MGSD Digital Conversion Presentation

1. Welcome
Visitors!
Mooresville Graded
School District’s Digital
Conversion

2. Why a Digital
Conversion?
• Close the Digital Divide
• Relevant Instruction
• 21st Century Readiness (Halfbethe jobs the next
require technology skills, expected to 77% in
today
decade - Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• Real World Experience
• Instructional Practice
• Improving Academic Achievement

3. What is a Digital
Conversion?
• 500 Teacher MacBooks
• 4000 MacBooks for ALL 4th - 12th graders
• 120 Interactive Whiteboards in every classroom grades K - 3
• Online content available virtually 24/7
• Ubiquitous Wireless
• A meaningful instructional tool at the fingertips of every child
• NOT a Technology Project
• Cultural Shift

4. New Views of Learning
. . . from traditional student learning
rote memory of predetermined facts
disseminated by teachers
. . . to cognitive science
students construct meaning by making
connections with prior knowledge through
language

5. Timeline • April 2010- Refresh
of all 4500
MacBooks
• August 2009 - 4000
MacBooks to all 4 - 12
grade students
• August 2008 - 1650 student
MacBooks at MHS, 850 student
MacBooks at MIS
• January 2008 - 400 MacBooks on
carts for the English Department at
MHS
• December 2007 - 500 Teacher MacBooks distributed

6. Mooresville Graded School
District - Demographics
Schools
8
Students
5450
Certified Staff
approx 400
Non-Certified Staff
approx 300
Free and Reduced
39%
Asian
2%
Multi-Racial
3%
Hispanic
6%
African American
15%
White
73%

7. Implementation Team
• Communication
• Deployment
• Curriculum/Pedagogy
• Professional Development
• Discipline/AUP
• Data Collection
• Finance
• Visitation
• District Level teams & School Level teams

8. Technology/
Infrastructure
• Network Infrastructure
• Wireless Access Points
• Internet Access @ home
• Adequate IT staff?
• Updates
• Why Mac?

9. How Much?
• Approximately $1.00 per child per day
• Price of a soda
• Includes the machine and software over a
four year lease
• From Local, State and Federal funds
• New Construction, Grants and Donations

10. Building Public Support
• Stakeholder Buy-In
• Public Symposium, Chamber of
Commerce, Economic Development,
Parents
• Organization and Planning
• Building Leadership Capacity
• Staff Development
• Summer Institute, Early Release Days

11. Making IT Happen
• iWork Suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
• iLife (iWeb, iMovie, iPhoto, Garage Band)
• Online Streaming content from Discovery Education
• EVAAS and Curriculum Pathways from SAS
• NetTrekker
• ScanTron Online Assessments
• Angel Learning Management System
• Other supplemental resources (Graphing Calculator,
Dictionary, Thesaurus, etc.)
• Other Internet based resources

12. Academic Achievement
District
District Percent Proficient using EOG
Percent Proficient using Per Pupil
Reading and Math; EOC EOC
EOG Reading and Math; Expenditure *
1 Chapel Hill Hill Carrboro
1 Chapel Carrboro 88%
88% $10,579.00
2 PolkPolk County
2 County 85%
85% $10,449.00
3 3 Carteret County
Carteret County 83%
83% $9,272.00
4 4 Transylvania County
Transylvania County 83%
83% $8,860.00
5 Watauga County 82%
82% $8,305.00
5 Watauga County
6 Union County 82% $7,739.00
6 Union County 82%
7 Camden County 81.9% $8,742.00
7 Camden County 81.9% MGSD MGSD Ranked
8 MGSD 81.8% Ranked $7,902.00
8 MGSD 81.8% 8th
9 Yancey County 81.6% 8th in $9,417.00
State
9 Yancey County 81.6% in State
10 Dare County 81.6% $11,011.00
10 Dare County 81.6%
Formula: Number of Proficient Test Scores on Reading Grades 3-8, Math Grades 3-8, and EOCs divided by the total
number of tests taken in school year 2008-09
* NC Statistical Profile http://www.ncpublicschools.org/fbs/resources/data/
Formula: Number of Proficient Test Scores on Reading Grades 3-8, Math Grades 3-8, and EOCs divided by the total
number of tests taken in school year 2008-09.
Mooresville Graded School District
305 N. Main Street
Mooresville, North Carolina 28115
Mooresville Graded School
704.658.2530 District
305 N. Main Street
704.663.3005 fax
Mooresville, North Carolina 28115
704.658.2530
704.663.3005 fax

13. Academic Achievement
Mooresville High School
High Growth & School of Distinction
2008-2009
100.0%
90.0%
78.00% 81.00%
80.0%
70.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0%
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

14. Academic Achievement
Mooresville Intermediate
Expected Growth 2008-2009
100.0%
90.0% 84.00%
80.0% 78.00% 77.00%
73.00% 73.00%
70.0% 67.00%
63.00%
60.0%
51.00%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0%
Math Reading Science Overall
2007-08 2008-09

15. Academic Achievement
• MHS attendance rate increased from 94% to 96.7%
• MIS Attendance Rate increased from 96% to 97%
• MHS realized an 11% gain over last 2 years in EOC
performance composite
• MHS suspensions are down 64%
• MIS Suspensions dropped from 86 to 21
• MIS realized a composite gain of 6%
• Achieved 53 out of 54 District AYP Goals
• District Wide 7% Composite gain on all EOC/EOG test
scores
• District Wide Suspensions reduced by 50%

16. Partners
• Apple
• SAS
• Cisco
• Coleman Technologies
• Angel Learning
• Discovery Education
• Nettrekker
• ScanTron
• Town of Mooresville
• Mooresville Foundation for Excellence in Education

17. Every Child Every Day
www.mgsd.k12.nc.us