The lab is staffed by a part-time computer aide who assists classroom teachers in implementing the District curriculum and Standards. Washington has a PC in all third through sixth grade classrooms and has ordered new PC's for second, first and Kinder upon completion of modernization. Students and teachers have access to these PC's and are expected to integrate their use into all curricular areas. Six classrooms in fifth and sixth grade have access to Internet hookups. The school library has three PC set-ups with Internet access with full Internet hookups to enable students to access software and internet for research purposes.
Staff has one PC set-up in the teacher's lounge.
The office has four PC's with tree Internet hookups available for office staff and administrator use. In the future, beginning in July, we will purchase eighteen more set-ups for the computer lab to enable all classes and grade levels to access the lab each week. We will utilize Block grant, Governors Award funds, Modernization monies and SIP funds to purchase new hardware and software. Our goals, in three years, is to have each classroom accessing our lab as well as having two to three complete hookups in each class. We will survey the students, parents and staff yearly to determine the perceived need for improvement in our Technology plan.