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District to roll out Securely hall‑pass tool after middle‑school pilot
Summary
The finance committee heard an informational presentation on Securely's electronic hall‑pass system, which IT said was piloted at Kennedy Middle School and will cost about $3,000 per year if adopted districtwide.
Britney Oltendorf, a district staff member, updated the committee that Securely — a classroom management and filtering platform already approved by the board — includes an optional electronic hall‑pass feature that was piloted at Kennedy Middle School.
Nick Kleinhofer, district IT staff, described how the system replaces paper passes with Chromebook‑based requests, provides a principal dashboard showing who is out of class at any given moment, and offers controls to prevent two flagged students from being in the hall simultaneously. "We would anticipate $3,000 a year for it," Kleinhofer said, describing that amount as the likely recurring cost for the hall‑pass feature. He said the pilot feedback was positive and that principals and teachers found the tool easy to use. Committee members asked about reporting, limits on concurrent passes, and whether the system would slow Chromebooks; IT said reporting is available and that consolidating classroom management tools should improve device performance rather than harm it.
The presentation was informational; no purchase motion was made at this meeting. Staff said they will roll the feature out next school year and provide more implementation details to principals and teachers before full deployment.
