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School CIO TheZen of IT Portfolio Management CIO Charles T. Thompson, Sr. reveals his district’s decisionmaking process. Hint: It’s not ad hoc. By Amy Poftak www.schoolcio.com Coming Attractions Stay tuned for a look at cyberbullying in the November issue of School CIO. Below, an excerpt of terms from “Terror in the Classroom: What Can be Done?” by Ryan E. Winter and Rebert J. Leneway. Nancy Willard, author of “An Educators Guide to Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats” breaks down cyberbullying into the following categories: Simply put, IT port folio management is mapping the district’s overall business needs to the specific programs, initiatives, and projects within IT. A program for us means a multi-year initiative. A project is a one-time event with specific outcomes. Q A■ ■ WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF IT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT? PROFILE: Charles T. Thompson, Sr., CIO of Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida. FLAMING. Online fights using electronic messages with angry or vulgar language. DISTRICT STATS: The twelfth largest district in the state serving 179,000 students. Q A■ an example. We wanted to HOW DOES THIS INNOVATION: IT portfolio improve home■ PROCESS WORK? management. to-school communications. We manage initiatives IT worked with using an application the communiavailable on our Intranet. Any cations departoffice in the district wanting to ment and we built a business case for initiate a project has to log on, submit a parent notification tool. We posted a “request for project,” and provide information on our initiative managedetails around the initiative. The execment application. We went to the utive cabinet prioritizes the projects financial folks and the board and said and votes on what gets done. Every‘here’s the finances behind it; here’s thing must be tied back to the superthe business case; here’s the cost over intendent’s strategic goals, which are a three-year period.’ Once the board academic achievement, operational approved it and the funding fell into efficiency, employee professionalism, place, we then executed the plan. and constant innovation. Each major For the full text of this interview, division in the district has an intevisit http://www.schoolcio.com/ grated business plan (IBP) that’s tied shared/printableArticle.php?articleID back to the vision and mission of =188100296 these goals. Any initiative [you propose] must support your IBP, and performance is evaluated against this plan on a quarterly basis. Here’s Amy Poftak is former Executive Editor of Technology & Learning and former Editor of School CIO. HARASSMENT. Repeatedly sending nasty, mean, and insulting messages. DENIGRATION. “Dissing” someone online. Sending or posting gossip or rumors about a person to damage his or her reputation or friendships. IMPERSONATION. Pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material to get that person in trouble or damage their reputation. OUTING. Sharing someone’s secrets or embarrassing information or images online. TRICKERY. Tricking someone into revealing secrets or embarrassing information and then sharing it online. EXCLUSION. Intentionally and cruelly excluding someone. CYBERSTALKING. Repeated, intense harassment and denigration that includes threats or creates significant fear. 34 | A Technology & Learning Publication School CIO September 2007 http://www.schoolcio.com http://www.schoolcio.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=188100296 http://www.schoolcio.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=188100296 http://www.schoolcio.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=188100296

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