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Asst. Principals Committee
Minutes from meeting of 1/10/2005
CAS ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS’ COMMITTEESUMMARY
January 10, 2005
The topic of the meeting held at Westbrook High School was “Technology for Administrators” and featured members of the CAS Technology Committee presented the latest work of the committee to investigate and try available hardware and software.
1. Bob Hale, principal of Westbrook High School presented use of PDA’s to coordinate information and the software that can organize calendar and email. He gave pointers on putting the master schedule on the PDA and also how to move email directly into folders for easy prioritizing and access.
2. Alan Capasso, housemaster at Greenwich High School, further developed use Excel on PDA’s and PC’s to store the complete staff roster for availability at staffing meetings involving placement of teachers and budgeting. He also showed how he used technology for creating the school’s master schedule. In addition, he demonstrated how Excel can be used to analyze CAPT data in sorting by student characteristics (SPED, reduced lunch, scores, previous teacher, current teacher, etc.) and how to manipulate data to focus on certain items. Another use he showed was using Excel to look at data associated with NEASC accreditation. Finally, he walked through the use of Excel to set up the entire proctoring schedule for administration of CAPT.
3. Brian Czapla, assistant principals of Smith Middle School in Glastonbury, demonstrated his device that performs the functions of phone, database, and Internet all in one instrument. This is useful throughout the school day to be able to look up a student’s schedule, call home, have student ID’s and pictures, email information. For example, at a PPT all relevant information is instantly available so that time is used well. Brian also demonstrated the PC tablet that functions as a laptop and notebook. It is particularly useful to summarize with handwriting or keyboard teacher observations, meeting minutes, log phone calls, student data, and school-based information.
The Assistant Principals Committee was very appreciative of the work of the Technology Committee and the members’ information on making use of technology to help school administrators become more efficient and effective.
The next meeting will be February 14, 2005, at CAS, beginning with AP conference planning at 3:15 p.m. and a program on successful grant writing at 4:00 p.m.
