Linden Community Schools

Linden Community Schools prides itself in the way that it communicates our technology usage with students, staff, and parents. Our website www.lindenschools.org includes many links for parents, students, staff, and community, they are: · The Parent Resources link. At this link we have subscribed to a special service for our parents. It provides our parents with tips and school success ideas for their children, on a daily basis. · The ParentWeb link. ParentWeb is a web-based program that can allow parents to access their students' grades, discipline, attendance, and more. · The Student Resource link. At this link we have many links for students to visit. · The Linden Community link. This link provides our community with information on the Linden/Argentine Chamber of Commerce and the Flint Area Chamber of Commerce. · The Technology link is where our district technology plan is located. We communicate with our parents with the implementation of EasyIEP. EasyIEP is a web-based program that allows parents to receive immediate feedback when they are attending IEP's for their students. We also have an Activity-Information Line. This phone line allows the public to call in and access the building or department of their choice to find out what is happening at any given time. At the middle school we meet quarterly with a group of students to ask them their opinions on how they perceive the technology at the middle school. Some of the things we discuss is usage, do they have the tools they need, and is there anything they think should be added that they don't have now. We hope to expand this to the high school in the near future. Our technology plan is located on the district web site. Our plan will be board approved this year. As you may have noticed our technology plan has been to various committees in the district other than the planning committee. The committees or groups that have had input on the plan are the Technology Oversight Committee, the District Curriculum Council, and our technology aides and technicians. Parents have served on all of the committees that have created and approved this technology plan. Parents will also be on the committees that review this plan on a yearly basis. We will have to report to the committees and parents as well as the Board of Education as to the success of our technology plan. Parents and community members are a part of the district strategic plan and the district strategic school improvement plan. All goals developed for this technology plan were derived from the district strategic plan and the district strategic school improvement plan. In addition to the new things we have implemented we still constantly communicate with our students, staff, parents, and community through the use of newsletters, email, newspaper articles, and phone calls.