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STRENGTHS:
Our Student Information System-STI-is easy for teachers to use. It also allows student/parent access to lesson plans, grade book, & attendance records online. Our school uses a variety of testing for assessment and remediation that gives teachers and administrators a snap shot of student performance in math, reading, and writing. Our school's website incorporates multiple technologies and includes students in the design and content of the web site. SHS administration are alway interested in new technologies, are always looking for ways to generate NCLB data, and invest in technologies that are effective for teachers and students. When our renovations are complete, I foresee a very technology centered environment.

NEEDS:
STIClassroom lets teachers automate many of the administrative functions of the workday. More capbilities could be added such as pull down menus with the lesson planner, so that teachers could choose the state standard that aligns to assignments. We could also add the Assessment module that would allow us to combine the student information of Classroom with Assessment's reporting capabilities. This program can benchmark skills throughout the school year and automatically generate individual and aggregate reports by class, school, and population sub-groups.

Currently, SHS has no formal rubric assessment software. Rubric software would help teachers align assessments to state standards and allow them to create rubrics with ease. SHS also needs a software program that would help department chairpersons to set up each subject areas curriculum map. Department chairpersons are left to do this chore with no technological tools. Our technology coordinator is currently evaluating Moodle and Moveable Type which are Course/Content Management Systems. One of these systems needs to be implemented for teachers to create there own interactive web sites. At the high school, there are only two teachers who have their own website. These systems would be easier for teachers to learn than web design programs such as DreamWeaver. They would also give teachers and students the capability to to interactive by posting comments or assignments.

Storage, storage, storage! Our students are still saving their work to floppy disks! This has to change and soon. Some of the labs have the ability to save to CDs or flash drives, but the ultimate solution is for each student to have storage space on the server. I realize that setting this up can be time consuming and managing student usernames and passwords would be an inconvience, but it is time to move forward.