How do you and parents know your school or district’s policy with respect to technology use? The parents and the students can find the school Rockford Lutheran schools policies on rockfordlutheran.org under resources there is a student handbook section one IX. pages 34 to 36 explain all of the technology and usages and penalties and terms and have to be signed by the student and parent What is acceptable technology use? This is signed at the beginning of the school year and all students have to sign it as well as a teacher signs a teacher handbook through the HR department all of our technology use is outlined of what we can and cannot do as well as all students and unless the office is notified has the rights to their photos taken whether it's for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Instagram, and any of the functions. What relevant laws are addressed? Are there any that aren’t, but should be? This is taken from page 10 of the Rockford Lutheran handbook. "Academic/Student Records In compliance with the Federal Family Rights and Educational Privacy Act, all records maintained by the school for the pupil shall be confidential. Permanent records consist of basic identifying information (names and addresses of student, parents, telephone numbers, birth date and place, and gender), academic transcript (which will include grades, class rank, graduation date, grade level achieved, and college entrance examination), attendance record, accident and health reports, a record of release of permanent record information. Student permanent records and the information contained therein shall be maintained for a period of sixty (60) years after the student has transferred, graduated, or permanently withdrawn from school. Temporary records consist of any other verified information of clear relevance to the education of the student including; intelligence and aptitude test scores, psychological, evaluation, teacher’s anecdotal records, disciplinary information, special education files, and a record of the release of temporary record information. Temporary records shall be maintained no longer than five (5) years following graduation or withdrawal and thereafter destroyed. Adult students or parents of minor students shall have the right to inspect their records. Any parent or adult student so desiring t'o inspect their records shall address a request to the administrator in writing. A copying cost of $0.25 per page is requested. Directory information that lists student names, addresses, and other identifying information may be released to the general public. Parents may prohibit the release of such information of their child by indicating such on enrollment paperwork in the designated section. Parents, or students once they turn eighteen, have the right to request copies of these records at any time before their destruction. Official copies of transfer students’ records are requested within 14 days of enrollment. Unofficial records of students transferring to other schools are sent within 10 days of the request. Complete policies and procedures concerning student records are available from the office of the registrar. If you want to use a new assessment app, how do you know it is okay to do so? Being that Rockford Lutheran is a smaller school, we can ask our principal our Director, or our IT manager and they will direct us if we can use the app or not and they'll research it. Tell us if it's safe and then they will put it onto the domain. All the school and the domain are regulated by him so that every computer and Chromebook is maintained and safe to do so. Part Two App Privacy Policy Evaluation: Use the "K-12 Privacy Policy Guide" to evaluate the privacy policy of an assessment app you are considering. Ironically, at today's in-service, we were just told that everyone will be having access to and using star assessments through Renaissance. We will be trained on it. Every teacher has access to it, and I am going to take a look into what the red flag would be with it our Director just said that we will be trained in August on this so I'm gonna look into the red flags right now. Identify any red flags mentioned in the guide. The data that I am finding for the third-party sharing goes to other apps, but it is all educational based as an AIS web ice station. I read NWEA map PALS and then of course star Renaissance, but it just says that it's an automation in a DNA system. It claims that due to Renaissance fundamentals privacy party. There are no third-party advertisements. The service does not currently use any user data to tag target advertisements or marketing on behalf of third parties. It also states that there's privacy which allows only information on Renaissance practices to be suspect to all software products and the privacy of all student data. The privacy hub which was updated on May 16 2024 has an entire list of all their product revisions parents' safety GDPRCCPA security and SLC to report content appropriate Ness note to parents note students and labels all of their privacy policies. It states please note that the collection input use retention disposal, and disposal of any private information of software products is controlled solely by your child's educational institution. Based on your findings, what rating would you give the app in terms of privacy protection? based upon all the steps, I've just read in this K-12 privacy guide I would give a 10 out of 10 rating for this app. It seems like the privacy hob and all the necessary steps were taken. Yes, other data is connected, but it's a resource that seems to be linked only through the test and it seems to be a tool that is gonna help us create assessments that will lead us to writing better learning objectives, which will also help us track and maintain student data in order to drive our curriculum as a visual arts educator I look, but I find it very skewed grade heavy, and feel that it does not cater to the creativity or any of the softcore items that I teach to, and I've noticed discrepancies in the data where white females tend to have higher GPA and score lower on the ACT then the white males who take the ACT have lower than a 4.0 GPA but score higher on the test and currently I am sifting through data. Trying to figure out how I can write learning objectives using state Illinois standards to help an individualized for each, and all of my students, I feel that this app will allow me to do so quickly safely, and effectively. I look forward to the rollout of it this upcoming year. Steps for Approval: What steps would you need to take before using the app, according to your school's technology vetting process? The steps before I can use an app are fairly easy in our school because as I stated previously, there's only one IT guy and we have to go through our principal or executive Director. It's as simple as sitting down and saying I'd like to use this app here's why and then we explain what it does for us and how it works and then the IT guy will look into a yes or no and if it's approved, we usually find out a few days and they will just install it onto the network for us, students are allowed to ask for extensions because they are all blocked so like obviously every student has Grammarly every student they ask for certain things whether it's in the arts like I get Pinterest approved Artsonia approved as well as some other digital apps, approve sumo paint was approved it is a fairly quick and painless process. Why is it important to follow these steps to protect student privacy? it is important to follow these steps to protect student privacy because we need to ensure that we are safeguarding our student's sensitive information. We need to also provide a secure learning environment. It's all about keeping our students safe and secure, but also using acceptable technology and education as it is necessary for 21st-century learners. References U.S. Department of Education. (2014, February). Protecting student privacy while using online educational services: Requirements and best practices. https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/resources/protecting-student-privacy-while-using-online-educational-services-requirements-and-best Rockford Lutheran School. (n.d.). Student handbook Rockford Lutheran.org Arciniega, J., Sexton, M., & Vance, A.. (2024, April). The K-12 privacy policy guide: How to quickly spot red flags. Public Interest Privacy Center. https://publicinterestprivacy.org/new-amendment-kosa-for-ids/