EDUC-7103


 * EDUC 7103**

=**__Module 1 Assignment (Week 1)__**= Name of Organization: CSS K-8 School Summary: Our school was recently built and includes the latest technology. While the new technology is wonderful, there are still technology materials and equipment being requested by the teachers and administrators. There are currently over 800 students and only two labs available for flexible scheduling which often poses a problem when teachers seek to schedule lab time for their classes to do class projects, online assessments, and technology integrated activities. Technology is not accessible at home for many of the students and the teachers want to provide their students with all of the opportunities possible to create good products and have all the necessary tools they need. With this in mind a request is being made to purchase 3 mobile labs for the school. Mobile labs will allow for more flexibility and ease of access throughout the school as well as promote academic achievement. =__Module 1 Assignment (Week 2)__= Contentnea-Savannah School officially merged as a K-8 school in December of 2008. The elementary school was originally known as Contentnea Elementary. The middle school was originally known as Savannah Middle School. Both schools have over 40 years of history and are located in the rural part of Lenoir County in North Carolina. The school serves as diverse population over 800 students with over 80% receiving free and reduced meals. Vision: The vision of Contentnea-Savannah School is to produce responsible life-long learners who are globally competitive in the 21st century. Mission: The staff of Contentnea-Savannah School believe that we can accomplish an effective learning environment by providing an opportunity for intellectual growth, physical well-being, emotional maturity, and social responsibility. We are comitted to fostering tehse traits within each student through collaboration with staff, parents, community, and beyond to help our students become globally competitive citizens. Goals: To attain high academic achievement for all students Attract, Retain, and Develop 21st century professionals Provide safe and orderly learning environments to develop healthy responsible studentsProvide leadership for innovation Provide engaging learning environments governed and supported by 21st century systems

Individuals who could provide insight into the performance problem would be the school principal and/or assistant principal. I can also utilize public information and reports published by our school, county, and state department of public instruction. The school website is []

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__Module 3 Assignment (Intervention Strategies)__
**__Low-Cost Strategy__** - In the event that we are faced with an allotment of approximately $5,000, the proposal to purchase the laptop cart with a total of 30 mini-laptops will be reduced by eliminating the laptop cart and reducing the amount of laptops to 8 at a cost of $566.91 each totaling $4535.28. The remaining $464.72 will be used to purchase any additional hardware and/or software within this price range. Open-source software such as OpenOffice and other programs will be installed as well for student use. We will also seek additional funding from the school PTA, local businesses, and fund-raisers to work toward our goal to purchase. With this budget in-house staff development will be provided a no cost. =Chosen Intervention Strategy= Medium-Cost Strategy** at a cost of approximately $25,000. The medium cost strategy for this project will allow us to purchase at 1 mobile lab (30 mini-laptops) at a cost of $18,468.00 plus 11 additional mini-laptops at a cost of $566.91 each totaling $24704.01. The remaining $295.99 will be used to purchase any additional software and/or hardware within this price range. Again, open-source software and other programs will be installed for student use. In house staff development will be provided at no cost. We will continue to secure additional funding through our school PTA, local businesses, and fund-raisers.
 * __Medium-Cost Strategy__** at a cost of approximately $25,000. The medium cost strategy for this project will allow us to purchase at 1 mobile lab (30 mini-laptops) at a cost of $18,468.00 plus 11 additional mini-laptops at a cost of $566.91 each totaling $24704.01. The remaining $295.99 will be used to purchase any additional software and/or hardware within this price range. Again, open-source software and other programs will be installed for student use. In house staff development will be provided at no cost. We will continue to secure additional funding through our school PTA, local businesses, and fund-raisers.
 * __High-Cost Strategy__** at a cost of approximately $50,000. The high-cost strategy will enable us to get the majority of the Mini-Laptops we’re requesting. However we will re-assess the initial request of 3 mobile labs as these include the additional cost of the mobile cart. With this in mind I propose that we purchase 2 mobile labs at $18,468 (totaling $36, 936.00). I also propose that an additional 20 laptops be purchased at $566.91 each (totaling $11,338.20). The additional 20 laptops we’re purchasing can be made available for student check-out to allow access from home. The remaining $1725.80 will be used to purchase 20 licenses (at $51.01 each) for Microsoft Office to be installed on the laptops made available for checkout and protective carrying cases. The 2 mobile labs will have open source software and other programs installed on them. Again, in-house staff development will be provided at no cost. We will continue to secure additional funding through our school PTA, local businesses, and fund-raisers.

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__Justification for Intervention Strategy__
The high-cost strategy proposed would provide us with all of the equipment and materials we initially requested with no limitations. However, considering our current financial state we felt that this type of purchase would be unrealistic at this time. If we were in a position where full funding was available there would be no limitations and we would have successfully accomplished our goal to make the full purchase we desire.

The low-cost strategy proposed provided us with an alternative to at least begin the process of acquiring the mini laptops for the mobile lab. However the amount of funding offered reduced our request significantly causing us to only be able to purchase 8 mini-laptops and eliminating the purchase of a mobile cart all together.

The medium-cost intervention strategy was chosen based on information provided by school administrators and seems to be the most “doable” at this point. Our school has endured a budget crunch which has caused us to lose several key positions (both instructional and non-instructional) as well as an increase in class size with 5th grade classes at 25 or more students per homeroom and an addition of two 7th grade homerooms to remedy over-crowding in our middle school. We are currently at 98% capacity this school year and predict that we will be over capacity next year with an influx of students transferring or moving to our district. This increase in our student population will in turn limit the student access to needed technology. We were just informed that the State Department of Public Instruction has approved the purchase of 1 mobile laptop cart for our school. This purchase will be made with Title I stimulus money.

Authorization has now been given by school administrators to make this purchase. With that being said, the plan to purchase 11 additional laptops is still ongoing and will require additional funding and resources. We will propose the additional purchase of 11 laptops to our school PTA, businesses and other organizations throughout our community. We will also seek out grant opportunities to assist with the purchase of additional equipment. We have recently received an e-mail notification from Discovery Education. We currently subscribe to their United Streaming services and we’ve been extended an invitation to enter their sweepstakes to win a Mobile Lab for our school. The sweepstakes allows registered participants to enter to win daily! More information can be found at [|Discovery Education Sweepstakes]

__Project Manager Responsibilities__ For this intervention strategy, my role as project manager will be one who secures open communication with school administrators, planning a timeline of staff development and implementation of the new mobile lab. I am currently the chair person for our schools Media and Technology Committee. I will function and operate in my duties to meet the instructional technology needs of the school. I will re-assure, motivate and encourage the staff to take part in utilizing the new technologies being made available. Resource management techniques will include making sure initial set-up staff development, policies/procedures and other items are in place and ready for delivery. Information will be tracked and evaluated with the use of surveys, questionnaires, and overall feedback from school leaders, teachers, parents, and students.

__Module 5__
Materials required for this module are contained in this PDF file.

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