARE.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE'RE NOT DEFINING THE PROBLEM FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE, AND WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE KIND OF JUMPING IN WITH THESE OTHER, ALL THIS ARPA FUNDING AND COUNTY FUNDING AND TOWN FUNDING, AND EVERYONE WANTS TO DO IT.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE UNDERSTAND EXACTLY THE, UM, THE GRAVITY OF THE PROBLEM FOR SCHOOL AGED, UH, RESIDENTS.
CAN WE DO SOME, SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN INITIATE SOME SORT OF, UH, UH, PROJECT TO GET A SENSE OF WHERE KIDS ARE AND HOW MUCH BROADBAND THEY DO OR DO NOT HAVE THAT WAS AWKWARDLY WORDED? I'M SORRY, WHERE, WHERE WE NEED TO FIND MORE BROADBAND, I GUESS, UM, WE CONTINUE TO ASK ON OUR REGISTRATION DOCUMENTATION FOR OUR FAMILIES TO TELL US THEIR NEEDS OR THEIR, WHAT THEY HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO BROADBAND.
UH, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WE ARE STILL NOT GETTING ALL THE DATA.
WE WOULD LIKE, WE ARE STILL HAVING FAMILIES TELL US THAT THEY HAVE BROADBAND, JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE IT ON A CELL PHONE, OR THEY HAVE A WEAK CONNECTION.
AND EVEN THOUGH EACH YEAR, WE DO ADD MORE QUESTIONS TO IT TO TRY TO GET A BETTER DEFINITION FROM IT.
UH, WE ARE STILL HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THAT ANSWER FROM OUR, UM, OUR STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS.
WE ARE, WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
UH, WE WERE GOING TO REFINE THE QUESTIONS TO TRY TO GET IT MORE ACCURATE.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE DOING THAT, BUT I'M KIND OF PRIVY TO EVERYBODY ELSE'S DATA.
AND OUR DATA IS THE BEST, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS FLAWS, IT'S BETTER THAN THE DATA THAN OTHER PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT.
UM, SO WE NEED TO GET HOOKED INTO ALL THOSE ON THE OTHER FOLKS.
THERE IS, DOES SEEM TO BE SOME COUNTY-WIDE INITIATIVE.
I WAS JUST TOLD ABOUT YESTERDAY.
UM, AND THEY WANT TO INVITE US TO JOIN.
AND I GUESS IT'S THE COUNTY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SPEND MONEY.
UH, BUT FOR SOME REASON THEY DON'T HAVE TROUBLE WITH THAT USUALLY.
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FOR SOME REASON WE'RE NOT INCLUDED.SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET US INCLUDED INTO THAT GROUP BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE OUR DATA IS MUCH BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S EVEN WITH THE FLAWS IS A UP, I WANT TO SAY, NOT ONLY DO WE NEED TO KNOW, AND I, I AGREE.
I THINK WE DID TALK ABOUT REFINING THE QUESTIONS, BUT WE'VE GOT, I MEAN, IN OTHER WORDS, I DON'T THINK THAT IN 2022, WE SHOULD SAY, WELL, WE COULDN'T REALLY GET THE RIGHT ANSWER BECAUSE WHAT WE CAN, WE HAVE TO DO IS FIGURE OUT NOT ONLY WHO HAS IT OR WHO DOESN'T HAVE IT, BUT YOU KNOW, WHO CAN AFFORD IT.
CAUSE I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE THAT'S BEING OVERLOOKED.
YOU MAY HAVE BROADBAND AT HOME, BUT IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING THE BILL OR IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD BROADBAND, SO THERE'S TWO QUESTIONS, RIGHT? WHO ACTUALLY HAS HIGH-SPEED BROADBAND AVAILABLE CAUSE THERE, AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND THIS OUT JUST FROM TALKING TO THE OFFICE OF BROADBAND.
THERE ARE LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY JUST DON'T HAVE THE WIRES RUNNING OUT TO THEIR HOME, UM, AND FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE THOSE ARE, WHERE THOSE POCKETS OF, UM, ACCESS ARE.
AND THEN HOW MANY PEOPLE IN OUR SCHOOLS MAYBE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT AREN'T ABLE TO AFFORD IT.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK WE REALLY, AS WE LOOK AT THIS LEARNING LOSS, WE REALLY NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EXTEND THE LEARNING DAY.
