The vision of the Mountain Brook City Schools is to be a world class school system, recognized as a model for quality education. Its mission is to provide an educational environment which enables each individual to reach his or her full potential. The Mountain Brook City Schools Technology Committee believes that technology, in its present and future forms, presents students, teachers, leaders, and the community with powerful means to accomplish those aspirations we hold in common. Our purpose is to give our students, teachers, leaders, and community the very best tools available as we work together to realize our aspirations for our students and for our school system.
Technology is simply one of many tools which can be utilized to achieve specific purposes and goals.
Public education is the last major labor-intensive industry to use technology in its day to day business. While there is no panacea, no instant solution, growing volumes of concrete evidence show that some of the most difficult challenges in education can be resolved through the use of educational technology. In short, students who are using technology learn the skills necessary for lifelong learning and productive employment. The Mountain Brook City Schools Technology Scope and Sequence, the result of the hard work of a committee of teachers, administrators, and parents, was developed to assist teachers in preparing our students to live and work in a society that demands the use of technology based applications such as word processing, the use of spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software. The document consists of two parts.