Carpenter Elementary's Technology Goals

Technology is rapidly changing and schools can never stop refreshing their inventory. Each year, a new list is generated of devices that the district will no longer support. If schools don't keep up with replacing devices than they will lag behind as equipment breaks or phases out.

The Wake County Public School System has a three-to-one technology initiative. This means that they believe that schools should have one technology device for every three students. WCPSS promotes that maintaining this ratio will enhance the communication and collaboration initiative of the strategic plan. Carpenter Elementary believes that communication and collaboration is better when everyone has a device of their own. Therefore at our school, we have a vision of having a one-to-one technology initiative. Currently, we have enough devices to be two-to-one which means we have one laptop for every two students in grades 2-5, and one iPad for every kindergarten and first grade student in the school.

Carpenter Elementary has a technology plan that the Media and Technology Advisory Committee (MTAC) recommends for leadership consideration. For the last four years, we have used a private fundraising company called Boosterthon to enhance the MTAC's vision. Last year, $25,000 was donated to our school and was used to purchase active panel Tvs for our classrooms. This year, our Boosterthon goal is:

• document cameras for every classroom
• chromebooks
• mounted projector in the conference room for IEP meetings

Here's a video that outlines more about Boosterthon:

To learn more about Boosterthon visit their website.

To engage stakeholders in our plans, we will have all classrooms tweet daily about learning through technology during the Boosterthon campaign. Our goal is to secure funding to expand our technology plan, and adopt MTAC's recommendations at Carpenter Elementary.