Middle School Initiatives
The major goal of the middle school portion of the 2000 bond is to achieve classroom standards in the various content areas to support the new curriculum development project. In particular:

• Language Arts (English and Reading), Health, Science, and Social Studies classrooms will be brought to a standard of eight desktop computers with necessary cabling and furniture.
• Language Arts (English and Reading), Health, Science, Social Studies, Math and Speech classrooms will receive a mounted video projection system and VCR.
• Language Arts (English - 2 per campus, Reading - 1 per campus), Health - 1 per campus, Math - 3 per campus, Science - 3 per campus and Theater - 1 per campus will receive an Elmo video image display (VID) device.
• Science will receive 1 flex digital camera per campus.
• Math (60 per campus) and Science (30 per campus) will receive graphing calculators.
• Foreign Language classrooms will receive a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR.
• ESOL classrooms will receive six desktop computer systems, a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR with Ellis software and necessary cabling and furniture.
• Art classrooms will receive four enhanced desktop computer systems with art tablets, a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR, a networked color inkjet printer, a flatbed scanner and Photoshop software and necessary cabling and furniture.
• Speech classrooms will receive four desktop computer systems, mounted video projection system and VCR, video camera with tripod and CD/cassette recorder and necessary cabling and furniture.
• Theater classrooms will receive a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR, video camera with tripod.
• Any additional classrooms not configured as above will receive a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR.
• Each middle school will be brought to a standard of three computer labs (one per grade level) with a mounted TV, SVGA signal converter and VCR, and a high capacity laser printer.
• Each middle school will receive nine additional digital cameras, laser printers as necessary to reach the standard classrooms/printer ratio, up to four flatbed scanners and up to five laserdisc players as needed.
• All middle school campuses will be affected as part of the overall replacement plan for technology equipment.
• Review typical equipment configurations.

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