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WE HAVE THE DECEMBER 12TH, UH, MEETING OF THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.
MYSELF, COLONEL GEER AND WILLIAM SMITH ARE PRESENT ALONG WITH MARK SHOHAN AND, UM, THE MEDIA COUNTY CHANNEL IS INVOLVED SOMEHOW.
SO SHOULD WE START WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? YES.
YOU GUYS READY? I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
UM, ANY PUBLIC CON OH, WE NEED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA FIRST.
CAN I GET A MOTION? MADAM CHAIR? I MOVE.
WE, COLONEL ER, WE APPROVE THE AGENDA.
MR. SMITH, WILL YOU SECOND THAT? THAT MOTION? ALL RIGHT.
I'M ASSUMING MR. SMITH, YOU SAID WE WERE GONNA SAY AYE.
UH, ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? NO, MA'AM.
UM, WE ARE APPROVING THE MEETING.
DIDN'T WE HAVE A, WE HAD A MEETING SINCE MARCH.
DID WE NOT APPROVE THE MARCH MEETINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE? AT THE LAST, I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE LAST MEETING.
I COULDN'T FIND WHERE OUR LAST MEETING WAS.
IT WAS LIKE SEPTEMBER WHENEVER THE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CAME OUT.
THEN I, I WENT BACK TO THE MARCH ONES, AND SO WE NEED TO TAKE THAT OUT.
CAN WE, YEAH, WE CAN JUST TABLE THAT FOR RIGHT NOW TILL WE GET THE RIGHT MINUTE MINUTES UP.
UM, SO THEN WE BYPASS THAT WE ARE GONNA JUMP RIGHT INTO DISASTER RECOVERY ASSESSMENT.
IS THAT YOU, MR. SHOHAN? THAT IS ME.
SO I WAS IN, I'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH OUR CONTRACTOR, LEE EING, WHO'S PERFORMING THE DISASTER RECOVERY ASSESSMENT FOR US.
UM, HE HAS FINISHED HIS FIRST ROUND OF ONSITE WORK, UM, AND NOW HE'S DOING FOLLOW UP, UM, MEETINGS WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES, UM, AND GOING THROUGH THE DOCUMENTATION WE, UH, SUPPLIED FOR HIM, MAINLY DO DEALING WITH, UM, THE AC REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA ROOMS, POWER REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA ROOMS, UM, VERIFYING THAT OUR U P S SYSTEMS ARE ADEQUATE, AND PUTTING THAT IN A FORMAT THAT CAN BE EASILY DISSEMINATED IN A NICE BINDER BOOK SO THAT WE HAVE IT.
AND EVEN IF I'M NOT AROUND, THE NEXT PERSON CAN PICK UP THE BINDER AND IT'S VERY EASY FOR CONTINUITY OF THE DEPARTMENT.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY, HE'S LOOKING AT PROBABLY TWO MORE MONTHS BEFORE COMPLETING THIS FULL ASSESSMENT, BECAUSE HE DID GET A LEG START ON IT.
SO, UM, WE'LL HEAR ABOUT THAT THEN IN FEBRUARY-ISH, MARCH-ISH? YES.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE ABOUT THIS? AND WELCOME TO MR. EARL CAMPBELL.
SO I, THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS, UH, JUST, UM, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THIS DISASTER RECOVERY, YOU SAID YOU WERE, HE HAS TO GO ONSITE TO THE PRINCIPALS.
DO YOU HAVE A SEPARATE DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN FOR EVERY SCHOOL, OR IS IT A DISTRICT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN WITH, LIKE SCHOOL IMPLEMENTATION? IT'S A DISTRICT DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN WITH SCHOOL IMPLEMENTATION.
HE GOES AROUND AND SPEAKS WITH THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, DIFFERENT SCHOOL PRINCIPALS TO GET STAKEHOLDER INFORMATION TO HELP GUIDE, UH, THE, THE POLICY HE'S PUTTING OR THE, UM, BOOKLET HE'S PUTTING IN PLACE SO THAT HE CAN TAILOR IT TO THE WANTS AND NEEDS OF THAT DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT OR DIFFERENT SCHOOL.
JUST FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ARE GONNA DO STUFF DIFFERENTLY.
UH, FINANCE MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE STRINGENT, UH, REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAN SAY HR MIGHT, UM, OR VICE.
IT'S THE AUTO ATTENDANT
BUT YES, IT'S A, IT'S A DISTRICT PLAN.
UM, BECAUSE IN ALL ACTUALITY, OUR SCHOOL
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SHOULD BE RELATIVELY THE SAME, UM, ACROSS THE BOARD WHEN IT COMES TO OUR TECHNOLOGY, OUR WIRELESS, OUR SWITCHING, OUR UPSS, ALTHOUGH THEY MAY BE DIFFERENT SIZES, THE BACKBONE EQUIPMENT AND FUNCTIONALITY SHOULD BE THE SAME FOR EVERY ONE OF OUR BUILDINGS.YEAH, THAT'S JUST WHAT, WHEN YOU SAID PRINCIPLES, I WAS LIKE, WELL, MAYBE BECAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE HARRE CUT A LINE TO, YOU KNOW, MAY RIVER, BUT THE REST OF THE DISTRICT WOULD FUNCTION.
SO I IMAGINE, BUT THAT STILL WOULD BE HANDLED, OBVIOUSLY, AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL.
UM, SO REALLY, UH, DICK'S HANDS UP.
YEAH, WE'RE GONNA USE THE MICROPHONE.
UM, MARK, THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE OFFSITE STORAGE OF OUR ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE, FOR EXAMPLE MM-HMM.
HOW OFTEN DO WE UPDATE THAT AND HOW, UM, AND, AND WHERE ARE THEY LOCATED? UM, SO IT WOULD DEPEND
SO FOR THE DISTRICT ITSELF, OUR DATA IS KEPT IN TWO PLACES WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
IT'S KEPT HERE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND AT OUR BACKUP DATA CENTER, SOUTH OF THE BROAD.
UM, THEN THAT DATA IS BACKED UP AND STORED OFF TO BARRACUDA'S CLOUD.
WE'RE FOLLOWING THE 3 21 RULE, WHICH IS A, UH, PRETTY STANDARD, UH, BACKUP RECOVERY RULE IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY.
SO YOU ALWAYS HAVE THREE COPIES OF YOUR DATA.
YOU USUALLY HAVE TWO ONSITE AND ONE OFFSITE.
UM, WE TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER.
WE HAVE TWO LIVE VERSIONS ONSITE.
WE HAVE A BACKUP VERSION ONSITE, AND THEN WE SEND IT TO THE CLOUD AND SNIPPETS.
SO WE HAVE A SIX MONTH, A MONTHLY, AND THEN WEEKLY SNIPPETS.
THAT WAY WE HAVE TOTALLY COLD STORAGE.
SO IF WE WERE HIT BY RANSOMWARE, UH, THE LATEST WAY THEY'RE GETTING BUSINESSES IS THEY DON'T INITIALLY KICK IT OFF FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT WAY THEY CAN GET THEIR RANSOMWARE INTO YOUR BACKUP TAPES OR FILES OR HOWEVER YOU'RE STORING IT.
UH, SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WE DO THAT.
AND THAT IS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT MOST BUSINESSES ARE GOING TO NOW COLD SLICES OF YOUR DATA THAT ARE IMPREGNABLE TO, UM, ANY TYPE OF RANSOMWARE.
SO IF WE HAD A MAJOR HURRICANE AND THE COUNTY'S WIPED OUT, I MEAN, IT'S JUST COAST AND WE STARTED THINGS BACK, WE REBOOTED EVERYTHING.
HOW MUCH TIME, HOW MUCH WOULD WE LOSE? UM, MAINLY WE WOULD LOSE TIME.
WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH MICROSOFT AZURE, WHICH IS THEIR WEB SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND WE HAVE SERVER SPACE UP IN AZURE.
SO WE KEEP ONE OF OUR DOMAIN CONTROLLERS UP THERE TO HELP FACILITATE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN OFFICE 365 AND OUR OUTSIDE PEOPLE.
WHEN THEY'RE AWAY FROM THE DISTRICT, WE CAN IMMEDIATELY SPIN UP SERVERS IN THAT SPACE.
IT IS PRICEY, AND THAT'S THE REASON WE DON'T KEEP SERVERS IN THAT SPACE.
BUT IN A COUPLE OF DAYS, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SPIN UP OUR SERVERS, GET BUSINESS CONTINUITY FLOWING AGAIN, AND THEN WE WOULD WAIT ON OUR HARD EQUIPMENT TO COME IN BECAUSE MORE THAN LIKELY, THAT MEANS THE BUILDING'S DAMAGED AND ALL THE SERVERS IN THAT ROOM WOULD BE DAMAGED.
SO THEN WE, WE'D BE WAITING ON THE TWO TO THREE MONTHS OF YES, FOR HARDWARE TO COME IN, BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE COULD GET, UM, MOST OF OUR DISTRICT CENTRIC FUNCTIONS UP AND RUNNING BETWEEN AZURE AND OUR OTHER CLOUD PARTNERS THAT HOST OUR POWERSCHOOL, OUR MUNIS, OUR FRONTLINE FOR HR.
UM, MARK, I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION.
DO WE HAVE A REDUNDANT INTERNET OR, CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE GOTTEN THINGS WHERE SPECTRUM'S GONE DOWN FOR THE DAY.
DO WE HAVE A REDUNDANT I S P AT THIS POINT? WE DO NOT.
UM, I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH THE STATE FOR THREE YEARS, UM, BECAUSE THE STATE PAYS FOR OUR INTERNET PIPE.
THEY SAY RIGHT NOW WE CANNOT HAVE A REDUNDANT SERVICE BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING THAT THEY USED TO PAY FOR THAT.
UM, WE'VE BEEN IN TALKS WITH ANDREW EPSON, WHO'S ONE OF THE, UM, MAIN STATE DATA GUYS ON TRYING TO DIVERSIFY THAT.
WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE FIVE AND A HALF GIG PIPE DIRECTLY INTO THE DISTRICT OFFICE, WE WANNA SPLIT THAT UP AND HAVE TWO, TWO AND A HALF TO TWO, THREE GIG PIPES, UM, IN EACH LOCATION.
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AND THAT WOULD STOP THE THIS FACTOR.THE THE OTHER PROBLEM WE'RE HAVING IS, UNFORTUNATELY OUR COUNTY IS NOT VERY DIVERSE.
UM, HAR GRAY APPEARS TO BE THE PRIMARY BACKBONE FOR CELLULAR TOWERS AND INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE COUNTY.
WE'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH AT AND T SPIRIT, UM, UH, I'M SORRY, CENTRAL LEAGUE, UM, AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS TO TRY TO FIND A DIVERSE PATH.
CUZ RIGHT NOW THE PATH FLOWS FROM BEAUFORT COUNTY UP TOWARDS HAMPTON TO COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IS HAVE THAT MAIN PIPE GOING UP TO COLUMBIA AND HAVE A SEPARATE PIPE GOING ACROSS TO POSSIBLY GEORGIA OR HARDY AND THEN GO UP.
SO IT WOULD BE RUNNING ON DIFFERENT FIBER LINES.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE, I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A SPECTRUM REDUNDANT TYPE THING.
UM, SO WE'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH ALL OF THOSE ISPS SO FAR.
UM, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NOT SOLIDIFIED A, A TRUE PATH THAT THE STATE WILL PUT THEIR BLESSING ON.
WELL, WE'LL JUST PUT A PIN IN THAT THEN FOR, UM, YEAH.
SORRY, WERE YOU GONNA SAY SOMETHING ELSE? OH, I WAS JUST SAYING IT IS VERY HIGH ON OUR PRIORITY LIST BECAUSE WE USUALLY SUFFER ONE TO TWO FIBER OUTAGES A YEAR.
AND EACH ONE OF THOSE FIBER OUTAGES CAN USUALLY LAST FROM FOUR TO EIGHT PLUS HOURS.
AND GENERALLY IT'S BECAUSE OF AN AUTO WRECK OR A PERSON WITH A BACKHOE GETTING A LITTLE CRAZY AND NOT FOLLOWING THEIR, UH, U DIG MAPS.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS DOWN, DOWN THERE, DOWN IN THE ROOM? I CAN'T SEE EVERYBODY.
UH, YEAH, UH, YEAH, I DO HAVE ONE.
UM, WHO WAS STILL TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, TERMS OF THESE, THE, THE, UM, THE DISASTER RECOVERY, UM, CORRECT, YES.
