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About this guide
How to use this guide
Tools and Utilities
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We hope the Guide contains helpful:
- content - quick access, topical organization, about 300 mb of Adobe
PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files. Anybody want to adopt a topic to
help us track content?
- connections – to people, information sources:
- web pages - state/federal/ISD sources, professional organizations,
updates from the Oakland Schools (see below)
- staff directories - from CEN, MDE, etc.
Toward meeting our needs, the goal is to provide an information tool
that is:
- free, easy to use
- easily distributed and customizable for local policies/procedures,
forms, reports, PAC versions, etc.
- portable - sized so that it can be easily downloaded
- diverse – key state/federal/professional organization sources and
user contributions; all in a single collection, which therefore is…
- searchable - using the search functions of Word, Adobe, Windows,
or search functions in other common software
- minimally designed – easy upkeep, customization with common
software, minimal technical requirements…less is more…
- evolving – as our roles, regulations, information base continues
to change at an accelerating pace
- owned by you – PLEASE contact us with ideas, contributions,
suggestions about what works, what doesn’t, what’s missing, etc.
- …did we mention it’s free?
Questions, comments, complaints, flattery about this Guide or the
Oakland Schools web pages may be directed to:
A sincere thanks to our many colleagues (particularly the participants
of the annual Monitors’ Conference) who have contributed significantly to
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