| Balancing Student Privacy And School Safety (PDF) |  |
| Pamphlet about student privacy and school safety |  |
| Bandwidth Planning For Disaster Recovery System | |
| This article highlights the need to evaluate your disaster recovery system for bandwidth needs. | |
| Bandwidth Quandry Looms For Districts | |
| A short article from SchoolCIO quoting the Greaves study. Does point to a school district that combined with municipalities to get cable laid to most schools. | |
| Bandwidth--How Much Is Enough? (PDF) | |
| A short white paper with examples and resources from a provider of media rich learning content (PLATO). They offer field services for hire to provide network consulting. Another example, like unitedstreaming, of a company motivated to get schools to incre | |
| Beginning The Journey: Five-Year-Olds Drive Their Own Project-Based Learning Projects | |
| At the Auburn Early Education Center, kindergarten students engage in learning by completing long term projects as a class. The kids decide on the theme of each project, based on their own curiosity and experiences. The teachers then guide them to resources, and the students learn how to cooperate, solve problems, and critically think and write about their solutions and experiences. The activities have meaning and value to the students, which makes them more engaging. The Center also incorporates technology into the classroom by using smartboards, which gives students access to a wide variety of information. | |
| Benefits Of And Lessons Learned From Linking Teacher And Student Data (PDF) | |
| Increasingly, federal and state leaders are using longitudinal data systems for both policymaking and school improvement. In response, states are investing more resources in the systems' design, development and use. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has championed the development of state data systems based on 10 essential elements. | |
| Best Practices Case Studies: Downer's Grove School District 58 | |
| This short case study is about a school district who felt that collaboration around technology was a necessary practice; it eventually became standardized into formal committees. The author mentions how the district measures and extends its successes. | |
| Best Practices Case Studies: Macomb Intermediate School District | |
| This case study talks about a school district which started an inclusion movement, after the need for shared expertise and collaboration across its diverse schools became clear. The article discusses how the district communicated and collaborated to solve instructional challenges. Begin With ME! is a project that includees professional development opportunities, amplifying technological and instructional support and managing pilot projects that renew and improve curriculum and instruction. The project illustrates the value of shared vision, embedded professional development and constant communication. | |
| Best Practices For CTOs (PDF) | |
| In "What It Takes: Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO," published as part of the 2004 CoSN Compendium, CoSN's K-12 CTO Council identified nine skills essential to the job of a school district's Chief Technology Officer. Over the past year, the CTO Council has conducted a series of Leadership Forums at which technology leaders from districts around the country have come together to discuss these essential skills and to talk about the challenges they face and the "best practices" they've discovered in their day-to-day work. | |
| Best Practices: Lemon Grove School District | |
| A case study that illustrates data driven decision making. Lemon Grove School District turned underperforming schools around by holding all students to high standards and using disaggregated data to target resources. | |
| Beyond Bandwidth (PDF) | |
| Describes the growth of bandwidth. Has ideas on educational applications. | |