UM, ONE, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS GOING IN TERMS OF THIS PLAN, THAT AT WHAT POINT IN THIS PLAN, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE, BUDDY? HOW ABOUT THAT? UM, IT'S THERE.
SO THE PLAN LAYS OUT A ROUGH OUTLINE OF HOW OUR TECHNOLOGYS LAID OUT.
VERIFYING THAT WE HAVE ADEQUATE UPSS TO SUPPORT OUR, OUR DATA CLOSETS ADEQUATE AC, AC TO SUPPORT THE HEAT LOAD THAT'S GENERATED BY ALL THE EQUIPMENT IN EACH ONE OF THESE DATA DEPOSITS.
UM, AND THEN IT GOES FROM THE HARDWARE SIDE TO THE DEPARTMENT SIDE.
SO THEN THE PERSON SPEAKS WITH EACH OF OUR DEPARTMENTS, HR, FINANCE, AND IDENTIFIES WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF SOFTWARE THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS.
SO MUNIS OF COURSE, IS GONNA BE TOP OF THE LIST FOR FINANCE.
UM, THE FRONTLINE'S GONNA BE TOP OF THE LIST FOR HR.
SO EACH DEPARTMENT LOOKS AT THEIR NEEDS AND TELLS US WE CAN'T WORK WITHOUT THESE PIECES OF SOFTWARE.
SO WE PUT IN THE PLAN THAT IN ORDER TO GET THE DISTRICT, UM, BACK TO A HUNDRED PERCENT AFTER SOME TYPE OF DISASTER THAT WE HAVE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL THESE DEPARTMENTS AND GET X, Y, AND Z UP FOR EVERY DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FUNCTIONING WHOLLY AGAIN.
YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING RIGHT? NO, I THOUGHT YOU WERE DONE.
SO I WAS GONNA SAY WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE NEXT THING, BUT IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, GO AHEAD.
MY, MY OTHER QUESTION IS, IN THIS PLAN, WHERE, WHERE, WHERE IS IT THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING NEUTRAL FOR THE, FOR THAT, A NEUTRAL PLAN FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT, NO MATTER WHERE, WHERE THE SITE IS REFERENCE IS OFFICE A SCHOOL, HOW, HOW DOES THOSE CHECKS AND MILES WORKS? UM, SO BASICALLY WE LOOK AT IT FROM A, THIS IS, SINCE THIS IS A DISTRICT PLAN, WE LOOK AT IT FROM THE TOP DOWN.
SO WE START AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ARE FUNCTIONING A HUNDRED PERCENT.
THEN TO THE SIDE OF THAT, WE LOOK AT ALL OF OUR SCHOOL LEVELS.
ALL OF OUR SCHOOL LEVELS ARE BASICALLY THE SAME.
THEY'VE GOT THE SAME EQUIPMENT, SAME LAYOUTS.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE BASICALLY THE SAME.
SO WE KNOW THAT IF WE GET THE TECHNOLOGY GOING IN OUR DATA CENTER, WE BRING BACK EVERY ONE OF THOSE CAMPUSES UP, UM, TO RE REJOIN THEM TO OUR NETWORK AND OUR SERVICES.
SO BASICALLY THE PLAN LOOKS AT A TWO, TWO TWOFOLD.
THE FIRST FOLD IS GETTING THAT DATA CENTER IN PLACE, OUR DEPARTMENT'S IN PLACE, AND THEN OUR SCHOOL'S IN PLACE.
BECAUSE WITHOUT THE POWERSCHOOL ACCESS, WITHOUT THE WIFI ACCESS, OUR SCHOOLS WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FUNCTION, UM, TRULY IN TECHNOLOGY
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WITHOUT THOSE KEY INFRASTRUCTURE PIECES.SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ONCE WE GET 'EM DONE HERE, WE CAN IMMEDIATELY START ROLLING OUT.
NOW THIS IS ALL GONNA BE IN, UM, IN COOPERATION WITH OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENTS.
OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENTS ARE GONNA BE MANNING GENERATORS AT THESE SITES, MAKING SURE OUR GENERATORS HAVE GAS.
UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THEY DO, IS THEY DO WEEKLY GENERATOR TESTS.
SO THEY GO AROUND EVERY WEEK AND RUN OUR GENERATORS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, WHICH DOES TWO THINGS, VERIFIES THAT THE EQUIPMENT'S STILL GONNA RUN.
THEY DO FUEL CHECKS, AND WE ALWAYS MAINTAIN A TWO WEEK WINDOW FOR FUEL TO KEEP THAT FACILITY RUNNING.
NOW TWO WEEKS IS A ROUGH ESTIMATE, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT THAT'S GONNA BE EXACTLY, IT COULD BE 17 DAYS, IT COULD BE 13 DAYS, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THAT ROUGHLY TWO WEEK TIME PERIOD.
UM, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS OUR GENERATOR FOR THE KNOCKOUT HERE KEEPS A THREE WEEK SUPPLY OF GASOLINE, BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS, UM, FACILITATING OUR MAIN DATA CENTER THAT HAD ALL OF OUR PRIMARY CONNECTIONS COMING OUT OF.
SO I THOUGHT, UM, THAT WHAT IT WOULD BE, SINCE WE WERE GONNA MAYBE HAVE THE DISASTER, UH, RECOVERY PLAN, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, SUCH AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF WHAT TECHNOLOGY HAS GOING ON THAT PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT AS OFTEN AS THEY SHOULD.
UM, BUT WE HAD TWO E-LEARNING DAYS, OR TWO INSTANCES OF E-LEARNING IN THE FALL, UM, DUE TO, UH, WEATHER.
AND I WAS JUST WONDERING THAT THIS MIGHT BE, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO KIND OF REVIEW HOW WELL THAT WENT AND, YOU KNOW, AS I TOLD YOU AS A, FROM A PARENT STANDPOINT, I THOUGHT IT WENT PRETTY DARN WELL.
UM, AND I'VE PROVIDED, UM, A LITTLE, UH, SNIPPET FROM CLASS LEAK DATA IN THE PACKET.
THAT ONE, IF YOU GO TO, WELL, BUT I DON'T THINK, I DON'T HAVE THE PACKET RIGHT, BECAUSE IT'S NOT ONLINE, IT'S JUST IN PERSON.
UM, IT'S IN DOCUMENTS, RIGHT? IT SHOULD BE BOARD DOCS.
IT SHOWING IT ON THE SCREEN TOO.
I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS THERE EARLIER, BUT MAYBE I MISSED IT.
SO WHAT'S INCLUDED, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND.
THESE FIRST TWO PAGES, UM, COME FROM OUR CONTINUOUS LEARNING PLAN THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD BY NICK FLOWERS, OUR DIRECTOR OF ASSESSMENT.
UM, AND THESE RELATE BACK TO INFORMATION THAT WAS GIVEN TO EACH OF OUR SCHOOLS ON EASIER WAYS TO HELP, UM, LET YOUR STAFF AND STUDENTS KNOW WHAT TO DO BEFORE ONE OF THESE EVENTS.
UM, THEY KIND OF GIVE SOME NICE EASY INFORMATION THAT THE, THE TEACHERS CAN HAND OUT.
SO IF THEY KNOW SOME OF THEIR STUDENTS MAY NOT HAVE INTERNET, MAYBE GOING TO A PLACE WITHOUT INTERNET, UM, THEY CAN HAVE THE STUDENTS GO AHEAD AND DOWNLOAD SOME OF THAT CONTENT SO THE KIDS WOULD BE ABLE TO WORK OFFLINE.
UM, AND ALSO, UM, THE SECOND ONE IS THE FIVE THINGS TO DO BEFORE LEAVING.
ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS WE USUALLY HAVE IS THAT ESPECIALLY STUDENTS DO NOT LIKE REBOOTING THEIR DEVICE.
THEY LIKE TO SHUT THE TABLET, THEY LIKE TO OPEN IT UP, BUT THEY DON'T WANNA WAIT THAT EXTRA TWO MINUTES FOR THAT DEVICE TO ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN AND FULLY REBOOT.
UM, FOR US, IT'S KEY THAT THEY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY BEFORE ONE OF THESE E-LEARNING DAYS, BECAUSE THAT MAKES SURE THAT THAT DEVICE IS UPDATED WITH THE LATEST ANTIVIRUS, THE LATEST SOFTWARE UPDATES, AND ALL THE PERTINENT INFORMATION TO MAKE THAT CHILD'S EXPERIENCE GOOD DURING THESE, UM, OUT OF SCHOOL TIMES.
SO ONCE AGAIN, IT'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, FIVE QUICK THINGS THAT THE KIDS CAN DO, UM, SHOWING THEM WHERE THEY CAN ACCESS DIFFERENT DATA, HOW THEY CAN USE ZOOM, UM, AND TO DOWNLOAD WORK AHEAD OF TIME IF THEY DON'T THINK THEY'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, ANY KIND OF INTERNET SERVICE DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.
UM, GOING TO THE THIRD PAGE IS THIS ONE.
AND THIS IS KIND OF WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR.
WHAT WE DID IS WE COMPARED, UM, THAT THURSDAY OVER THREE YEARS.
SO THIS YEAR ON NOVEMBER 10TH, 2020, UM, WE ROUGHLY HAD 27, UM, 27,980 LOGINS.
NOW YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT THAT AND GO, BUT WE ONLY HAVE 22,000 KIDS.
WELL, IF A CHILD LOGS OUT OF CLASS, LEAK GOES, HAS LUNCH, COMES BACK, LOGS BACK IN, THAT'S LOGGED AS ANOTHER SESSION INTO IT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THIS THEME FOLLOW THROUGH.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE SECOND DATE WE LOOKED AT WAS NOVEMBER 11TH OF LAST YEAR, SAME THURSDAY, UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WAS VETERAN'S DAY.
SO YOU NOTICE THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE BIG INFLUX OF STUDENTS.
WE ONLY HAD ABOUT THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE WORKING ON THEIR CLASS ROOM AT THAT TIME, OR CLASSWORK, EXCUSE ME.
AND THEN WE GO ALL THE WAY BACK
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TO 2020 NOVEMBER 12TH WHEN WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC AND YOU SEE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER, YOU SEE 30 2003 67.AND THAT'S SIMPLY BECAUSE THAT WE WERE RUNNING STRUCTURED ZOOM LESSONS REMOTELY ALL DAY LONG.
AND THE KIDS WERE, UH, MORE STRUCTURED ON HOW THEY LOGGED IN.
SO THEY WOULD LOG IN AND THEY ALSO HAD SOME BREAKS IN BETWEEN THEIRS THAT THEY WOULD LOG OUT AND LOG BACK IN.
BUT I WAS VERY HAPPY IN THE FACT THAT 20 OVER 27,000 LOGINS, ALMOST 28,000 LOGINS HAPPENED ON A E-LEARNING DAY.
UM, AND THAT WAS WITHOUT A LOT OF THE STRUCTURED ZOOM MEETINGS.
SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY SOME OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, TOOK IT A STEP FURTHER AND THEIR, THEIR TEACHERS DID DO STRUCTURED ZOOM LESSONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
UM, BUT THAT WAS ONCE AGAIN A PRINCIPAL'S CHOICE ON HOW THEY DIRECTED THAT ALERTING TIME.
UM, THE BOTTOM WINDOW BELOW THAT SHOWS THE TOP 10 APPLICATIONS THAT THE KIDS LOGGED INTO.
UM, AND THE VERY FIRST ONE GOOGLE CLASSROOM YOU SEE WAS HIT 36,669 TIMES.
THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT THE KID WAS LOGGING IN, LOOKING AT THE CLASSWORK BEING PROVIDED BY THE STUDENT AND THEN GOING BACK AND THEN DOING THE WORK.
UM, ONE OF THE SECOND ONES ON THERE IS IREADY, WHICH IS A VERY, UH, IMPORTANT, UM, LEARNING TOOL FOR OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH CHILDREN AND OUR INTERVENTION KIDS.
UM, WE USE IREADY FOR A LOT OF INTERVENTION WORK AND A LOT OF SPECIAL ED WORK.
AND IT ALLOWS THE TEACHER TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE CONTENT THAT THE KIDS, UM, STUDYING.
AND THEN THE FOURTH PAGE WAS THE, THE HOW MANY WEB? YES.
