Miami-Dade County Public Schools Argentina Delegation August 6, 2012 Miami-Dade County Public Schools

MDCPS Background Fourth largest school district Over 340 public schools; over 100 Charter schools Serving 2,400 square miles Over 345,000 students Over 45,000 employees; over 5,000 Charter employees Services 180 different home languages Mobility rate – 27% Declining enrollment - Declining enrollment ($97). • Economic slowdown - State funding ($32.2). • Total funding decrease from FY 05 to FY 08 ($341.2).

The BIG Picture The Vision The Challenges Have all users connected to all information at anytime The Challenges Schools under state sanction Need to increase parental involvement Giving our users access to their systems in one area Providing our parents an easy and consistent way to monitor their child’s progress Connect silo systems Reduce paper-based systems Provide easy and consistent access to information

The Foundation Active Directory Account and Auto Update – MIIS and ILM Password Synchronization – P-Synch District Email – Outlook Exchange District wide Gradebook – Global Scholar / Excelsior Metro Ethernet to each remote site Patch Management and Virus Protection – Big Fix and Sophos Data Warehouse – Microsoft SQL OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing tool) - Cognos Self Service for Technology Support - HEAT Technology accelerators, technology creator PSYNC Cognos

MDCPS Foundation Riverdeep Destination Series District-wide federated library catalog -Destiny District-wide assessment tool – Edusoft District-wide instructional applications, including Riverdeep Destination Series Voyager Solo and Ticket to Read Jamestown Navigator Plato Learning Library Reference Databases-Groliers, SIRS, Gale, Facts on File, etc District-wide test generator - ExamView Technology accelerators, technology creator PSYNC Cognos 5

Implementation Timeline 2011 - 2012 MS Office 365 Lync Online SharePoint 2010 Implementation Timeline 2009 - 2010 Business Partners Food Service Live@Edu Links to Learning Teacher Assessment Volunteer SAP SOS Employee Self-Service SharePoint 2010 2008 - 2009 Attendance Intervention SPOT SES Weekly Briefing Internship Professional Development RiverDeep Unified Communications (OCS) Portal Lite May 1, 2006 2007 - 2008 District and Community Deployment; Global Registration System Enterprise Portal 2006 - 2007 Infrastructure and Employee Portal with Collaboration

Decision Making Process Key Criteria Existing infrastructure and skill sets Scalability Technology partners and third party services Flexibility Rapid Development Why SharePoint? Experience with Microsoft Products Mature Microsoft Exchange Environment (ADS) Successful Portal “Lite” Established Personnel and Student Data Warehouse Microsoft Platform throughout District Good Partner Relationship with Microsoft

Mainframe and 3rd Party to Data Warehouse to Portal = Mashup Electronic Gradebook Daily Student Attendance Student Scheduling Changes Learning Village Testing Data from Vendors ESE Monitoring Data Mash-Up Data Warehouse Portal Student Information System Student Registration Course Information

Mashup with Technology Systems or Applications Used: Legacy Mainframe Systems Student Information System Third Party Web-enabled Systems Electronic Gradebook Student Class Scheduler Portals Using SharePoint Data Warehouse All Student Data All Staff Data

Cost to Implement Total Cost to Implement Portal - $3.5 million

As you can see there are strategies in place to take advantage of BYOD that will provide access to technology and digital resources.