Technology Meeting

On Wednesday, January 23rd there was a school technology meeting. The primary purpose of the meeting was to meet the new Director of Technology for Roane County schools - Jerry Yarbrough. Jerry was previously head of technology in Morgan County.

There are some exciting things going on in technology in the school system. I will post the meeting minutes here with all details of everything that

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why I Voted To Extend Directors Contract

At the November, 2007 School Board meeting, the Board voted 7-3 to extend the contract of Director, Dr. Toni McGriff for two more years. This means that she will be the Director of schools here for 3½ more years. I was one of the seven who voted to extend her contract. I feel there is a lot of misinformation in the community about the job the Director is doing, so I wanted to provide the
Read more

December Column for Roane County News

(This is a column published in Roane County News) Imagine if your job was to manage the biggest mass transportation system in the county, the biggest food service business in the county, keep maintenance up on eighteen large buildings totaling 1.2 million square feet that are on average 41 years old, manage over 1,000 networked computers, manage the biggest composite library in the county,
Read more

Meeting with School Support Organizations

Here is a letter from the Director of Schools to school support Organizations. In the 2007 General Assembly, a number of laws were passed that affect education. One of those laws is Public Chapter 326, Acts of 2007 which enacts the "School Support Organization Financial Accountability Act". (Another Link and a PowerPoint Presentation) This law requires local education agencies to adopt a policy
Read more