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HP technology is helping the Fairfield School District deliver individualized education, addressing each student’s particular needs and helping them overcome hurdles to achievement. As a result, they’re more interested and motivated than ever.
“Kids aren’t just doing the work, they’re engaged in it,” reports Andrea Leonardi, principal of the district’s alternative high school and director of Special Education, Pupil Personnel Services and Special Programs. “Technology is helping them access their intellectual capability.”Objective
· Improve student access to technology
· Address students’ special needs
· Increase cost-effectiveness of classroom technology
Approach
Fairfield School District has standardized on HP technology in key areas, including use of mobile PCs for students
IT improvements
· Increased durability of mobile PCs allows widespread use by students
· Digital access to data and information for students, teachers, administrators and the community
· Special needs software helps students overcome learning disabilities
Business benefits
· Mobile carts enable sharing of PCs among classrooms
· Increased access facilitates differentiated instruction and engagement in special needs classrooms
· Lower unit price enables purchase of more PCs per class
· Digital resource kits cut textbook costs while enabling more independent, self-directed learning
