Program identifies leading schools that will share classroom technology best practices
CALGARY, Alberta --- April 10, 2007 --- SMART Technologies Inc. names 22 schools and one district to its SMART Showcase School Program. Showcase Schools and districts are leaders in the adoption and use of technology that improves student outcomes and teacher effectiveness. These schools are also enthusiastic about sharing their success stories and regularly make themselves available to other educators and district stakeholders interested in learning how SMART products can be used to enhance teaching and learning. These schools welcome educators across the world to visit them and see how they apply best practices for using technology products to improve student performance.
The SMART Showcase School Program comprises schools that use classroom technology in outstanding ways. The schools have also become resources for other educators who want to learn more about the benefits of implementing SMART products in the classroom. Participation in the program is by invitation only. SMART hand selects schools with demonstrated commitments to creating 21st-century learning environments. Visitors to a Showcase School can expect to see how SMART products are being used to engage students and enhance lessons every day. The SMART Showcase Schools Program is currently operating in the United States and Canada, and plans are in place to expand to other countries in the near future.
“Students love interacting with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and are motivated to work on all skills, even those that would otherwise be boring for them, and the teachers feel that the technology has revolutionized their teaching,” says Lilli Land, principal at Auburn Early Education Center. “Many educators have visited our school to look at our curriculum, and we leave them with a desire to implement SMART Board interactive whiteboards into their classroom instruction.”
“The SMART Showcase School Program was established to recognize leading schools for their creativity and commitment to the effective implementation of technology in the classroom,” says Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO. “These schools are leaders in this regard, and they are making a significant contribution to other educators' understanding of technology use in classrooms across North America.”
SMART Showcase Schools
- Alton C. Crews Middle School (Lawrenceville, GA)
- Auburn Early Education Center (Auburn, AL)
- Chisholm Middle School (Newton, KS)
- Cresthill Middle School (Highlands Ranch, CO)
- Don Pedro Albizu Campos / PS 161 (New York, NY)
- Forest Lake Elementary (Columbia, SC)
- Fullerton IV Elementary (Roseburg, OR)
- George Washington Elementary School (Kingsport, TN)
- Kellogg Middle School (Shoreline, WA)
- KIPP Gaston College Prep (Gaston, NC)
- Lee Elementary School of Technology (Tampa, FL)
- Lincoln Academy (Lakeland, FL)
- Lincoln Elementary School (Spencer, IA)
- Northwest High School (Justin, TX)
- Passages Charter School (Chicago, IL)
- Phelps Elementary School (Phelps, KY)
- Rocky River High School (Rocky River, OH)
- Roxbury Preparatory Charter School (Roxbury, MA)
- Stephen Decatur High School (Berlin, MD)
- St. Gabriel the Archangel School (Louisville, KY)
- The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (Pittsburg, PA)
- Worcester Technical High School (Worcester, MA)
SMART Showcase District
School District 16 (Miramichi, NB, Canada)
About SMART
SMART Technologies Inc. is both the industry pioneer and global education market segment leader in user-friendly interactive whiteboards and group collaboration tools. The award-winning family of SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards is the most widely installed interactive whiteboard in the world because of its unsurpassed product quality, versatility and ease of use. School districts across the United States have standardized on SMART products, including New York City Board of Education, Atlanta Department of Education, Vermont Institutes, and San Diego City Schools. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is used to teach over 15 million students in more than 450,000 classrooms in more than 100 countries around the world.
SMART is a private company founded in 1987. Employing more than 900 people, SMART is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with assembly facilities in Kanata, Ontario and offices in Bonn, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC. SMART has been issued and maintains a broad portfolio of patents with numerous U.S., Canadian and other patents pending. In 1992 SMART formed a strategic alliance with Intel® Corporation that resulted in joint product development and marketing efforts, and Intel’s equity ownership in the company. SMART products are sold through dealers across North America and distributors worldwide. To learn more about SMART as a company and its products and programs, visit www.smarttech.com and http://www.education.smarttech.com/.
