Next week, the Lightspeed Filter Agent will be updated districtwide.

Please leave all desktops and interactive flat panels turned on when you leave for the day on your scheduled date. The RockIT team will update it after school hours.

March 10 - Rockcastle County High School

March 11 - Rockcastle County Middle School

March 12 - Brodhead & Roundstone Elementaries

March 13 - Mount Vernon Elementary & Central Office

Before the beginning of the next school year, emails to staff from sources that are frequently compromised or used in phishing attacks will be blocked.

Examples of senders include PayPal, Venmo, eBay, Facebook, and many more.

Staff are already discouraged from using their school emails for anything personal, but emails will be completely blocked and you may lose access to your personal accounts.

If you are a staff member and you use your school email or account for anything personal (banking, utility bills, social media, shopping, etc.), please begin moving these to a personal email address now.

The RockIT team is updating the master list of all instructional programs used districtwide. This will include any apps, programs, or websites that are used in the classroom. We aim to compile information about them - school use, grade level use, price, etc. - in order to best serve our staff and allocate resources wisely.

We need input from all teachers to ensure that the list is comprehensive and so that we can ensure all the programs will continue to work once we switch from Lightspeed to GoGuardian.

New Chromebooks for the 2025-2026 school year have been ordered.

Incoming Kindergarten, 5th grade, and 9th grade students will receive a new Chromebook.

This Chromebook refresh cycle allows us to maintain our 1:1 device to student status and ensure all students in each grade have a working device.

From March 12-14, 10 RCS staff members are attending the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education (KySTE) conference.

This conference is full of sessions detailing innovative ways to use tech in classroom instruction, emerging technology and tends, how to keep students and staff safe from bad actors, and much more.

Attendees will bring back many new and exciting ideas for how best to serve our students with the use of technology.

GoGuardian is replacing Lightspeed as the state-provided Internet Content Management Service.

We are testing the new extension and our goal is full implementation over spring break.

We look forward to this new chapter in ensuring student safety in our connected world.