When: March 11, 2008, Erik’s Home

Attendees: Erik Britt-Webb, Janet Porcaro, Arnold Sodder, Charles Frankston, Lisa Cohen, Bob Rainville, Miles Fidelman, Neeraj Mital

Meeting goal: To review evaluations and establish top priorities for the school portal

Agenda

• Review of ground rules
• Review of notes from last meeting
• Shift in School Portal priorities
• Review solution evaluations
• Identify outstand issues concerns by stakeholders
• Discussion of SCI Community Portal

This tool would probably best be used as another channel for communication to and from school portal. A Newton North parent has agreed to underwrite the expense of the first year.

Grades to stay offline

Newtonite - Volume 87, Issue 3 - Friday, March 7, 2008

BY MOLLY SILVERMAN

Students and parents will not find students’ grades online, said special education teacher Dianne Lochhead, a co-chair of the Streamlining Communications Committee. For now, teachers will be able to learn how to use a program to present assignments, curricula and handouts, but teachers “can use it at their discretion,” Lochhead said to the faculty Tuesday. At the meeting, the faculty focused on communication in the school and on a Student Showcase Thursday, April 17.

Posting grades daily on line has benefits, drawbacks -
Newtonite 87.2

Newtonite - Volume 87, Issue 2 - Friday, Feb. 15, 2008
Mass Interview by Rebecca Harris and Georgina Teasdale

On a voluntary basis, teachers might post grades on line every day using a
program called Edline? so students and parents can see them. The Streamlining
Communications Committee will be talking about possibilities in a faculty
meeting March 4. Meanwhile, members of the school community gave their views on
the pros and cons of this possible change in practice.

Faculty might put their grades, assignments on line

Newtonite - Volume 87, Issue 1 - Friday, Jan. 25, 2008

BY BEN PLOTKIN AND HAO-HUA WU

On a voluntary basis, individual faculty might decide to use a web-based
program, said special education teacher Dianne Lochhead, a co-chair of the
Streamlining Communications Committee.

With the program, called Edline?, they could “post assignments and grades and
help students stay on track,”she said. Students and parents could also
use the program to check out announcements, school news and upcoming events, she
said.