Abstract

Paper
Administration and K-12: Making the Most of Your Site License
Track: GIS for Administration, Planning and Policy
Authors: Donna Goldstein, Susan Oyer

Get the most out of your site license and bridge both worlds of your school district. Often times the business and academic sides of school districts do not have an opportunity to interact, development of the GIS Educational Model (GEM) addressed this issue at Palm Beach County School District. You can use your site license to enhance the functions of both units, by promoting GIS in the classroom and developing uses of GIS for departmental business decision making. See how Palm Beach County increased ROI and raised student academic achievement. A custom built web based GIS tool leveraging Flex and Arc Server for developing attendance boundary scenarios to assist with meeting legislative mandates will be reviewed as well as a recent study which evaluated high stakes reading scores and final grades in science and social studies for middle school students who had GIS instruction compared to those who did not.