Student-centered CIOs must now focus more on the user experience than onjust keeping networks and machines functioning. "To be successful you have to dedicate 80 percent of your resources toward the service side of IT, and 20 percent to keeping the boxes working," says Jason Saltmarsh, an education technology consultant and former district technology director. […]

McPherson Magnet School is part of Orange USD, located in southern California. A K8 magnet school focused on science, math and technology, McPherson has been open since 1997 and serves 900 students. The school's mission includes valuing a range of learning styles, utilizing a variety of learning tools and strategies while extending the learning environment […]

The 37,000 students in Escambia County Schools in northwest Florida–like all students today–are constantly bombarded with multiple types of digital media in their lives. Getting them to focus on the important messages in the classroom when they are used to so many distractions can be a challenge. "My experience has been that many children cannot […]

By integrating technology into mathematics classrooms to complement face-to-face instruction, educators can provide uniquely individualized learning for all students. This web seminar, originally broadcast on August 28, 2014, featured administrators and a blended learning expert, who shared successful approaches for implementing this technique, including strategies, tips for modeling blended learning for elementary mathematics, and as […]