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Board debates whether to adopt districtwide typing instruction; discussion tabled
Summary
Committee members discussed whether the district should adopt a centralized typing/keyboarding program after hearing that past practice was ad-hoc. Staff described historical, decentralized approaches; members requested data on current proficiency and potential impacts before deciding.
Zach, an instructional-technology staff member, described the district’s history with keyboarding instruction as decentralized: teachers and librarians have typically used a variety of free tools and short exposures rather than a single adopted program.
"It's never been a sort of targeted, finite initiative, but rather just... here, when on the technology side, when asked, here's some…
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