UH, THE, THE FOURTH PAGE WAS OUR SUPPORT DURING THE E-LEARNING DAYS, UM, BETWEEN OUR ED TECH COACHES AND OUR, UM, OUR TECH SUPPORT SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
UM, THESE WERE THE TICKETS OPEN TICKETS CLOSED, AND TICKETS UPDATED DURING THAT 24 OR EIGHT HOUR DAY I SHOULD SAY.
UM, AND THERE WAS 26, UH, ZOOM INTERACTIONS.
SO A TEACHER ACTUALLY ASKED, UH, HOW TO DO SOMETHING AND INITIATED A ZOOM WITH 'EM TO HELP SHOW 'EM HOW TO GET WHATEVER IT WAS COMPLETED.
AND USUALLY THOSE ZOOM SESSIONS WAS PERFORMED BY TECH COACH COACHES WHO ARE ALSO CERTIFIED EDUCATORS, WHICH IT'S EASIER FOR THEM TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE TEACHERS CUZ THEY'VE BEEN IN THE CLASSROOM BEFORE.
UM, SOME OF THE OTHER ONES WAS FROM THE HELP DESK SIDE AND MAYBE THEY WERE HAVING AN ISSUE OPENING AN APPLICATION.
MAYBE THEY WERE HAVING AN ISSUE WITH CLASS LINK, WHATEVER IT WAS, WE HAD, UH, IT STAFF, UM, STANDING BY THAT DAY TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS WENT FLUIDLY.
SO MY TAKEAWAY FROM THIS, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS THAT BASICALLY E-LEARNING DAYS WENT OFF PRETTY WELL.
YOU GOT THE KIND OF, UH, LOGINS YOU WOULD EXPECT, YOU KNOW, FROM, UH, FROM E-LEARNING AND IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE ANYTHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG OR THAT THERE WAS, UH, TREMENDOUS DIFFICULTY ON THE TEACHER SIDE WITH THE HELP DESK.
AND ANOTHER THING THAT MAKES THESE NUMBERS EVEN BETTER IS THE FACT THAT THE KIDS WERE TOLD, YOU KNOW, SINCE THE DAY AFTER FRIDAY WAS A HOLIDAY, THE WEEKEND COMING UP.
AND THEN I THINK THAT FOLLOWING MONDAY WAS SOMETHING WHERE THE KIDS DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL.
SO BASICALLY THEY HAD FIVE DAYS TO COMPLETE THESE LESSONS AND WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE DAYS AFTER WE PULLED THE INFORMATION FROM THE FIRST DAY SAYING THAT A LOT OF THESE KIDS DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE WORK DONE AND THEN HAVE A GOOD, GREAT LONG WEEKEND.
SO WE WERE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS I CAN'T SEE CUZ THE AUTO ATTENDANT HAS ZOOMED DOWN ON MARK.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS IN THE ROOM? OKAY, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
ONE, UM, FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, SHOOT, ACTUALLY MY FIRST QUOTE, LET'S GO UP TO THE TOP.
OH, I, THAT'S ONE I COULDN'T PAIR WHITE WOULDN'T MOVE CAUSE I'M ON THE ZOOM VERSION.
UM, STUDENTS NEED AND HAVE ACCESS TO INTERNET.
DO WE KEEP TRACK OF WHO HAS INTERNET AT HOME AND WHO DOESN'T IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM? THE ONLY METRIC WE USE FROM A DISTRICT STANDPOINT IS WHEN THEY DO THEIR ENROLLMENT TO THE DISTRICT.
THAT'S HOW, AND THAT'S JUST SELF-REPORTED.
AFTER THAT, WE DEPEND ON OUR SOCIAL WORKERS AND OUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO FIND THOSE KIDS THAT ARE HAVING PROBLEMS. OUR SOCIAL WORKERS WORK NONSTOP WITH OUR DEPARTMENT.
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FAMILIES THAT NEED, UM, MAYBE A MIFI, MAYBE THE FAMILIES HAVING TROUBLE, MAYBE THE FAMILIES LIVING OUT OF A CAR.AND WHEN WE DETERMINE THAT THEY NEED INTERNET, WE GO THROUGH THE STEPS TO PROVIDE THAT, GET THAT MIFI DEVICE TO THE SCHOOL SO THE SOCIAL WORKER CAN GET IT TO THE CHILD AND THE PARENTS.
BECAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT THESE EARN E-LEARNING DAYS WOULD BE A GOOD SORT OF DATA GATHERING PROCESS THAT WE COULD DRILL DOWN AND BE LIKE, WHO'S NOT LOGGING IN, RIGHT? LIKE, WHO DIDN'T LOG IN DURING THOSE FIVE DAYS.
UM, AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THE RE
BUT WE HAVE SO MUCH INVESTED IN, UM, INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE TO REALLY KNOW, IT WOULD SEEM TO ME, IT'D BE REALLY KEY TO FIND OUT WHERE THERE ARE AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE INTERNET OR WHERE THERE ARE STUDENTS WHO JUST DON'T HAVE A CONSISTENT ACCESS.
CAN WE DRILL DOWN ON THIS CLASS LINK DATA TO THAT DEGREE? UM, IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT.
AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE SO MANY OF OUR STUDENTS, THEY DON'T GO DIRECTLY HOME TO THEIR MOM AND DAD'S.
THEY MAY GO TO A AUNT OR UNCLE'S, THEY MAY GO TO A GRANDPARENT'S AND THEY MAY BE STAYING THERE FOR A BIT OF TIME UNTIL MOM AND DAD GETS OFF OF WORK, COMES BY, PICKS 'EM UP.
SO A LOT OF TIMES AT THESE INTERMEDIATE AREAS, THEY DO HAVE INTERNET, RIGHT? SO WE KIND OF, THEY DON'T GET REALLY PICKED UP IN THE, THE THE SCHEME OF THINGS.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ON A DAILY BASIS, IT'S LOOKING LIKE THEY HAVE INTERNET, BUT THEN IT COMES A TIME WHERE THEY MAY BE AT THEIR HOUSE THAT THEY DON'T LATER IN THE NIGHT.
AND THOSE ARE VERY HARD FOR US TO IDENTIFY BECAUSE EVEN WHEN WE ASK THESE, UH, BROAD SURVEY QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, THE FAMILY GOES, WELL, I'VE GOT INTERNET ON MY CELL PHONE, WE HAVE INTERNET AT THE HOUSE.
EVEN THOUGH THAT CELL PHONE INTERNET MIGHT NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT BOTH OF THE STUDENTS, OR IF THEY HAVE MULTIPLE CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE, GENERALLY SPEAKING, UH, A CELLULAR DEVICE WILL HANDLE ONE TO TWO VERY GOOD.
IF THE KIDS ARE ALSO DOING LIKE ZOOM CLASSROOM MEETINGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE BANDWIDTH INTENSIVE.
UM, AND THEN WITH THE, ALSO THE, MY FOLLOW UP QUESTION IS, YOU, YOU ONLY LOOKED AT THAT ONE THURSDAY, BUT IF YOU WANTED TO, YOU COULD LOOK AT THE FIVE DAYS AND REALLY GET A SENSE OF YES.
BECAUSE I KNOW THAT AS A PARENT THERE WAS A WHOLE THING ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAD, BUT IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT DONE, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THEN IT WAS COUNTED AS LIKE AN UNEXCUSED ABSENCE, RIGHT? YES.
WAS IT COUNTED AS ONE UNEXCUSED ABSENCE PER DAY? LIKE NO, BECAUSE TECHNICALLY THE ONLY E-LEARNING DAY WAS THURSDAY.
SO IT WOULD'VE BEEN A ONE ABSENCE.
DIDN'T WE HAVE A SECOND E-LEARNING DAY? WE HAD ONE EARLIER IN THE YEAR WHERE WE, UH, LEFT EARLY FOR ANOTHER HURRICANE.
CAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE THERE HAD BEEN, IT HAPPENED TWICE.
UM, IF NOBODY ELSE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
WELL, MY, MY QUESTION IS, MY QUESTION WOULD BE, UH, THE OPPOSITE.
HOW MANY STUDENTS THAT ARE NOT WORKING FROM THE, UH, LISTENS ARE NOT GETTING CONVICTED CONNECTION, UH, FOR MELEARNING? WHO DO WE HAVE? DO WE HAVE A TON OF THAT? I DO NOT.
UM, THAT WOULD PROBABLY MORE COME FROM THE ACADEMIC SIDE BECAUSE THEY DRILL DOWN ON EACH OF THE USERS.
UM, FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY SIDE, WE LOOK AT IT HOLISTICALLY AS A WHOLE.
THAT CLASS LINKS UP, PEOPLE ARE BEING ABLE TO ACCESS IT.
UM, WE DON'T DRILL DOWN ON A PER STUDENT BASIS.
WE LOOK AT THE GENERALIZED NUMBERS AND SAY, OKAY, IT LOOKS LIKE MORE KIDS THAN WE HAVE ARE LOGGING IN.
THEN WE WAIT FOR THE SCHOOLS TO SAY, OH, BY THE WAY, LITTLE JOHNNY, LITTLE SUSIE HAD ISSUES OR DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAD ISSUES.
AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND TROUBLESHOOT THE PROBLEMS THAT ARISE FROM IT.
WELL, I'M JUST CONCERNED, CONCERNED ELEARNING AND HOW MANY IN THE DISTRICT NOT, UM, I THINK DISTRICT, WE SHOULD KNOW HOW MANY STUDENTS WE DO ELEARNING THINGS, HOW MANY STUDENTS THAT THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THAT AFFECT RIVER DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT, RIVER'S, A SMALL AMOUNTS, A LARGE AMOUNT.
WE SHOULD KNOW HOW MANY SHOOTINGS THAT IF WE DO ELEARNING POSSIBLY CAN'T GET ONLINE.
THESE STUDENTS POSSIBLY CAN'T GET IT THAT DAY.
I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE SHOULD, AS A DISTRICT, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER IS EXACTLY.
UH, WHAT IN TOTAL AND HOW DOES IT, BECAUSE THAT ALSO, BUT WOULD SEEM LIKE THAT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DRIVE US TOWARDS EVEN STEVIE 20 UNITED DAY OR
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NOT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH IS THAT POSSIBLY ABLE TO GET ONLINE THAT DAY? THE ONE REASON THAT IT'S HARD TO GET THAT NUMBER A LOT OF TIMES IS BECAUSE A LOT OF THE KIDS DO NOT WANT TO COME OUT AND GO, I DON'T HAVE INTERNET AT MY HOME.BECAUSE IT'S UH, KIND OF A SOCIAL STIGMA THERE.
AND OTHER KIDS MIGHT PICK ON 'EM FOR THAT.
SO THEY JUST GO TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE, THEY MAY GO TO THE LIBRARY, THEY GET THEIR WORK DONE WHEN THEY CAN AND THEY NEVER REPORT THAT THEY'RE HAVING ISSUES.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT, UM, WHEN THEY DO THE PTA MEETINGS AND SOME OF THE AFTER SCHOOL MEETINGS, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE TEACHERS LIKE TO TALK TO THE PARENTS ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, CUZ IF THEY SEE THAT, UM, ONE OF THE KIDS ISN'T DOING THEIR WORK, SO THEY'LL ASK THE KID THE PARENTS ABOUT INTERNET AND STUFF.
BUT THERE AGAIN, UNFORTUNATELY WE DO NOT GET GOOD PARENT INVOLVEMENT ALL THE TIME.
UM, SO IF, IF THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE KIND OF IN SOME GRAY AREA THAT FROM THE TEACHER'S STANDPOINT, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE GOT INTERNET.
IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE LOGGING IN AND DOING THEIR WORK.
BUT IN REALITY THEY'RE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOOD JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS TO GET THAT WORK DONE.
AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE KIDS DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE REALLY, UH, LEAN ON OUR SOCIAL WORKERS, BECAUSE OUR SOCIAL WORKERS DEVELOP A STRONG BOND WITH THESE STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AND CAN GET THROUGH BETTER THAN SAY THE PRINCIPAL.
BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES THE PRINCIPAL ASKS THE QUESTION, EH, THE PE THE PARENTS SERVE KIDS DON'T RESPOND TO 'EM.
BUT THAT SOCIAL WORKER THAT'S BEEN OUT TO THEIR HOUSE, THAT'S COMMUNICATED WITH 'EM THAT THEY SEE YEAR AFTER YEAR, IF THEY GO THROUGH THEIR TIME AT THAT SCHOOL, THEY REALLY GET A BETTER BOND WITH AND MORE, UH, MORE INFORMATION COMES OUT.
