The newly constructed Painted Hills Middle School in Desert Hot Springs, California is the first middle school to be built in the Palm Springs Unified School District in 17 years... Read more
Franklin County Schools, headquartered in Louisburg, North Carolina, has 14 K-12 schools and is experiencing steady growth in student population. Committed to creating a 21st century learning environment... Read more
Poway Unified School District is located just outside of San Diego, California. The district covers 100 square miles and encompasses 38 schools, two district offices, and more than 34,000 students... Read more
South Ridge School in Culver, Minnesota, which opened its doors in September, 2011, is an ultramodern educational institution that uses such cutting-edge technologies as interactive whiteboards, school-wide Wi-Fi, iPads, and advanced emergency visual notification systems... Read more
Leander Independent School District encompasses more than 200 square miles and is one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas. The district serves approximately 32,000 students on 37 campuses that include technology-enabled classrooms. Managing the audiovisual technologies in these classrooms would be a sizable task for almost any organization... Read more
New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, recently completed a major renovation that included the installation of Extron PoleVault Systems in 24 classrooms. Founded in 1901, the school serves several communities in Chicago’s North Shore area and is famous for academic excellence, as well as its athletic, drama, visual arts, and music programs... Read more
Since 2007, the award-winning Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District in Northeast Orange County, California, has made Extron PoleVault Systems a central component of its "smart classroom" program. The program, involving the adoption of 21st century technology in classrooms all across the district, has been driven by the district’s vision to promote active learning... Read more
Central Middle School in Columbus, Indiana was designed to provide a 21st century learning environment for students. One of two middle schools in the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, or BCSC, the new campus opened its doors for the first time in the fall of 2007, welcoming over 800 students and 85 staff members... Read more
Ten years ago, the demand and expectation for classroom audiovisual technology was only beginning to grow with teachers in the Jurupa Unified School District in Riverside County, CA. "There was very little in the way of AV equipment as we recognize it today," says Thomas Tan, Director-Education Technology for the Jurupa Unified School District... Read more
The San Ysidro School District's blueprint for the future includes standardizing all of its classrooms, making them learning environments that use a variety of technologies to increase student achievement... Read more
In the last two issues, we focused on choosing the right AV products and technologies for educational environments and some of the challenges and opportunities integrators face on these jobs. In this issue, we will switch to the educator's point of view to look at one school's technology program and how classroom AV and one-to-one computing combine to enhance their curriculum... Read more