Project Proposal

Rafael Astolpho

CMGT/410

March 2nd, 2015
Professor Deborah Ray-Sims

| |Palmdale School District |

Memo

|To: |School Principals, Classified Employees & Certificated Teachers |
|From: |Rafael Astolpho |
|cc: |Teacher Assistants |
|Date: |March 2nd, 2015 |
|Re: |New School wide compliance system |
| | |

Comments: Our school district has been expanding in the past five years with two new elementary schools being opened this past September. This rapid expansion has caused the need to revise our compliance system that contains new policies that will need to be introduced. Every school principal will need to take their time to learn these new policies and properly train their staff to follow these policies as well. The Management Team at the District Office will also need to take their time to revise these new policies and all staff will be trained on how to abide them as well. This training project will be named Project Imagine Learning.

Project Imagine Learning Stakeholders All employees of the Palmdale School District: teachers, custodians, principals, human resources will be a part of the Project Imagine Learning. The Principals will be in charge of the training of their school staff: teachers, office staff and custodians. The Management Team at the District Office will be in charge of training all immediate staff such as the warehouse staff, human resources, technology and the board of trustees. The management team at the District Office and the School Principals are the first ones to receive the training. They will then teach the staff they are in charge off. Since no centralized training has even been done in the district, the school’s Superintendent wants feedback from the participants involved in the training to evaluate how effective it is. A minimum of 10 hours of training by all management and School Principals will be necessary. All training data will be recorded into a main database for further analysis and evaluation of its effectiveness. A test will be need to be taken at the end training and a test score will be given. A score of 90% or higher will need to be achieved for proper completion of the training. Project Objectives and Outcomes Project Imagine Learning will provide all the initial training to management and school principals. Once training is done, they will be able to effectively operate under these new policies and guidelines; a questionnaire will also be available in case they have any further questions. The new school policies will also be handed out in writing for future reference and so it that it can be also referred to in case of questions in the future. Evaluating Success Project Imagine Learning will be evaluating its success by the effectiveness of the training and the scores given at the end. All tests scores will be kept on record, regardless of its final grade. The Project will be considered a success when the entire district achieves a score of 90% or more. The Project will take its course throughout a six-month period. After the six-month period, training will need to be conducted in a quarterly basis in order to ensure school wide compliance. Creating a proper schedule around the training and testing will be crucial for its success. The management team will be in charge of the scheduling to ensure all their staff is up-to-date with their training and tests and the results will be reported back to the District Office.

References
Marchewka, J. T. (2012). Information Technology Project Management (4th ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database.