AND I WOULD THINK TOO, SOME OF THESE COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT, UM, MS. DANSLER IS WORKING WITH, YOU KNOW, UM, CAUSE I KNOW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ON HILTON HEAD, WHEN THERE'S E-LEARNING DAYS, THEY'LL OPEN THE CLUB, YOU KNOW, CAUSE PARENTS STILL ARE WORKING AND BRING THEM IN, BRING KIDS IN AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING THEIR WORK DONE.
I'M SURE SOME OF THE CHURCHES AND UH, ORGANIZATIONS OVER THERE COULD PARTICIPATE.
YEAH, ACTUALLY I'VE WORKED WITH MS. DANSLER, UM, AND WE KNOW THAT THE COMMUNITY SITES THAT ARE BEING SERVICED RIGHT NOW, THEY DO AN AMAZING JOB AT GETTING THE KIDS IN THERE AND HAVING RESOURCES TO HELP THEM.
IF THEY GET A LITTLE STUCK WITH THE WORK THEY'RE DOING, THEY, UH, THEY GENERALLY HAVE A TEACHER OR TWO IN THAT FACILITY TO HELP THESE STUDENTS.
AND WE, WE'VE DEFINITELY SEEN, UM, SOME GOOD THINGS HAPPENING.
I, I, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS KIND OF A BROAD STROKE DATE, I STILL LOVE SEEING DATA.
I STILL LOVE SEEING THAT WE CAN GET A VIEW AS TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN REAL TIME.
UM, SO HERE ON REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS, WE JUST KIND OF NEED TO FINISH OFF, UM, AND GET THAT IN THE POLICY MANUAL, ESPECIALLY AS WE HAVE THE NEW BOARD MEMBERS COMING ON BOARD.
UH, CUZ AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND, AND ROBIN YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE'VE, I THINK WE'VE DONE IT.
WE'VE DOTTED ALL THE, I'S CROSSED ALL THE T'S LIKE THIS, THIS IS THE OE FOR OE 17.
UM, AND WE GOT THAT APPROVED I THINK BACK IN THE SPRING.
WE HAVEN'T DONE, HUH? IT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD ON JULY 12TH.
SO, UM, WE HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY BEEN USING THIS MONITORING TOOL THIS YEAR, BUT LOOKING TOWARDS NEXT YEAR, I WANTED TO KIND OF GO OVER THIS AND JUST KIND OF FINISH THIS OFF AND SORT OF FIRM UP THE STRUCTURE FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY, UH, COMMITTEE FOR NEXT YEAR.
SO WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS JUST GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THE OE, THE OTHER OE IS THEY HAD THAT WHOLE SUPERINTENDENT'S INTERPRETATION PROCESS AND WE HAVEN'T REALLY DONE THAT.
BUT I THINK I JUST, IT'D BE WORTH, UM, THIS COMMITTEE GOING THROUGH AND LOOKING AT THIS AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO NEXT YEAR, UM, TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS OE.
I THINK THAT TECHNOLOGY'S MAKING SOME BIG IMPROVEMENTS.
I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, THE FACT NOW THAT, UH, MR. SHOHAN IS ON THE CABINET, UM, AND WE HAVE THAT TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT UM, AT HAND THAT I THINK WE'RE REALLY, UH, THIS COMMITTEE'S IN A GOOD POSITION TO RAISE THE PROFILE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO I WAS JUST, UM, GOING TO, IF IT'S OKAY WITH THE COMMITTEE, UM, GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THESE.
I WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY PUT IN THE BOOK, HAVE IT OE ONE TWO AND NOT ONE A TWO B, BUT LIKE OE ONE WOULD 17.1 WOULD BE ONE A A.
AND JUST BASICALLY SAY, ASK ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT AND SORT OF LOOK AT WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET THAT SET UP FOR NEXT, UM, NEXT YEAR.
AND SO I'LL YEAH, JUST BEFORE YOU START, I'VE STARTED WRITING SOME OF THE
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INTERPRETATIONS AND MONITORING INDICATORS FOR THESE.UM, I HADN'T FINISHED IT AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I DIDN'T ADD IT TO THE PACKET THIS MONTH.
BUT I'VE FINISHED ABOUT FOUR OF THEM.
UM, SO I'M ABOUT A LITTLE OVER HALFWAY THROUGH WITH THEM.
UM, IT'S BEEN A LITTLE CRAZY THIS LAST MONTH.
WELL, SO WHAT I THOUGHT IS, SO THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS LET'S, LET'S HAVE A QUICK CONVERSATION CUZ THESE ARE OUR, UM, I STILL REALLY LIKE THIS OE
UM, AND YET SETS GOOD EXPECTATIONS AND GOALS WITHOUT GETTING REALLY WEEDY, YOU KNOW, ON TECHNOLOGY.
UM, BUT I WAS LOOKING AT LIKE WHAT WOULD BE O E 17 ONE, THE TECHNOLOGY PLAN.
I AM REALLY, I KNOW WHERE ARE WE ON THAT WITH, AS FAR AS THE STATE GOES? CUZ I WOULD THINK THAT THE ONE WE HAVE TO DO FOR THE STATE IS WHAT KIND OF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
BUT I DON'T THINK WE DO THAT EVERY YEAR.
IT'S EVERY FIVE YEARS, RIGHT? UM, WELL RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL IN THAT HOLDING PATTERN.
WE TURNED IN A TEMPORARY PLAN TO THE STATE JESUS, UM, SUMMER AND SUPPOSEDLY THE STATE IS GONNA FIRM UP HOW THEY WANT ALL THE DISTRICT'S PLANS TO LOOK BY FEBRUARY OF 2023.
UM, I'M REALLY NOT HOLDING THE BREATH BECAUSE WE'VE, WE'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE.
SO IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU DO AND THEN UPDATE LIKE OUR UM, FIVE YEAR, 10 TENURE PLAN? THE C I P OR IS IT ONCE EVERY, IS IT EVERY FIVE YEARS, EVERY THREE YEARS? UM, GENERALLY IT'S EVERY THREE YEARS.
BUT THE STATE ALSO SAID THEY WERE GONNA BE SHORTENING THAT TIME.
UM, I THINK THEY, UH, THEY REALIZED THAT THREE YEARS, A LONG TIME FOR A TECHNOLOGY PLAN AS QUICKLY AS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES.
SO WOULD YOU THINK THEN THAT, THAT WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON NOW FOR THE STATE, WE WOULD PROBABLY NEED SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIC FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY THAT MAYBE THE STATE PLAN WOULD BE A RESOURCE FOR, BUT SOMETHING THAT ANNUALLY IS PRESENTED TO THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE AND THEN THE BOARD AS FAR AS WHAT THE GOALS ARE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN 2023.
WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD DO AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR? YES.
WE WOULD PROBABLY BE SOMETHING WE COMPLETE IN THE J UH, JULY TO AUGUST TIMEFRAME.
SO WE HAD IT TO START THE NEW YEAR AND THAT WAY IT COULD CORRESPOND WITH THE, THE SCHOOL YEAR OF JULY THROUGH JUNE.
UM, SO YOU WOULD GET THE, YOU COULD COMPARE IT BACK TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THAT SCHOOL YEAR.
SO WHEN YOU SAY NEW YEAR, YOU'RE THINKING SCHOOL YEAR
WE DEAL WITH A SCHOOL YEAR AND WE DEAL WITH A NORMAL PHYSICAL YEAR.
UM, AND IT GETS VERY CONFUSING DEPENDING ON WHICH STUFF THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT.
SO THAT ONE'S A PRETTY EASY ONE TO MONITOR CUZ THERE'S JUST BASICALLY A PRODUCT AT THE END, RIGHT? YES.
AND THEN, UM, PROVIDE A SAFE AND SECURE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, SO THAT IS REALLY SORT OF OUR CYBERSECURITY OE, RIGHT? YES.
AND DO YOU WANT ME TO READ WHAT I'D ALREADY COME UP WITH PLEASE? UM, SO PROVIDE A SAFE AND SECURE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF THAT PRIORITIZES DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTS AGAINST EXTERNAL THREATS.
UH, THE INTERPRETATION IS, WE UNDERSTAND THIS COMPONENT TO REQUIRE THE DISTRICT TO PREVENT ANY PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION, IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION SUCH AS, SO SECURITY NUMBERS AND NAMES BEING RELEASED THROUGH MEANS SUCH AS HACKING.
WE UNDERSTAND THIS COMPONENT REGARDING COMPLIANCE REQUIRES THE DISTRICT TO EXTEND PRACTICAL, UH, PRACTICAL BLOCK ACCESS TO ITS COMPUTER NETWORK, UH, TO VISUAL OR OTHER DEPICTIONS OF MATERIALS DEEMED TO BE OBSCENE, PORNOGRAPHIC OR MATERIAL DEEMED TO BE HARMFUL.
UM, AND THEN WE WOULD RELY BACK TO MONITORING IT, UH, INDICATORS, EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE EMPLOYED, FIREWALLS, BACKUP SYSTEMS, IBOSS CONTENT FILTERING, VIRUS PROTECTION, EMAIL SPAM PROTECTION, ENCRYPTION, AND OTHER GENERALLY ACCEPTED BEST PRACTICES FOR PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION.
UM, ALSO EVIDENCE THAT SECURITY PRIVILEGES HAVE BEEN SIGNED BASED ON AN EMPLOYEE'S ROLE AND LOCATION WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
YEAH, I THINK THAT ROLE BASED ONE IS ONE THAT DOES NOT GET NEARLY ENOUGH, UM, ATTENTION
SO, UH, ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS SOMETHING THAT COMES UP IS THE MEDICAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT AND FERPA, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY POLICIES OR ANY, UH, SOFTWARE THAT YOU USE TO HANDLE THAT? UM, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UH, POLICIES IN PLACE INSIDE OF OUR EMAIL THAT
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DOES NOT ALLOW ANY INFORMATION TO BE EMAILED OUTSIDE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT PERTAINS TO P I I.SO ANY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, ANY CREDIT CARD DATA, BANK ROUTING NUMBERS, UM, ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION LIKE THAT, THERE'S A BUNCH MORE THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT TO INCLUDE PASSPORT INFORMATIONS DEPENDING ON, UM, FOREIGN PEOPLE COMING INTO THE COUNTRY, THEY MAY PRESENT THEIR PASSPORT AS THEIR FORMS OF, UM, IDENTIFICATION.
SO ANYTIME ANY OF THAT INFORMATION POPS UP ON A EMAIL TRYING TO LEAVE, UH, THE ENCLOSED AREA, BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, UM, IT WILL GET FLAGGED BY OFFICE 365 AND A NASTY GRAHAM SENT BACK TO THE PERSON SAYING YOU'RE TRYING TO TRANSMIT BAD DATA.
UM, AND WE DID IT TWICE WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO DO THE HOTEL CONFIRMATION BECAUSE THE HOTEL WILL ASK US TO PUT THE CREDIT CARD NUMBER ON IT AND, AND WE ALWAYS, IT ALWAYS GET THIS KICKED BACK.
I IT'S SO WEIRD THAT A LOT OF HOTELS NOWADAYS WOULD RATHER YOU EMAIL A CREDIT CARD NUMBER INSTEAD OF FAX, FAX, FAX.
OR THEY WANT US TO EMAIL IT MOST.
SO SOME OF THEM, SINCE WE CAN'T EMAIL IT, THEY HAVE US FAX IT BILL.
UH, THE ONLY THING THAT I HEARD IN YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT OE NUMBER, NUMBER B IS THE, UH, THE POSSIBLE INTERNET CENSORSHIP AND THE WHAT'S PORNOGRAPHIC AND WHAT'S OBSCENE.
SAME ISSUE THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY.
WE ALSO HAVE THAT SAME ISSUE ON THE INTERNET.
AND SO THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING VERY DIFFICULT TO TRY TO BUILD WHAT IS ALLOWABLE AND WHAT IS NOT.
AND IT ALSO PROBABLY HAS A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT'S ALLOWABLE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS, MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS, AND HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.
AND SO THIS IS A VERY DIFFICULT PIECE AND THAT'S WHERE WE FALL BACK ON OUR ROLE-BASED LOGINS.
SO A HIGH SCHOOL KID GETS FILTERED DIFFERENT THAN A MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILD.
A MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILD GETS FILTERED DIFFERENT THAN AN ELEMENTARY.
SO ELEMENTARY AND PRE-K ARE MOST STRINGENT.
BUT ONCE YOU GET TO HIGH SCHOOL, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE LEEWAY BECAUSE OF WHAT'S CONSIDERED THE ARTS.
