District technology office outlines device refresh, classroom displays and new attendance tools
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Summary
The Green Bay Area Public School District technology department reported an 8‑year device/display refresh plan, classroom-display rollouts affecting hundreds of rooms, inventory work and new workflows (digital hall passes, ID scanners and parent absence requests) now live or piloted at multiple schools.
The Green Bay Area Public School District’s technology department on April 14 outlined progress on a multi‑year device and classroom-display refresh, districtwide asset inventory, and the rollout of new attendance and workflow tools.
Amy Jackel, executive director of technology, said the district is on an eight‑year refresh cycle for classroom displays and student devices. This school year the department refreshed displays in three buildings and extended the work to two additional schools via strategic procurement and collaboration with facilities teams, affecting roughly 455 classrooms so far. The plan calls for 86‑inch touchscreen classroom displays with adjustable mounts that can be lowered for small‑group or carpet work and raised for whole‑class instruction.
Device program and classrooms
- The district continues a Chromebook refresh program for students in grades 1, 6 and 9; paraprofessional devices were included in this year’s replacement purchases.
- Staff credited joint planning with facilities and telecommunications for reducing installation costs and enabling a broader rollout this year.
Attendance, hall passes and campus workflows
- The district is implementing the Infinite Campus workflow suite to digitize many school operations. Pilots and deployments include: ID scanning kiosks for building entry at secondary schools; tardy scanners (in use at Preble); check-in/check-out kiosks that can print a short pass for students arriving late (pilot at Edison); and digital hall passes used at several secondary schools.
- Absence requests can now be submitted by parents through the Infinite Campus mobile app and route directly into the student information system for approval, the department said; staff expect the change to reduce phone‑message traffic and make attendance data cleaner.
Security, inventory and cyber exercises
- The department described completed upgrades to PA systems and security-panel hardware at multiple buildings and a one‑time districtwide inventory this year to tag and track assets.
- Technology staff conduct tabletop cybersecurity exercises multiple times a year with district leadership and technical teams; the department also noted recent statewide and national presentations and an award for data-storytelling work.
Staffing and scale
- The technology department reported it supports more than 18,000 Chromebooks, about 5,700 Windows devices, roughly 3,000 wireless access points and a single primary data center with a backup; the team includes technicians deployed in buildings and central staff supporting district systems.
The department said it will continue phased rollouts of the Campus workflow features and smaller classroom-display refreshes in future years.