AND THE EASIEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO GIVE KIDS A LAPTOP, TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THESE SCHOLASTIC PROGRAMS AND HAVE THEM DOING THAT, YOU KNOW, AT HOME WITH THEIR PARENTS, THAT WOULD BE THE MOST IDEAL SCENARIO.
SO THE ACTION, THE ACTION ITEM COMING OUT OF THIS I THINK IS TO GET OUR DATA MUCH BETTER IF WE CAN.
AND I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE NOT ABLE TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN UNTIL WE START RE-ENROLLING? IS THAT THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE CAN GET THIS DATA? THAT'S USUALLY WHERE WE GET THE MOST ACCURATE, UM, ASSESSMENT OF THE DATA WHEN WE SEND STUFF HOME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
UM, WE, WE REALLY DON'T GET THE TRUE PICTURE WHEN THE PARENTS ARE DEDICATED ENOUGH TO FILL OUT OUR REGISTRATION.
WE SEEN THAT LIKE, THAT'S WHERE WE GET OUR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION FROM.
AND THEN I GUESS, CAN WE ALSO HAVE USAGE STATISTICS TOO? RIGHT.
SO WE KNOW WHO'S USING THEIR LAPTOPS AFTER HOURS AND WHO'S NOT DON'T WE, WE DO, BUT, UM, THERE'S SOME, UM, DISPARITIES THERE.
UM, A LOT OF TIMES WE HAVE STUDENTS THAT LEAVE SCHOOL AND GO HOME TO A FAMILY MEMBERS, MAYBE GRANDMA'S AND GRANDPA'S HOUSE THAT HAS INTERNET ACCESS.
UM, BUT THEN THE REST OF THE TIME THEY'RE AT THEIR HOUSE WITHOUT INTERNET ACCESS.
SO THERE THERE'S A LOT OF DATA POINTS THAT REALLY DON'T GET CAPTURED FULLY.
UM, THAT'S MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT TOUGHER QUESTION.
AS I SAID, THAT ACTION ITEM I SEE COMING AT US FOR US TO GET BETTER DATA.
AND THE OTHER ACTION ITEM IS FOR US, FOR ME TO GET US INCLUDED IN THIS NEW COUNTYWIDE INITIATIVE.
NOW WE GET TO, UM, DISCUSSION OVERVIEW OF THE COMMUNITY MISSION AND THAT'LL PROBABLY BE AS COMPLICATED AS OUR DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN UP TO THIS POINT BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY, MANY, MANY PIECES, UH, INGRID, I'M GOING TO LET YOU TAKE THE LEAD ON THIS BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THE MOST WORK ON IT.
DO YOU GUYS HEAR THAT? SOMEBODY WAS JUST, I HATE IT WHEN YOU GET THAT ECHO.
UM, YEAH, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER COMMITTEES ARE DOING SCHOOL BOARDS ARE DOING AS FAR AS TECHNOLOGY.
LIKE I SAID, I DO HAVE A BACKGROUND IN, UM, RECENTLY IN TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, BUT I'M LOOKING AT R O E AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REALLY TIED TO THE OES.
AND THEN WE HAD THAT MEETING WITH PEGGY TORREY, WHERE THEY WERE LIKE, WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SO SPECIFIC.
AND SO I STARTED BROADENING MY SEARCH OUTSIDE OF THE OES AND WHAT I THINK WE HAVE WITH OUR, UM, 17 ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY.
AND I KIND OF LOOKED AT, UM, WHEN I SENT THIS TO DAVID AND TO RICHARD, YOU KNOW, DR.
RODRIGUEZ AND, UM, LIKES THAT PLAN DO ACT CHECK, UH, MODEL.
A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES USE IT WHEN THEY IMPLEMENT NEW TECHNOLOGY.
AND SO I KIND OF BROKE OUR EASE INTO WHAT FELL INTO THE PLAN ACT, DO AND CHECK CATEGORY.
AND MOST OF THEM ARE MONITORING OES.
THEY'RE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE OPERATIONAL EXPECTATION IS THAT, UM, DO YOU EVER KIND OF SCHOOL DISTRICT TECHNOLOGY WILL SORT OF MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING'S DOING WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DOING? WHAT I THINK IS LACKING IN THE OECD.
