Personal Laptop Initiative Involving Parents, Students, and Counselors

1. Personal Laptop Initiative Involving Parents, Students, and Counselors Initial start date 2011 By Rah-Miel Mitchell

2. Partnership: Minority Information Outreach Microsoft Registered Refurbisher

4. What we offer: • As a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher, Minority Information Outreach offers quality refurbished PCs preinstalled with genuine Microsoft software to under served populations.

5. Organizational Structure:

6. As a Microsoft Affiliate: • Windows XP Home Edition, • Windows XP Professional • Microsoft Office

7. Microsoft Office Products XP Professional Home Edition • Standards-based security, manageability, and reliability, • Simplified user interface, and innovative support services. • Best desktop operating system for business. • Digital photos, music, and video to building a home network, Windows XP Home Edition brings you into the digital age with ease. • New visual design, and new Internet security features.

8. MISSION: • The program is designed to assist students who do not have access to technology at home.

9. INITIATIVE: • Students will receive refurbished laptops in exchange for good grades.

10. PROGRAM DESIGN

11. CORE VALUES: • Impact young people and empower parents by creating a working relationship with the student’s high school counselor.

12. VISION: • Enhance educational opportunities and increase the accessibility of technology at HOME to low-income members of our community.

13. OBJECTIVES: • Computer Competency for students. • Improve Keyboarding Skills. • GPA increase of 0.3% (example 2.0 GPA to 2.3 or higher).

14. KEY ASSUMPATIONS: • Parents (+) Students teaming up to achieve a common goal. • Parents (+) Students (+) Counselors will create a healthy communication pathway toward graduation for students. • Educational Intervention for at risk students. • Students desire ownership of a laptop at home.

15. IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS: • Parents (+) Students (+) Counselors = Personal Laptop initiative model is designed to assist the communication between parents and counselors.

16. QUALIFICATIONS: • High School Student • Low-income • At risk students

17. STEP BY STEP: • Counselor gives packet to student.

18. STEP 2: • Student takes packet home to parent.

19. STEP 3: • Parent fills out application. 1. Phone. or 2. Website.

20. What we need: • Recipient Information for Citizenship Licenses • You need to supply the following information for recipients of citizenship licenses: •  Recipient Name/Fee of $35 •  City •  State •  Country •  Name of Charitable Organization

21. Microsoft Office Products XP Professional Home Edition • Retail value: $299 • Retail value: $119

22. EVALUATION MEASURE: • Engage the parents in the process to be PROACTIVE in their child’s education. • Educational Intervention for at risk students. • Shared responsibility.

23. RESEARCH: • Only 50.6 percent of black students and 48.7 percent of Latino students have access to home computers, compared to 74.6 percent of white students. • By comparison, 85.5 percent of white students have home computer access, and 77.4 percent can use the Internet at home. • * published in the October 2005 issue of the Economics of Education.

24. PROGRAM GOALS: • Start date January 2011. • Start at one high school in North & South Portland. • Limit 35 laptops per school. • Provide laptops for improvement in grades. • Survey parents to improve program. • Evaluate and Adjust Key Assumptions.

25. CONTACT INFO: • Rah-Miel Mitchell • ph:503-438-5058 • rahmielmitchell@gmail.com • www.mio.memberlodge.org