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Conversations Michael Peveler parents. What about school safety? I’ve read a lot about how an integrated system can change emergency procedures. Peveler: One of the gentlemen I work with was the chief of police for the New York City schools on 9/11. One of the key things he discusses is that he doesn’t want the principal to become the fireman. He doesn’t want the principal to become the police officer. But he does need the principal to gather enough information to be In this economy, how are school adable to communicate to the authorities, ministrators able to justify the costs of who can bring the right people on site. a sophisticated AV system? Most principals nowadays don’t really Peveler: Let’s go back to the basics. sit in their office very much. They’re out Whether you’re a CTO, a CIO, a superand about on the campus. Imagine a prin- intendent, or an assistant superintendent, cipal sitting in Spanish 2 evaluating the your first responsibility is to provide a teacher, and suddenly something horrific safe and effective learning environment. happens in another part of the building. Your second responsibility is to do that staff can see what’s going on. They’re still sitting in the same seat, and at that point they can make a decision. It could be that a child had a seizure and they need to call the ambulance. It could be that they see a student with a weapon, and then they can lock down the entire building and send out a notification to every display in the entire school. At the same time, the principal is on the cell phone calling the police. Imagine a principal sitting in Spanish 2 evaluating the teacher, and something horrific happens. In most systems today, what has to happen first is that they have to find that principal. His phone may be on silent, so they have to physically find the principal. The principal then has to check out the situation to see what’s going on, and then call the local authorities. Somewhere within this process, he has to initiate some form of communication for the rest of the building. This is a very time-intensive process, especially if you go out to some of the campuses that are huge. With our integrated solution, instructors have a panic button on their audio microphone system and/or at their desk. When they execute the panic button, it notifies the front office staff. But it would also go off on the mobile applications—email, etc. So if the principal is doing a teacher observation on an iPad, for example, up is going to pop the application, and there’s going to be a notification that there’s been a panic button pushed in room 246. The camera comes up when the panic button is fired. On that same iPad, the principal or any of the other appropriate 24 February 2012 cause they can’t afford to. Budgets in education tend to be cyclical. For most districts that means even if they don’t have money to grow their systems today, they will at some future date. The fact that our system is digital and is built on the network, which I think we can all say we believe is safely going to be the standard method of communication to most devices for the foreseeable future, means that even if they start at a simple Bell and PA solution, they are going to be able to grow, when they have money again, without putting in a new infrastructure. I have struggled to find anything out there you can just add on to without there being massive costs and no real consideration for what you’ve already purchased. Having been a teacher, I’ve seen administrators struggle with knowing that they need something but not being able to afford it. You’re obviously very passionate about this subject. within a budget. We believe the value of our solution is that it uses one network infrastructure. In most cases, it’s the infrastructure that the school already has in place. When a district CIO looks to put in a system for distributed video because he is interested in the distribution of information and management of systems, he is often looking at putting proprietary systems in that have their own infrastructure and their own user interface. This means a separate warranty, service agreement and training process. But that’s the main cost that’s killing schools today. When you put all the things in, in many cases, you’re putting in the infrastructure in 10 systems, or five systems, or 12 or 15, or whatever the case is, which means 10 installation crews, 10 sets of wires and cables, multiple drops. All of that drives up the cost that ultimately makes it not cost-effective to do the things they want to do. Schools end up having to sacrifice, and they don’t get to provide as much as they want to be- Peveler: I honestly believe that this type of product has the potential to change the way schools are built. We have a growing population. I look at Texas and the population growth that we’re seeing down here, and I know that this is true in many areas across the United States. But in many cases, the buildings were built just after World War II; they don’t have good infrastructure, and they’re not going to be able to last for long without some repairs and upgrades. Ultimately, something has to change. I think it will be the single infrastructure, single-user interface. To be blunt, we’re seeing this across every vertical. We just had in the team from the Sochi Olympics, the next Winter Olympics in Russia, and they’re looking for centralized management—multiple solutions over a single network. It’s the exact same thing we’re doing for schools. I want to be a part of something that creates a better learning and teaching environment. Administrators can get what they need for their students and teachers at an affordable price. That’s a cool thing to be a part of. —Judy Faust Hartnett District Administration

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - February 2012

District Administration - February 2012
Contents
From the Editor
News Update
District Profile
Administrator Profile
Conversations
Product Focus
What Can U.S. Schools Learn From Foreign Counterparts?
A New Prescription for Fighting Drug Abuse
The Game Changer
The Legal Implications of Surveillance Cameras
CIO News
Mobile Devices Drive Creative Instruction
Products
Crisis Response
Professional Opinion
Problem/Solution
New Directions

District Administration - February 2012

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