AND I THINK THE BOARD SHOULD HAVE SOME LEVEL OF INPUT AS YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM,
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IS SORT OF STRATEGY AND VISION.JUST LIKE WITH THAT PRESENTATION WE GOT FROM MRS. GILBERT WITH, WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT DO, WHAT DOES TECHNOLOGY LOOK LIKE IN THE SCHOOLS NOW FIVE YEARS FROM NOW PLANNING FOR IT, BUDGETING FOR IT, UM, AND ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, AND SORT OF MOVING FROM THIS VERY LIMITED SORT OF WHAT SORT OF SUPPORT SERVICES DO WE OFFER IN THE TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK AND KIND OF LOOKING AT A HOLISTIC BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF HOW ARE WE USING TECHNOLOGY? BECAUSE ONE THING IS WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON TECHNOLOGY AND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT, IT'S AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PART OF EDUCATION.
AND, UM, SO I SENT THAT LITTLE BREAKDOWN TO, UM, THE OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
AND I ALSO TOOK FROM A STUDY OUT OF UC IRVINE ABOUT EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP THAT SAID THERE WERE LIKE SIX MAIN AREAS THAT, UM, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY, LEADERSHIP SHOULD BE INVESTED IN.
AND IT WAS, UM, STRATEGY AND VISION BUDGET, UM, EXTERNAL, I FORGET THE TERM EXTERNAL RELATIONS.
UM, I DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME CAUSE I WASN'T PLANNING ON TAKING THE LEAD, UH, WELL ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES.
AND I KIND OF LOOKED AT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS.
I THINK THAT LIKE WITH MS GILBERT'S PRESENTATION, THAT THAT IS MORE OF A LARGE, UM, WHAT'S THE WORD, NOT IN THE WEEDS, BUT 30,000 DEGREE VIEW OF, OF TECHNOLOGY AND WHERE IT'S GOING AND INVOLVES MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS.
SO PERSONALLY I THINK WE NEED TO EITHER RETHINK OUR O E DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
UM, AS FAR AS THE MISSION OF THE OIC OF THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, DAVID? SORRY.
UM, AND I, I, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE SO INVOLVED THAT YOU REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TO STUDY TO, TO TELL US WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS WERE PART OF YOU.
UM, I ONLY, I ONLY HAVE ONE NIT QUESTION AND THAT IS I WOULD YOU, WOULD YOU, UM, SEND THAT ATTACHMENT TO THE REST OF THE FOLKS ON THE COMMITTEE HERE? YEAH, I JUST ON IT, I PLEASE, I SAID, YOU GUYS, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO LIKE, MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, A STORE, HAVE IT WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
YEAH, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PRETTY, BUT MY ONLY QUESTION IS IT USED TO, I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS PLAN.
DO CHECK ACT, YOU HAVE PLANNED DO ACT CHECK.
DID IT CHANGE? AND THE REASON IS, IS I STARTED OFF WITH, UM, IT MIGHT'VE CHANGED IT.
UM, WITH PLAN, THEY SAY PLAN DESIGN IMPLEMENT, MAINTAIN AS THE TRADITIONAL ROLE OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, UH, PERSON, BUT IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE, IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS, IT'S USUALLY PLAN DESIGN IMPLEMENT AND THEN BASICALLY GET FEEDBACK.
THAT'S MORE OF THE AGILE MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY.
SO YOU KIND OF SEE HOW IT WORKS, THEN YOU GO BACK AND SEE IF YOU NEED TO TWEAK IT.
SO I, I TRIED TO MAKE IT MATCH UP WITH THAT.
SO I THINK I GOT CHECK AND ACT OUT OF ORDER, BUT YOU GET THE IDEA.
IT JUST, YOU KNOW, IT RAISES, UH, RAISES A FLAG FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN IN UNDATED IN TRAINING ON TQ.
UM, THERE ONE POINT I KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT, UM, THAT I DON'T THINK I'D EMPHASIZE TOO MUCH IN THAT WAS SOMEHOW MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE CLIENT CENTERED, THAT, THAT OUR TESTING, UM, YOU KNOW, IS CLIENT CENTERED THAT IT'S EASE OF EASE OF USE IS THE IMPORTANT PART, UM, AND USER DESIGN AND USER DESIGN.
AND SOMEHOW WE WANT TO WORK THAT INTO BEING ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES FOR ANY IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, AND THE OTHER THING IS, UM, GOING BACK TO EMOTION THAT PASSED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IS WE DON'T PURCHASE.
WE DON'T PURCHASE ANYTHING WITHOUT ARTICULATING AT A TIME WHAT THE EXPECTED RESULTS ARE GOING TO BE.
