But there was Senate Bill 68 came to fruition in the I think in the spring of last year or in the summer and the board policy that we talked about devices and what that was going to look like so personal electronic devices at that time and we made a decision of a one year sort of hiatus of kind of dealing with students bringing their own devices to the high school in particular and so we knew that we needed to study and really have some thinking about what our device fleet would look like from the district moving forward because we knew that we knew that Chromebooks were no longer adequate for the things that our students needed to do within the teaching and learning environment and also that we were relying on personal electronic devices to help with some of that teaching and learning so that's what accelerated our pace. We're also acutely aware of House Bill 2230 which is the one that's going through right now being discussed within the legislation about the amount of time that we need to have with our particularly our youngest learners are on devices and so that has influenced some of our thinking and will continue to influence our thinking and we have had a lot of conversation about that so you'll see bread crumbs of that and you won't see that tied up in a nice repo but we are working on that. The other piece we knew as we were talking about what needed to happen with district devices is that we have multiple platforms that are operating right now and so his team has a pretty heavy lift with those multiple platforms and those decisions were made purposefully the last time that we did a technology study but we think we've outgrown our thinking at that time and so our thinking has shifted and some of that is influenced by the need to have some consistency across the system so across the entire district and then like I said technology and learning.

We are coming halfway through a study. So we wanted to make sure that everybody is kind of aware and grounded of why we're coming this early as opposed to having everything sort of tied up in a nice neat bow for you because it's not tied up in a nice neat bow and you'll find that as we talk through this. But there was Senate Bill 68 came to fruition in the I think in the spring of last year or in the summer and the board policy that we talked about devices and what that was going to look like so personal electronic devices at that time and we made a decision of a one year sort of hiatus of kind of dealing with students bringing their own devices to the high school in particular and so we knew that we needed to study and really have some thinking about what our device fleet would look like from the district moving forward because we knew that we knew that Chromebooks were no longer adequate for the things that our students needed to do within the teaching and learning environment and also that we were relying on personal electronic devices to help with some of that teaching and learning so that's what accelerated our pace.

So we wanted to make sure that everybody is kind of aware and grounded of why we're coming this early as opposed to having everything sort of tied up in a nice neat bow for you because it's not tied up in a nice neat bow and you'll find that as we talk through this. But there was Senate Bill 68 came to fruition in the I think in the spring of last year or in the summer and the board policy that we talked about devices and what that was going to look like so personal electronic devices at that time and we made a decision of a one year sort of hiatus of kind of dealing with students bringing their own devices to the high school in particular and so we knew that we needed to study and really have some thinking about what our device fleet would look like from the district moving forward because we knew that we knew that Chromebooks were no longer adequate for the things that our students needed to do within the teaching and learning environment and also that we were relying on personal electronic devices to help with some of that teaching and learning so that's what accelerated our pace. We're also acutely aware of House Bill 2230 which is the one that's going through right now being discussed within the legislation about the amount of time that we need to have with our particularly our youngest learners are on devices and so that has influenced some of our thinking and will continue to influence our thinking and we have had a lot of conversation about that so you'll see bread crumbs of that and you won't see that tied up in a nice repo but we are working on that.

We're also acutely aware of House Bill 2230 which is the one that's going through right now being discussed within the legislation about the amount of time that we need to have with our particularly our youngest learners are on devices and so that has influenced some of our thinking and will continue to influence our thinking and we have had a lot of conversation about that so you'll see bread crumbs of that and you won't see that tied up in a nice repo but we are working on that. The other piece we knew as we were talking about what needed to happen with district devices is that we have multiple platforms that are operating right now and so his team has a pretty heavy lift with those multiple platforms and those decisions were made purposefully the last time that we did a technology study but we think we've outgrown our thinking at that time and so our thinking has shifted and some of that is influenced by the need to have some consistency across the system so across the entire district and then like I said technology and learning. It's not about devices. Tonight is going to feel about devices and I think we're we feel like we have to sort of overtly talk about that but knowing that isn't really the purpose of our work. The purpose of our work is how children use these tools to help advance learning. Okay I feel like I've said enough about that.

The purpose of our work is how children use these tools to help advance learning. Okay I feel like I've said enough about that. So the input that we sought through this first year and we have really accelerated very quickly with this work and in order to do that we also cast the net pretty wide so our technology committee is one of our largest committees in the district. We invited probably about 55 people to it. There's about 40 that come with consistency. It's representative of teachers K-12. There's administrative representation on the team. Ben is a part of the team. Luke and I lead the team together and all of our teachers are part of it so it's a very large group. Some of those teachers are coordinators so they represent a larger, bigger, broader perspective within that work. We've also Nina talked about this. We've sought input from students particularly the principal's advisory committee and they were really integral in helping us really think through what tools not only what the tools are but the ways that we could be using the tools more purposefully within the classroom and one of the things that I think was really fun and Nina and I talked about this but what was really fun for me was to watch the students interacting with these devices and thinking about the possibilities of things that could happen with them that just haven't been able to happen with the fleet that we currently had.