Why Student Data Privacy Matters
Beaverton School District privacy and data policies ensure that the District is ethically and legally protecting student safety and student information, including student work. Protecting students from harm--identity theft, harassment, and unauthorized data collection-- are critical concerns. As educators, it is our job to ensure our students are protected in this manner.
In today’s world of advancing online resources teachers, students, and parents are benefiting from an ever increasing wealth of tools to support teaching and learning. The growth in these tools is extraordinary with great potential to improve student outcomes. Along with this explosion in growth of online learning tools, comes the inherent risks of leakage of student data and understandable concerns over student privacy.
Resource Listing
Beaverton School District is a participating member of the Student Data Privacy Consortium. Through the Consortium we have developed an Oregon Student Privacy Alliance and a standard Oregon Data Privacy Agreement to be used by all districts partnering with software vendors. It is our goal to have a Privacy Agreement with every vendor software package or curriculum used in our classrooms. The Consortium is currently developing a National Privacy Agreement that may someday replace the Oregon Data Privacy Agreement. We take all of these partnerships very seriously. Through the OSPA and the SDPC, we use a standard set of digital resource tools. We make use of the Digital Resources database and here is a link to the Beaverton School District Digital Resources listing:
Beaverton School District Digital Resources