Technology Advisory Committee (TAC)
The Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) comprising of District leadership and Board appointed industry technology experts, serves as an advisory committee to the Board. The committee is governed by School Board Policies 1.09 and 1.096. TAC’s mission is to provide expert knowledge, guidance, and to bring industry best practices to decisions regarding technology infrastructure and strategy. The committee’s responsibility is to gain an understanding of the technology across the School District including the schools. Additionally, TAC reviews and provides feedback on technology contracts for hardware, software, consultants, and training.
Superintendent’s Technology Committee (STC)
Once a week the Directors meet with Academic leadership, Chiefs, and the Superintendent. The mission of the Superintendent’s Technology Committee is to facilitate the effective execution of the School District of Palm Beach County’s Technology Plan to strategically align technology with instructional and business functions. The role of the STC is to promote an environment that leverages technology tools and resources to achieve the District’s mission and goals. The STC will review and provide comprehensive institutional based recommendations to District stakeholders on technology plans, projects, and acquisitions that have a significant impact on the District's operations. The STC will encourage and provide guidance in establishing technology standards and policies.
Technology Clearinghouse Committee (TCC)
This committee consisting of Assistant Superintendents, Chiefs, and Principals from the Academic and Business segments including IT meets every two weeks to review all new technology requests prior to purchase. The TCC review is to assure alignment with the District’s mission and goals by examining the product from two distinct perspectives: function and technology. The academic and business representatives make certain the proposed technology serves the function intended without duplication and IT determines the technical aspects for integration, compatibility, scalability, support requirements, bandwidth, total cost of ownership (TCO), training and support.
In response to requests from our stakeholders for a more functional, consistent, cohesive, and modern website, we began a collaborative initiative to redesign the School District of Palm Beach County's main website. Collaboration extended to our students, parents, and community, providing everyone with an opportunity to vote for their favorite design. The website is designed on a roles-based model categorizing information for students, parents, employees, and the community. The design and development of the website was done entirely by District staff.
The primary purpose of the Forms Review Committee is to ensure that the District is in compliance with Florida Statute 1008.385 (2)(b)1 and Board Policy 2.341. The objective of the program and the committee is to monitor the creation, design, production, printing, distribution, and collection of all forms used throughout the School District. The primary function of the Forms Review Committee is to review and approve each new and revised form with the underlying objective to reduce and consolidate as much as possible the total number of paper forms used throughout the School District.