Dr. Jerry Weast, superintendent of Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, has spent more than 40 years in education. Although he says he’s “just a farm boy..."
...Now the county has a fully integrated platform: myMCPS, with firewalls and security access to different groups with limitations based on need to know. It created dashboards on which teachers, board members and students could provide data profiles; and it decided to change direction in order to come to decisions that make a difference in human lives...
...Principals can call up profiles at their desks when a parent calls and gather information with a keystroke...
Superintendent Jerry "I don't do e-mail" Weast.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the reporter/editor ask him about the $1.4 million dollar failed ENCORE system?
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