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

2. 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).

3. 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

4. The Foundation Active Directory Account and Auto Update – MIIS and ILM
Password Synchronization – P-Synch
District – 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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