Technology Mission Statement:

It is the mission of the West Mifflin Area School District to provide our students and teachers the necessary technology and training to highly achieve in a standards-based curriculum. We will accomplish this mission by encouraging students to develop their maximum potential and to value lifelong learning. We are dedicated to enabling students to be responsible, contributing, and ethical citizens.
The West Mifflin Area School District views technology as a catalyst for the achievement of standards by our students. Our model for the use of instructional technology includes integration of technology into all curriculum areas, aided by an infusion of technology beginning as early as kindergarten and continues through graduation. Technology levels the playing field and allows all students to learn and receive individualized instruction areas in most need of assistance.

Using the World Wide Web, teachers can easily construct thematic units, and expose children to a world of opportunity beyond the classroom. Technology also streamlines the learning process by enabling the teacher to better manage their classroom by using real-time assessment, communication with parents, and handling of the more mundane but necessary tasks more efficiently. Teachers experience an increased opportunity for collaboration and sharing of best instructional practices through electronic communication, personal web sites, and on-line best practice clearinghouses. Staff development opportunities are increased by web delivered courses, distance learning, and on-line Act 48 record keeping.

Our use of Classroll.com, an on-line grade and performance reporting tool, is also creating greater involvement of all stakeholders in the education of a child. We will continue to explore ways to allow teachers, students, and parents to monitor student progress in achieving standards, and provide necessary intervention before failure occurs.

Technology Vision Statement:

It is the vision of the West Mifflin Area School District that students will attain the necessary ethical and technological literacy skills to attain high achievement in a standards-based curriculum. Students will also become life-long learners and be successful in a technology-based society.

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