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Wakefield Board
Commitment To Technology |
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| Wakefield - February 18, 2009 |
| Wakefield Marinesco Student Melissa
Sawaski received a certificate
recognizing her achievement in a CAD class
she is taking at GCC. Melissa, was named as
the CD and Design Student of the Second
Quarter. |
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| Last night the board approved purchasing
the SDS Software Module that would provide
interaction between teachers and parents.
This system is similar to "Power Book" used
by other local system. However, W/M already
has one module of SDS on their system and
adding the new module resulted in
significant savings for the district
compared to purchasing "Power Book" .
According to Principal Nyman the system will
cost less than half of the cost to purchase
the "Power Book" programming. With the new
software, parents will be able to
access student assignments and grades.
Not too quick to waste precious general
fund dollars the board had the proposed
system thoroughly reviewed by the Wakefield-Marenisco
staff.
The system has been looked at, poked at and
probed by both the curriculum committee and
the technology committee. Then checked over
by all the teachers, who have been testing
it this past few weeks.
Now with the board approval the system can
be installed and tested in a live
environment by the teaching staff. It is
believed that the new program will be up and
running for the fall semester. It may be
possible for the teachers to test the system
later this school year.
In addition to the software purchase the
board agreed to purchasing new computer
hardware including 17 new desk top computers
and three laptops.
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| Louann Ditmyer advised the board about
the up coming up Music Pre-Festival on
February 23rd and the Band's
participation at the Music Festival at
Houghton High on February 27. at 1:20 pm.
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| In sports, the Board approved the
Co-Operative Football program with Bessemer.
The Bessemer Board approved the pact at
their January board meeting. Members
of the board expressed interest in expanding
shared programs with Bessemer.
The Board also expressed it's
congratulations to the 7th Grade Boys
Basketball Team which claimed the Junior
High School Boys PMC Championship. |
| The School Board viewed a presentation
by Jean Massie which discussed the GOISD
Literacy Program. The goal of the program is
to establish a literacy intervention program
that would closely monitor progress of
students who are at risk of not achieving
benchmark literacy goals. The program was
also presented to the Ironwood School Board
Monday evening.
Both school boards postponed approval of
the program.. |
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