File: IJNDC
GARDNER PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEB PAGES
The Gardner Public Schools realize the limitless potential for information and communication provided by the World Wide Web. It is a tool to enhance learning. The availability of this communication vehicle provides an opportunity for students and staff to access and contribute to the world of information related to curriculum, instruction, school, district, and school community related activities. Therefore, the Gardner Public Schools will use the Internet as an effective, efficient and timely source of information, method of communication and vehicle for resource collection. In order to take advantage of the opportunities the Internet provides, the Committee authorizes the creation of school and/or district web pages on the Internet.
Only those web pages maintained in accordance with Committee policy and established procedures shall be recognized as official representations of the district or individual schools. All information on a school or district web page must accurately reflect the mission, goals, policies, program, and activities of the school and district. The web pages must have a purpose that falls within at least one of two categories:
1. Public information – intended to communicate information about the schools and district to students, staff, parents, community, and the world at large.
2.
Support of curriculum and
instruction – intended to provide resources for students, parents and
staff in the district.
The superintendent shall designate an individual(s) to be responsible to maintaining the official district web page and monitoring all district web page activity. A building principal shall make such designation for an individual school. Schools or departments that wish to publish a web page must identify an appropriately qualified publisher and/or author.
As with any instructional materials or publication used by or representing the school or district, the building principal or superintendent, respectively, is ultimately responsible for accuracy and appropriateness of the information made available at the web site. Concern about the content of any page(s) created by students or staff should be directed to the building principal or to the superintendent’s office when related to the district web page.
Web pages developed under contract for the Gardner Public Schools or within the scope of employment by Gardner Public Schools employees are the property of the Gardner Public Schools.
[Adoption date: 10/26/98]
[Revised: May 2005]
[Revised: May 2008]