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Maturity Benchmarks Survey Sheet

School Pseudonym: Mountain Town High School

Your Name or Group Name: Brian Nagy

Clearly mark the box that best represents the level of maturity achieved at your school site. Pleaserefer to the Model Benchmark Rubric for detailed descriptions of the categories. Emergent Islands Integrated Intelligent Evaluator Comments

ADMINISTRATIVE

Policybehavioral X does staff know policy?

resource/infrastructure Xrecent update efforts wentnowhere

Planning

behavioral XPlanning is limited. Efforts bySysAdmin suggest forethought,but he is stymied

resource/infrastructure XThere was a computer upgradeplan in place, but it was cut for

budget

Budgetbehavioral X

Money is found somewherewhen needed (various grants,state incentives)

resource/infrastructure XTech purchases have been heldfor budgetary concerns

Administrative Information

behavioral X

All teachers use PowerSchoolfor grades, attendance. Used byoffices for more in-depthinformation services includingtracking discipline andscheduling

resource/infrastructure X

All teachers, office managers

and admin have access. Onlysupport staff are lacking

CURRICULAR

Electronic Information

behavioral X

Staff particularly make regularuse of the internet for planningand instruction. Students utilizee-rources often.


Access is available to almost allstudents and faculty. Eachclassroom has at least onedesktop computer. The MediaCenter (Library) has a 25-student lab, there is anadditional 25- student computer

lab as well as 25- and 20-student laptop "mobile labs" withwireless connectivity.

Assessment behavioral X

Though a new onlineassessment tool wasimplemented this year (e-Doctrina), most teachers onlyuse it to create student answersheets. Online assessment, itemanalysis and comparison tocurriculum goals are rarely usedby staff


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CURRICULAR


PowerSchool has a powerfulgradebook which can be linkedto a teacher's curriculum map,but that is not utlized. e-Doctrinais available, but is not beingleveraged as anything beyond abubble-sheet scanner for most,though it is tied into the new

teacher evaluation process,which uses student assessmentdata for staff evaluation.

Curriculular Integration

behavioral X

Some teachers rely heavily ontechnology for instruction, usingwebquests, interactive whiteboards and online simulations inthe classroom. It rarely takesfocus of instruction, but rather isused as an add-on.


Technology is available forteacher use, if not in an evenand universal manner. Many

classes have been givendocument cameras which havebeen leveraged simply asoverhead projectorreplacements for some, but areused to demonstrate or sharestudent work, experiments, etc.Some classes have interactivewhie boards. Many haveoverhead LCD projectors.

Teacher Use

behavioral X

Some teachers do not utilizetechnology outside of therequired attendance, email and

grade recording and even that isbegrudgingly.


Staff are given ample access totechnology for use in theirclassrooms. The staff room hasa bank of 6 computers, manyresources are mobile and can bebrought to the classroom.

Student Use

behavioral X

Student computer use rangesfrom research and paper-writingto more engaging instructionalpurposes. Use is sporadic anddepends on the classroom

teacher


S tudent computer access isavailable during most free time ifrequired by going to the MediaCenter in addition to classroomuse.

SUPPORT Stakeholder Involvemnt

behavioral X

Staff knows about planning andimplementation of newtechnology, but choose to ignorethe opportunity to give feedback.


"Technology Committee" meetssporadically with two principalsfrom the district, the SysAdmin,

and a handful of teachers, rarelyincluding any from theelementary schools.


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Administrative Supportbehavioral X

School principal is a strongproponent of technologyintegration, but cannot alwaysfollow up on its implementation


Trainingbehavioral X

Technology training for manyschool-wide initiatives are

provided during mandatory staffdevelopment time to maximizethe spread of knowledge.


SysAdmin, building principal and"FrontLine" personnel take partin training teachers on an as-needed basis

Technical/Infrastructure Support

behavioral X

"Help" support ticket systemaccessed by staff through emailwith a robust back-end for tickettracking and notation betweenSysAdmin, Hardware Admin,and FrontLine personnel.

Teacher buy-in is impressive,though they prefer in-personimmediate support


Sys Admin, Hardware Adminand FrontLine teacher areinvolved in all trouble-shootingand support.

CONNECTIVITY

Local Area Networking (LAN)

behavioral X

High School was rewired formore efficient networking withinthe past yeaer. VOIP phones forin-house calling, high speedconnection allows VOIP callsthrough services like Google

Talk. Video creation andstreaming are resource-draining,but available.


Internet connection is filtered byDansGuardian software. Mostsites are accessible, thoughsome sites (social networkingand gaming especially) areblack-listed

District Area Networking (WAN)

behavioral X


Support staff utilize district-wideservers for data sharing. All

teacher and staff servers arehoused in the High School, withFiberoptic cabling connectingthe other 2 campuses forredirection of all internet trafficand locally-stored data access

Internet Accessbehavioral X


Communication Systems behavioral X

Email communication is aregular mode of communication.Official email is housed on gmailservers for easy access on

mobile devices and from home.Staff is expected to check emailat least once per school day.


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resource/infrastructure XAll students are provided with anemail address tied to the school.

INNOVATION

New Technologies

behavioral X

The opportunity to test newtechnology is limited, and whenavailable, a select few "TestTeachers" are chosen to pilotnew options.


Many staff are interested in

access to new technology, butthere is a select number who areresistent to changing the designof their instruction

Comprehensive Technologies

behavioral X

Technology is becoming moreubiquitous. Most classroomshave an AV box with control ofDVD video, VHS, Cable, andaudio coupled with a ceiling-mounted LCD projector.Document cameras are beingdeployed. Digitizing andscanning technology found

throughout the school, includingnewly purchased copiermachines.


Voice recording, video recordingand additional technologies canbe utilized but are not fullyleveraged.

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