Katie Mendell

The Ellicottville Central School's Long Range Technology Plan outlines a vision for a technologically aware and literate learning community, ensuring all students achieve high competence through a success-oriented education. The plan focuses on six key goals: enhancing technological literacy among staff and students, promoting technology for communication and information retrieval, providing up-to-date network infrastructure and equipment, preparing students for future workplaces, maintaining technology use guidelines, and ensuring current server room equipment.

The 2022-2025 Instructional Technology Plan for Ellicottville CSD focuses on providing up-to-date network infrastructure, implementing 21st-century technologies, and maintaining a current server room. Key goals include ensuring reliable, high-speed connectivity, increasing equitable access to digital resources, and meeting curricular and administrative needs through virtual servers. The plan addresses experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing online learning, internet accessibility, and 1:1 devices. It also aligns with NYSED initiatives, supporting academic standards, equitable learning, and the needs of students with disabilities and English Language Learners.

The Smart Schools Investment Plan for Ellicottville Central School focuses on enhancing classroom technology with ClearTouch Interactive Boards and improving security with networked cameras and Milestone software. The plan aims to provide technologically advanced resources for students and staff, integrate technology into the curriculum, and ensure a safe learning environment. Key goals include staff and student technological literacy, effective communication, up-to-date infrastructure, workplace preparation, and continuous professional development.

The meeting included discussions and actions on various topics, such as providing transportation for the Great Valley Summer Youth Program, creating new positions for the upcoming school year including an Elementary Teacher (STEM), Part-Time Teacher Assistant, and Part-Time Social Worker, approving rates for temporary summer cleaners, authorizing transfers to various reserves, and approving a cooperative natural gas supply bid. Additionally, the board addressed personnel matters, including appointments to coaching positions and the substitute list, as well as accepting resignations. The board also reviewed CSE/CPSE recommendations and entered an executive session for collective negotiations.

The discussion includes general information and amounts for Catt. Co. School Districts, plans for CRRSA funds 2021-22, plans for ARPA funds for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24. It also covers Plan A and Plan B. The meeting also includes questions and closing remarks.