AND THEN WE MONITOR THOSE RESULTS.
AND, UH, I KNOW THE MOTION PASSED, BUT I'M NOT SURE IT EVER GOT ANY TRACTION.
UH, SO THAT, THAT WAS ANOTHER PIECE.
AND I THINK MAYBE THE NEXT I WON'T BE ON THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.
I CAN'T, I CAN'T BE A, BUT I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE FIRST THING THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE SHOULD DO IS, UM, GET THOSE BOUNDARIES LOCKED IN.
I GUESS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WOULD BE WHAT TO THE OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS, YOU AND COLONEL GUYER, YOU KNOW, DO WE WANT TO STAY? IS THIS AN THING? THIS IS WHERE I GET CONFUSED AND I'VE KIND OF GIVEN UP.
CAUSE I THOUGHT I HAD A HANDLE ON OES AND NOW I FEEL LIKE I DON'T, BUT, UM, DO WE WANT TO STICK WITH THE OLD FORMAT AND BASICALLY SAY, OH, WE 17 IS WHAT WE'VE GOT AND WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT WORK.
BECAUSE AS I POINTED OUT IN THAT DOCUMENT, WHICH I WILL SEND OUT, I JUST FELT LIKE IT LACKED SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT,
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YOU KNOW, IT'S STUDENT CENTERED, IT'S MORE ABOUT, UM, IT'S, IT DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH OF A, OF A GOAL CENTERED APPROACH.AND IT ALSO DOESN'T FOCUS AS MUCH ON LIKE TRANSPARENCY, WHICH I DON'T THINK IS A PROBLEM.
I JUST THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE IMPROVED ON.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO STICK WITH THE ALWAYS 17 AND JUST TRY TO CONTORT A MISSION STATEMENT INTO THE ONE THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
IF WE WANT TO TAKE ALWAYS 17 BACK TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE AND REWORK IT, OR IF WE JUST WANT TO SAY ALWAYS 17 IS ONE ASPECT OF WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE CAN DO.
AND HERE'S A MISSION STATEMENT.
UM, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, UH, A DRAFT THAT I'VE SENT OUT TO THE REST OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND WILL BE DISCUSSED AT OUR MEETING IN AN HOUR OR SO ABOUT AND HOW THEY RELATE TO THE DES.
AND I, I BELIEVE WE'VE, WE'VE GOTTEN THIS KIND OF MIXED UP AND YOU ALWAYS SHOULD BE A NARRATIVE.
IT SHOULD BE LONG-TERM GOALS, NEAR TERM GOALS, UH, HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO MEASURE, WHAT, WHAT PRODUCTS THAT WE SEE.
AND THEN THAT GOES TO THE STAFF, TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF AND THE SUPERINTENDENT STAFF DEVELOP THE PES PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE DETAILS ARE NOT IN THE OASIS.
WE DON'T HAVE A STAFF, WE DON'T DO THE BACKGROUND.
WE SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT IN A MACRO SENSE.
AND NOW WE'VE GIVEN YOU OUR VIEW.
NOW YOU COME BACK WITH THE PES WITH WHAT YOU, AS A STAFF ARE GOING TO DO TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE HAVE STATED IN THE OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE DETAIL IS.
THAT'S WHERE THE MEASUREMENT MATRIX IS.
IT'S NOT IN THE OES AND THAT SHOULDN'T BE IN OBESE.
AND THEN THAT COMES BACK TO THE BOARD.
AND THEN, THEN THE BOARD LOOKS AT AND SAID, OKAY, BUT YOU FORGOT SUCH AND SUCH.
YOU NEED TO GO BACK AND MAKE SURE YOU SAY EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO AND GOES INTO THE PES, NOT IN THE OES, IN THE PES.
IT'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BOARD EMISSION AS A OVERSIGHT OF THE OP THE INSTITUTION, THE OPERATION, THE INSTITUTION IS THE ONE THAT HAS TO MEET THE BOARD'S REQUIREMENTS.
AND YOU DON'T WANT TO, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SO SPECIFIC IN YOUR OES THAT YOU TAKE AWAY THE INNOVATION, THE STAFF, THE COORDINATION IT'S NECESSARILY TO HAVE SPECIFIC ACTION ITEMS TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT THE BOARD WANTS.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS MORE, UH, AND FINANCE COMMITTEE ABOUT, CAUSE I KIND OF REWROTE THE O AND A AS A START.
