A $30,000 technology planning grant from the Indiana Department of Education was the driving force behind the North Judson-San Pierre’s updated technology plan.
Superintendent Dr. Annette Zupin shared some details about the plan when it was up for final reading and approval during last week’s school board meeting.
She explained, “A lot of schools call it 1:1, what we want to call it is devices on demand; that the students have a device when they need it here at school. That’s how we’re going to move forward with getting a device in the hands of the students.”
She noted that professional development is another key element of the technology plan, as teachers will need ample opportunities to be trained on how to effectively utilize the devices.
Zupin mentioned that the technology plan also involves making sure the infrastructure exists to support the addition of more devices and ensuring the corporation will be able to sustain the technology upgrades for years to come.
She noted, “We don’t want to be able to buy them one time and then four or five years from now, when it’s time to replace we don’t know where we’re getting the funds from, we don’t want that to happen so we’ve developed a rotation in leasing it to make sure that we’re always able to fund the computers.”
School board members voted unanimously to approve the technology plan. A tentative timeline and additional details related to the IDOE technology planning grant will be shared in a future article.
