Community Safe
All schools should have sent home in their student packets the Community Safe Request for Information to be used to update the contact information for all students in STAR. We will be conducting a WebEx training (Train the trainer) with your TST on Tuesday, August 19th. The TSTs will be responsible for sharing with each principal and their designees how to use the system and manage any additional calling lists you may want to generate. In addition, I have sent a Client Profile via email that each school should fill out before user accounts can be created. If you have misplaced this or need another copy please let me know. If you can return that prior to August 19th, I will work with Community Safe to get those accounts setup.
All schools should have their contact info updated by the Labor Day weekend. I will follow-up on the status of this request after the holiday weekend. It is my hope that the initial test of the system should be completed the first week in September and all schools begin using the notification system sometime in September.

Technology Coaches/Staff Development
All principals should have submitted by now their choices for who their webmaster and technology coach will be for 2008-09. There will not be an after-school training component this year in lieu of all technology coaches participating in the November 7th staff development day and/or the May 2009 technology inservice.

Desktop Computer Bid
Dell Computer is continuing to honor the 2007-2008 desktop computer bid on the district website until we have an updated computer bid in place. I am tentatively looking at going out to bid in early September. That is not firm but it is my intention to have an updated computer bid by the first of October.
 
 
 

CC: Dr. Joe Parkins
CC: Judy Phillips
CC: Supervisors