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3 steps we’re taking to ensure true digital equity

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About 73 percent of our nearly 9,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 36 percent are bilingual or speak English as a second language. We have a one-to-one initiative in our high schools, and we’re looking to extend that opportunity to our middle and elementary schools as well.

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How we increased our graduation rate and student achievement

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The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools. the deployment of mobile devices. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. Lessons learned: Persistence.

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Carousel Digital Signage and Indiana School District Get into the School Spirit

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The school district is also working with Carousel partner Jamf to securely convert Apple TV devices into media players, and providing access to meeting room schedules on mobile devices. Elkhart Community Schools serves approximately 12,000 students. Based in Elkhart, Ind.,

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Closing the 30 million word gap

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More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. Most of our preschool kids who are native Spanish speakers come to school without anybody having read to them,” said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko. Mention Napa County, Calif.,

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. We have an 18 percent English-language learner population. Our elementary schools are almost one-to-one, with a 1-to-2 ratio of devices to students. Buryanek: We keep our schools open longer.

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Robust Networking and Data Center Solutions Power Tech Tools in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

We just didn’t have the room to have a really nice, neat rack where we could say, ‘Here’s the server for math, here’s the server for English,’ ” says Thad Phipps, assistant superintendent for operations. In Artesia, space constraints played a major role in the district’s lack of centralized resources. “We

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

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About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says. Studies show that modern learning environments improve student performance.

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