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About The independent. (Vernonia, Or.) 1986-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 2003)
Superintendent Marilyn Mc- Glasson told the Banks school board, at their meeting March 10th, that Banks Christian Academy (BCA) has requested an extension of their contract with the district. BCA would like to extend their contract and continue to pay on a monthly basis after July 1,2004, when a balloon payment of $317,910 is due. The board briefly dis cussed the possibility of capital projects, such as school expan sion or remodeling, in the next ten years. McGlasson said that the BCA request should be looked at as part of a larger frame of reference. She recom mended that the contract be extended one year at a time and revisited annually. Money received from BCA is protected in a capital improvement fund and is not part of the general fund. The contract will be dis cussed at the April board meet ing. T e c h n o l o g y P la n U p d a te d The board was presented with the latest update of the dis trict’s Technology Plan. The committee, chaired by Director of Information Technology Gary Hartman, included elementary teachers Rob Frank and Tam my Schrader, junior high teacher Linda Kiehl, high school teachers Karla Clark, Brad Henegar and Donna Niessner, principals Marty Vo gel, Mark Everett and Jim Fos ter and parents Scott Bradley, Stuart Douglas and Duane Lundsten. A district computer plan, de veloped in 1985, has been rewritten several times. The re port says that the district views technology as an integral part of the curriculum and that tech nology greatly enhances the learning process for students. By utilizing technology, the re port says, we enable students to be active participants in the inform ation age. The report says that all students deserve the opportunity to learn more about their world through tech nology. The report concludes that “the district has been steadily moving toward educat- Banks -- Manning Merchants Offer Great Service 1 I M ain S treet A ppliances Sales & Service Guaranteed S toves • W ashers • D ryers I R efrigerators • F reezers I f l BRING IN THIS AD FOR 10% OFF ,1 Possible Pickup & Delivery f Discount Prices in Banks 1180 S. M ain S treet • B anks 1 503-324-0997 1 S trassel ’ s A uto R epair & H ydraulic H oses I 2-4-6 S piral W ire F lange H ead • S uction H oses A daptors - 3/16” to 2” B ulk O il P roducts > 3 ^ 276 S unset . R anks 503-324-9808 ing our students for the Infor mation Age. One way or anoth er, our dedicated staff has found ways to give all our stu dents exposure to the Informa tion Age. They just haven’t been able to provide the tech nology-rich education the stu dents deserve." Technology is integrated into instruction in a way that re quires students to use technol ogy to learn some of the cur riculum. At the high school lev el, technology skills are taught to allow students to enter ca reers in technology. Another goal is the use of technology to aid district staff with their duties and enhance communication. Technology is widely used by the staff to man age grading and attendance, information which can be ac cessed by students and admin istrators through the Internet. Technology is also used to track progress toward the CIM and for many administrative tasks. The district web page provides daily information and monthly updates, but Hartman said that the Internet could be Ye * Olde * D in g h e is e r Pub & Restaurant VISA - MC - AI M Access COCKTAILS • BEER • W INE FOOD, KEGS & ICE TO GO Lunch & D in n e r better used to facilitate commu budget crisis, but teachers and nication between school and students are frustrated by hav home. In addition, though ing to work with slow comput opening school technology in ers. Students are sometimes frastructure to the community unable to com plete certain has been, and remains, a goal tasks and, Hartman said, some of the plan the school has been of the technology standards - unable provide leadership to set to define what students make this possible. should be able to accomplish at Lundsten gave the board a each benchmark level - may quick lesson in computer have to be scaled back. speed. Lundsten, who rede If computer replacement is ploys used computers as part not funded, Hartman said, it will of his job, explained that com limit the number of computers puters slower than 500mHz are available and make it difficult not re-used in the industry. He for students to reach a technol presented an inventory of the ogy benchmark without com age and speed of all computers puters to work on. The plan currently in use in the district; also defines a process to be none of them meet the industry used by the technology coordi standard for re-use, and all are nator and superintendent if ad well below the speed of a new ditional grant money becomes computer. The committee de available. cided that computers should be Progress toward achieving replaced every five years. the goals can be seen in a The plan developed to meet number of areas, Hartman district technology goals in said. Both the junior high and cludes an annual budget to re high school have applied tech place outdated computers, in nology standards across their frastructure equipment and curriculum and identified areas software on a rotating basis. where the integration of tech Approximately $75,000 per nology is weak or nonexistent. year is needed to meet the Teachers have identified units plan’s five-year rotation goal. of study where standards could Though the full amount was be integrated, and required budgeted for the 2002-2003 classes where instruction on school year, it has been cut to technology standards could $10,000, creating a need for take place in order to meet the $140,000 in next year’s budget needs of all students. in order to replace two years McGlasson said the district worth of equipment. 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