gis in k 12 education (2)

GIS in K-12 Education

SCARC 2014Will AndersonAudrey Brady

Outline

• Who is Richland School District Two?

• GIS in Administration

• GIS for student Achievement Academically

• GIS in Classrooms

Where is Richland County?

Where exactly is Richland School District Two?

Student Distribution

41 Schools

Melissa Guidry

need to add in Upper Lake Carolina

Magnets• Academy for Civic Engagement (ACE) • Academy of Exercise Physiology and

Sports Medicine • Center for Achievement (CFA)• Center for Inquiry (CFI)• Center for Knowledge (CFK)• Center for Knowledge (North) • Conder Arts Integrated • Convergence Media (CavPlex) • Discovery • Environmental Fitness (eFIT) • Explorations • Forest Lake Technology • Horizon• iLink• Institute for Allied Health Sciences

Institute for BioHealth Sciences • International Baccalaureate Candidate

School (Elementary, Middle, & High)

• iRed • Kelly Mill, Inc. • Killian, LTD • Leadership Academy at Wright (LAW) • Longleaf Engineering and Arts Program

(Leap)• Montessori School• Palmetto Center for the Arts (PCA)

Scholars Academy • School for Zoological and Botanical

Studies • School of Entrepreneurial Leadership• Spears Creek Road Montessori• STEMS• The Learning Collaborative (TLC) • The STEM Institute of Design and

Innovation (SIDI)• TWO Academies

History of GIS in Richland Two


• Intern– Paper to digital



• Contract– Redrawing attendance lines and projections



• Contract– Redrawing attendance lines and projections

• Full Time staff

How do we use GIS in Administration?

• School Zone Locator


• Routing Software


• Attendance Lines


• Projections– Yearly enrollment projections– 10 year facility study

• Grants– The ability to spatially analyze data to target for

grant

How do we use GIS to improve student achievement?

Maps to schools

Special Needs

Data Analysis

Able to provide data to schools

GIS in Classrooms

Common Core state standards– Integration– Geo-literacy• Interaction• Interconnections• Implications

– Story Maps

GIS in Classrooms

• Is it possible? Do we have the resources?

GIS in Classrooms

• Is it possible? Do we have the resources?– All students in grades 3-12 have a device

– Computer labs/media centers

GIS in Classrooms

• Pockets and Small Scale use

– Geocommons mostly

– Importing excel tables, creating basic choropleth maps, comparing/contrasting different regional maps, critical thinking and drawing conclusions.

GIS in Classrooms

• Future

– Summer Institute– Continuing Education Credits– A resource of information– Relevant and Meaningful

Credits• Paper Toss Intern image - http://www.apppicker.com/reviews/1006/paper-toss-2-simple-addictive-hilariousPockets and Small Scale use• iPad image - http://www.mhric.org/ipad/• Chrome book image - Samsung Chromebook | Image Courtesy of Google

Questions?