St. Patrick Catholic School strives to foster spiritual, physical, intellectual, and social growth in all students.  Recognizing the importance of technology in our world, we believe it necessary to:

• Incorporate technology into our instructional process to encourage problem solving, critical thinking, and global learning

• Promote student-centered learning

• Use technology to increase the effective use of time for both students and faculty

• Provide appropriate technology resources for students, faculty, and staff, so that they are able to communicate with all stakeholders and maximize learning opportunities

• Empower students and staff with technical literacy skills 

Ethical and responsible usage will underscore all elements of technology use at St. Patrick Catholic School. 

TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

St. Pats believes that technology is integral to student learning.  Faculty members receive training to incorporate technology in their classes in order to enhance curriculum.  Students must be able to use a variety of technology today in order to be prepared for the technology of tomorrow.  In light of this, St. Patrick Catholic School continues to invest in its technology program, which includes:  

• School issued email accounts through Google Apps for Education, which include Google Drive for collaboration, free word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation apps, and cloud storage

• Adobe Creative Cloud for education for teachers and middle school students

• IMac lab with 25 iMacs available for use with classes and students

• Media Center with a mixer, 17 iPads, 2 iMacs, microphones, video cameras, and green screen.

• Mobile ipad carts (2 total, for a total of 50 ipads to be used school-wide)

• Securly monitoring for parent and teachers

• 5+ Ipads in each classroom

• Chromebook carts and classroom set for each grade level

• Interactive whiteboard in grades 2nd-5th and middle school math

• Faculty and grade level server accounts

• Campus-wide wired and wireless network capabilities 

• Renweb/Facts (online grades, schedules, attendance information, activities, and report cards)

• IXL, Accelerated Reader, HMH, MobyMax and other programs for student assessment and intervention