Seattle Schools Department of Technology Services (DoTS) Technology Plan 2019-2023 is the five-year plan I developed as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) with the management in DoTS, and senior staff members at Seattle Public Schools with engagement from a wide group of stakeholders. This plan is an effort to document planning for Information Technology (IT) projects …
The Teacher Wars is an excellent overview of the role of gender and race in the teaching profession that has persisted from the early 1800’s to today. It also is a good overview of how trends in K-12 Education have come and gone and circle back. The book traces the teaching profession from the early …
As we move more and more to the cloud, a school district needs to ensure that its internal business rules and board policies and procedures are applied to cloud resources. This applies to both files and applications. Before cloud, software as a service (SaaS), and the ubiquitous edtech apps, file access and applications could be …
I found this article after a former Microsoft coworker posted the picture on Facebook. It was still posted on microsoft.com/china. It was originally published on April 1, 2000, as part of the Backstage series on microsoft.com that highlighted behind-the-scenes work running the website. The translation of the picture is “How to Upgrade 350 Servers to …
Originally published in 2013 before the first SBAC testing in California. Given the start of a new testing season I thought I’d repost…. A problem about getting ready for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) assessments is sometimes fear, uncertainty, and doubt, or FUD, as it is called in Technology circles. It is key for …
