District/School Administration PK-16 Program Support
Educational Technology

Statewide Impact Grants 1998-1999

The Boston Public Schools

Student Technology Enterprise Program
(STEP East)

The Boston Public Schools in partnership with Citizen Schools, Private Industry Council, City Year, and Project F.I.R.S.T /AmeriCorps, will be training students to work with technology. The program will encompass grades four through fourteen. Citizen Schools will be working with students, grades 4 through 8, in an after school program. Students in grades 9 through 12 will be trained for two weeks in the summer, learning how to maintain and repair computers, wire and install local networks, and use desktop and web publishing. F.I.R.S.T. and City Year will work with post secondary students in grades 13 and 14 to provide technical support workers for schools.

Contact: Ann Grady

Brockton Public Schools

CyberWorks

The Metro South School to Career Partnership is a partnership of schools, businesses, community-based organizations, higher education institutions, and government agencies which are committed to prepare youth for the high skill/high wage jobs of the future. Through the Cyber Works Projects, the partnership will:

• create a regional bank of inquiry-based projects relating to the Curriculum Frameworks using new technologies, and
• create a regional system of professional development, using experts in the schools to assist colleagues in mastering various technological applications while addressing the skills identified in the Frameworks.