Social media is here to stay but knowing how it can impact your district is critical as a leader. This session will highlight the top five legal pitfalls of social media for school districts as well as best practices for implementing social media in your district.
Join us as we discuss topics such as managing the use of social media through district-owned technology resources, implementing social media and developing policies regarding its use, and responding legally to student and employee use of social media off campus.Legal Update: Understanding the latest findings on access to online learning and web access by the Office for Civil Rights.
With schools and districts asked to do more with less, efficient and effective operational processes are a must. The APQC Education North Star Community is a collection of over 120 K-12 school systems across the US, Australia and Canada using Process and Performance Management methodologies to save money, increase stakeholder (customer) satisfaction, and improve student outcomes. Please join us for this session which will cover the following:
Social media is here to stay but knowing how it can impact your district is critical as a leader. This session will highlight the top five legal pitfalls of social media for school districts as well as best practices for implementing social media in your district.
Join us as we discuss topics such as managing the use of social media through district-owned technology resources, implementing social media and developing policies regarding its use, and responding legally to student and employee use of social media off campus.Keeping connected to market salaries can help ensure districts are prepared to hire and retain top tech talent in today’s competitive job market. A panel of compensation and data experts from TASB HR Services will share salary trends for key benchmark K-12 technology jobs using their latest salary survey data, including diving into market values and trends by region and district size. Panel members will discuss new strategies for compensating and rewarding these employees, common career pathways to IT jobs in districts and the salary variances that may occur, and the role gender may play in current salaries of top IT administrators.
Topics to be CoveredEach year, U.S. Public K-12 Education spends more than $115 billion on materials, services, and systems used by more than 4million educators in their daily efforts to educate more than 54 million students.
EdCredible’s goal is to provide school districts and their staff with accurate, unbiased evaluations and ratings—created by educators for educators—of vendors and their good and services to help ensure that teachers and administrators get only the very best products and services.
The system provides the ability for ‘verified K12 staff’ to created anonymous Reviews and Ratings of vendors and their goods and services.
The system and information can be used by districts to evaluate
- which products to keep,
- which products to eliminate, and
- which new products to consider for purchase.
The system can also be used to 'real-time score' vendor proposals and presentations during the RFP process as well as rating vendor service and quality during the implementation and training processes.
Vendors and customers can use the disaggregated information to evaluate vendor performance and determine where to make improvements.
Come hear about two districts and how they are managing their technology inventories. Tyler ISD completely transformed its entire IT infrastructure by implementing several different solutions to better manage and maintain its needs. With over 60,000 technology assets, for 20,000 students and staff, across 27 schools, learn what solutions helped Tyler ISD build, operate and deliver the necessary services and how you can streamline your efforts with similar tactics.
With 1:1 initiatives and BYOD programs becoming more of a focus in 2015, schools have more assets than ever that need to be tracked, reported and protected. Learn how Lewisville ISD plans on tackling the challenging yet necessary task of managing those assets.