1. Enterprise Portal Presentation CoSN – Florida CTO Clinic
Debbie Karcher, Chief Information Officer
Miami-Dade County Public Schools

2. MDCPS Background Fourth largest school district
Over 340 public schools; over 80 Charter schools
Serving 2,400 square miles
Over 300,000 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 Based on Two Beliefs Benefits
Have all users connected to all information at anytime
Based on Two Beliefs
Prices for computing will fall ($100 Laptop)
Everyone will have connectivity
Benefits
Increase parental involvement
Users have access to their systems in one area
Parents have 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. 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)
District and Community Deployment; Global Registration System
Enterprise Portal
Infrastructure and Employee Portal with Collaboration
Portal Lite May 1, 2006

5. Data Warehouse to Mainframe
Daily Student Attendance
Electronic Grade book Data for Grading Periods
Student Scheduling Changes
Testing Data from Vendors
School Police Incidents. Used for discipline and State Reporting
ESE Monitoring Data
Mainframe

6. Mainframe to Data Warehouse
All Student Information
40 Data Files
17 Million records Update 150 Student Tables
Class Size Records for Class Size Application
Results are Available for Schools Each Morning
Data Ware House

7. Digital Equity Challenges
eSCHOOLNEWS….Educators wrestle with digital-equity challenges…..
Paul E. Resta, director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Learning Technology Center, framed the digital-equity challenge as one of providing not just technologies, but "digital opportunities," for students. Resta listed six things that he called "essential conditions" for digital inclusion:
(1) basic literacy skills;
(2) access to information and communications technology (ICT) devices, software, and connectivity;
(3) access to culturally relevant content in the student's local language;
(4) the ability to create, share, and exchange digital content;
(5) access to educators who know how to use digital tools and resources in pedagogically sound ways; and
(6) access to effective leadership in policy and planning.
2, 3, 4 enabled through Education Portal

8. Learning Village (3) access to culturally relevant content in the student's local language

9. The Learning Village Vision
To create a repository for all of the district’s digital resources, aligned to standards, and accessible from one point of entry

10. The Learning Village How did we set out to get there
Use local content-area experts to develop lesson plans linked to district resources
Require publishers of district adopted instructional materials to provide digital versions of
Lesson plans
Textbooks
Assessment items

11. The Learning Village Current Status Approximately 10,000 Lesson Plans
Organized by nine-week periods, grade levels, and subject areas
About 150 Digital Textbooks (student and teacher texts)
Linked and displayed by course codes
Roughly 25,000 Assessment Items
Organized by grade and subject area, and subject area and standard

12. The Learning Village Lesson Plans Goals
Standardize instructional focus and pacing across subject areas and schools
Provide support to new and new to subject area or grade level teachers
Link activities within plans to other district instructional resources including
Riverdeep LMS
Gizmos
Online databases

13. The Learning Village Assessment Items
Both publisher produced and customized items produced by ETS
Accessible via Examview Test Generator
Automated creation of Edusoft answer sheet for scanning and scoring (Publish to Edusoft)

14. Education Portal (2) access to information and communications technology (ICT) devices, software, and connectivity

15. The Solution - www.dadeschools.net
Parents
Students
Community
Employees

16. Principal

17. Reports Access to Active Student Reports including: Accountability
Academic Achievement
Attendance/Suspensions

18. Parent

19. Student

20. Community

21. Collaboration (4) the ability to create, share, and exchange digital content

22. Collaboration

23. Beyond the Walls
Links to Learning – Educational opportunities outside of the school house. Based on student performance, will provide links to educational software partners and specific Learning Path

24. Get Connected
$3.5 Million Broadband Stimulus Grant - “Get Connected – Go Global”
Sustainable Broadband Adoption brings educational equity to vulnerable students/families.
Provide technology tools and access to the internet, empowering these families to improve their quality of life as they bridge the digital divide.
Marketing efforts will create awareness about educational benefits to “being connected” and the value of staying connected.
Expanding Broadband Public Computer Center Capacity

25. Q & A