AND I, I STILL THINK THEY'RE TOO SPECIFIC.
I THINK, I THINK FOR EXAMPLE, THE E FOR FINANCE SAY, YOU WILL HAVE A WELL-RUN FISCAL POLICY PATH.
YOU WILL HAVE TO PASS ALL YOUR, UH, AUDITS AND THAT'S ABOUT IT.
AND THEN YOU TELL ME HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BECOME A WELL-RUN FISCAL OPERATION.
YOU TELL ME STAFF, I REALLY THINK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN WAY OUT OF LINE IN OUR OWN.
SO, UM, I THINK THEN THAT'S A PHILOSOPHICAL THING, BUT IT CAME FROM THAT TRAINING THAT WE HAD.
AND THEN I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED AT GUIDANCE THAT I'VE GOTTEN FROM BOARDS OF TRUSTEES, UH, BOARD OF GOVERNORS FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
AND I SAW THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE PUT OUT FOR WHAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT AS FAR AS SPECIFICITY.
UM, SO IT'S A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE THAT I THINK WE'LL BE DISCUSSING FOR SOME TIME.
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I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION WHEN YOU SAY PE, SORRY.YOU MEAN THE INTERPRETATIONS? YES.
IT'S THE INTERPRETATION OF THE OH EIGHT.
YEAH, BECAUSE P G IS KIND OF A SPECIALIZED UNDERSTANDING FOR THOSE HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE.
THAT WAS LIKE THE PREDECESSOR CALLED PES.
SO I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE INTERPRETATION.
THIS IS THE PERFORMANCE, UM, OF THE CURRENT OB WITH ALL THOSE SPECIFICS IS IT DOES GIVE THE OPERATIONS PEOPLE A HEADS UP.
THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU TO COME UP WITH THESE, WITH THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL, OTHER AND THE DOWNSIDE TO THE BROAD APPROACHES THAT THEY INTERPRETED, THEY COME TO US.
AND WE SAY, AS YOU POINTED OUT, AND WE SAY, THEN, WELL, YOU FORGOT THIS AND YOU FORGOT THIS AND YOU'VE GOT THIS.
SO THE CURRENT ONES REALLY DO GIVE EVERYBODY A HEADS UP SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT EXTRA STEP.
THAT PHILOSOPHICAL, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN, WHEN THERE'S A MOTION MADE AT THE BOARD MEETING TO DO X, THAT DOESN'T GET WRITTEN INTO THE OES THAT GOES THROUGH THE PES AND YOUR EMOTION HAS BEEN MADE.
YOU SHOULD COME BACK WITH P E X, Y, Z.
AND THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE STATED IN OUR MOTION.
NOW, WHEN WE REWRITE THE, IS, WE MAY SAY IN GENERAL TERM, WE'VE ADDED SOMETHING, BUT YOU DON'T GET SPECIFIC.
THEY GET SPECIFIC BACK TO US AND WE DECIDE, IS THAT SPECIFIC ENOUGH? YES OR NO, IF IT'S NOT GO BACK, GIVE IT ANOTHER SHOT STAFF.
WE SHOULD NOT BE TRYING TO FILL UP OUR OES WITH ALL KINDS OF SPECIFIC THINGS WE SHOULD HAVE.
IT SHOULD BE A MACRO STRATEGIC VIEW, NOT ATTACK VIEW, A STRATEGIC VIEW.
THAT'S AN INTENT, WHAT IS THE INTENT OF THE BOARD? AND THAT'S, THAT'S I GO BACK TO MY MILITARY PLANNING PROCESS.
WE ALWAYS HAD A COMMANDER'S INTENT.
AND THAT'S WHAT YOUR PLAN ON WHAT PLAN, HOW YOU'RE GOING TO MEET THAT INTENT.
THAT'S THE SPECIFIC, YEAH, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU.
I JUST LIKED THE FACT THAT WE CAN GIVE SOME SPECIFICS AHEAD OF TIME SO THAT WE SKIP THAT YOU COME TO US AND WE CORRECTED STEP AND THERE, I'M SURE THERE ARE WAYS TO DO THAT WITHOUT PUTTING IT IN THE OEE THAT YOU AND I HAVE EXCHANGED EMAILS ON THIS TOPIC BEFORE.
