Heber Elementary School District

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER - WHO WE ARE

The Information Technology Center stands out through its unwavering commitment to excellence and innovation, actively embracing challenges to advance our district’s mission while ensuring equitable access to essential tools and resources. As strategic thought partners, we foster collaborative teamwork to drive continuous improvement and transformational goals, creating an educational environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. Thanks to our initiatives with ICOE and IVTA, we are able to provide our students with reliable connectivity.

Our Vision

We will cultivate an educational environment by embracing a culture of equity, innovation, and excellence with dedication to creating a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and make a positive impact on the world.

Core Values

Commitment to Excellence- Provide support and guidance for all stakeholders involved in our District’s mission and vision.
Innovative- Embracing challenges and opportunities to move our district forward.
Agent of Change-Strategic thought partner for continuous improvement and innovation
Equity: Ensure equitable access to tools and resources for educational and operational success.
Collaborative: Using clarity as we work with other teams to meet shared goals
Teamwork: Building a network to facilitate clear communication, cross-collaborative partnership to promote transformational district goals.

A blue lion with the wings of a hawk stands inside a laptop screen with the text 'INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER' below.

Lina Martinez
Lead IT Support
lmartinez@hebersd.org

Alfonso Castro
IT Support Technician
acastro@hebersd.org

Cindy Leyvas
IT Support Technician
cleyvas@hebersd.org

ITC LINKS

Every instructional classroom from grade levels TK to 8th are equipped with technology carts. Teachers are equipped with a mobile laptop, document camera and a mounted projector.

The Information Technology Center is committed to the success of all students, faculty and staff. We will continue to provide exceptional services and support alongside quality staff development in support of adopted curriculum and set strategies to improve teaching and learning.
Resources For Parents

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media is a website that contains valuable free resources to help parents stay informed with the latest gaming trends, TV shows and movies, as it relates to children use, safety and age applicability.

Stay Safe Online

Stay Safe's mission is to educate and empower the global society to use the Internet safely and securely. The website has valuable free resources to help families understand how to better use the Internet and outlines best practice methods for staying safe.

Cyberwise

Cyberwise makes it easy for you to learn about online safety, digital citizenship, privacy, reputation management, sexting, cyberbullying and more so parents and educators can help kids embrace technology safely and wisely. Cyberwise also has an excellent collection of helpful YouTube videos.

PTA

The national PTA website provides a wide-array of helpful resources for parents. Included are resources to help parents keep their children safe why using connected digital tools. Once on the site, select the "For Families" tab to access the resources.

iKeepSafe

iKeepSafe is dedicated to giving parents, educators and policymakers the information and tools which empower them to teach children the safe and healthy use of technology and the Internet.

	International Society for Technology in Education Widely adopted and recognized in the United States, and increasingly adopted in countries worldwide, the NETS integrate educational technology standards across all educational curricula. Click here for more information.

	K12 High-Speed Network K12HSN administers K-12’s participation in the California Research and Education Network (CalREN). CalREN is the high-speed, high-bandwidth statewide network of 14 Hub Sites and circuits linking to 73 K-12 Node Sites, 11 UC Node Sites, 24 CSU Node Sites, 111 community college Node Sites, as well as 6 Node Sites serving the three participating private universities. CalREN is also linked to the national Internet2 network forming an advanced state and national “Intranet” for educational use. Click here for more information.

	Schools and Libraries Program Federal program known as E-Rate is managed Click here for more information.