School Board and Campus Administration
GIS can be an effective tool to promote change and growth for students and teachers. It can help enhance skill development, classroom organization, instructional methodology, curricular content and community participation. School Boards and campuses can also significantly benefit from this technology. GIS displays demographic information along with location and service area, helping school boards and campuses match their services to students' interests and needs. To effectively manage a school district or monitor national educational policies and outcomes requires a geographic perspective and geographic tools.
For districts, geographic information ranges in scale from the community and its characteristics to the micro-geography of a school and its components. Students, for instance, have geographic locations associated with them including home addresses and the buses they ride. Besides location, each distict has unique characteristics such as Student Information System (SIS) standards of grade level, subjects, grades, attendance, test scores, lunch program and special needs.
For provincial and federal education agencies, the above apply to a broader geographic scope. The unique characteristics can reflect key educational attributes. Adding a spatial dimension to tables of data on topics such as teacher-student ratios, adequate yearly progress and other factors can bring to light patterns and possible solutions not previously considered.
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