Technology Policies

Acceptable use policies are meant to govern student and staff access to district technology.  Our current acceptable use policy is dated and in the process of being updated.  We are, in fact, currently in the process of updating our entire policy manual.  While this is a time consuming task, it does make sense to do it this way since many of our district policies will be referenced in the Acceptable Use Policy. 

We currently do not have an internet publishing policy.  It is something we should be looking into.  Right now our staff does not do much in the way of internet publishing so we have not really had to deal with it.  We currently block a large number of sites that are considered social media.  I do feel like we are doing a disservice to our students by not allowing them to publish in this manner for their classes.  Teachers are encouraged to have class websites if they choose but we have not specifically set forth guidelines for their website. 

Our distance education policy is fairly simple right now, only dealing with our students in the credit recovery program, AP classes, and Spanish classes.  It outlines our student selection criteria and completion timeline criteria to earn credit for that year. 

These technology policies are all areas that we feel are important and need some fixing in our district.  They are, however, taking a back seat to some of our other policy updates.  Our technology committee includes the Superintendent, HS Principal, and Technology Director and we meet on a regular basis (informally) to discuss our technology needs.  At this time, I would say we are leaning toward being more reactive to technology than proactive.  This will have to change in order for us to stay close to the technology changes that are occurring in society.