“Student access to technology is no longer a privilege: it is a prerequisite for full participation in high-quality education opportunities.”
Technology is not a silver bullet and cannot—by itself—produce the benefits we seek in learning, but without technology, schools have little chance of rising to 21st-century expectations. Syntheses of best available evidence consistently indicate the potential for positive effects when technology is a key ingredient in well-designed learning systems. We need to ensure equality of access to technology and also encourage uses of that technology that focus on specific connections to learning processes and address all the factors in complete learning systems.
SOURCE FOR ABOVE: U.S. Department of Educational Technology
https://tech.ed.gov/learning-technology-effectiveness/
Yeshivah of Flatbush Infrastructure & On-Going Upgrades
The Yeshivah of Flatbush (YOF) consistently upgrades the technology infrastructure in both the Elementary School and High School. The YOF provides WIFI access to classrooms, instructional areas, gyms and offices at both sites. This provides high speed WiFi access for students, teachers and staff to be utilized for teaching, learning and productivity.
The YOF utilizes CLOUD based storage as well as Google for Education CLOUD platform for email and productivity tools. With Google Classroom, our teachers create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place. Instant. Paperless. Simply put, CLOUD computing is the delivery of computing services—servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and more—over the Internet (“the CLOUD”).
We utilize three levels of Internet filtering, to provide safe, monitored filtering for all students. This includes: Meraki Internet content filtering, Gaggle (Google applications & email filtering) and Go Guardian (Chromebook Management and filtering) to keep our students safe online.
We have integrated both Hebrew and QWERTY keyboards on our devices to meet the instructional needs for both Torah Studies and General Studies subjects for English, Math, Social Studies, Science, STEM, Art, and Music.
Technical Support
The Yeshivah of Flatbush provides both on-site technical support teams and an online Helpdesk ticket system for all repair and new installations for our schools and offices. Our technicians are certified and receive on-going technical professional development throughout the year to provide our users with quality support.
There are IT Offices located both in the elementary school and in our high school. Our online Helpdesk ticket system provides our users with 24 hour access to place requests and allows us to document and track response and solutions. Our Technicians also support all audio-visual needs for events in our schools as well as supporting our network, software tools, and systems (Example: Student Information System, HVAC system, security cameras, etc.)
We follow a Total Cost of Ownership Model for technology. Our model includes the life cycle of equipment from purchase to upgrades. We measure and assess our ROI (Return on Instruction) in classrooms. Our students and teacher need infrastructure, devices and software to maximize teaching learning and productivity.

Resources
Meraki Content Filtering
https://documentation.meraki.com/MXZ/Content_Filtering_and_Threat_Protection/Content_Filtering
Gaggle
Gaggle provides safe online learning solutions to K-12 educators so students can take advantage of technology for communication, collaboration and learning.
https://www.gaggle.net/
Go Guardian
Offers Chromebook management and web filtering in schools
https://www.goguardian.com/
Why Chromebooks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbZQNJwPuI
What is Google Apps for Education?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWP_C7CX78
National Education Association
Technology in Schools
https://www.nea.org/assets/docs/PB19_Technology08.pdf
Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning
https://tech.ed.gov/infrastructure/
Learning Technology Effectiveness
https://tech.ed.gov/learning-technology-effectiveness/
Information Technology Staff
Joe Cruz
Director of Information Technology
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Shrage Kaufman
Coordinator of Technical Services N-8
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Batia Marcus
Data Manager
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Erika Jensen
Administrative Assistant
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Jonathan Remache
HS Technical Support Specialist - Level 2
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Zack Rubenstein
Technical Support Specialist - Level 2
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Benny Lui
Technical Support Specialist - Level 1
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Marc Surujballi
Technical Support Specialist -Level 1
Isabella Mardakhaev Solomonava
Data Entry Clerk