A California IT director solved a litany of challenges for his district by building his own operating system. Today, more than 40 other districts are using it too.

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Departments

Report Card

Block Busters

Deciding what to allow and what to block depends on school culture, the community and the strengths of the web filter you’re using.

Best Practices

Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk

When building an IT support structure for schools, remember that it’s always about the teachers and students.

Tech Watch

The Eyes Have It

Biometrics technology is hardly new, but its high costs have long prevented schools from embracing it. That may soon change.

Innovation in Action

Follow the Leader

Kingsland Public Schools explains how its courses are preparing students for a STEM-centric future.

Tech Trends

FTE FYI

Full-time-equivalent software licensing saves money, streamlines administrative and compliance processes, and improves teaching and learning.

Tech Watch

8 Track

Not every school upgraded to Windows 8 when it debuted in October 2012. Here’s why some did.

Best Practices

Risky Business

These risk assessment practices can help districts mitigate internal and external threats.

Best Practices

Out of the Fog

An IT manager for the San Francisco Unified School District shares his infrastructure modernization strategies.

Lesson Plans

Business Minded

This award-winning project leverages Microsoft technologies to help students understand and promote sustainability in their community.

Product Review

Viva la Vivo

This Windows RT­–based device, a first from ASUS, is slim, sleek, and suited for work and play.

Features

Feature

Teacher Tutorial

Follow these best practices to help special-needs students use technology for meaningful learning experiences.

Feature

Special-Needs Savvy

Educators in California, Montana and Washington explain how technology makes it easier to engage students with physical and learning disabilities.

Feature

Open House

An Illinois high school hosts Demo Days to showcase for others how its tablet program works.

Opinion

Letter From the Editor

Share and Share Alike

Passion for constant improvement in education is exceeded only by the devotion to helping others.

Making the Grade

Access Plan

Preparing for Common Core requires schools to move resources to the cloud, roll out robust wireless and develop mobile programs.

Contributor Column

Tales of a Flip-Flopper

A Canadian educator reveals why she fell in — and out of — love with the flipped classroom model of instruction.

Contributor Column

Actualizing Instruction

The developer of a digital literacy curriculum reveals how to bring substance to its instruction.