Williams School Technology Fundraising DriveNovember PTO Meeting

November 12, 2009Williams SchoolAuburndale, MA

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Why are we here?

Our school & classrooms are poorly equipped

There are insufficient funds in the Newton School’s budget to close the gap

Our children should have modern classrooms now

We believe we can close the gap!

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We are Behind the Curve

Technology in the district ranks only in the 22nd and the school in the 43rd percentile

Approximately 1 modern laptop for every 10 students at beginning of the year

6 LCD projectors and 1 ELMO for 13 classrooms at beginning of year

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Note: MCAS reported laptop ratio is 4.5 students/laptop; these include end of life units that can not run all requisite software

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Our Goal is to Close the Gap

Student/computer ratio of 2:1

An LCD and ELMO projector for each classroom

Smart Boards

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Not Cheap – But We Can Do It! Goal of $136,000 - $500

per student

We’ve already made real progress

Resulting in: LCDs in each class About 10 new laptops

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Please help however you can! Look for more info in the coming months

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Not Sure Who to Contact?

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Williams School PTOCo-Presidents: Carie Michael; Donna Whitham, Katie Greeley,

Wendy Hurwitz

PTO Fundraising Committee

Chairs: Gail Sokoloff and Carol Bradford-Roe

PTO Technology Committee

Chair: Deborah GelchTechnology Fundraising

CommitteeChair: Brian Gorin;

PTO Liaison: Katie Greeley

Individual Giving

Corporate and

FoundationEvents

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