PRINCIPLES
Infrastructure ensures connections—Provides broadband for the school district, which includes connections among buildings, and copper and fiber infrastructure and Wi-Fi within buildings.
Infrastructure accommodates devices—Embraces any device that allows students to create content, consume content and/or connect and collaborate with others in the community or across the world.
Infrastructure provides technical support—Encompasses fixing broken devices and connections, maintaining all technology, planning for future problems and asset management.
Infrastructure attends to professional learning—Recognizes that the infrastructure will only be successful when those who use it are appropriately skilled, and therefore ensures adequate training and preparation.
Infrastructure protects privacy and data security—Addresses (1) the technical side, where filters, approaches to secure networks, logically dividing devices for kids from core business and other approaches to technical security of the infrastructure are considered; and (2) the human side, where policies around safety, what data can be used by whom for what purposes, and general digital citizenship are crucial.
Infrastructure attends to environmental and physical needs—Coordinates and confirms the efficacy of the underlying infrastructure of schools, from the physical buildings to the electrical system.