Mooresville Graded School District’s Digital

Conversion

Welcome Visitors!

Why a Digital Conversion?

• Close the Digital Divide

• Relevant Instruction

• 21st Century Readiness (Half the jobs today require technology skills, expected to be 77% in the next decade - Bureau of Labor Statistics)

• Real World Experience

• Instructional Practice

• Improving Academic Achievement

What is a Digital Conversion?

• 500 Teacher MacBooks

• 4000 MacBooks for ALL 4th - 12th graders

• 120 Interactive Whiteboards in every classroom grades K - 3

• Online content available virtually 24/7

• Ubiquitous Wireless

• A meaningful instructional tool at the fingertips of every child

• NOT a Technology Project

• Cultural Shift

New Views of Learning

. . . from traditional student learning rote memory of predetermined facts disseminated by teachers

. . . to cognitive science students construct meaning by making connections with prior knowledge through language

Timeline

• December 2007 - 500 Teacher MacBooks distributed

• January 2008 - 400 MacBooks on carts for the English Department at MHS

• August 2008 - 1650 student MacBooks at MHS, 850 student MacBooks at MIS

• August 2009 - 4000 MacBooks to all 4 - 12 grade students

• April 2010- Refresh of all 4500 MacBooks

Mooresville Graded School District - Demographics

Schools 8Students 5450Certified Staff approx 400Non-Certified Staff approx 300Free and Reduced 39%Asian 2%Multi-Racial 3%Hispanic 6%African American 15%White 73%

Implementation Team• Communication

• Deployment

• Curriculum/Pedagogy

• Professional Development

• Discipline/AUP

• Data Collection

• Finance

• Visitation

• District Level teams & School Level teams

Technology/Infrastructure

• Network Infrastructure

• Wireless Access Points

• Internet Access @ home

• Adequate IT staff?

• Updates

• Why Mac?

How Much?

• Approximately $1.00 per child per day

• Price of a soda

• Includes the machine and software over a four year lease

• From Local, State and Federal funds

• New Construction, Grants and Donations

Building Public Support• Stakeholder Buy-In

• Public Symposium, Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development, Parents

• Organization and Planning

• Building Leadership Capacity

• Staff Development

• Summer Institute, Early Release Days

Making IT Happen• iWork Suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)

• iLife (iWeb, iMovie, iPhoto, Garage Band)

• Online Streaming content from Discovery Education

• EVAAS and Curriculum Pathways from SAS

• NetTrekker

• ScanTron Online Assessments

• Angel Learning Management System

• Other supplemental resources (Graphing Calculator, Dictionary, Thesaurus, etc.)

• Other Internet based resources

Academic AchievementDistrict Percent Proficient using EOG

Reading and Math; EOC

1 Chapel Hill Carrboro

2 Polk County

3 Carteret County

4 Transylvania County

5 Watauga County

6 Union County

7 Camden County

8 MGSD

9 Yancey County

10 Dare County

88%

85%

83%

83%

82%

82%

81.9%

81.8%

81.6%

81.6%

MGSD Ranked

8th in State

Formula: Number of Proficient Test Scores on Reading Grades 3-8, Math Grades 3-8, and EOCs divided by the total

number of tests taken in school year 2008-09.

Mooresville Graded School District305 N. Main Street

Mooresville, North Carolina 28115

704.658.2530

704.663.3005 fax

District Percent Proficient using

EOG Reading and Math; EOC

Per Pupil

Expenditure *

1 Chapel Hill Carrboro

2 Polk County

3 Carteret County

4 Transylvania County

5 Watauga County

6 Union County

7 Camden County

8 MGSD

9 Yancey County

10 Dare County

88% $10,579.00

85% $10,449.00

83% $9,272.00

83% $8,860.00

82% $8,305.00

82% $7,739.00

81.9% $8,742.00

81.8% $7,902.00

81.6% $9,417.00

81.6% $11,011.00

Formula: Number of Proficient Test Scores on Reading Grades 3-8, Math Grades 3-8, and EOCs divided by the total

number of tests taken in school year 2008-09

* NC Statistical Profile http://www.ncpublicschools.org/fbs/resources/data/

Mooresville Graded School District305 N. Main Street

Mooresville, North Carolina 28115

704.658.2530

704.663.3005 fax

MGSD

Ranked

8th in State

Academic AchievementMooresville High School

High Growth & School of Distinction 2008-2009

0%10.0%20.0%30.0%40.0%50.0%60.0%70.0%80.0%90.0%

100.0%

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

81.00%78.00%70.0%

Academic AchievementMooresville Intermediate

Expected Growth 2008-2009

0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%

100.0%

Math Reading Science Overall

77.00%

63.00%

73.00%

84.00%

73.00%

51.00%

67.00%

78.00%

2007-08 2008-09

Academic Achievement• MHS attendance rate increased from 94% to 96.7%

• MIS Attendance Rate increased from 96% to 97%

• MHS realized an 11% gain over last 2 years in EOC performance composite

• MHS suspensions are down 64%

• MIS Suspensions dropped from 86 to 21

• MIS realized a composite gain of 6%

• Achieved 53 out of 54 District AYP Goals

• District Wide 7% Composite gain on all EOC/EOG test scores

• District Wide Suspensions reduced by 50%

Partners• Apple

• SAS

• Cisco

• Coleman Technologies

• Angel Learning

• Discovery Education

• Nettrekker

• ScanTron

• Town of Mooresville

• Mooresville Foundation for Excellence in Education

Every Child Every Day

www.mgsd.k12.nc.us