The Department of Technology & Digital Learning advanced several initiatives to modernize instructional technology, strengthen digital equity, improve student focus through intentional policy, and safeguard the digital environment for staff and students. All of these efforts work together to enhance teaching and learning, ensure equitable access to technology tools, and establish the conditions necessary for a high-quality education.

We are completing a multi-year modernization of classroom technology, replacing outdated projectors with interactive teaching panels. Following earlier installations at the elementary level, our most recent phases deployed units at Middle School North, the Marion Stoddart Building, and the Boutwell Early Childhood Center. With more than 150 interactive panels available in academic locations, the district has significantly expanded its capacity to support universal design for learning principles and provide faculty with modern instructional tools. Read more…

The recent and substantial workforce reductions at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) are not simply internal matters. The cuts represent a critical weakening of the systems that public school districts rely on to protect students’ rights, particularly in data privacy. With significant reductions affecting the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO), the federal oversight body responsible for enforcing our favorite acronym, FERPA, or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The landscape of student data protection is changing…and not for the better. Read more…