School Interoperability Framework

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In the past, academic and administrative computer systems were isolated, either for security reasons or as a result of limited interconnectivity with other computers. Today, nearly any information that an administrator, teacher, student or parent might is available through a network connection. Course lectures are presented are viewed and students submit their assignments via the internet school class shell. Student and parents can view their grades online, administrative paperwork and other information can be shared through a variety of systems. The internet is an awesome and convenient way to communicate, but it introduces

President Obama said in his January 2011 State of the Union address, "I want all students to be able to learn from digital textbooks" (State of the Union 2011: President Obama 's Full Speech, 2011). On February 1, 2012, the US Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a downloadable "Digital Textbook Playbook" to "encourage collaboration, accelerate the development of digital textbooks and improve the quality and penetration of digital learning in K-12 public education," (Digital Textbook Playbook, 2012). The federal government has taken a position that technology would be beneficial for the classroom, this is a position that I as a special education teacher take as well.

Students are routinely connected with technology participating in social media and games where they acquire and apply their knowledge collaboratively. Their time is being spent more in social networking sites, multimedia, and virtual environments that are highly engaging and many times encourages creative thinking and problem solving.

In Finnie Tyler High School, there is no mission, vision, or goals driving learning. Each teacher does what they want, when they want. This is an ineffective approach to instruction because students have a difficult time making connections between various subject matters and learning does not necessarily build from one concept to the next or even from one class to the next. Another issues is that teachers are professionally isolated, meaning they do not collaborate with one another. Collaboration is extremely important in improving instructional practices.

I will use SEIS technology only for assigned and intended school purposes. I will ask

Thank you for inviting me to become part of your school’s mission and to encourage and support your team of educators as the Instructional Integration Technology Specialist. My career as an educator has always been to meet challenges with timely and strategic solutions, seek out and gather resources/tools for improvement, and inspire and develop a work culture to promote inclusiveness.

Previously working for a Title I Public Inter-City School, the two major controls used where: bureaucratic and budgetary. Bateman, Snell, and Konopaske (2016) defined bureaucratic control system as a way to measure progress towards set performance goals, and if/when necessary using corrective measures to ensure performance goals. Public schools must comply with all state statutes governing education and all state administrative regulations, such as contractual obligations (removal of ten-year teacher contract and standardized test 10 Ready Test). Comply with Federal administrative agencies relations, for example, No Child Left behind and national changes to standardized testing. Policies and procedure established

Issue: The authority to select or omit books in a library book list by the school board that are LGBT in nature and their rights to do so.

a. Which of these models offers better support for the young adolescent learner? I think the Middle School model is best for the young adolescent learner. The middle school model pays close attention to emotional and learning development. This is a transitional time period for adolescent as they are just leaving elementary school and entering a new world with more independence and responsibility than before.

The district is looking into a “LMS” (learning management system) to roll out sometime soon. Mr. Ringenberg a tech coordinator says, “The two primary systems that we’re looking at, would, in a sense, replace the current ‘myccs’, platform that we have today. It would hopefully be kind of a ‘one-stop-shop’ for students and parents, to upload projects, to see grades, to check calendars and lunch schedules, and so forth.”. Ringenberg says that although it is still the investigation phase, he thinks that an LMS system could be implemented as early as fall of 2016.

On [DATE/TIME OF EVENT], the employee allowed subordinates to view school board emails, and seek their counsel on how to manage board affairs; despite already being reprimanded by the board in the past and being informed that board emails are confidential. The decision to share the emails has compromised private communications between administrative leadership and the school board and compromised established professional relationship norms between supervisor and subordinates.

John Young has a tremendous responsibility on his hands in preparing an evaluation of the current state of Information Systems (IS) for the Milwaukee’s Division of the Clarion School for Boys, Inc. Mr. Young is on a truncated timetable, and will have to rely on the schools staff and faculty to aid him in making an informed evaluation of the schools information system infrastructure, and articulate his assessment to the Board of Directors for approval.

Another challenge for TBE is the need for compatible technology. In order for learning programs to share and recycle content, the content needs to be able to interface with a variety of learning management systems as well as different computer operating systems. For example, Apple computers have a unique operating system to the more common Windows operating system. Nevertheless, as these systems were designed, developers can create learning content specific to each system. All that is needed in order for this to function well is for these developers to figure out how to efficiently integrate a single TBE program into multiple operating systems. This may lead to high development costs but within the past five years, leading organizations

This school was founded by Ernest Dale. This school of thought is also called case approach or management experience approach. Dale stated that management is nothing but the study of the experience of the managers. Knowledge gained through experience can be applied for problem solving and decision making.