UM, SO THEY WOULD GET TO, BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE USE A THIRD PARTY FILTER TO KEEP US IN OUR FERPA AND SIP OF COMPLIANCE.
AND WE RELY ON THESE THIRD PARTY COMPANIES TO DO THE GROUNDWORK BECAUSE, UH, WITH A 252,000 NEW, UH, WEBPAGES BEING BUILT EVERY DAY, THERE'S NO WAY FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO KEEP UP WITH THAT.
WE HAVE TO USE A THIRD PARTY COMPANY THAT'S USING SOME PORT FORM OF AI TO BREAK DOWN THAT VAST QUANTITY OF DATA.
THERE'S FAR RIGHT AND THERE'S FAR LEFT AND THERE'S SOME MEGA STUFF THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE UPSET ABOUT.
AND THERE'S SOME BLACK LIVES MATTERS MATTERS STILL SOME PEOPLE CRITICAL RACE THEORY 1619.
AND SO THAT IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT.
AND A THIRD PARTY THAT'S PROBABLY NOT CAPABLE.
I MEAN, YOU COULD, YOU COULD PUT KEY WORDS THAT THEY LOOK FOR, YOU KNOW, PROFANITIES AND SO ON, AND, AND THAT AI CAN FIND THAT AND THEY KNOW THAT'S NOT AVAILABLE.
BUT SOME OF THIS, UH, VERY RADICAL BOTH RIGHT? AND BOTH LEFT THINGS GONNA BE VERY HARD.
AND I CAN, I CAN SEE A PARENT COMING TO THE, UH, BOARD MEETING ON PUBLIC COMMENTS AND SAYING, MY DAUGHTER BROUGHT UP A SITE.
THIS WAS ON 60 MINUTES LAST NIGHT, UH, UH, A SITE TO LEARN ABOUT HOW TO BECOME ANOREXIC.
AND SO HOW THAT'S, THAT'S MY CONUNDRUM HERE ON THIS INTERNET SURVEILLANCE CENSORSHIP, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
THAT TO ME IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE, DUDE.
NO PROBLEMS. WELL, NOT ONLY IS
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IT A SLIPPERY SLOPE, YOU'RE DEALING WITH A CHILD THAT WILL, THAT HAS 16 HOURS A DAY TO FIND EVERY WAY TO GET AROUND IT.AND TO, JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME, SOME BACKGROUND, WE'VE HAD TO PUT IN, UH, MAKE SURE THE CONTENT FILTER CATCHES FOREIGN CURSE WORDS, MISSPELLED CURSE WORDS, OR MISSPELLED DIRTY WORDS.
BECAUSE THE KIDS LEARN PRETTY QUICKLY THAT INSTEAD OF TYPING P O R N, THEY CAN TYPE P R O N.
AND BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORD SPELL THINGS MIS APPROPRIATELY, THEY WERE THEN ABLE TO GRAB SOME INFORMATION.
SO THEN WE HAD TO TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER AND INCREASE
AND, AND IT'S A GIVE AND TAKE.
UM, EVERY YEAR WE HAVE TO DO MORE AND MORE.
WE'LL GET A CALL FROM A TEACHER AND SAYING, OKAY, THEY, UH, WE FOUND THIS SITE, WHICH APPEARS TO BE A GOOD SITE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A GOOD SITE.
BUT ONCE YOU DIVE DEEPER INTO THAT SITE, THEN YOU FIND THAT THERE ARE, THERE CAN BE SOME LINKS OFF OF THAT.
THERE'S SOME MORE QUESTIONABLE MATERIAL.
UM, AND THEN THAT'S WHERE IT TAKES THE HUMAN INTERACTION, NOT ONLY BY OUR THIRD PARTY WHO FINDS IT WITH THEIR I, UM, AI, BUT WE FIND IT THROUGH OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF REPORTING DIFFERENT STUFF.
WE ALSO HAVE A TEAM THAT HAS A NICE LITTLE, UM, UH, GETS, UH, WE, IBOSS DOES A REPORT EVERY DAY THAT WE MAIL TO EVERY ONE OF OUR PRINCIPALS.
AND ANYTIME A KID SEARCHES FOR ANYTHING THAT MAKES THEM GET BLOCKED, IT SHOWS UP ON THIS LIST.
SO EVERY DAY OUR PRINCIPALS GET A NICE LONG LIST OF EVERYTHING THE KIDS WERE SEARCHING FOR.
UM, AND I CANNOT SAY HALF OF THAT STUFF RIGHT NOW, BUT IT WAS BLOCKED AND THEY DID NOT GET TO IT.
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.
BUT SO FAR, UM, WE'RE ABLE TO STOP 'EM.
NOW THERE IS NOT A CONTENT FILTER ANYWHERE.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN PROVEN ALL THROUGHOUT THE INTERNET TO BLOCK EVERYTHING A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE TIME.
THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE OF THE SHEER VOLUME OF SITES COMING ONLINE THAT THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, CUSHION IN THERE WHERE SOME QUESTIONABLE INFORMATION CAN GET THROUGH.
AND WE DO PUT THAT IN OUR A U P AND UM, AND WHERE THE PARENTS SIGN UP TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE ALWAYS IS A CHANCE.
UM, BECAUSE WE, WE HAVE SOME VERY SMART KIDS
AND WE, I HAVE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST WITH PARENTS ABOUT THAT EXACT SAME.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST POINTS I ALWAYS TRY TO MAKE WITH THE PARENTS IS DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD GO LOCK THEIR SELF UP IN THEIR ROOM WITH THEIR DEVICE AND SAY HOURS ON END.
YOU KNOW? UM, ONE THING I ALWAYS DID WITH MY CHILDREN, THEY SAT IN THE KITCHEN.
NORMALLY I'D BE GETTING HOME FROM WORK, MY WIFE WAS STILL WORKING, I'D START COOKING DINNER.
THEY'RE DOING THEIR HOMEWORK AT THE BAR.
UM, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP AN EYE ON 'EM BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE GONNA BE CHILDREN AND THEY'RE GONNA EXPLORE
AND JUST, I WOULD SAY ALSO, JUST TO SPEAK TO THAT, I REMEMBER EVEN, EVEN, UM, I LEARNED CHOICES.
THE KIDS WOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO WHERE THEY, THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD KNOW WHEN YOU FORGOT ONE DEVICE, THEY WOULD, I, YOU EVEN GOT ONE, UH, PLACE WHERE YOU COULD GO AT AND, AND GET, GET TO WHATEVER YOU WANNA GET TO, TO BREAKTHROUGH THE DISTRICT, UH, SOFTWARE.
THEN THEY COME UP WITH ANOTHER ONE, OR NOW THEY HAVE SOMEONE MAKING IT.
IT'S, IT'S CRAZY HOW THEY, HOW THEY JUST GO OFF OF, UH, THEY GO OFF OF I WITH THE DORM CALL 'EM DOMAINS.
BASICALLY THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE, YEAH, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A LIST.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE CREATING VOLUME OF DOMAINS SO THEY CAN GET, THEY CAN GET OUT AND REACH PROGRAMS THAT, THAT THE DISTRICT OR, OR DISTRICT OR DISTRICTS OR WHOEVER CREATE.
SO THESE KIDS CAN, CAN GET OUT THAT THEY GO TO THE DOMAIN, THAT DOMAIN ALLOW 'EM GO TO ANY ACCESS, ANY DOMAIN THAT THEY WANT.
IT IS UPON WHEN, LIKE HE SAID, WHEN THAT TEACHER CALLS HIM AND TELL HIM WHAT THAT NEW DOMAIN NAME IS.
LIKE, LIKE EVERY DAY IN SCHOOL, WE COME UP WITH, UM, INTERNET PASSWORDS FOR BUILDING.
AND SO, SO THE SAME WITH HOW, HOW, HOW EVERY, EVERY BUILDING HAVE A DIFFERENT, UM, WIFI PASSWORD EVERY DAY THEY COME UP WITH DOMAIN NAMES.
IT IS ALMOST LIKE, HOW, HOW CAN YOU ATTACK THAT? YEAH.
IT, IT, IT WAS REALLY HARD FOR US.
EVERY MORNING AT 4, 5 30 IN THE MORNING, OUR SYSTEM GENERATES A,
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ABOUT A 12 CHARACTER CRAZY PASSWORD TO GET ON OUR GUEST WIRELESS EVERY DAY.AND WE HAD TO DO IT THAT WAY IS BECAUSE ANYTIME WE PHYSICALLY GAVE OUT A PASSWORD, EVEN THE STAFF, WE WOULD FIND THAT PASSWORD WRITTEN ON WHITEBOARDS WRITTEN, POSTED UP IN THE MEDIA CENTER OR POSTED IN THE FRONT OFFICE TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR OUR GUESTS COMING IN.
WELL, ONE KID SEES IT AND I GUARANTEE YOU WITHIN TWO HOURS THERE WILL BE SEVEN OR EIGHT SCHOOLS AROUND THE DISTRICT ALL USING IT WITHIN TWO HOURS.
IT, IT'S JUST, THEY, THEY HAVE THIS INTERNAL COMMUNICATION THAT IT FLIES OFF.
SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WE DID IT THAT WAY.
AND WE ONLY FORWARDED IT TO PRINCIPALS AND KEY PERSONNEL, UM, THAT WOULD TRULY NEED IT AND BE ABLE TO HAND IT TO OUR GUESTS BECAUSE IT WAS CREATING, THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WAS ALL THESE KIDS WOULD GET ON THE GUEST NETWORK, THEN WE'D HAVE A TRUE GUEST COME IN TO GIVE A PRESENTATION OR SPEAK TO A SCHOOL.
THEY WOULD TRY TO GET ON THEIR POWERPOINT AND IT WOULDN'T WORK CORRECTLY.
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ANY FAMILY.
AND I'M NOT, THAT'S NOT WHAT, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE SAME WAY HOW WE HAVE THAT DISTRICT SAYING THAT WITHOUT WHAT I, WHAT I SAW THE RIGHT CHOICES.
WHO WAS THAT? THEY HAVE DOMAINS NAME WHERE IF YOU WANNA GO ON, UH, THE BIG RED DOG, THEN YOU, YOU WOULD GO TO XFINITY DO COM AND INFORMATION INFINITY.COM.
YOU TYPE IN CLIP THE BIG RED AND YOU CAN ACCESS THAT.
AND IT IS A ALWAYS, IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S A, THEY CREATE A A, A TUNNEL FOR YOU, FOR YOU, WHATEVER YOU WANNA USE, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.
ONCE YOU GO TO, ONCE YOU GO TO XFINITY, YOU CAN GO, YOU CAN GO, YOU CAN GO TO, TO THAT TUNNEL, GET TO, TO GET TO ANYTHING.
AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S THING SOME STUFF YOU TALKING ABOUT.
UM, THAT'S WHAT WAS SAID, UM, 60 MINUTES.
AND THE PARENTS SAID, WHY DIDN'T YOU FIND YOUR DAUGHTER, UH, GOING TO THESE SITES? YOU HAD A WAY OF CHECKING IT.
WELL, DAUGHTER FIGURED OUT HOW TO SHOW HOW TO DOMAIN NAME THAT LINKED TO WHAT YOU REALLY WANTED TO SEE, BUT YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT CUZ YOU, YOU ENTERED THE DOMAINS.
AND THEN IT LOOKS, IT LOOKS AMBIGUOUS.
BUT THEN WHAT IT WAS LEAKING TO YEAH.
AND THEY, TO PULL US
AND IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A, A BATTLE THAT, UH, COUPLE OF MY ENGINEERS SPIKE EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS THEY SEE, UH, UM, A LOT OF BANDWIDTH COMING FROM A CERTAIN KID'S, UM, USERNAME, IT GETS REPORTED.
THEN THEY'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT IT AND SEE, OKAY, ARE ARE YOU GOING TO LEGITIMATE SITES? ARE YOU, YOU DOING SCHOOLWORK? OH YOU'RE NOT, WELL OKAY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? AND THEN THEY'D HAVE TO BACKTRACK THAT AND THEN FIND THE PLACES THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD GAMES OR WHATEVER THEY WERE DOING AT THE TIME AND BLOCK THOSE AREAS.
SO IT, IT'S, IT TAKES UP A LOT OF, UH, UM, OUR ENGINEERS TIMES, WHICH COULD BE BETTER SPENT, UM, BUILDING OUT AND INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF OUR NETWORK.
BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE FIGHTING, UH, CHILDREN.
