Serving on the citywide Parents Advisory Council prior to being elected School Board Member for District 6, enabled me to participate in many discussions that ensured parents and teachers connected on issues that would bridge communications and improve every childs success. For years MNPS has been meeting with the parent group to determine how best to address the current needs around communication. Many families have two parents working and to make numerous meetings is simply too difficult in many household! s. Lance Lott who is MNPS Chief Technology Officer has introduced a online program called Gradebook to begin communications online with all teachers, administrators and parents. It is being piloted in six schools i.e.
Glencliff High School, Hillwood High School, Stratford High School, Bailey Middle School, Bellevue Middle School, and Madison School. With the recent meeting with Mayor Karl Dean at Antioch High, parents expressed the need for better communication to know how their child is doing and to not have to rely on a piece of paper hopefully making it home so that they would know their childs! progres s and where to help.
The communications tool is ParentConnection, part of the Gradespeed.NET suite of products
from Campusware, LP of San Antonio, TX. With the tool, parents can also set up e-mail or text alerts for important news regarding their child’s performance.
Lance Lott states that "The system has security safeguards to ensure parents can only view
the information for their sons and daughters, and it gives parents the ability to check records from home, work or any location with internet access.”
Glencliff High School, Hillwood High School, Stratford High School, Bailey Middle School, Bellevue Middle School, and Madison School. With the recent meeting with Mayor Karl Dean at Antioch High, parents expressed the need for better communication to know how their child is doing and to not have to rely on a piece of paper hopefully making it home so that they would know their childs! progres s and where to help.
The communications tool is ParentConnection, part of the Gradespeed.NET suite of products
from Campusware, LP of San Antonio, TX. With the tool, parents can also set up e-mail or text alerts for important news regarding their child’s performance.
Lance Lott states that "The system has security safeguards to ensure parents can only view
the information for their sons and daughters, and it gives parents the ability to check records from home, work or any location with internet access.”
You can log onto https://gradespeed.mnps.org/pc/Default.aspx to see the initial log on screen that parents, teachers a! nd administrators will use.
This will roll out to the Antioch cluster soon as well as throughout the county. I will keep you posted as to when this will occur.
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