Michael, the district's technology director, briefed the Board of Education on Oct. 14 about multiple technology projects and security work underway.

He said the district implemented Transfinder (Routefinder Plus) to automate bus routing and nightly imports of student demographic data, and added Viewfinder to give building secretaries read-only access. He described "Magic School AI," an AI-enabled teacher productivity platform that draws on OpenAI GPT-4o and Google Gemini models to generate lesson plans and materials; Michael stressed teachers must vet AI output for accuracy and bias.

The district increased iPad counts (grade 3 additional devices) and rostered Apple Classroom from PowerSchool. Michael said the district currently has 658 iPads in PreK-3 and 1,624 devices in grades 4-12 (transcript totals); he described Apple Classroom's teacher controls.

On infrastructure he described an upcoming E-Rate cycle (2026) and a planned replacement of 19 network switches in the high school and HD building; E-Rate reimbursements historically covered about 85% of eligible costs and require a multimonth bidding and approval process.

A summer speaker-and-display mass-notification project was completed for several buildings; the system integrates clock, bell and emergency messaging so a lockdown message can replace the clock display and trigger a visual alert.

On cybersecurity Michael said the district follows the NIST cybersecurity framework (govern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover) and is working over the next six months to mature SaaS recovery and incident management and to develop departmental business-continuity plans. He encouraged use of strong passwords, multifactor authentication and reporting of suspicious messages; the district also runs simulated phishing campaigns tied to optional training modules.

ParentSquare usage statistics were noted: the platform syncs with PowerSchool and Envision and generated hundreds of posts and thousands of direct messages in the referenced reporting period, Michael said.

Board members asked questions about vendor timelines, E-Rate bidding and classroom rollout; no formal action was required.