SO ONE THING, I MEAN, UM, THANK YOU BOTH BECAUSE, AND MR. SMITH BEING THE, I THINK THE YOUNGEST BOARD MEMBER, YOU KNOW, IT IS AMAZING WHAT KIDS CAN GET AWAY WITH TODAY AND, AND HAVING THAT PERSPECTIVE OF THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, I NOW FEEL OLD CUZ MY KIDS SAY THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYMORE.
UM, BUT I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUE SO YOU SAID THE IBOSS IS THE CONTENT FILTER? YES.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT WE JUST DID THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OE, WHICH INCLUDES THAT AND THEY TALKED ABOUT GAGGLE.
I WOULD LIKE TO, I'M KIND OF MAKING A LIST OF THINGS FOR NEXT YEAR TO TALK ABOUT CONTENT FILTERING AND YOU KNOW, MAYBE TAKING SOME OF THAT AWAY FROM LIKE THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OE AND PUTTING IT INTO TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S OBVIOUSLY WHERE THE WORK'S BEING DONE.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT THAT GOES TO THE ISSUE OF CENSORSHIP.
AND I THINK A LOT OF IT GOES TO THE ISSUE OF PARENT EDUCATION.
HOW ARE WE EDUCATING PARENTS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT TO LOOK FOR RED FLAGS, LIKE YOU SAID, I'M THE SAME WAY.
MY KIDS GET SO MAD AT ME CUZ THEY WANT A COMPUTER IN THEIR BEDROOM.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT YOU UP THERE.
I WANNA HAVE ONE EYE BE ABLE TO WALK BEHIND YOU AND JUST TAKE A QUICK LOOK.
UM, SOLVES A LOT OF PROBLEMS. SO I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD, UM, CONVERSATION TO HAVE.
UH, NEXT YEAR WE USE GAGGLE AS A ANOTHER RESOURCE BECAUSE THEY TOO USE A LOT OF AI.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALLOWED, THEY CAN GO RIGHT IN AND LOOK AT ALL THE GOOGLE SPACE THAT THE CHILDREN USE, AND THEY'RE CONSTANTLY SCANNING FOR KEYWORD SEARCHES, THREATS OF HARM, THREATS OF VIOLENCE, SUICIDE.
UM, THEY ALSO HAVE, UH, THIS NEAT SOFTWARE THAT LOOKS AT EACH IMAGE AND IF IT SEES MORE THAN LIKE 90% SKIN TONE, IT FLAGS THAT PICTURE FOR A PERSON TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY KIND OF PORN PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES WITHIN THAT KID'S ACCOUNT.
AND THEN THEY RELAY THAT INFORMATION TO THE PRINCIPALS
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AT THE SCHOOL.YEAH, I THINK THIS IS, UM, AN AREA OF A LOT OF COMMUNITY CONCERN.
AND IT'S LIKE COLONEL GEIER SAID, YOU KINDA HAVE TO BALANCE IT OUT.
YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND HOW YOU'RE CATCHING AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THAT INFORMATION.
UM, ADDITIONALLY UNDER THIS OE OF DATA PRIVACY, AGAIN, GOING BACK, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOT MY ATTENTION WAS THAT FERPA, WE HAVE A, WE COLLECT A LOT OF MEDICAL DATA NOW AND LIKE, UH, UH, CRIMINAL DATA, ET CETERA IN THE SCHOOL RECORD.
AND I DON'T THINK, UH, IT'S UNDER, IT FALLS UNDER FERPA AS OPPOSED TO HIPAA.
AND THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT HOW THAT INFORMATION GETS SENT.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE APPLYING TO COLLEGE OR FOR A JOB AND THEY REQUEST YOUR MEDI YOUR, UH, EDUCATIONAL RECORDS THAT CAN ALL GET ATTACHED, WHICH I'D LIKE TO.
UM, I THINK WHAT I, AND I'VE HAD HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH BUNNIE CARTILAGE, BUT WE NEED TO DO SOME, UM, EDUCATION ON THAT TOO, SO PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THAT MEDICAL, UH, INFORMATION IS NOT PROTECTED THE SAME WAY AS IT IS IN HIPAA.
AND NOW WE'RE MOVING INTO MENTAL HEALTH AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, SENSITIVE, PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION.
SO I THINK THAT HAVING THOSE KIND OF DATA PRIVACY POLICIES, UM, IT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE AS WELL.
BECAUSE FROM A BOARD PERSPECTIVE, I THINK IT'S POLICY, BUT IT'S ALSO HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S DOING WHEN THEY ASK US QUESTIONS.
SO I KIND OF WROTE THOSE TWO THINGS DOWN AS SOMETHING TO CIRCLE BACK TO AND IS TO LOOK AT WHEN WE DO THE MONITORING, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST, TO ME, DATA PRIVACY AND EXTERNAL THREATS, IT'S NOT JUST, UM, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT OF OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET AT.
DO YOU WANNA GO ONTO WHAT WOULD BE 17.3? THE DATA? ONE, MY FAVORITE IT'S NUMBER, IT WOULD BE C
UM, WE TIE THAT, UH, WE TIE THAT BACK TO SECURITY.
WE UNDERSTAND THE COMPONENT TO MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ASSESS THE SECURITY DEPARTMENT IN GETTING SCHOOLS THAT NEED SECURITY SET UP WITH SYSTEMS. UM, ADDITIONALLY EXPAND INFRASTRUCTURE TO, UH, TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE WHEN NEEDED.
UM, NOW THAT'S A LITTLE VAGUE.
I NEED TO DRILL DOWN MORE ON THE STUDENTS SIDE OF THIS.
THAT'S WHY I SAID, WELL, I'M NOT TOTALLY, TOTALLY FINISHED ON SOME OF THESE AND I WILL BE BRINGING IN, UM, COLLEEN AND SOME OF I S D TO KIND OF HELP MAKE THE TIE-INS WITH DATA SERVICES FOR SOME OF THESE BECAUSE IT WILL FALL DIRECTLY BACK ON, LIKE YOU SAID, THE STUDENT'S EDUCATIONAL RECORD, WHICH WOULD BE INSIDE OF POWER SCHOOL, WHICH WOULD FALL MORE ON DATA SERVICES ON HOW THEY GIVE OUT THAT INFORMATION.
YEAH, I THINK THIS, AND A GOOD EXAMPLE, THIS WOULD BE THE LEARNING DAYS.
YOU GUYS HAVE THAT DATA, THE LOGINS, YOU HAVE THE UM, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS, THE HELP DESK TICKETS AND USING THAT DATA TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, OKAY, NEXT YEAR IF WE HAVE LEARNING E-LEARNING DAYS OR EVEN THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER SET, UM, LOOKING AT WAYS TO IMPROVE THAT, UH, THE DELIVERY.
I MEAN THAT TO ME IS WHAT I THINK OF WHEN I SEE C 17.3.
DOES ANYONE ELSE ON THE COMMITTEE HAVE ANY, UH, COMMENTS ON THAT ONE? YEAH, I THINK SEAT TIME IS, UH, IS AN ISSUE.
AND I ALSO THINK THAT LOGIN, LOOKING AT HOW MUCH, UM, WE'RE USING ALL THESE PROGRAMS, RIGHT? LIKE YOU SAID, YOU HAVE ALL THE APPS RANKED, WHICH ONES ARE GETTING THE MOST USE, HOW MUCH ARE THEY BEING USED OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL HOURS? AND IT DOES THAT TRANSLATE INTO IMPROVED INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT WHAT PROGRAMS WE'RE GONNA INVEST IN.
WHEN THE ESER MONEY IS NO LONGER KIND OF FLOWING, THAT WOULD FALL UNDER TECHNOLOGY, RIGHT? YES.
SOME OF IT WOULD FALL BACK ON, UM, UH, THE ACADEMIC SIDE WITH DRILLING INTO EACH, UH, LEARNING PROGRAM.
UM, SO IT COULD KIND OF BE FOUGHT ON BOTH FRONTS.
WE LOOK AT IT AS IN MORE OF A BROADER TERM.
OKAY, THIS MANY KIDS ARE LOGGING IN, SYSTEMS LOOK GOOD.
WELL, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS NEED TO DO IS KIND OF MAKE THAT, UH, DATA A AVAILABLE TO INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES AND THEY CAN DO THE ANALYSIS.
BUT I DO THINK THERE'S SO MUCH VALUABLE, UM, SINCE WE ARE, WE'VE GONE TO, SINCE WE'RE A ONE-TO-ONE DISTRICT AND WE'VE GONE TO SO MUCH SOFTWARE-BASED LEARNING, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA THAT CAN BE MINED OUT OF JUST BASICALLY THE, THE TECHNOLOGY SIDE.
UM, ANY OTHER, I, SORRY, I CAN'T SEE.
YOU GUYS ARE JUST LITTLE TINY ANTS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? WE CAN MOVE ON.
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WHICH IS AN, UH, NEW AND DIVERSE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND STYLE.SO USE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT NEW AND DIVERSE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND STYLE AND THOROUGH, THOUGHTFULLY INTEGRATE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE LEARNING, UM, EXPERIENCE.
OUR INTERPRETATION AS WE UNDERSTAND THIS, TO MISS THIS TO MEAN RECEIVING INPUT FROM TEACHERS, STAFF, STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND THE DISTRICT TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE REGARDING CURRENT AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGY POLICY ISSUES FACING THE DISTRICT.
WE INTERPRET INPUT TO MEAN INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS, WHICH INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TOO NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, DATA PRIVACY ACCESSIBILITY TO TECHNOLOGY FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLED STUDENTS AND BEST PRACTICES IN TECHNOLOGY, INTEGRATED CURRICULUM AND LEARNING MODELS.
UH, DO WE HAVE, HAVE WE REFORMED THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR? WE WILL OFFICIALLY PUT IT BACK IN PLACE.
ANYBODY ELSE? WHAT DOES ACTUALLY, WHAT DOES, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? UM, GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT IS, UM, PRINCIPLES COULD BE APS, IT COULD BE DIFFERENT DIRECTORS, AND MAINLY I S D, UM, AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS.
SO WE GET TOGETHER AND BASICALLY LISTEN TO WHERE THE SCHOOLS ARE DRIVING TO.
WHAT DO THEY WANT TO DO, WHERE DO THEY WANT TO GET AT? BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES A SCHOOL KNOWS THEY WANT TO DO X, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THERE.
SO THEY TELL US WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, WE TALK ABOUT IT.
UH, TECHNOLOGY WOULD THEN GO BACK AND RESEARCH DIFFERENT AVENUES, UM, WHETHER IT'S HARDWARE TO DO IT, WHETHER IT'S SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS TO DO IT, THEN BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK IN FRONT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THEM TO LOOK AT AND THEN GET THE EDUCATORS PERSPECTIVE OF, IS THIS GONNA BE GOOD FOR OUR STUDENTS IN EDUCATION? OKAY.
UM, SO WE CAN HEAR ABOUT THAT MAYBE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, HAVE A LITTLE REPORT ON, ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN, LET'S SEE, OH, COMMUNICATION ENGAGEMENT.
UM, YEAH, THAT ONE, UM, IS MAINLY GONNA TALK BACK TO BRIGHT ARROW.
THAT'S ONE OF THE ONE I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET.
UM, BUT BRIGHT ARROW IS RIGHT NOW OUR MAIN, UH, COMMUNICATIONS, UH, DEVICE FOR PARENTS, STAFF, AND STUDENTS.
BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT ELSE IS A GREAT COMMUNICATION DEVICE IS, UM, POWERSCHOOL.
AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES A STUDENT OR A PARENT LOGS INTO POWERSCHOOL AND CHECKS THEIR, UM, ATTENDANCE AND THEIR GRADES AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO MAYBE, UM, A, AN ANNUAL REPORT FROM POWER SCHOOL AND BRIGHT ARROW, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF HOW THAT, HOW THAT'S BEING USED.
ANYONE ELSE? I'M SORRY, I LOST MY VIEW.
OH, WHAT ELSE? WHAT ELSE IS HEAVILY WE USED BETWEEN, UH, UM, BRIGHT HOUR AND POWER SCHOOL? WHAT ELSE HAVE WE USED, UM, FOR COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS? AND THAT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST ONE, BECAUSE GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHEN WE COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS, IT WILL BE THROUGH THE TEACHERS IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
AND WE DO NOT, UH, THE TEACHERS, I MEAN, THE PARENTS DON'T LOG DIRECTLY INTO THAT.
