From the Chief Information Officer
The Only Constant is Change
The K-12 Edtech marketplace is soaring right now with an influx of new solutions taking advantage of increased access and mobile devices in all schools. The majority of these tools are very powerful resources developed to support teaching and learning. Over the past five years the number of CPS approved and supported online resources has increased dramatically. In addition a number of core systems have been upgraded. This rate of adoption and change can be stressful and there appears to be no slow down in the rapid rate of technological change. Read on >>

Is An Hour Enough?
Last month, students and teachers across Cambridge participated in the Hour of Code global event sponsored by Code.org and aligned with Computer Science Education Week. This event highlights the role coding plays in our society and encourages everyone young and old to try their hand at coding...for at least one hour. Read more >>



Follett Destiny: Strengthening Home, Library and Classroom Connections
By: Melanie Nash
Cambridge library teachers have developed strong collections in each of their school libraries, ensuring that a broad range of high interest, challenging, diverse materials are available to meet the needs of all learners. With such rich collections of library resources, including those developed for students and teachers by the librarians themselves, how can library users efficiently discover and utilize them all?
Find out how >>

CPS Media Arts Studio Goes HD
The Media Arts Studio opened in 2005 with what was state-of-the-art equipment at that time. But much has changed since then, and this spring we began the complicated process of upgrading our studio to a high definition, fully digital environment. The end result is everything we could hope for to better educate our students for the media making world of today. See what's happening in the classrooms >>

Watch our Channels! Access the Student Media Portal!
All completed student work is shown on our two Cambridge cable channels, streamed on our web site, and archived on the CPS MediaCAST student portal.