The Collaboration of Utah Technical Specialists (CUTS) project will provide sustained, job embedded just-in-time technical training, shared resources, coaching and consulting for the educational technical specialists throughout the qualifying school districts in the State of Utah. As a result, the students, teachers and staff in our schools will have a more consistent and stable technology-learning environment. Throughout the many districts in the State, the technical specialists are asked to resolve and troubleshoot extremely difficult issues with minimal funding and support. District networks have become increasingly complex and security issues are time consuming to say the least. The workload and the complexity of the technical specialists job has increased to the point where it's difficult to be successful and is almost impossible for them to help implement technology solutions in their districts without additional training and resources. In too many cases, a technical specialist will work many hours, if not weeks, trying to implement a new technology or resolve an existing technical issue because of their lack of expertise, training and or support. Implementation and many technical issues could be resolved in the matter of minutes if the technical specialists were able to bring to their districts the technical expertise and or resources needed.
The CUTS project will provide the necessary funding to help address these specific needs as well as a forum for sharing resources, knowledge and expertise throughout the State of Utah.
The CUTS program is a partnership that includes all qualifying urban and rural school district in the State along with state, and regional entities to improve the use of technology to enhance instruction. All seven Technology Coordinator Council (TCC) regions in the State will participate in the project and each will receive the funding to implement the needed hands-on technical training and support. The CUTS project increases student achievement by providing an effective and reliable technology infrastructure for teachers to use as they move toward a technology project-based learning environment.
CUTS Participating Districts and Regional Contact Person
Southwest Region (SEDC), Contact-Cory Stokes
Iron
Washington
Kane
Garfield
Beaver
Millard
Southeast Region (SESC), Contact-Sam Sampier
San Juan
Grand
Carbon
Emery
Central Region (CUES), Contact-James Christensen
Piute
S. Sanpete
N. Sanpete
Wayne
Juab
Sevier
Tintic
Northern Region (NUES), Contact-Don Remy
Uintah
Rich
Duchesne
Wasatch Central, Contact-Jim Henderson
Granite
Salt Lake
Wasatch North, Contact-Rik Stallings
Ogden
Logan
Wasatch South, Contact-Chad Duncan
Provo
Of course, any district is welcome to attend CUTS sponsored training but the training needs to meet the specific needs of the participating districts listed above.
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