SUPERINTENDENTS’ QUARTERLY MEETING
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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State School Technology Plan
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The proposed SSTP is presented to the State Board for discussion on April 6
The new SSTP has some major differences from those in the past:
• Shorter time‐frame (2 yrs. V. 4 or 5 yrs.)
• Fewer Objectives
• Aligned with the actions it will take to be successful with ACRE and RttT Plans and Objectives 2
State School Technology Plan
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To ensure equity of access for all of NC’s P12 students, the 2011‐2013 SSTP shall focus on: • A Statewide Shared Services Model
• Universal Access to Personal Teaching and Learning Devices
• Statewide Access to Digital Teaching and Learning Resources, Including Digital Textbooks
• A Statewide Model of Technology‐Enabled Professional Development
• 21st Century Leadership for All Schools and Districts
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State School Technology Plan
• Please ask your Technology and Media Directors to provide feedback via the survey link sent out in the last two weeks.
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LEA Technology Spending in RttT
Technology Budgeted in LEA Detailed Scopes of Work
Initiative
Total Budgeted
LEA’s Participating
Wireless Networks
$48.54M
66
1:1 Initiatives
$25.53M
57
Interactive Classrooms
$6.26M
12
These amounts are in addition to the $34.6M allotted for
the NC Education Cloud
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LEAs Spending Funds on Wireless
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LEAs Spending Funds on Devices
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LEAs Spending Funds on Classrooms
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LEA Participation Levels
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Technology Infrastructures and Resources
“The NC Education Cloud is a service delivery platform for modern instructional and administration support systems”
It will:
• Establish PK‐12 education technology “cloud” infrastructure to provide cost‐effective and robust networking infrastructure for LEAs
• Provide digital tools and resources to support all RttT initiatives
Coordinated by PHIL EMER, Friday Institute
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SHARED SERVICES
Attributes:
•Aggregate demand and procure/statewide license
•Buy services versus build infrastructure
•Pay for use infrastructure model(s); sustainable/shared
Results in:
•Equity of access to resources
•Scale based on aggregate demand
•Consistent high performance, reliability •Infrastructure & platforms to support all goals
•Reduced, sustainable operating costs
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Cloud Plan Development Process
LEA
Webinars
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LEA Site
Interviews
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LEA
Working
Groups
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LEA
Region
Meetings
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Industry
Best
Practices
Plan
Development
NC Education Cloud Proposed Plan
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Organization & Collaboration
DPI
Leadership Team
Program Director
SBE/GETC
advises
RttT Education Cloud Shared Services
Advisory Committee
LEA Working Groups
Project
Management
Application
workload
testing
Site Interviews
and inventory
RFP - vendor
specifications
Data Collection
E-rate and
CIPA
Planning &
Design
Consortium Buying
Identity & Access Management
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The RttT Technology Project Team
Cloud Team
DPI
Peter
Asmar
Adam
Levinson
Program Director
Phil Emer
Cloud Services
Ed Chases
Instructional Tech
Neill Kimrey
The Friday Institute
Sammie Carter, Systems Architect
Larry Creglow, Project Facilitator
James Robinson, Systems Architect
Lee Sartain, Policy Specialist
MCNC
Dave Furiness, Director CNE
Steve Thorpe, Systems Analyst
NC ITS
Bob Giannuzzi, Project Management
Network & E-Rate
PM Office
Jerry Bunn
NCVPS
Chanin Rivenbark, CTO
Nathan Thanos, LMS Admin
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How Are Your LEAs Involved in the Process?
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Rounds 1 & 2 of LEA Site Interviews: 54 completed by the end of May
Advisory and Working Groups
• 52 community participants in our Cloud Advisory process
• Shared Services Advisory Group, 16 members
• Identity and Access Management, Data collection, and Consortium Buying Working Groups, each with about 12
• In all groups, each region is represented, and assigned based on interest and subject matter expertise.
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What’s next?
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NCEdCloud Updates at Regional Technology Directors’
Meetings in late April and May
• Focus on what we’ve learned at site interviews
• Focus on architecture and state blueprint possibilities (Infrastructure, Identity Management, Consortium Purchasing), including to assist with LEA “deeper dive” RttT planning
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Contact Us
Neill Kimrey
Director, Instructional Technology
NCDPI
nkimrey@dpi.state.nc.us
NC Education Cloud Site: cloud.fi.ncsu.edu
NC Education Cloud email: cloudhelp@ncsu.edu
Check http://it.ncwiseowl.org/resources/staff_presentations/
for this presentation online.
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