The technology department is responsible for the administration & maintenance of the entire technology infrastructure of the West Paterson Public School District. Our department is responsible for overseeing all educational technology initiatives, purchases, training and support agreements.

The technology department is responsible for over 300 desktop computers, 10 Laptop Computers, 8 servers and variety of networking and video equipment.  Each classroom contains a teacher workstation and a mounted television set. 1-4 student stations are available in each classroom. Each room is equipped with a DVD and/or VCR players for viewing as well as cable television programming. Every classroom has a printer.  Currently there is one interactive SMART board in Beatrice Gilmore as well as multi-media carts available for classroom use in Memorial and BG.

Our district operates a Fiber Wide Area Network allowing for data sharing and network administration for all 4 locations.   Our servers run on Windows Server 2003 and Server 2000. Our operating systems consist of a mix of windows XP and windows 2000 Machines. Each School is fully networked with every classroom having network and Internet access. Our Memorial School media center has wireless access. Each faculty member district wide and students in grades 5-8 has a unique username and password to access our network. They each receive a secured space on the schools server for file storage. Each faculty member has their own section on Homework Hero which they maintain for homework. All faculty members have an email address. There are shared student accounts that provide access to network share folders for file management. This allows for Administration, Faculty and Students to have access to their files from any computer in the district.

The technology department also provides ongoing professional development for faculty, staff and administration. We have a commitment to advancing the integration of technology in curriculum and to integrate it into administrative tasks to improve our day to day operations.