SO I'M NOT GOING TO BORE EVERYBODY WITH OUR CONVERSATIONS, INGRID.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY TO ME, SINCE I'M RELATIVELY NEW AND, AND, UM, NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH PES.
MY INTERPRETATION OF THIS IS THAT FROM A DISTANCE THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH DISTRUST BETWEEN THE BOARD AND THE DISTRICT AND THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO THEN THERE WAS THIS OVERCORRECTION WHERE IT WAS LIKE, OKAY, WE HAVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING ALL THE TIME.
SO KIND OF LIKE WHEN, YOU KNOW, YOUR KID LIES TO YOU AND THEN YOU GET A LOT MORE INTERESTED IN, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
UM, I THINK THAT TRUST HAS LARGELY BEEN RESTORED.
I THINK THE COMMUNITY IS VERY HIGHLY REGARDS TO DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION RIGHT NOW.
I THINK THAT THE BOARD'S MANAGED TO, YOU KNOW, STUMBLE FORWARD FAIRLY WELL.
UM, SO NOW TO ME, WHEN I, WHEN I THINK ABOUT OES, WHAT I THINK ABOUT IS I DON'T WANT TO MICROMANAGE STAFF BECAUSE THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS STUFF THAN I DO BY A FACTOR OF A THOUSAND.
I DON'T WANT TO, UM, BE PUNITIVE AND BE LIKE, WHERE IS THIS REPORT? HOW DID YOU MAXIMIZE? BUT YOU RATE SPENDING, YOU KNOW, UM, I WANT TO LOOK BIG PICTURE.
I WANT TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FOR.
AND I KNOW PERSONALLY THAT MY COMMUNITY, MY CONSTITUENTS ARE VERY INTERESTED IN TECHNOLOGY.
WHAT ARE WE DOING? HOW ARE WE TEACHING THIS NEXT GENERATION OF KIDS? HOW ARE WE USING IT? HOW ARE, YOU KNOW, SO TO ME, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE O OES BE MORE FOCUSED ON SORT OF WHAT SUPPORT CAN WE, AS THE BOARD GIVE TO THE DISTRICT.
WHAT, UM, AND I, TO ME, I SEE THAT MY ROLE AS A BOARD MEMBER IS TO BE SORT OF A VESSEL FOR COMMUNITY INTERESTS.
SO WE WANT TO PROVIDE THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE WITH RESOURCES.
WE WANT TO PROVIDE THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE WITH SUPPORT BECAUSE WE'RE HOPING THAT IF WE DO THAT, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.
AND THEN WHEN WE CIRCLE BACK AND SAY, HOW ARE WE DOING ON THESE GOALS? FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE, LET'S SAY THE T HIRING MORE, UH, CONTRACTED TEACHERS, COUPLE MEETINGS LATER, SAY, WHERE ARE WE ON THAT? WELL, THESE ARE THE, YOU
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KNOW, THIS IS AS FAR AS WE'VE GOTTEN AND WE JUST KIND OF KEEP PUSHING THE BALL FORWARD, UM, TO THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF WHAT I THINK THE WANTS.AND IF THE COMMUNITY DISAGREES WITH US ON WHAT OUR, WHAT WE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT SHOULD BE POINTING ITSELF TOWARDS, THEN THEY ELECT SOMEBODY ELSE.
SO IT'S A, IT'S A SELF WRITING SYSTEM, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE OES BECAME PUNITIVE.
UM, THEY BECAME A, WE DON'T TRUST YOU.
SO WE WANT TO SEE ALL SHOW US ALL YOUR WORK, CAUSE WE'RE THINKING YOU MIGHT CHEAT.
AND I DON'T FEEL THAT ANYMORE.
AND I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITY FEELS THAT ANYMORE.
WE'VE GOTTEN GREAT AUDITS, UH, YOU KNOW, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO I THINK NOW WE SHOULD HAVE A MORE FUN APPROACH OF WHAT ARE WE DOING AND HOW WE'RE, WHERE DID YOU, WHERE DO YOU GUYS WANT TO GO WITH THIS? AND HOW CAN WE AS BOARD MEMBERS SUPPORT YOU? AND THEN ON THE REVERSE, GO BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND PROVE THAT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND THESE ARE THE, THE ADVANCES THAT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT IS MAKING.
SO, UM, I DON'T SEE THAT ALWAYS 17 DOES THAT, I THINK ALWAYS 17 IS SHOW YOUR WORK.
