Enterprise Portal Presentation
CoSN – Florida CTO Clinic
Debbie Karcher, Chief Information Officer
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
MDCPS Background
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Fourth largest school district
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Serving 2,400 square miles
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Services 180 different home languages
Over 340 public schools; over 80 Charter
schools
Over 300,000 students
Over 45,000 employees; over 5,000 Charter
employees
Mobility rate – 27%
The Big Picture
• The Vision
 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
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Implementation/Timeline
2009 - 2010
Business Partners
Food Service
Live@Edu
Links to Learning
Teacher Assessment
2008 - 2009
Attendance
Intervention
SPOT
Portal Lite
May 1, 2006
2007 - 2008
District and
Community
Enterprise Portal Deployment; Global
2006 - 2007
Registration
Infrastructure and
System
Employee Portal
with Collaboration
Volunteer
SAP SOS
Employee Self-Service
SharePoint 2010
SES
Weekly Briefing
Internship
Professional Development
RiverDeep
Unified Communications
(OCS)
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Data Warehouse to Mainframe
•Daily Student Attendance
•Electronic Grade book Data for Grading Periods
•Student Scheduling Changes
Mainframe
•Testing Data from Vendors
•School Police Incidents. Used for discipline
and State Reporting
•ESE Monitoring Data
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Mainframe to Data Warehouse
•All Student Information
•40 Data Files
•17 Million records Update 150 Student Tables
Data Ware
House
•Class Size Records for Class Size Application
•Results are Available for Schools Each Morning
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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
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Learning Village
(3) access to culturally relevant
content in the student's local language
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Education Portal
(2) access to information and
communications technology (ICT)
devices, software, and connectivity
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The Solution - www.dadeschools.net
Students
Parents
Employees
Community
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Principal
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Reports
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Access to Active Student Reports including:
 Accountability
 Academic Achievement
 Attendance/Suspensions
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Parent
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Student
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Community
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Collaboration
(4) the ability to create, share, and
exchange digital content
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Collaboration
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Beyond the Walls
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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
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Get Connected
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$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
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Q &A
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