The Peel board provides a generic email account for each school council. This generic email account ensures each council’s email address remains the same, even though council membership changes from year to year. Did you know it also gives you access to your very own personal site within the secure Peel board’s intranet?
After logging in at http://www.peelschools.org/, you land on your school council's private My Site. This is where you can access email and optionally create your very own My Workspace. This year Applewood School council undertook an initiative creating a workspace to:
1) serve as a main document repository
2) house our list of regular and potential guest speakers
Our school council generally hosts four to six parent speaker nights every year, a welcome back BBQ and nine business meetings. Our document repository is the one single place that holds the agendas, meeting minutes, parent surveys, financial statements, newsletter articles etc. from 2008 to the present. The purpose of this workspace is to make us more effective and efficient as a council so we in turn can engage and develop well informed parents to help our students succeed.
The Peel board has actually won a technology innovation international award for its work developing these school based intranets. While there definitely is some initial setup effort required to build and populate the workspace, the online help as well as the personal support I received from Rachel Marshall in the Learning Technology Support Services department was outstanding. Her passion for the technology and patience (I swear I don’t know how I deleted that entire webpage) was much appreciated.
And now that we have this workspace, current and, maybe more importantly, future school councils will have all this information at their fingertips.
This post was submitted by Rita Kerkmann, chair of the school council at Applewood School. You can contact her at: applewoodps.council@peelsb.com
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