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Washington High School (a pseudonym) is one of four high schools in the city. It is in an area of the suburbs that has a majority of middle class and upper class families, many of whom work for a large technology company, or have professional jobs. Most of the students come from families of European Descent. The largest non European ethnic group is Asian. Other ethnic groups include Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Native American, along with a much smaller population of African American students. WHS serves students in grades 10-12 with an enrollment of 1148 students for the 2012-2013 school year. The school has an impressive report card: 99% Graduation Rate 97.7 % Proficiency Rate in Standardized Reading Tests 94.2 % Proficiency Rate in Standardized Math Tests 96.7 % Average Daily Attendance 75.5 % College Bound Ranked among the top 1500 high schools in America by Washington Post
Washington High School has an average 23 students per class. 55% of the teachers hold
advanced degrees, and over 70% are veteran teachers who have been in the profession for over ten years. 38% of the staff are male. There are many extra curricular activities for students to choose from and many students and teachers are involved in multiple after school activities. The school has an active parent organization. Washington High School is an overall vibrant school where the staff, students, and parents form a strong community that feels safe and supportive for its students.
Resource/Infrastructure Ranking:Integrated
Some department budgets have line items for technology; for example the science department has a large budget for lab materials, some of which is used to replace digital sensors used in data acquisition for labs.
All staff members have accounts to use the online gradebook and to use email. All staff have access to School Fusion to create classroom websites.
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Electronic Information :Behavioral Ranking: Integrated
There are examples of staff members in each of the four rankings for this category at WHS. An individual instructors ranking seems to correlate with their use of the School Fusion classroom website software available to all instructors. The majority of the staff falls into the Integrated, or even Intelligent categories, using electronic information resources regularly as a key component to their courses. But there are also more than a hand full of teachers who fall into the Emergent category, rarely using electronic resources.
Some teachers use technology daily in their classrooms. But more teachers are in the regular use category, where technology is not integrated into daily curriculum use, only into their daily administrative use.
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Stakeholder Involvement: Behavioral Ranking: Islands
Technology planning is not a process that many are involved in; The chairs of each academic department have some input during meetings but ultimately decisions are made by a few at the administrative level.
The training available at WHS is only related to administrative use of technology, and not to how to integrate technology into curriculum.
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Local Area Networking: Behavioral Ranking: Integrated
The local network at WHS is used extensively by all staff to share and access student data, along with curriculum resources. Video and voice services are not available.
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New Technologies: Behavioral Ranking: Islands
An example of a new technology introduced to Washington High School is the use of School Fusion as a means of maintaining a classroom website. Very little training was
given in the use of this new technology, and some staff members have rejected its use, while others have accepted its use on a limited basis.