THEY WILL LOG, THEY WILL LOOK OVER THEIR KID'S SHOULDER AND LOOK THROUGH IT.
BUT, UM, WE DON'T CONSIDER THAT A PRIMARY MEANS OF CONTACTING PARENTS.
UM, ALSO, HOW, HOW ABOUT, UM, WHAT, WHAT DO WE HAVE TO SPEAK TO THE AMOUNT OF PROGRAMS THAT, THAT, THAT WE HAVE TO, IN, IN TERMS OF POLICY SCHOOL? I, I ALREADY, IN TERMS OF KEEPING ON TRACK OF ALL OF ALL THOSE PROGRAMS, WHAT DO, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE THAT SPEAKS TO THAT? UM, WITH CLASS LINK, YOU CAN CHECK, UM, A LOT OF DATA ON ALL THAT SOFTWARE.
ONCE AGAIN, AS LONG AS THE STUDENT LOGS IN THROUGH CLASS LINK.
UM, THE PROBLEM BEING IS A LOT OF OUR OLDER KIDS SAY ONCE THEY GET AN UPPER MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL, THEY DON'T EVEN GO TO THE CLASS LINK PAGE.
THEY GO DIRECTLY TO GOOGLE DRIVE.
THEY GO DIRECTLY TO WHERE THAT DATA IS.
THEY LOG DIRECTLY INTO POWERSCHOOL.
AND YOU DON'T GET THAT NICE LITTLE OVERARCHING UMBRELLA THAT TRACKS THOSE LOGINS WHEN YOU GO DIRECTLY TO THOSE SITES.
I'M TALKING ABOUT AS A, AS A, AS A DISTRICT, AT SOME POINT IN THE YEAR, A COUPLE TIMES, I THINK IT'D BE GREAT FOR US, EVEN FOR THIS COMMITTEE TO GO OVER, BASICALLY LOOK TO HAVE A MENU, LOOK, HAVE A MENU, AND SEE WHAT ALL WE OFFER ON, ON
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THE MENU AND SEE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND, AND PROCESS THAT.LIKE, ONE MY QUESTION, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST TIMES THAT HAPPENS IS IN THE EARLY SPRING AROUND BUDGET TIME, UM, I S D MEETS WITH THEIR DIRECTORS.
THEY BRING PRINCIPALS IN AND KEY PERSONNEL.
THEY ALSO BRING TECHNOLOGY IN, AND THEY SIT USUALLY IN THE, UH, TECHNOLOGY LAB AND SPEND THE DAY IN THERE GOING OVER ALL THE SOFTWARE THAT'S CURRENTLY THERE.
HOW, HOW THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM FELT THAT IT HELPED IMPACT STUDENTS.
THEY ALSO BRING UP NEW TECHNOLOGY TO DISCUSS TO THE GROUP, FIND OUT FOR WHERE WE WANT TO GO IN THE FUTURE.
UM, AND IT'S A VERY CRUCIAL MEETING BECAUSE ONE, TECHNOLOGY'S IN THE ROOM, WE GET TO HEAR ABOUT THIS AND WE GET TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS.
SO A LOT OF TIMES WE CAN HEAR IF THEY'RE WANTING TO GO IN A CERTAIN WAY THAT MIGHT NOT ALIGN WITH THE HARDWARE THAT WE HAVE.
AND IN ORDER FOR US TO IMPLEMENT THAT, WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT SERVERS AT ALL THESE SCHOOLS THAT CAN REALLY DRIVE UP THE INFRASTRUCTURE COST ON A SYSTEM.
UM, I LOOK BACK, YOU KNOW, 12 YEARS AGO WHEN WE WERE USING A SYSTEM CALLED WATERFORD, IT REQUIRED A SERVER AT EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A, THAT'S A HUGE OPERATIONAL COST JUST FOR THAT PIECE OF SOFTWARE.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN COUNTING THE COST OF THE SOFTWARE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT IF WE CAN BE IN ON THE FRONT, WE CAN LET 'EM KNOW AND KIND OF GIVE 'EM ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO.
NOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THE KIDS, AND WE LEAVE IT UP TO OUR EDUCATORS TO TELL US THE BEST TOOLS TO DO.
BUT FROM THE THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE, WE'VE ALSO GOTTA LOOK AT OUR, OUR MONEY STANDPOINT AND DO WE HAVE THE MONEY? WHAT'S THE RECURRING COST THAT'S GONNA KEEP GETTING THE DISTRICT YEAR AFTER YEAR? UM, AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE'VE SHIFTED MORE AND MORE TO CLOUD-BASED.
WE LIMIT HARDWARE ON SITE, WHICH IS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT MOST IT DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING IN THE FUTURE.
AND THAT, AND BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU SAID, THIS IS NOT AS ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE, UH, REASONS WHY I THINK THAT TOO, UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS THAT I THINK GETTING THAT IN FOURTH, THE BUDGET SEASON ONE TIME POSSIBLY, UH, WOULD HELP OUT IN TERMS OF GOING INTO, INTO THE BUDGET SEASON TO SEE WHAT'S BEING USED AND HOW RECORDS ARE BEING USED, AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE, WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE FROM WHAT'S CONTINUING TO BE, TO BE PURCHASED.
I, I THINK, I THINK THAT THAT IS A, THAT THAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT, UM, UH, TALKING POINT BECAUSE NOW, NOT, NOT JUST FROM THE TALKING POINT, UH, THE DEC CAUSE THAT'S A INTEGRAL PART OF THE DECISION MAKERS AS A BOARD MEMBER IN TERMS OF FIRE FINANCING AND WHAT, WHAT IS REALLY NEEDED IN THIS.
AND IT ALSO, UM, IT'S USUALLY WHERE SOME OF OUR PILOT PROGRAMS COME FROM.
THEY'RE BROUGHT UP IN THOSE MEETINGS, RIGHT? UM, AND THEN THAT WAY THAT PILOT PROGRAM MIGHT BE ASSIGNED TO X SCHOOL AND THEN WE LET IT RUN AT THAT SCHOOL AND GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE DATA BIT.
WAS IT IMPACTFUL FOR OUR STUDENTS? OKAY.
UH, THE OTHER THING IS TOO, SOME OF THIS STUFF, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IS GONNA FALL UNDER COMMUNICATION.
SO WE JUST KIND OF HAVE TO FOCUS ON THE TECHNOLOGY PIECE AND LET CANDACE DO THE COMMUNICATION
UM, WELL, ACTUALLY, WELL, WELL, SINCE YOU SAID I, I, I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT.
SO TELL ME WHICH PART OF THAT FALL UNDER COMMUNICATION, WHICH PART OF IT DOESN'T FALL UNDER TECHNOLOGY, BECAUSE I'M NOT, I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT.
WELL, LIKE, I WOULD SAY AS AN EXAMPLE, THE PORTAL, LIKE THE NEW COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PORTAL ON THE WEBSITE, TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP DESIGN, SORRY, WHAT, WHAT PORTAL IS THAT ON THE WEBSITE? OH, WHAT IS IT? YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE AND IT'S V C S D ENGAGE, OR I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE REMEMBERS OFF THE TOP OF THEIR HEAD.
THERE'S A TERM ENGAGE WITH UC AND IT'S UNDER THE COMMUNITY SECTION, UM, WHERE YOU CAN LIKE LEAVE COMMENTS FOR THE DISTRICT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A PORTAL WITHIN THE WEBSITE.
I WOULD THINK THAT, UM, TECHNOLOGY COULD PROVIDE ANO THE USAGE OF THAT.
MARK, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS THAT SOMETHING TECHNOLOGY MANAGES? CUZ IT'S THE WEBSITE OR IS THAT A CANDACE THING? THAT'S A CANDACE THING.
YEAH, WE LOOK AT BACKEND COMMUNICATIONS WITH IT AND INTER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PRIDE ARROW, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING THAT, UH, ALL ACCESS AND TO THAT TOOL COMES THROUGH COMMUNICATION.
SO THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT WOULD FALL UNDER, UM, COMMUNICATION.
SO ENSURE NEW TECHNOLOGY WITH TESTING.
AND THIS ONE, I THINK ACTUALLY YES.
MR. SMITH, YOU STILL YOU STILL ANSWERED MY QUESTION.
JUST TO GO BACK TO YOUR QUESTION IN, IN TERMS OF WHAT I JUST WAS TALKING TO YOU, YOUR COMMENT WAS BEYOND THAT OR BECAUSE I, I'M, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND BASICALLY IN, IN, IN TERMS OF WHAT I JUST ASKED MR. UH, WHAT I, WHAT I JUST ASKED MARK.
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TRYING TO SAY THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT KEEPING UPON, UH, KEEPING UP AB BRUSH OR KNOWING HOW MUCH OF THE INFORMATION THAT, HOW OF THOSE PROGRAMS THAT WE ACTUALLY USING VERSUS US NOT USING, YOU SAID THAT THAT DOESN'T FALL IN TECHNOLOGY? WELL, COMMUNICATION DOES MANAGE SOME OF THEIR OWN TECHNOLOGY, LIKE A WEBSITE, THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE, ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA, WHILE IT'S TECHNICALLY A, UM, TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT, ACTUALLY IT'S MANAGED BY COMMUNICATION.BUT TECHNOLOGY HAS A ROLE IN THE SOFTWARE THAT WE USE LIKE POWERSCHOOL AND BRIGHT ARROW THAT WOULD FALL MORE UNDER TECHNOLOGY.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE DO THE MONITORING REPORTS FOR THESE OES THAT, UH, THE BOARD RECOGNIZES THAT TECHNOLOGY DOES HAVE A VERY CRITICAL ROLE IN COMMUNICATION AND PARTICULARLY WITH THE SOFTWARE THAT THEY OVERSEE.
BUT A LOT OF THAT STUFF, EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE TECHNOLOGICAL, LIKE THE WEBSITE, LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA, THAT THAT ACTUALLY IS RUN THROUGH THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN MON OH, WE MONITORING AND WE JUST WENT THROUGH THAT AND THEY DID PRODUCE, UM, A REPORT OF THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT, UM, THEY DID WITH THE WEBSITE AND WHATNOT.
TECHNOLOGY IS AN INTERESTING DISCIPLINE BECAUSE IT IS ABSOLUTELY MISSION CRITICAL TO ALMOST EVERYTHING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S NOT LIKE ITS OWN THING.
IT'S
UM, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HAVE, IT'S A, IT'S, IT'S HARD TO DETERMINE WHEN IT'S A TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUE AND WHEN IT'S A CONTENT ISSUE.
UM, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL DIG INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AS, AS THE NEXT YEAR GETS ROLLING.
SO THE TESTING, ADEQUATE TRAINING, CONSISTENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TO ME, I THINK THIS REALLY COMES DOWN TO THE, THE TECHNOLOGY COACHES.
AND WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION A COUPLE OF TIMES ABOUT WHEN THAT TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CAME UP.
DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TECHNOLOGY COACHES TO MEET THE DEMAND AND THAT KIND OF THING.
AND I THINK THAT FALLS MORE UNDER, UH, MRS. BECK UN BARSKY, IF I'M SAYING THAT NAME CORRECTLY.
SO, UM, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING DEFINITELY I THINK IN THE NEXT, IN THE FIRST PART OF NEXT YEAR, JUST GET AN INSIGHT INTO, UM, BECAUSE POORLY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU ROLL OUT SOFTWARE, NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO USE IT.
UM, AND THEN THE FINAL ONE, THE ONLY THING IS WHAT WOULD YOU PUT UNDER ACCOUNT, UH, ACCOUNTABILITY PROTOCOLS? UM, WE UNDERSTAND THIS COMPONENT TO REQUIRE THE DISTRICT TO INSTALL YOUTH AND MAINTAIN TECHNOLOGY PROTECTION MEAS MEASURES, UM, AND INTERNET FILTERS, UM, TO BLOCK INAPPROPRIATE INFORMATION.
UM, WE ALSO KNOW WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WHEN WE CAN SHOW THE NUMBER OF MALWARE INTERCEPTS USING OUR BARRACUDA SPAM FILTERS, UH, CONTENT REPORTS THROUGH IBOSS, UM, EVIDENCE OF ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES, RENEWALS, EVIDENCE OF SECURITY PRIVILEGES THAT HAVE BEEN SIGNED BASED ON EMPLOYEE ROLES AND LOCATIONS WITHIN THE DISTRICTS.
AND MAINTAINING THE INVENTORY CON INVENTORY CONTROL, LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AND ASSET TRACKING OF TECHNOLOGY BY STAFF OR STUDENTS THROUGH THE DESTINY ASSET MANAGER.
