Williams School Technology Fundraising Drive

							Williams School Technology
Fundraising Drive
November PTO Meeting



November 12, 2009
Williams School
Auburndale, MA
Williams School Technology Fundraising




Why are we here?
  Our school & classrooms are poorly
   equipped

  There are insufficient funds in the Newton
   School’s budget to close the gap

  Our children should have modern
   classrooms now

  We believe we can close the gap!
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We are Behind the Curve
  Technology in the district ranks only in the
   22nd and the school in the 43rd percentile

  Approximately 1 modern laptop for every 10
   students at beginning of the year

  6 LCD projectors and 1 ELMO for 13
   classrooms at beginning of year

   Note: MCAS reported laptop ratio is 4.5 students/laptop; these
   include end of life units that can not run all requisite software
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Our Goal is to Close the Gap
  Student/computer ratio of 2:1

  An LCD and ELMO projector for each
   classroom

  Smart Boards




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Not Cheap – But We Can Do It!
   Goal of $136,000 - $500
    per student

   We’ve already made
    real progress

   Resulting in:
     LCDs in each class
     About 10 new laptops
                            Please help however you can!
                       Look for more info in the coming months
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Not Sure Who to Contact?
                                         Williams School PTO
                 Co-Presidents: Carie Michael; Donna Whitham, Katie Greeley,
                                       Wendy Hurwitz



          PTO Fundraising
                                                                      PTO Technology
            Committee
                                                                        Committee
       Chairs: Gail Sokoloff and
                                                                      Chair: Deborah Gelch
         Carol Bradford-Roe
                                     Technology Fundraising
                                           Committee
                                            Chair: Brian Gorin;
                                         PTO Liaison: Katie Greeley



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