I WOULD LIKE TO COME UP WITH A HAPPIER VERSION OF THAT IS MORE FORWARD THINKING AND MORE EXCITING.
UH, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO ANY DISAGREEMENT ON THAT.
UM, YEAH, I, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THE DISTRUST AND I'M NOT SURE IT WAS SO MUCH DISTRUST, AT LEAST FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, AS IT IS SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU.
UM, SO I TAKE A DIFFERENT LOOK THERE.
MICROMANAGEMENT IS ONE WAY TO GET AROUND THAT.
UM, BUT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, ANY, ANY HEADS-UP, WE CAN GIVE PEOPLE ON THE QUESTIONS WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU BRING THIS FORWARD, UM, IS A GOOD THING, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING VERY PHILOSOPHICAL AND WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT IN THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE TECHNOLOGY.
SO PHILOSOPHICAL, IT IS, IT IS SO BROAD.
IT BLEEDS INTO EVERYTHING, UH, WHICH IS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE WITH GETTING OUR MISSION STRAIGHT.
I STILL THINK A MISSION STATEMENT NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO REFINE EVERYBODY'S THINKING.
UM, AND OF COURSE, INPUT FROM TANYA AND MARK ON THAT TOO.
SO WE'LL GET AGREEMENT ON THE MISSION OF THE CASE.
SO, UH, WE'VE EATEN UP AN HOUR AND A HALF.
I THINK WE COULD TALK ABOUT THIS PROBABLY FOR ANOTHER HOUR, BUT MY TAKEAWAYS IS THAT WE, WE ARE GOING TO RECOMMEND, OR WE'RE RECOMMENDING ACTUALLY THAT KAREN YOGURT'S PRESENTATION BEING GIVEN TO THE FULL BOARD AND WE'LL, UM, THE AGENDA COMMITTEE IS GOING TO HAVE TO REALIZE, I THINK THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A COUPLE OF HOURS OF DISCUSSION PROBABLY ON THAT, BUT IT'S, AS I SAID BEFORE, SUCH AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION AND IT JUST TOUCHES ON ALL THE AREAS WHERE EVERYBODY'S GOT QUESTIONS AND IT OPENS SOMEWHERE WHERE WE WEREN'T EVEN THINKING ABOUT.
SO JUST A SUPER PRESENTATION, I THINK IT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE FULL BOARD AND THE PUBLIC.
SO THAT'S THE TAKEAWAY FROM THIS ONE.
AND THEN I THINK THE NEXT MEETING OF THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE MISSION AND GET, GET THAT STRAIGHT.
UM, WHEN YOU SAY THE WHOLE BOARD, DO YOU WANT TO GO ON TUESDAY'S MEETING UNDER ANY MEETING OR WAIT TILL THE WORD SESSION? UM, I'M THINKING WORK SESSION, MY THOUGHT, AND BECAUSE I'VE KIND OF MADE A RULE IN MY MIND THAT ANYTHING THAT'S INFORMATIONAL AND IS GOING TO HAVE SOME DISCUSSION SHOULD BE DONE IN A WORK SESSION.
SO I I'M THINKING WORK SESSION.
OKAY, MR. BEAR, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE LIKE A FIVE DAY WORK SESSION, THE STAFF SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT, BUT THAT IS, THAT WAS MY ONLY THOUGHT ON THAT SOME WAY TO, TO KEEP THE BOARD MEETINGS WITHIN THEIR BOUNDARIES, UM, TO MOVE INFORMATIONAL STUFF AND DISCUSSION STUFF INTO THE WORK SESSIONS.
I THINK WE'VE COVERED EVERYTHING.
WELL, I GAVE THE FIRST ONE, WHICH IS GET THE MISSION STRAIGHT.
I THINK THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT THE COMMITTEE SHOULD FOCUS ON.
CAUSE I THINK INGRID AND WE'RE JUST RIGHT
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THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ANCHORED ON THE OAE BECAUSE WE NEED TO ANCHOR ON SOMETHING.LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A MISSION THAT FULLY COVERS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO THAT'S OUR BOUNDARIES BECAUSE WE CAN GO EVERYWHERE.
WE WANT TO KEEP BOUNDARY ON IT.
SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY THE TOPIC FOR THE NEXT, THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY MEETING, BUT I'M ONLY ONE VOICE, SO THAT'S GOOD.
THEN WE NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN, I THINK SECOND AND THIRD.