1. Technology Services

2. Technology Update WINSTON-SALEM/FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS SEPTEMBER 2015

3. Major Initiatives  Wireless Infrastructure and Switching Upgrade  PC Refresh and Lifecycle  Classroom Instructional Technology

4. Why do we need it?  Mobile Computing  Online Testing  Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)  Increased Reliance on Online Resources

5. Current State  Grades 5 – 12 are complete with one access point per classroom (funded with RttT and local funding sources)  Grades PreK – 4 are covered with one access point for every four classrooms (funded with RttT)

7. PreK – 4 th $900K 5 th – 8th $630K 9 th – 12th $905K

8. Switch and Router Upgrade  Increase WAN/LAN backbone to 10 GB  Increase endpoint port speed to 1 GB for wireless and wired connections  Majority of switch and router infrastructure (2100 devices) are end of life

9. ERATE Funding Opportunity  ERATE Modernization Order  Potential $150 per student funding for infrastructure  $7.1 million for wireless completion and switch infrastructure  WSFCS will be responsible for 20% (funded through RttT)

10. Why do we need it?  Mobile computing  Online testing  Personalized learning  BYOD supplements

11. 29798

12.  8,600 laptops to 5 th- and 8 th- grade science and HS biology  4,500 laptops to all full-time certified staff  1,200 iPads to K-2 teachers  1,900 laptops to 6 th and 7 th grades

13.  Replace classroom desktop computers with Chromebooks  Currently planning to rollout 13,000 Chromebooks this fall  Mobile carts of devices for classroom sets  1:1 program pilots  20% annual refresh

14. $9,500

15. $4,300

16. Does not include estimates to upgrade and sustain current installations

17. Wireless and Switch Infrastructure:$7.1 MERATE/RttT PC Refresh and Lifecyle$3.4 M County/Credit Line Classroom Instructional Technology$ ? MCounty Recurring Funding?