Madison City Schools

Madison City Schools is one of the fastest growing, highest performing public school systems in Alabama and is located in Madison, the fastest growing city in the state. The city of Madison is located adjacent to Huntsville International Airport, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and is a hot-spot for defense contractors like Boeing, Raytheon, and others. Madison City Schools serves 8,400 students and has nine schools: six elementary (grades PK-6), two middle (grades 7-9), and one high school (grades 10-12).

We have a solution! Visit with School Board members and the Superintendent to learn methods for handling rapid growth, designing and building new schools (another new elementary school will open Fall of 2009), and leveraging the expense of technology with little or no funding sources. Learn how the school system has utilized free software such as Moodle, Audacity, Mailman, and Open Office to build a sense of community and to provide students and teachers with emerging and state-of-the-art technologies at the lowest costs possible. Learn how to include the public while saving money with paperless board meetings (no special software needed) and e-mail notifications (free software solution) of meetings.

We have a solution! During your visit, learn about the very popular state-wide distance learning program, Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide (ACCESS) and Madison City’s role as a support center. This model program provides Advanced Placement courses to students across the state and provides rich content through courses such as Chinese.

We have a solution! Technology use in our classrooms as an enhancement to instruction will be the focus of this site visit. Beginning with its dedication to providing open resource computer labs, mobile laptop labs, student workstations in every classroom, students using their own laptops, and multimedia teaching workstations in every classroom, technology has been the background for strong teaching and enhanced learning opportunities. See how resources such as classroom sound systems, interactive whiteboards, and document cameras are used as ubiquitous learning tools. View students using blogs, wikis, and news forums in a safe computing environment.

We have a solution! Hear solutions for anywhere, anytime access to web-based network resources providing teachers and students with technology tools at their fingertips at anytime and from anywhere in the world! View 1-to-1 computing without the funding and maintenance nightmares.