Attendees: Megan Ord, Anne Hansen, Betty Anderson, Chloe Heder, Jennie Stratton, Brooke Zimmerman, Emilee Jeppson, Jessica Smith, Andrea Nixon, Megan White, Amber Rock, Scot McCombs
Agenda:
- Review and approve minutes from October (Principal Hansen motion to approve, Jennie seconds, all approve)
- Digital literacy plan (district digital literacy safety video for SCCs reviewed, zoom call with Scot McCombs, review of Thrive time curriculum, proposal for internet safety assembly?, votes as recorded below for digital literacy plan.)
- School safety plan (Principal Hansen to send out update of school safety procedures AFTER a safety drill has been performed, repainting as requested has been performed, primary need assessed as crossing guard, flashing lights, police presence at the crossing of Lone Rock and Carlquist)
Updates:
-Questions answered by Scot:
- Q: Where are parents first introduced to the Technology Connect Portal? A: Best resource for parents will be canyonsdistrict.org/familyconnections/ under digital safety select Monitoring Safety at Home then Chromebook Usage.
- Q: Do you need to update filtering every year or does it carry over? A: Filtering should stay from year to year, a mistake was made last year to remove filters but attempts were made to restore filtering.
- Q: Can parents be alerted to the changes in filtering in the future? A: Team is confident only disciplinary groups were affected.
- Q: How do elementary school students’ parents get access to Chromebook numbers? A: Laptop time is not easy to monitor. Chromebook number is needed for usage, not for setting filtering settings. District is investigating other products that would give parents better insight into screen time in school.
- Q: Do student chromebooks automatically log out after a certain period of time? A: We think closing the Chromebook lid logs a student out.
- Q: On the TCP what does student search term alert mean? What does it mean to request to have internet sites reviewed? A: To see search alerts you need to be logged in to your email- email list is curated daily and emailed to both parent and student- it includes any potentially inappropriate content. Request to review a site just requires you to submit a site to the district and those sites are reviewed on Wednesdays by the IT and ISD (curriculum specialists) and assistant superintendent- if consensus is not reached in that group it’s elevated to the cabinet which meets bi-monthly. Repetitive requests to change filtering for a specific website is not likely to yield different results. A couple of other alerts are sent to parents: in almost real time any context with suicide, self-harm, or harm to others goes out same day. Most often it involves research for an assignment but is flagged and goes out the same day. Warnings issued for repeated inappropriate images- a strike is sent out. First time strike email goes to student, parent, and principal saying discipline is forthcoming if searching continues. Strike two- email is again sent to all parties and a student is put on a more restricted access level until a district employee removes it-parents cannot change. Strike three- Chromebook is locked after school hours, no change until conversation with parent and school administrator. No three strikes in this current school year.
- Q: Any tips on things that have been powerful or positive from other SCCs? A: The basis of everything is providing students a really strong base in digital citizenship. Discussions of using technology for a purpose.
- Supports coming from school- emphasis on LAN school for teachers to monitor screens, no screen time incentives for students, no screen time permitted for early finishing work etc
- Thrive time well leveled for students to learn about digital literacy- monthly lesson for students in every grade. The library also had separate digital literacy lessons with superficially leveled I Can statements to help students goal set around internet usage.
- December meeting will be skipped and SCC will reconvene in January.
Action Items:
- Scot will follow up with our SCC on whether student accounts log out when Chromebook lid is shut.
- Members of SCC to petition city to support safe crossing with flashing lights at the crossing of Lone Rock and Carlquist in coordination with DPMS and CC SCCs. Principal Hansen to send out contact information.
- Review bylaws and bring edits to January meeting
Final announcements:
- SCC Digital Literacy Portion has been completed
- SCC School Safety Plan has been completed