Unit 4: Technology Policies

When looking for school policies on technology, it was very obvious that we are lacking in that department.  I searched through my school policies that we have in a binder and did not find anything on the topics you mentioned in your questions.  Many superintendents might be surprised by something like this, but this does not surprise me.  When looking throughout the book of policies, most policies were put into place in 2005 and have not been updated since then.  That was one thing I told the school board that I wanted to work on in the upcoming years, but until COVID is not a major issue, the vast majority of the policies will not get updated.

Even though we do not have school technology policies in place, we do have some verbiage in our handbook for school devices.  Although it is not a school policy, the handbook talks about acceptable use and how to behave on social media.  We need to take some of that verbiage and put it into some policies for our school.  We do not have anything about distance education in our handbook or a policy so that is one thing that I will need to find a policy that another school has so I can have some guidance when writing a policy for my district.

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  1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM

    It is certainly more challenging for smaller districts to keep their policies updated. In South Dakota, we have ASBSD that provides sample policies for districts to look at when they are in the process of reviewing their policies. As a school leader, it is important to keep school policies updated. They become even more important if your district ends up in a dispute, such as a lawsuit.

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