LITTLE VAGUE, BUT WE'RE, WELL, I WAS JUST TRYING TO SUCK OUT, I'M TRYING TO FIND MEASURABLE THINGS THAT WE CAN LINK IT BACK, UM, THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY PULL THESE DOCUMENTS OUT TO HAND TO YOU.
YEAH, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE BEST, UM, BUCKET TO PUT, YOU KNOW, CUZ THERE YEAH, THE TECHNOLOGY A U P AND HOW WE ACTUALLY HAND OUT THE INDIVIDUAL HARDWARE, I WOULD THINK.
COLONEL GUY, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAD WANTED TO ADD.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE ADEQUATELY SEPARATE IT FROM THE OTHER, UM, SECURITY PART.
LIKE ONE CYBERSECURITY AND ONE SEEMS MORE MAYBE THE TECHNOLOGY A U P, RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHT.
WELL THAT, I THINK, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, FUTURE TOPICS FOR NEXT YEAR.
I'VE GOT, UM, WE'LL GET A REPORT, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEXT, THE FIRST COUPLE OF MONTHS OF 2023, WE'LL GET THE DISASTER PLAN FINALIZED AND PRESENTED.
WE'LL GET THE UPDATE ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UM, WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION REGARDING, UM, CONTENT FILTERING AND LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE? I HAD ONE OTHER THING.
AND OH, I THINK MAYBE THAT'S IT.
I WROTE DOWN CONTINUOUS LEARNING PLAN.
I FELT LIKE THAT MEANT SOMETHING TO ME.
CAN YOU GET A CHANCE? YES, PLEASE.
I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON PASSWORD PROTOCOL.
AND I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT, BUT IT'S NOT, BUT I THINK IF YOU, IF YOU TOOK A LOOK AT
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HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE, HOW MANY PASSWORDS, DIFFERENT PASSWORDS, AND WE ARE MAKING IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO KEEP TRACK OF THOSE PASSWORDS.SO THEN THEY WRITE DOWN AND YOU KNOW, I I BELIEVE YOU USED BIOMETRIC, UH, AS, AS, AS ONE WAYS THAT AS WE LOOK TOWARD THE FUTURE, AUTOMATION NEEDS TO BE EASIER AND SIMPLER, NOT MORE DIFFICULT.
AND SECURITY IS MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT.
SO WE HAVE TO FIND PROTOCOLS TO MAKE IT EASIER, BUT SECURE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING AT MY JOB RIGHT NOW IS, UM, TRYING TO GET A OKTA INTEGRATION WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY SO THAT ALL OF MY VOLUNTEERS DON'T RUN SCREAMING OUT OF THE BUILDING
UM, ALSO THE LA THE LAST MEETING I ASKED FOR SOMETHING TOO AS WELL.
IN, IN, IN TERMS OF THE, UM, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF THE INFORMATION, I THINK WE HAD A, WE HAD AN EVALUATION.
UM, I WAS ASKING, UH, IN FACT I MAY NEED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT OUR LAST MEETING BECAUSE UH, THERE WAS SOMETHING I ASKED FOR AND REMEMBER YOU SAYING THAT YOU WERE, I HEAR THAT.
I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT OUR LAST MEETING, UM, AND SEE, CUZ I, MY BRAIN'S A LITTLE FRAZZLED TODAY, BUT, UM, I'LL GO BACK AND SEE UM, WHAT YOU ASKED FOR AND WE CAN ADD THAT UNLESS YOU AND OR YOU CAN EMAIL IT TO ME IF YOU REMEMBER.
UM, RIGHT AT THE MOMENT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME PULLING THAT UP AND DONE WITH THE, UM, UM, THE WORDING FOR THIS THAT WE NEED THAT LETS MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE AGENDA AS WELL THE FINALIZING IN THAT THE, YOU MEAN THE OE MONITORING? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
SO THAT, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT MR. SMITH, I THINK THAT IS THE THING THAT WAS ROLLED AROUND MY BRAIN THE, THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.
SO, UM, WE'LL HAVE A ADVISORY COMMITTEE, DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN.
WE'LL HAVE WHAT YOU JUST SAID, THE UM, FINAL ON THE MONITORING.
WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION ON PASSWORD PROTOCOL AND, UH, DATA PRIVACY AND CONTENT FILTERING.
AND THAT SHOULD TAKE UP THE WINTER AND INTO THE SPRING
NOT ALL, ALL IN ONE MEETING, BUT THAT CUZ WHAT I WANNA PRESENT TO THE BOARD, UH, TOMORROW IS A FULLY FORMED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE WITH, WITH A, WITH AN AMBITIOUS TO-DO LIST, UM, TO REALLY HIGHLIGHT BECAUSE I THINK IT IS, I THINK IT'S VERY CRITICAL, UM, THAT WE CONTINUE TO PUSH TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION.
AND, AND ALSO, UH, JUST A QUICK QUESTION, UM, WITH THESE, WELL I GUESS I GUESS THAT, I'M NOT SURE THAT, THAT MIGHT NOT BE A TECHNOLOGY QUESTION, BUT WHO, WHEN, WHEN THESE SCHOOLS MAKE THEIR BADGES, WELL WHO IS THAT A PROGRAM THAT THAT, THAT THE DISTRICT IS PAYING FOR OR EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL PAYS FOR THAT? AS OF RIGHT NOW, IF THE SCHOOL DOES BADGES, IF THEY DO IT THEIR SELL, THEY BUY THEIR OWN BADGE MACHINE.
UM, AND DO IT BECAUSE THEIR BADGES DON'T HAVE ANY KIND OF R F I D READERS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
SO ONLY DISTRICT BADGES COMING FROM THE DISTRICT OFFICE WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO INTERFACE WITH OUR LOCKS AND DIFFERENT THINGS.
UM, SO RIGHT NOW THE SCHOOLS THAT DO 'EM, LIKE I KNOW A FEW OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS GIVE OUT BADGES.
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN BADGE MAKER AND PRINT 'EM ON SITE.
AND THAT, THAT WAS, THAT WAS JUST MY QUESTION IN IN REGARDS.
I MEAN JUST IN REGARDS TO, I FIGURED IF THE DISTRICT WAS GETTING UP, IF LIKE ALL HIGH SCHOOLS WANTED 'EM, THEN I'M SURE THE MORE YOU BUY 'EM IN BULK, THE CHEAPER THEY ARE KNOW I WAS JUST IN TERMS OF EVEN PROGRAMMING, IF WE BUY ONE PROGRAM, EVERYBODY CAN SHARE THE SAME PROGRAM AND THAT THAT SHOULD, THAT SHOULD BE A COST OF BIG COST TO, TO OUR, TO OUR SCHOOLS TERMS THAT WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SHARE THE APPLICATION.
WE'D HAVE TO BUY A VERSION OF IT FOR EVERY WEEK FOR SCHOOLS UNLESS IT WAS DONE IN ONE LOCATION.
SO LIKE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND THEY PRINTED THEM FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT.
UH, THE PROBLEM WITH THAT BEING IS THE CHILDREN LOSE 'EM SO MUCH, THEY HAVE TO CONSTANTLY KEEP COMING TO THE FRONT OFFICE TO GET ANOTHER BADGE MADE.
AND NORMALLY THEY'RE, THE SCHOOLS WILL IMPLEMENT A FEE FOR THAT JUST CUZ THE FACT THAT THEY KEEP LOSING THEM.
UM, BECAUSE WE HAVE LOOKED AT, UH, A WAY TO TRACK ATTENDANCE ON BUSES AND STUFF BY HAVING A BADGE.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS, IS SO OFTEN OUR KIDS FORGET 'EM.
UM, AND THEN YOU'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE A BUS DRIVER'S TRYING TO MAINTAIN A LIST OF BARCODES SO THEY CAN SCAN IT AND THAT'S PUTTING TOO MUCH ON GOOD STRESS ON THE, THE DRIVER THEY NEED TO FOCUS NUMBER OF YEARS AGO ABOUT USING THAT ATTENDANCE CLASS.
AS YOU, YOU SCANNED IT SO THE TEACHER DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE ATTENDANCE.
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SWIPED IT.BUT WHAT WE FOUND OUT WAS, AS YOU SAID, THEY LOSE 'EM AND IT'S, UH, IT WOULD BE A, ALL THE KIDS NIGHTMARE.
ALL THE KIDS WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE TO RUN IN THE CLASS.
NOW YOU GOT A LINE WAITING TO GET IN.
UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON.
YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET BACK SOME OF THE LEARNING LOSS.
AND GRANT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAD AT THE LAST MEETING, WHICH WAS OCTOBER 17TH, UM, YOU HAD CYBERSECURITY, UM, AND THEN YOU TALKED ABOUT GAMING AT MAY RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, HILTON HEAD CLUBS AND THE BLUFFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL CLUBS.
SO THAT'S, YEAH, AND I THINK, YEAH, I MEAN WE DID HAVE A REPORT ON THAT.
UM, AND I, I THINK WHAT I TALKED ABOUT TOO, AND YOU KNOW, SOMETHING I DEFINITELY WANNA TAKE UP, UH, UM, AND CONTINUE TO PUSH IS CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION.
UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT'S COMING BEFORE THE BOARD AND THE, UM, IS IT THE HONORS COURSES? I THINK NOW WE HAVE HONORS CYBERSECURITY AT MAY RIVER AND HILTON HEAD AND JUST MA UH, WHALE BRANCH I THINK IN HILTON HEAD.
UM, JUST TRYING TO KEEP PUSHING THAT FORWARD.
BUT, UH, WE CAN, UH, LOOK AT THAT IN THE SPRING AFTER WE GET THIS OTHER STUFF DONE TOO.
THAT TO ME IS MORE LIKE IN THE SUMMER WE'LL HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY PLAN.
SO THERE'S SORT OF LIKE THINGS WE CAN KIND OF LOOK AT AND REALLY EMPHASIZE WITH THE COMMUNITY BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE AND THEN COME JULY WE'LL HAVE THAT TECHNOLOGY PLAN AND WE CAN LOOK AT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S OUR CYBER, OUR EDUCATION LOOK LIKE AS WELL.
AND I WANNA THANK YOU MR. JOHAN.
CAUSE YOU'VE REALLY BEEN AN ADVOCATE IN THE SCHOOLS.
NOT ONLY MY SCHOOL, BUT I'VE HEARD OTHER SCHOOLS AS WELL.
AND THEY'RE PROJECTING ALMOST 4 MILLION UNFILLED CYBERSECURITY JOBS BY 20 24, 25, 4 MILLION UNFILLED JOBS.
AND THESE AREN'T LOW PAYING JOBS.
THESE ARE MOST OF 'EM, CLOSE TO SIX FIGURE JOBS OR BETTER UNFILLED.
WELL, AND WHAT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT HAVING CYBERSECURITY SKILLS WILL PUT YOU THE TOP OF MOST RESUME PILES BECAUSE IF YOU CAN DO THAT, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT, YOU KNOW.
AND IT'S JUST THE WAY THE WORLD'S GONNA WORK.
I ALSO THINK WE NEED TO JUST THROWN OUT THERE, WE NEED A DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, ECON, PERSONAL FINANCE, WHATEVER, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU NEED DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP.
HOW TO TELL WHEN YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GETTING PRO ENFORCED
IF WE NEED SOME BASIC DIGITAL, UM, CITIZENSHIP TRAINING FOR OUR YOUNGER GRADES WHEN WE ROLL OUT THE COMPUTERS.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, IT NEEDS, UH, THE KIDS NEED TO REALIZE WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW ON THE INTERNET IS GONNA BE WITH 'EM FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE AND COULD IMPACT A JOB IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF, UM, MISTAKES MADE TODAY.
WELL WE HA I MEAN I JUST THINK THERE'S SO MUCH EXCITING WORK TO, TO, TO DO FOR THE BOARD NEXT YEAR WITH THIS COMMITTEE.
SO MR. SHOHAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
I THINK WE PRETTY MUCH COVERED FUTURE TOPICS UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANYTHING ELSE.
I THINK WE ARE GOOD FOR A WHILE.
UM, AND MR. SMITH, I WILL GO BACK AND REVIEW THAT OCTOBER MEETING.
UM, BUT IF YOU THINK OF WHAT I'M MISSING, I APOLOGIZE.
JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL IF YOU DON'T MIND, OR YOU KNOW, LET ME KNOW TOMORROW AT THE MEETING TOMORROW.