The Southern Regional Wide Area Network

Though systemic reform isn't "about" technology, technology is certainly a factor in the reform movement.  Here are some of the specifics about technology that I did not detail in the MMS article.

The Southern Regional WAN is about 1000 computers spread out over three school buildings and the board offices, all located on a 250 acre campus

Two SGI Origin 200 servers take care of all student and faculty logins and file sharing.Two NT servers take care of the administrative functions of the school district.  There are separate servers for Email, Web, Printing, all sitting behind a Firewall.

The administrative network has about 120 Pentium computers.  The student network is built around the premise that best configuration is a balance of classroom computers and labs. Labs are typically 25 computers.

Middle School 7-8 Building

1 Pentium PC on each teacher desk
1 Lab 25 Pentium 266
2 Mac Labs of  5400 PPCs
8 Classrooms, each with 6 networked Pentium II 266Mhz multimedia computers
6 Classrooms with 3 networked computers.  Teachers have a choice of Mac or PC.
1 Synergistics Lab with 8 experiment and activity centers 
Media Center with 30 - iMacs
The card catalog is PC (NT) based and accessible through all computers in the media center.

By the end of 1998-99 each teacher is scheduled to have a networked computer at their desk

High School 9-10 Building

4 Pentium 266 labs
1 Mac Lab of 5400 PPCs
1 Electronics Lab (Pentiums)
Career Center with 6 Pentiums
8 Science Classrooms, each with 12 Mac 5200s
1 Music Midi Lab
8 Classrooms with 6 networked Pentium II 266Mhz multimedia computers
6 Classrooms with 3 networked computers.  Teachers have a choice of Mac or PC.
1 Synergistics Lab with 4 experiment and activity centers
Media Center with 50 iMacs
1 15 station VTel distance learning lab

High School 11-12 Building

5 Pentium Labs
8 Science Classrooms, each with 12 Mac 5400s
1 Graphics Lab with 15 Mac G3s
1 Professional TV Studio
1 CAD Lab
8 Teachers with 6 networked Pentium II 266Mhz multimedia computers
6 Classrooms with 3 networked computers.  Teachers have a choice of Mac or PC.
Media Center with 40 IMacs
Yearbook 6 Pentiums
Newspaper 6 Mac 7200s and 520s

Administration

100 Pentium computers on a seperate subnet and server, with computers for all administrators, secretaries, guidance, and special services offices
 

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