After talking with my cooperating teacher, I learned that at my placement they have a curriculum and instruction specialist. They we also have a testing coordinator, but they do not have one person in the building as a tech specialist. They have two people that they are able to go to for trouble shooting with technology, however, they do not specifically have one person that has that title. When they have any technology issues that included computers, SMART board and iPads, they have to go to headquarters. The teacher will put in a ticket online and somebody comes out to handle the issue. Sometimes you will see a person in the building multiple days in one week because they are in charge of grades Pre-K through eight. They have a library media specialist and right now theirs is part time. Most of the Cleveland schools have a part time library media specialist who goes back-and-forth from one school to another. The curriculum instruction specialist is definitely the go to person that will expect the teachers to integrate certain sites for the students and he sets up for them on Moby Max, refers us to skills navigator on the NWEA website, and when we have professional development for math using Eureka, he will turn to Engage New York or ANet for PD for the teachers. 

In my placement, the school has a cart of 40 iPads that the k-3 grades share. Each grade is only able to take 10 iPads to on a daily basis. This only allows for a few students to have an iPad at one time. The whole class is never all working on iPads at once, instead many times the iPads are only implemented during center time. The teacher is required to use the iPads weekly during their rotations. The classroom is also equipped with 6 computers that the students are able to use. Maintenance on the computers is done once a year. There is also not an entire class set of computers, this means only a few students are working on the computer or with and iPad at any given time. In this school it took forever to get iPads because of having to complete upgrades and money that was not in the budget for those upgrades at the time. They have only had their iPads for about a month when they were supposed to get them in September. Now that they have the iPads teacher are still working on how/when to use them in the classroom. The teachers use the iPads for different learning apps like Moby Max, Anet, and Eureka. 

Anytime the school has new things happening such as a resource from an online site or a new piece of technology, the principal or curriculums and instructional specialist or testing coordinator, get acclimated to it first and then they show the teachers how to use the resource. Otherwise there are times when someone from the company itself will actually come out and give us a PD. At this school, there are limited technologies that are available as I mentioned above there is not a class set of iPads, each class only has a few to work with each day. However, the class is also equipped with some computers. Computers are mainly used during center time as well because there are not enough computer and iPads for the entire class to use at one time. Teachers gain access through the school, and students gain access through a username and password that is provided by the teacher. From what I have observed there is not a means for reserving the iPads since each grade is only given a few to work with. At my placement parents are just responsible for signing a form that says that their child is allowed to use it and they understand the nature of what they are using as well as understand that there are rules for using the technology that students are expected to abide by. Overall, there is not a requirement for families to purchase the technologies that are provided by the school. 

From what I have learned through my cooperating teacher, headquarters is really in charge of how the school and teachers block things. They do a very good job of it. As a matter of fact, the teachers also have to change their passwords on their computers every 60 days. Once 60 days hits, the teachers have to change it because they cannot even use the other one that they were using for the previous 60 days. 

I was able to find this information through my cooperating teacher who teaches third grade in an elementary school building. My teacher was able to direct me to the people with the most information. My teacher had the best information to give since she works with not only the specialist and her principal but also she is able to experiment with the different technologies in her classroom and provide the people in charge with valuable information regarding the app, website, or program that she used.